Smiling on Thursday

Good Morning Smile Warriors

It's been a few days but it's Thursday, October 24^th, 2013

My dentist and hygienist are very gentle women but I still leave the office or when the pain killers wear off, feeling like I have been beat. I am not certain. Maybe when I'm not looking they sock me one. Whatever, the dentist takes everything out of me. So, I have been resting from my cleaning. I don't know if I made the right decision or not but I decided to go with more frequent cleanings verses a really heavy once a year cleaning since my mouth is in a delicate condition. Some time next month, I get another cap put on but it will all be done in one morning. I will leave with the permanent cap instead of multiple visits with temps and the dreaded string separating the gum from the tooth. That hurts like Hades. I will probably be out of it for a week. As you get older, the ugly truth is it takes more and more out of you with every medical procedure. You simply stop bouncing back and go splat.

Many years ago I ascribed to a philosophy that seems to have died. It states simply that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. So many people just do what they need to get by which amounts to a half arsed something as a result which they then need to fix multiple times. I'm lazy. Do it right once. I also subscribe to random acts of beauty. Without art, the world is just plain, boring and without life. Thus, though I make no pretense to be an artist, I randomly decorate anything that doesn't have life. I buy these watering things in a bag. They are beyond plain but they allow the water to seep out too quickly but all the way to the roots of the plant. This is better than watering from the top and watching the water run off your pot with half that expensive potting mix. I will tell you right off that if the potting soil is not moist, the water just seeps out the bottom of the pot through more than one opening but at least the soil doesn't go with it. As I said, they are really plain but no more. You can see from the pictures that a tube of silicone glue and a bag of rock chips from Lowes plus a bunch of glass thingies from the dollar store and viola, plain no more! Even the watering bottle that fits into them, was not immune on my house African violet. I think I'll leave the outside bottles plain. Well, maybe...you know me and glue and shiny stuff. I just can't help myself. It's a sickness.

The point is, you can't make a mistake. The rocks are just randomly glued on based more on the size than color. I grab the glass things out randomly and just glue. I keep doing this to pots and whatnot and the universe becomes a more decorative place. I even think the lizards like it. I know the raccoons often steal my sun/energy catchers. They like bright shiny things, too. Somewhere there is a burrow decorated with bright shiny things and some day some park ranger will find it and go WTF?!? I'll never rat them out. I mean, they do have little hands. They could be making jewelry. You never know.

 So, next time you are sitting in front of the TV, get out the glue and shiny things and make the world a more decorative place. Commit random acts of art. The world will thank you for it. I'll thank you in advance for it.

Even life can disrupt the intrepid blogger.....

Some days life gets in the way.

Friday, Oct. 11, 2013

I had plans for yesterday and then I had to have my cap put on......

Things really were going great. I got up early though I had very little sleep. I got the business and personal banking done. Then we headed for the dentist to replace my cap that popped off. We were 40 minutes early but they managed to take me in early even though I was enjoying a magazine and would have been comfy for an hour or more in their waiting room. Hey, free coffee and tea is a senior's morning dream come true plus free ac and a place to sit. I was happy.

I had forgotten that to glue a cap on your tooth, they have to take a cord and wrap it around the tooth so there is room between the gum and tooth to slip the cap down. That cord is nasty. That cord really, really hurts but my strategy is to first ask to be numbed (mother didn't raise dumb kids) and then remember what it felt like to have a needle of Novocaine stuck in the end of my nose. That last piece makes getting your arm chopped off with no anesthesia seem like a walk in the park. Finally, the cap was on and ready to chew but I was nicely numb making it hard to drink anything so let's just forget chewing.

After making my appointment for the next cap which will be done from start to finish in one morning – I love them – and a cleaning we were off to Harbor Freight. I did notice they make the next appointments and take the deposit while you are numb. Half way through Harbor Freight when the numbness wore off and I would have let George buy anything to get back in the Van. YEEEE....OUCH. I was so thankful I had a prescription for pain medication. A drink of really ice water as most of it was still frozen had me actually thinking I was going to make it to Bedner's and beyond.

About 2 minutes into Bedner's the frozen wore off and I bought a frozen banana. They have the best frozen bananas (I went for chocolate/coconut covered), orange juice and everything else. Who am I kidding? You can't go wrong at Bedner's. I also got some organic teas, key lime juice with no insecticides and bottled (you know a pie is coming up), squash and 3 gorgeous tomatoes plus a loaf of their fresh olive bread. Their walnut raisin bread is to die for, too. The banana numbed my jaw, again.

Half way home, the banana stopped working because I finished it in the parking lot and I went back to frozen water which would work for a few minutes. By the time I got to the neighborhood, I was almost seeing double and the pain was off the scale. Off the scale in my world is probably you passed out 20 minutes ago in your world because I have one heck of a pain tolerance. I zipped into the house and grabbed one of my left over pain pills and hoped for instant effect.

Instant effect doesn't happen with pills but when it did decide to lower the level of pain I was over joyed. I will take what I can get. A few hours later, I discovered I not only had not gotten knocked out probably because my jaw was still hurting, but I was zipping around doing all sorts of work. A couple of hours later I noticed I had surpassed what I normally can do in a week and sat down to ponder this development. There was a ripple in the Force! Was I in an alternative reality? Twilight Zone music please play. Then it hit me. The Pain Pill had knocked out all my other pain leaving just the jaw which I can deal with on a good day.

Good Goddess, this is what my life would be like without inflammation from environmental poisons and Fibromyalgia which may be due to a lifetime of eating poisons from big business. I really, really want to beat the heads of some corporations to death very slowly and painfully for what they have done to you and me, because I do NOT want to spend the rest of my life on drugs that have probably been designed to kill me and you because of what they fed us to make an obscene profit for themselves. I really want to hurt them. I am really angry

Then I see your children struggling down the street. I was a pain management specialist when I could work an 8 hour day. I know pain when I see it. You can't fool me. I know the posture, the breathing and expression on your face as the lines are etched there for your old age. I know these kids do not feel good. I see the background pain on their faces as they pause at the corner more to rest than wait for the red light. Heck, when I was a kid, we would have grabbed the books and ran it. We couldn't wait to get home and drop those books and RUN outside and PLAY. Your kids can't wait to drop in front of the computer. It's not because they are LAZY. Kids want to run, jump and play. If they are sitting there, they don't feel like it.

Get a dose of speed and see if you can sit still and play a video game. Nope...have to move. Kids are like adults on speed. They have to move. Their muscles demand it so they can stretch and grow. It is a biological imperative. Birds even move while in the egg. Babies don't kick in the womb because of any cognitive reasoning. They kick so their arms and legs stretch and grow and develop muscle tone so they will survive after birth. Next time you get a groan from your kid when you want them to do something, instead of screaming at them, sit down and find out if why they don't want to get up is stubbornness or pain. It may take a while, because if they are younger, pain may be the only thing they have ever known.

Are you angry yet?