Yes I walk around with that black thing on my face, now do you understand why people avoid me like the plague? Black facedness is contagious, so I heard... *wink*
Mood: pretty
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This is it. Yes I walk around with that black thing on my face, now do you understand why people avoid me like the plague? Black facedness is contagious, so I heard... *wink* |
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Mood: pretty
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Thank goodness for that. There is a disadvantage to half days like today: boredom. I spent the afternoon cruising on the net a bit, and watching TV while working on my knitting project. I hope it will be done soon so I can hang it on the door and put the hair sticks in it and the clips and all. It is quite messy in that drawer of mine. I took the client out for a walk this morning, we sure had fun and she is slowly building up the confidence to go out on her own sometime. I will change my routine to follow the route SHE would have to follow out of the building as the one we take involves opening of doors which, from within that thing she drives, she can't do. As for the body, the teeth are doing ok. I am taking vitamins for my hair and I noticed a decrease in bleeding of my gums when I brush my teeth. Good news for sure. I am preparing myself mentally for going in again, and goodness it scares me to death, but I know I will have to. I will get there and live through the treatments. I am sure I will need quite a few. *shudders* The temperatures are slowly rising here, this weekend we should hit 25C again, which is about damn time. The summer here has not been a summer this year and we have had WAY too much rain to even call decent. I just hope August will be a better month, and maybe September too, so I don't feel cheated out completely! Well.. I am off to do some things and then I am calling it a night. |
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Mood: alright
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I have been creative these past few days. Amongst knitting I had been searching for a bun cover as well. I found many crocheted ones but none really appealed to me, and the ones that did I found it too expensive. In the end I thought what the heck, and decided to make one myself. Pattern? Nope. Experience? Maybe I was 13 or so when I last did this. Stitches known? A few, they remain nameless. I found a simple pattern online but I couldn't read it at all. I figured to just go ahead and see how far I could get.  Amazing that I was able to make it! I was so eager to try it on that I put it on over my coconut oil covered bun held up by my bent knitting needle. It looked a bit weird but at least it shows it works!  This afternoon I was working on setting up a group order for miniature misting bottles and suddenly I heard this noise, a fire truck, close! Needless to say, I looked outside and my jaw almost fell on the floor. Flames were blazing out of a home across the street, high flames, out of the roof, out of the bathroom window. I ran downstairs and went outside, joining the growing number of people that occupied my otherwise quiet little street. After a little while I realized that this was something dad had to see, and went back to grab my camera to take a few shots.   (shot by someone else, found online the next day)The fire had died down a little by that time, but it took 4 fire engines to get this whole thing under control. I figured I'd send my shot to the newspaper, but cut it a little to be able to show the important part here. I read later on online (it made national headlines!) that it was considered a small fire at first but later on was adjusted to being a blaze. No-one was seriously hurt. A small boy got hurt on the foot, but nothing bad. All the pets in the home were saved, so no lives whatsoever were lost. The house is labeled uninhabitable now. At least the neighbors were allowed to go back inside their homes so it stayed at one place. It was feared that one or both of the houses next door had caught fire as well. My guess, since it came blazing out of the bathroom window as well as the roof: the dryer. It is inconclusive as of yet but tomorrow we'll know more I am sure. |
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Mood: shocked
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I called the dentist today, told the assistant how scared I was, that I wanted to switch back to the lady of the couple due to my fears, and she told me to hold on a bit. She came back and told me normally they don't do this, but it was ok, I was switched to her. I don't know what it is about him. He is nice, but he gives me the heebies. She is nice, gentle, and ok. I can handle her. I have an appointment next week at 9:30 and the rest of the day I have off to recuperate so to speak. Assistant told me that not all could be done in one treatment. That is ok, I did not expect it to be done in one. I told her that we could do weeklies or something until it was settled. Thank goodness for the current 100% basics coverage I have now, and before I get the sack I am taking advantage of it. When I lose my job I will fall back to the normal 75%, so that was one of the motivators here to get things taken care of. The other one was the broken molar left upper back, and yet another one which I managed to fix with dental floss was a broken off and then staying between my teeth OFFICIAL toothpick, which almost made me freak last night. So.. I am going. Someone please hold my hand while I enter the valley of death? |
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Mood: petrified
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I should actually do some work in the back yard, but I really don't feel like that today. At least the front yard looks presentable, the back one sure is not! I am being a good girl though.. the hair is washed and almost dry and the washer is running with the last load (the towels and all). After this is done I think I will grab the suction device and apply it to the floor. Thursday was a calm day. The regular morning client was her regular old self and the afternoon one was terribly easy. We even went to the grocery store together after I told her that I wouldn't mind taking the car. It was raining quite something that day, so it was the logical thing to do. As soon as I got home I washed my hair as that evening I was going to the hair dresser for my periodical micro trim and bangs trim and as the hair was sitting in the conditioner cap I filled out my client statement. It is a good thing to know that I can run some added overtime still, I sure did some this period, 46 hours worth. *gasp* And that is counting solely client hours! Insane. I think the most hours ever before this was 103 in total, but I am too lazy to look it up. With those 46 I am up to 106. On Friday morning I went to the office first to deliver those client statements and handed them over to the front desk clerk, which enabled me to not have to go upstairs all the way and meet the folks there. I really wasn't looking forward to that at all. Now I could just go and work at my client and then scoot home as soon as she let me go, despite what time that would be. In this case it was about 20 minutes early. I spent some time online, then decided to try out my new updo again, and it looked so very cute that I had to go show it off, hehe. I went to the people I know on the corner of the street for a tea, after calling them first of course. They had invited me various times already, but I don't want to make it too much of a habit to go visit, hence my hesitation. But I figured what the hell.. I have this cute little updo going, I am bored out of my mind here and it will doing my duties by visiting. So I went. Only for a short time, but they loved the do, we chattered a bit about a lot of nothings and then the fire came up again. Seems like the cause was some big vat thing that hangs under the water heater device which exploded and blew the roof right off. Whoa baby. Last time maintenance was here they were going to replace my vat since it needed to be. I haven't seen them maintenance people anymore so I guess I am going to give them a call come Monday! Today it is Saturday and I just had my shower and all that. As said, the last load is running and after that is hung I'll vacuum. I am making this an easy day.. yep. |
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Mood: relaxed
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Or I should say: church goers. Here I was having this wonderful dream of kissing this cute as can be guy. I have no clue who he is, never seen him in my life, but he was cute, and I am kissing this yummy thing. BOONK. I wake up, the stumbling of the neighbors getting ready for their damn church thing (mind it is 8:50, church is early there apparently), is waking me up. Bah. Gone is cute guy, gone is the ONE kiss that I can get on what.. a yearly basis, and gone is sleeping in for the day. *insert raspberry tongue thing* Ah well, it isn't really that big of a deal. It was just irritating, but I intend (note the intend part) to go to bed on time tonight. Yesterday evening I finished knitting the hair toy hanging thing and I tried to hang it on my door last night. No luck there as the suction cups wouldn't hold. In the end the thing ended up on the side of my freezer, and this afternoon my dad came by with the drill and plugs (the missing parts that I needed) and we hung the thing. All I need to get is an eye for the right hand side as that is resting on a screw still. I only had one eye left.  At least now I will have an overview of what I have, instead of rummaging around in a drawer looking for things. I almost forgot I had the flexi-8s so go figure. Not good to not be able to see my toys. Elastic bands and such remain in the drawer until (if that) I find a better solution. It took me long enough to knit that thing, and when I was tying it off I was running drastically short on wool, but I had two inches left on the final binding, so.. whew. I cut it close alright. There are a few things that I managed to hang on there using bent paperclips, like the clip-ons I have for the ManyHorses hairsticks, and the slide-ons that are for those thick knitting needles. Much better organized and I can't lose those now either *smiles* Yeah.. I am happy with it, it will be put to good use every single day. I did do some labor as well, I worked in the back yard. Very necessary. I now know that weeds have the capability to grow taller than I am. The wet summer interchanged with two days of hot weather do wonders for the weeds. At least the paths are all clear again. Little by little I will regain my garden. |
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Mood: tired
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The report from this morning says: 8 cavities 2 molars that need pulling lay off the sugars That is the basic idea. She didn't do anything today, just talked with me and set up a plan of attack. Come Monday I have a 45 minute appointment scheduled and then two weeks later another one, and yet two weeks after that another one. That should suffice. She was shocked at how many fillings I had. I admitted that bad care and too much sugar was the cause. The first time it was all renovated it was two to three years ago, that is when all that happened. I will have to lay off the sugars and with that things should improve. This is going to be fun hehe. The molars issue is simple. They are already heavily filled up, and considering they do not have their downstairs counterparts they are basically function-less and she advised me to get them out. I agreed. It will also help me brush better. The cavities will be done I think divided over the three appointments. At least I lived, I went, the state is now known, and it is time for a turning point for the better for my teeth. This shit has got to stop and I will just have to smack myself to care better. It is that or slowly I WILL lose my teeth in the long run. I don't want that to happen of course! All in all, I thought it was worse, given the fact that the former renovation took HOURS worth of work, and much more than three sittings to get things fixed. It was a relief alright that she didn't do anything this first time. I am welcome there to come every three months at first, later on we will try every four. Not more since by then my fear will have increased too much again. So.. I have better hair.. now it is on to better teeth! |
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Mood: relieved
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And I am sitting here with a gaping hole where once a molar used to be. Feeling along the bottom right teeth feels so much better again. Like a whole instead of teeth with.. gaps. I did ok. I almost passed out right after the first shot, but I felt the shock coming on after I sat down to wait. My heart rate was going ridiculously slow, less than 60bpm. I figured it wasn't that bad, it would get back up, but that was when it hit me. I hurriedly went to the ladies room and took a sip from the faucet, slapped some water on my face and felt a lot better after that. I sat back down and things went back to normal again. Heart rate slowly increased and by the time I got back to the chair I was fine. But gee.. that was something else! The remainder of the treatment went almost painless. Despite two shots in the jaw I still felt pain as she was working, but I figured just keep on going, it wasn't that bad, and it would be over soon anyway. To imagine what I would have felt without the two shots.. gah! At least I knew from experience that after the first new layer of filler was applied the pain would go away, and it did. I was very glad when she got to the filling stage! Then halfway through that came the needle for the upper molar. That way it would be good and painless by the time she was done with my lower right teeth. I was very nervous about that one but it came out without any protest, and without any pain at all, just some slight pressure pain that went away almost immediately. It sure is interesting to feel along my teeth now, no more slight gaps where there were those before, feels much better indeed. I am also very proud of myself that I went off the Coke. No more cola for me. Saturday was a bitch, but that was really the only day that bothered me. Today was painless, and yesterday was pretty much painless as well. Plain water IS icky though, so I am drinking more milk now, which is at least a more healthy thing to drink than the cola. Also today, before I went to the dentist, I signed for my garage. As of today my car can be indoors. Tonight not yet though, as I was too much in discomfort still from the dentist to be walking home from there. Tomorrow I intend to go by the bike store to purchase me a decent pump so I don't have to worry about not having that when I need it, and then I can simply ride my bike to the garage, take the car, go to work, and then after work bike back home. Note to self: invest in large poncho as well; this IS Holland after all. On Wednesday I will yet again have the day off. This time because my 94 year old aunt will be buried then. She got better, had gotten to order people around again, but unfortunately she got worse pretty soon thereafter and she passed on Friday night. It isn't custom to get off at deaths outside the first degree, so I am very happy that I was able to go after all. Not so much for that aunt or the uncle, her husband, but more for my grandfather. My grandmother seems to be rather worried. She asked my dad if he could come pick them up so they wouldn't have to go take a taxi, but then she called him back later worrying that maybe dad wouldn't be welcome there and then what? Well.. my dad was very laid back about that. He said: well.. then I will deposit the flowers, turn around and go on home. But he must not think that uncle will get anything done again. He can take his tax papers (that my dad fills out for him every year) to someone else, and we won't set a foot in the door again. But dad doesn't think that will happen. It isn't like that uncle to behave that way. We'll see what happens, but I am not too worried. We didn't go there that much anyway so who cares if he DOES decide to be stupid. I also told my dad, spluttering a little bit, that at least the gramps had one advantage: they didn't have to go there to the mandatory visit anymore twice a year. That just got reduced to once! We'll see how things go. I have been thinking of a decent hairdo, and I will opt for the braided bun. It looks neat yet casual, so that will do. Tomorrow first another day of work, my main concern being my gaping hole up on the right and to prevent that from popping a bleed. It'll be alright, just something to take into account a little bit at least. It's all still very tender after all. |
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Mood: shaken
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