My computer survived the repair!
Yay. The hugely expensive screen repair justifies the large expense of the super-deluxe warranty. They were a little skeptical about the timing (so close to the expiration) but Ginger's footprint was clearly visible on the screen so no problem. Nothing seems to have been lost. Most excellent. Of course, after such a long time without a computer, I have tens of thousands of e-mails to sort and am weeks out of touch with everything electronic. Could be worse.
Mother's day was lovely. Celebrated at C&D's in accordance with our new tradition. I made a cake in case we were celebrating Tom's BD, but ended up leaving for Buffy night before he arrived, leaving the cake untouched. I tried something brand new (3-layer spice with pumpkin pudding layers between, all covered in plain vanilla frosting), was worried about it turning out since you can't taste it to be sure, but I'm assured it was okay. Oh, all the kids in their tye-dies, just too cute.
Anika's 8th BD really rocked. JB and Dane did a fire show, which drew half the neighborhood and made the nextdoor neighbor fear for her house, so naturally the kids were delighted. What a great hoard of kids. Entire teams of 1 year olds speed walking across the yard. Having been hit by a karma blast, Corwin bought her a puppy. The kids loved playing with the dogs. Ginger was particularly adept at staring soulfully at folks until it occurred to them to offer her a bite. By the end, even the elderly lady who was scared of dogs found herself timidly offering scraps. Missy became so overly excited that I had to put her in the car for a nap. The kids were a joy to watch. Our next gen is pretty encouraging. Good to see them able to get together in a giant mob.
I had a tooth extracted more a week ago and there is no sign of dry socket yet. Amazing. I always get it. No doubt because I disregard the instructions every time. Wait days before smoking? I don't think so, I usually light up before I leave the premises. It was severely infected so the novacaine didn't work very well, but it was better than waiting to see if the infection would respond to the anti-biotics. And the dentist was really great, she gave me four shots before she started and then when it was obvious that it wasn't working she tried another one directly into the side of the socket. That helped, I was really embarrassed that I couldn't sit quietly for the proceedure. I could hold my head and shoulders still but my back would arch off the seat and I couldn't stop it. It was probably pretty funny. I kept assuring her "Yes, I'm just fine, keep going!" as I'm arching off the seat. Naturally the several of the roots broke off and had to be extracted separately with special tools. She gave me a good scare about the anti-biotic, so I set an alarm every time and took it 6 hours apart, day and night. Blessedly, that drug worked just fine. I found it funny that the first line of the three page information provided with the Rx said that taking it was rarely fatal. Well, gosh, that's a big relief. (Actually, since the infections it is designed to treat often are fatal, it is still a good bet.) I was surprised when I had the Rx's filled that she had only prescribed six pain pills. Fortunately I was lucky this time, but it doesn't seem like enough for a proceedure that difficult.
I finally managed to drag myself in for the neck x-rays. What a joy that was. It took hours and by the end they had three people trying to tug me into just the right position, then they want you to manage to hold still that way until they can all scurry behind the shield and shoot the film. And hold your breath until we're done! What a bizarre set of positions. Apparently the top couple of vertebrae have some sort of issue. They couldn't get them evaluated by the end of my appointment that day, so I have to go back again next week to see what they have decided they indicate. I think that getting rear-ended in the cab the second time (my third whiplash inducing event) is what did my neck in. The person at fault was going 50 miles an hour when she hit the car behind me and I had to stand on the brakes to avoid having the cab pushed into full-speed traffic. The doctor I saw only took me off the cab for two days, but the pain has never really gone away. Who knows, maybe they'll be able to think of something that will help. I'd be happy to add more drugs to my daily routine if there is any hope that they'll work. I'm already taking pills by the handsful and they help an enormous amount.
And now I have bifocals. I wouldn't bother with them for distance, I do fine without the correction, but it is getting very hard to read. It took me twenty minutes of just sitting in the car trying to focus my eyes at different distances to get the hang of them. I felt slow and stupid about it until someone mentioned that it had taken weeks, so I guess having a bit of trouble adjusting isn't that unusual. My biggest problem is that I can't make adjustments to the viewing area by moving my neck. I'm probably learning to move my nose in new ways.
I only went back a hundred entries, so let me know if I missed big news. Even going that far I ran into two problems. mrissa offered an interesting age poll which nearly did my brain in. Eventually I decided it would easier to write an autobiography than to manage to answer those questions. Geez. That set of simple questions led me down the rabbit hole. And I was about to answer wombat_socho did 36 questions. That list looked doable, but suddenly I noticed that at the beginning it said "You're on my list, so I want to know you better!" Then I realised that he was on my list, but I was not on his. Fortunately I figured it out before posting all that. But geez, it all leaves me feeling like I'm spinning my wheels.
Mother's day was lovely. Celebrated at C&D's in accordance with our new tradition. I made a cake in case we were celebrating Tom's BD, but ended up leaving for Buffy night before he arrived, leaving the cake untouched. I tried something brand new (3-layer spice with pumpkin pudding layers between, all covered in plain vanilla frosting), was worried about it turning out since you can't taste it to be sure, but I'm assured it was okay. Oh, all the kids in their tye-dies, just too cute.
Anika's 8th BD really rocked. JB and Dane did a fire show, which drew half the neighborhood and made the nextdoor neighbor fear for her house, so naturally the kids were delighted. What a great hoard of kids. Entire teams of 1 year olds speed walking across the yard. Having been hit by a karma blast, Corwin bought her a puppy. The kids loved playing with the dogs. Ginger was particularly adept at staring soulfully at folks until it occurred to them to offer her a bite. By the end, even the elderly lady who was scared of dogs found herself timidly offering scraps. Missy became so overly excited that I had to put her in the car for a nap. The kids were a joy to watch. Our next gen is pretty encouraging. Good to see them able to get together in a giant mob.
I had a tooth extracted more a week ago and there is no sign of dry socket yet. Amazing. I always get it. No doubt because I disregard the instructions every time. Wait days before smoking? I don't think so, I usually light up before I leave the premises. It was severely infected so the novacaine didn't work very well, but it was better than waiting to see if the infection would respond to the anti-biotics. And the dentist was really great, she gave me four shots before she started and then when it was obvious that it wasn't working she tried another one directly into the side of the socket. That helped, I was really embarrassed that I couldn't sit quietly for the proceedure. I could hold my head and shoulders still but my back would arch off the seat and I couldn't stop it. It was probably pretty funny. I kept assuring her "Yes, I'm just fine, keep going!" as I'm arching off the seat. Naturally the several of the roots broke off and had to be extracted separately with special tools. She gave me a good scare about the anti-biotic, so I set an alarm every time and took it 6 hours apart, day and night. Blessedly, that drug worked just fine. I found it funny that the first line of the three page information provided with the Rx said that taking it was rarely fatal. Well, gosh, that's a big relief. (Actually, since the infections it is designed to treat often are fatal, it is still a good bet.) I was surprised when I had the Rx's filled that she had only prescribed six pain pills. Fortunately I was lucky this time, but it doesn't seem like enough for a proceedure that difficult.
I finally managed to drag myself in for the neck x-rays. What a joy that was. It took hours and by the end they had three people trying to tug me into just the right position, then they want you to manage to hold still that way until they can all scurry behind the shield and shoot the film. And hold your breath until we're done! What a bizarre set of positions. Apparently the top couple of vertebrae have some sort of issue. They couldn't get them evaluated by the end of my appointment that day, so I have to go back again next week to see what they have decided they indicate. I think that getting rear-ended in the cab the second time (my third whiplash inducing event) is what did my neck in. The person at fault was going 50 miles an hour when she hit the car behind me and I had to stand on the brakes to avoid having the cab pushed into full-speed traffic. The doctor I saw only took me off the cab for two days, but the pain has never really gone away. Who knows, maybe they'll be able to think of something that will help. I'd be happy to add more drugs to my daily routine if there is any hope that they'll work. I'm already taking pills by the handsful and they help an enormous amount.
And now I have bifocals. I wouldn't bother with them for distance, I do fine without the correction, but it is getting very hard to read. It took me twenty minutes of just sitting in the car trying to focus my eyes at different distances to get the hang of them. I felt slow and stupid about it until someone mentioned that it had taken weeks, so I guess having a bit of trouble adjusting isn't that unusual. My biggest problem is that I can't make adjustments to the viewing area by moving my neck. I'm probably learning to move my nose in new ways.
I only went back a hundred entries, so let me know if I missed big news. Even going that far I ran into two problems. mrissa offered an interesting age poll which nearly did my brain in. Eventually I decided it would easier to write an autobiography than to manage to answer those questions. Geez. That set of simple questions led me down the rabbit hole. And I was about to answer wombat_socho did 36 questions. That list looked doable, but suddenly I noticed that at the beginning it said "You're on my list, so I want to know you better!" Then I realised that he was on my list, but I was not on his. Fortunately I figured it out before posting all that. But geez, it all leaves me feeling like I'm spinning my wheels.