Monday, October 15, 2012
Weekend Update.
I actually had a very nice weekend. I've been under a tremendous amount of stress lately; my husband is working FUCKED UP North Korean-style hours and on top of that is preparing for an exam next week on which his very job depends. What does this mean? It means that he works all day (18 hours on one particular day; yes I keep track) and studies all night. This leaves me with, well, EVERYTHING else. It's like being a single mom to four kids plus a geriatric, anorexic mother-in-law. I am spread so thin, I could just snap at any minute. On a good day it is hard enough to give everyone who depends on me enough attention. I'm not even going to mention how hard it has been of late. On Friday night, I tried to cheer up my friend who is at the tail end of a very hard, very complicated pregnancy.
On Saturday I actually got to take the whole family out.
Play time and minigolf!
Followed by dinner at the Pioneer Pantry.
That is the seafood dinner platter, and yes, I ate it all! I guess one of the perks of being me is that I can eat 5000 calories a day and still be losing weight ;)
I am so happy I decided to just relax with the family. My place is a mess and that drives me crazy, but time is so fickle with your children. We had two milestones this weekend as well. One involves toilet training, so I will not go into detail about that one. The other was Orion losing his third tooth. At just a month shy of 8 years old, I know he is very late in changing his teeth. He has been very late with everything, and that's just fine by me, but there it is! The proverbial bicycle rack!
I myself was very late in changing teeth. I remember having a bunch of my baby teeth pulled at age 14, because they had not come out yet (and I was in desperate need of some heavy orthodontic work). I also had my canines pulled. This was all done by a very ancient, Dutch dentist with ancient dental equipment and without any pain killers (and it left me with a LIFETIME dreaded fear of dentists). ::shivers:: Well, now that I have ensured giving myself nightmares, I'll call it a weekend! Sad it's over! Rough seas ahead this week. Hold Fast, my friends. I know I have to keep reminding myself of that.
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I totally read "minigolf" as "mingolf" and was thinking it was some nifty Dutch thing everyone was doing together. Not enough coffee in my system yet. ;o)
ReplyDeleteI had to get a lot of my baby teeth extracted, as well! Unfortunately, they missed a chunk of one and it is now giving me problems (I only found this out two weeks ago!!). I have to have this tiny baby tooth chunk removed because it has created some issues that will be fixed by it coming out. You are not alone in your tooth issues!
Crikey, Lady!! That sounds positively nightmarish! When is the evil tooth coming out?
DeleteEvil Tooth Bit is coming out the middle of next month! It has created a wound in my mouth that hasn't healed for months and since the mouth is so dirty I don't like having an open wound in it for that long, you know? So it comes out! The periodontist will have to peel my gums back, take the tooth bit off (by means of which I don't know), and then suture my gums back together. FUN.
DeleteOMG to me that just sounds like HORROR. :( But having an open mouth wound is not exactly a picnic either.
DeleteYeah, I saw a picture of the wound they took back in July when my dentist didn't know what it was. It wasn't bothering me but there was a "thing" in my mouth that he hadn't seen before but wasn't worried about. The tissues were a little inflamed, but he said not to worry about it, so I didn't. Cut to August/September. While I was in Ketchikan I began having severe tooth pain in the area for several weeks, which I couldn't do anything about. It finally went away, but I was also dealing with bronchitis at the time. I get back to Portland and my mouth is hurting in the same spot again, so I go back to my dentist and he still doesn't know what it is, but I am having weird symptoms that don't match up to anything, so he refers me to the periodontist, who knows what it is, but my case is the first time that the tooth has poked through the gums. I guess he normally finds baby teeth bits when he is irrigating plaque off people's teeth who have gum disease. He peels their gums back to clean and finds them, but I am the first time he has seen the tooth poke through into the mouth. (I'm ~*soooo special~*~ Ha ha ha!)
DeleteThe whole procedure will take about half an hour and it doesn't sound so bad to me, to be honest. When I had my wisdom teeth taken out I had eight shots in my mouth and could hear my teeth crunching. I will only get one shot of Novocaine in my mouth this time and will be out fast. I'll have to come back a week later to have the suture removed, but that will take five minutes. Granted, it is not going teeth extraction without drugs, but it will still be interesting!
I can't remembr how many shots I got when my wisdom teeth were extracted (thankfully I only had two wisdom teeth). I do know that I would have much preferred to be under general anesthesia. I saw the surgeon put the scalpel in my mouth and could feel him removing the teeth. As tough as I am, I am a big fat pussy when it comes to dental work! LOL
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