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☁ Happy (very) belated Chinese New Year. :D I am a pig, which... I don't really know exactly what that means for the upcoming year for me, but there is one site that indicates that this will be a good year for education, and that I need to take some risks. We shall see how that actually pans out. XD
☁ I was going to go to the library today, but ended up getting up later than I'd planned. It basically came down to either going to the library to fool around for a couple of hours, or staying home and doing my taxes- since I don't feel comfortable doing something like that on a public internet connection, for obvious reasons. I... did the responsible thing and did my taxes. Done and sent. On a side note, my gross income was LESS this year than last year. Luckily it only meant a $10 difference in my refund total, but... WTF?
☁ I also have two school applications more or less done and just waiting for me to hit the "submit" button. Laundry just finished. I'm working on breaking down the wall of Ver-land on AO3, though there's no getting rid of it totally considering that I ended up posting a whole lot of catch-up fic on the writing journal around this time last year. Still, when it's done it will be much improved. So... clearly I got stuff done, which makes me happy. On the other hand, I need to go to the grocery store, since I was going to go on the way back from the library. Responsibilities. Ugh.
☁ A rewatch of Hikago has been scheduled, which should be fun. I made banners yesterday, because clearly I have too much time on my hands... well, and I have issues with making decisions, so whenever I play with photoshop I end up with 50 version of the same thing. XD So basically... feel free to use these if you want. I'm still not really happy with them, but eh. Credit would be nice if you do use them, but it's not a huge deal if there's no credit. I'm not going to come after you or anything. XD
☁ More tooth stuff, feel free to skip, I kinda rambled forever about nothing- I've had what I've described as an "anxiety" about dentists for pretty much forever. (I have it for ALL doctors, really, but dentists are the worst.) My teeth are really super sensitive, always have been, so even going in for a cleaning hurts like fuck, much less having any actual work done (though as a kid I always hated the cleanings more, because they numb you for the other stuff). I can't even imagine what it will be like now that I haven't been since I was 12. :/ After the last entry, I did some poking around- it's not so much an anxiety as an outright phobia, apparently. Which explains SO MUCH. The whole "I would rather die than go to a dentist" thing, doing just about anything to avoid going (there was one incident in particular that would probably make most people gape at me in horror. Which- shocker- is one of the things that is causing pain now. I know, I know. IT MADE SENSE AT THE TIME. XD), the fact that I'm only even planning on going now because of pain, feeling physically ill even at the thought of it, knowing that ALL of this is stupid and irrational and not good for my health... yeah. I was hoping to go to an office where they would knock me the hell out for everything, but unfortunately my insurance doesn't seem to cover those dentists. URGH. Will probably have to ask about laughing gas or something at that first evaluation, not to mention talking to them about the phobia, and I'm sure that I will get lectured to the 9th degree about the state my teeth are in. >_< I'm half convinced that they're just going to be like "pull the lot". The other half is convinced that instead of pulling, they're going to tell me some ungodly amount of money and I'm going to cry. Meanwhile, I'm trying to tell myself that it's probably not as bad as all that beyond the many issues I already know about. It's... sort of working? ^_^;;;
On the upside, I requested a member card from my insurance company last week, because I don't recall ever actually GETTING one. That will be here... I'm not exactly sure when, but soon I would think. Then we will see about perhaps making an appointment. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.
☁ On an unrelated tangent, it was 59 today. Seriously. ON FEBRUARY 1ST. Not that I'm complaining, but it's just so WEIRD. Just like this whole winter has been really weird. We're probably going to get a whole bunch of snow in April or something.
Aaaaand on that note, I really need to go to bed. \o
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