my regular every-7-months post
Heh. Well, it's happened to be 7 months between posts both this time and last time, anyway. Not by design. Every single time I come back here, I think I'm going to stick with it better, but I fall off.
I miss LJ, though. I'm sad that everybody has migrated over to FaceBook, leaving just a handful of people here and a few more who peek in from time to time. FaceBook seems to be more up to people's energy levels these days, though. A quick note on what you're doing right now, and you're done. Anything longer than about 3 sentences and you're pretty sure that hardly anyone will read it anyway.
Re my last post here -- if anybody was still interested -- I did find somewhere else to be, that Thursday. Got a friend to pick me up and spent the night at their house. It was a nice visit. Partner A was very worried that this meant I would never be okay with her new relationship. That wasn't the case at all. I just knew that I wouldn't be able to keep my mope to myself, if I'd stayed at home with them that night. They still have overnights every few weeks (and might have dates more often if we didn't live at opposite ends of the city). I had one play date with the woman, and it was fun, but it hasn't happened again.
That post was what, June? Since then... hmm... we went to Paradise Unbound, as usual. Aine came with for the entire week, for the first time. She'd been for one night before, but that doesn't really give you the same immersive experience. It was good. I met someone there, had a play date planned for the very last day, but it fell through and turned into a planned "whenever they're in town". Which hasn't happened to happen yet, but we are still in touch.
Cern and I went to Pacific Beach in October, as usual. And then I went back a month later with Aine, Aine's gf, gf's primary, my daughter Storm, and Storm's bf. And the dogs -- Aine's and mine. Turned out that without Cern's dog, Lily, along, Princeton was just fine off leash on the beach. He had a blast! Even found a Whippet to race and chase with. :)
Thanksgiving, we spent with friends and had Chinese and Indian take-out. Then we had our own turkey dinner on Friday... and then cooked a second turkey and put out Friday's leftovers for my family on Saturday. We had a houseful, including my dad, most of my siblings, and their and my partners and kids.
December 3rd I had all my teeth removed and replaced with 12 titanium pegs. The surgery was a bit of a nightmare for me -- I'd told them I didn't want Versed, didn't want to forget anything I was awake for. I didn't mean I wanted to be awake for the last 5 hours of the 11-hour surgery, but that's what happened. Cern wasn't quite prepared for how beat-up I looked afterward (see pics on Facebook -- I had a huge dark bruise on my jaw, 2 black eyes, and my face was very swollen). The pain wasn't too bad, though -- my usual pain meds covered it well enough, anyway.
What I wasn't quite prepared for (had not understood correctly) was that I would need to eat only soft foods for SIX MONTHS following the surgery (until the implant pegs completely bind to the bone and they replace the plastic teeth with a much nicer, much more compact, and stronger set of permanent arches). The rule is that I can't use these teeth for biting or chewing, I can only eat what I can mush with my tongue against the roof of my mouth. So since then I've been eating a lot of mashed potatoes, soups, applesauce, oatmeal, cream of wheat, refried beans... The most solid things I've found that I can eat are pasta, pancakes, and enchiladas (soaked well in sauce, they fall apart in my mouth). And fries, although those take a little work (break off any crispy ends for the dogs, mash/tear ends with fingers, soak ends in a dipping sauce...).
It's not so bad, really, and I'm losing weight, which is nice, although I wish it would go faster.
I saw my family again, including the ones who had missed our post-Thanksgiving, at my sister's pre-Xmas gathering. C&A didn't make that one, as it conflicted with her birthday weekend. I took Princeton so he wouldn't be alone all day, and he did fine leashed to me, being petted and cooed over, mostly by my neices.
Xmas day, we had Aine's gf over and watched our traditional Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Quiet day. Of course, I put my orders in for gifts late, as usual, so most of those trickled in over the next week or two. Storm just finally got her last Xmas gift from me, yesterday!
NYE, we also stayed home. C&A tried some fancy drinks they found recipes for. NY morning, Cern drove Aine, Storm, and Storm's friend Bella up to do the polar bear swim. (Dunk, really. Nobody stays in the water long enough to actually swim.) Second year for Aine and Storm. They give out patches every year. I wish more events gave out patches like that. It would be fun to be able to show them all off on a jacket or something.
Well, that's the highlights from the past half-year or so. The past week I've been very very sick -- don't know whether I caught a flu or whether it's just more of my usual, but I've had tons of nausea, vomiting (even waking up to vomit at 3am), diarrhea, "wind", fatigue, and weakness on a level above and beyond even my usual. I've made it out of bed every day, but one day it was only a little while and I came back to bed and collapsed. I hope this is passing. I do feel a little better so far this morning.
I miss LJ, though. I'm sad that everybody has migrated over to FaceBook, leaving just a handful of people here and a few more who peek in from time to time. FaceBook seems to be more up to people's energy levels these days, though. A quick note on what you're doing right now, and you're done. Anything longer than about 3 sentences and you're pretty sure that hardly anyone will read it anyway.
Re my last post here -- if anybody was still interested -- I did find somewhere else to be, that Thursday. Got a friend to pick me up and spent the night at their house. It was a nice visit. Partner A was very worried that this meant I would never be okay with her new relationship. That wasn't the case at all. I just knew that I wouldn't be able to keep my mope to myself, if I'd stayed at home with them that night. They still have overnights every few weeks (and might have dates more often if we didn't live at opposite ends of the city). I had one play date with the woman, and it was fun, but it hasn't happened again.
That post was what, June? Since then... hmm... we went to Paradise Unbound, as usual. Aine came with for the entire week, for the first time. She'd been for one night before, but that doesn't really give you the same immersive experience. It was good. I met someone there, had a play date planned for the very last day, but it fell through and turned into a planned "whenever they're in town". Which hasn't happened to happen yet, but we are still in touch.
Cern and I went to Pacific Beach in October, as usual. And then I went back a month later with Aine, Aine's gf, gf's primary, my daughter Storm, and Storm's bf. And the dogs -- Aine's and mine. Turned out that without Cern's dog, Lily, along, Princeton was just fine off leash on the beach. He had a blast! Even found a Whippet to race and chase with. :)
Thanksgiving, we spent with friends and had Chinese and Indian take-out. Then we had our own turkey dinner on Friday... and then cooked a second turkey and put out Friday's leftovers for my family on Saturday. We had a houseful, including my dad, most of my siblings, and their and my partners and kids.
December 3rd I had all my teeth removed and replaced with 12 titanium pegs. The surgery was a bit of a nightmare for me -- I'd told them I didn't want Versed, didn't want to forget anything I was awake for. I didn't mean I wanted to be awake for the last 5 hours of the 11-hour surgery, but that's what happened. Cern wasn't quite prepared for how beat-up I looked afterward (see pics on Facebook -- I had a huge dark bruise on my jaw, 2 black eyes, and my face was very swollen). The pain wasn't too bad, though -- my usual pain meds covered it well enough, anyway.
What I wasn't quite prepared for (had not understood correctly) was that I would need to eat only soft foods for SIX MONTHS following the surgery (until the implant pegs completely bind to the bone and they replace the plastic teeth with a much nicer, much more compact, and stronger set of permanent arches). The rule is that I can't use these teeth for biting or chewing, I can only eat what I can mush with my tongue against the roof of my mouth. So since then I've been eating a lot of mashed potatoes, soups, applesauce, oatmeal, cream of wheat, refried beans... The most solid things I've found that I can eat are pasta, pancakes, and enchiladas (soaked well in sauce, they fall apart in my mouth). And fries, although those take a little work (break off any crispy ends for the dogs, mash/tear ends with fingers, soak ends in a dipping sauce...).
It's not so bad, really, and I'm losing weight, which is nice, although I wish it would go faster.
I saw my family again, including the ones who had missed our post-Thanksgiving, at my sister's pre-Xmas gathering. C&A didn't make that one, as it conflicted with her birthday weekend. I took Princeton so he wouldn't be alone all day, and he did fine leashed to me, being petted and cooed over, mostly by my neices.
Xmas day, we had Aine's gf over and watched our traditional Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Quiet day. Of course, I put my orders in for gifts late, as usual, so most of those trickled in over the next week or two. Storm just finally got her last Xmas gift from me, yesterday!
NYE, we also stayed home. C&A tried some fancy drinks they found recipes for. NY morning, Cern drove Aine, Storm, and Storm's friend Bella up to do the polar bear swim. (Dunk, really. Nobody stays in the water long enough to actually swim.) Second year for Aine and Storm. They give out patches every year. I wish more events gave out patches like that. It would be fun to be able to show them all off on a jacket or something.
Well, that's the highlights from the past half-year or so. The past week I've been very very sick -- don't know whether I caught a flu or whether it's just more of my usual, but I've had tons of nausea, vomiting (even waking up to vomit at 3am), diarrhea, "wind", fatigue, and weakness on a level above and beyond even my usual. I've made it out of bed every day, but one day it was only a little while and I came back to bed and collapsed. I hope this is passing. I do feel a little better so far this morning.