I'm still alive!

So, I haven't died yet ;) I'm sorry about the lack of posts. It was partly due to busyness and partly due to laziness. Okay, mostly due to laziness.

Knitting has been going swimmingly. I'm participating in the House Cup again, and I made a Dalek dishcloth last month. This month I'm knitting a Lacy Baktus (I believe I've talked about that pattern in a previous post), and I might try to fit another project in if I can.

In other news, I definitely have to have my wisdom teeth taken out. I'm not happy about this, but it needs to be done, and if I leave it 'til later the bottom wisdom teeth will probably push the other teeth in and wreck their alignment, which would not be cool.

So, not much of an update, but I'll try to post more. Until next time...

Ouch...

My teeth hurt.

So does my head. I think it's because of the weather changing, because we're supposed to be getting rain overnight. I sometimes get headaches from changes in weather (I think it has to do with air pressure), and sometimes I get eye pain, or a toothache. It's usually my molars that ache when the weather changes, but this time it's my bottom front teeth.

Actually, I think I can take another Tylenol now. I should probably do that.

Whoa, I just got a sharp pain in my left eye.

Okay, I'm taking that Tylenol now.

Still, I'm reasonably happy, because I was able to renew my library book today! Sometimes I can't renew something one day, but the day after I can. It's odd. So, I have another three weeks to read it.

I might actually try reading Tris's Book by Tamora Pierce again. Last time I started reading it, I got side-tracked. The same thing happened with Emperor Mage, but I was able to read back enough to finish the book. I might re-read the first three Immortals books before reading Realms of the Gods, though, because I might have forgotten some details. And I kinda want to read the first book, Wild Magic, again :) It's probably my favourite book of all time.

Mom's watching The Wolfman. I'm not, because I hear it's really gory and I don't know if I can deal with it. It and Nine are waaaay overdue from the library, because I was waiting for Dad to want to watch them, or I kept forgetting I had them out, or other people were watching things on TV. We have a DVD player upstairs, but it's hooked up to a smaller TV, and the upstairs DVD player is older and tends to not read discs as well as the newer player. Plus, it's been known to overheat if you're using it for over 2 hours straight - we found that out when we were watching my cousin's Robot Chicken Season One DVD a few years ago. Nathan (my brother) had to unplug the DVD player and plug it back in again to get it running. When I was watching season two of Buffy last December, I watched the last couple of discs upstairs, and sometimes it wouldn't read a disc properly and would start playing the first episode on the disc. So, I had to re-watch the last episode on the downstairs DVD player.

I should probably check my FishVille fish. See ya!

The blood work is DONE!

At first, I thought we wouldn't get down to the lab, because Dad got dizzy in the shower. He thinks it may have been from lack of caffeine, because he always has a coffee in the morning. It's his fuel. But we did get to do our blood work.

Normally I don't get dizzy from blood work, but this time I did. So when the woman who took the blood sample asked me if I was dizzy, and I said yes, she told me to go lay down for a bit. When she came back, I sat up and felt better, so she handed me the bottle for the urine sample and said to go do that. Afterwards we went to the Golden Griddle in that same plaza, where I devoured a waffle and four breakfast sausages.

Then it was back home to let the dogs out, then off to the dentist's. We were early, so we stopped at the Bulk Barn in that plaza because Mom needed to get dried cherries, then we went in for our appointment. And, of course, I was the last of us three to go in. On the upside, though, I didn't have to have fluoride! YES! Also, they cleaned my flipper (my fake tooth), because it was so stained from drinking stuff like tea, hot chocolate and Pepsi. The hygienist who cleaned my teeth gave me more floss, and she said that I have a small mouth and that it was difficult for her to floss the back teeth, and told me that if I feel any pain back there that I should call them. Mom said that my wisdom teeth may not give me trouble. Well, my main concern is getting the post for my fake tooth in my mouth and getting the gum grafting on the bottom teeth done, then if my wisdom teeth start paining me, I'll take care of them after.

Now all I have to do is finish Justin's scarf and wrap presents. And help Mom with the holiday baking if she needs any help.

ETA: Just so you know, my dad is alright. I think he was just tired from not having his usual intake of caffeine, but afterwards he said he was feeling okay.

Ah, Bob Seager...

So I went to an orthodontist appointment today, because I still have retainers, even though I forget to wear the bottom one - I couldn't wear the top one for a little while, because of a membrane on my top gums, but now that the membrane is gone, they're making a new top retainer for me to wear when my fake tooth, or 'flipper', is out, because I take my flipper out when I sleep.

The awesome part of the visit was that, when I was called in, I heard the last bit of Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler on the yesterday-and-today radio station that they had on, and right after that the station played Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seager. When I hear it, I picture Tom Cruise dancing around... Never saw Risky Business, but I saw the scene on Oprah.

And then, on our way home, my dad and I heard Bloody Well Right by Supertramp :)