Impacted wisdom teeth…GONE!

I had mine taken out this morning. I was soooo nervous going in that I was shaking. The doctor and the nurses were so nice and understanding. They put all kinds of pulse monitors and stuff on me and then gave me an IV in my hand. It was about 2 minutes after that that I was looking to the nurse on my left and she smiled at me. That’s the last thing I remember until I was home. I don’t remember being wheeled out on a wheelchair. I don’t remember asking my husband repeatedly if they had in fact taken them out…since it seemed like only about 5 minutes. I don’t remember asking him over and over why there was a loaf of bread on the dashboard of the car (there was nothing on the dash…). I took my percocet when I got home and crashed for several hours. I never understood what all the fuss about pain killers is. They always make me go to sleep. Right now, it’s between pain med doses so I’m feeling fine, just a little tender on my lower jaw. I’ve managed to eat applesauce, pureed pears, pureed peaces, and I think I may have a smoothy for dinner. I’m pleasantly surprised by the experience, wlthough I had no idea what to expect going in.
So anyone out there who’s going the conscience sedation route with wisdom teeth extraction…I highly recommend it.I didn’t want to remember anything from the procedure and I don’t! It’s great.
The funny thing is, I mangaged to have a baby without pain meds, but on this I was a total wuss. Different kind of pain I guess.

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Sara Silverman is the un-funny

She’s THE un-funny. I actually feel embarrassed for her. If you were to look up un-funny, I bet there’d be a picture of her in the dictionary picking her nose and giving you the finger or some other ridiculous vulgar thing (actually, that would probably be too tame for her). I get it, you’re a woman comic and you feel like you have to be rude and gross like all of the men and that you like to make fun of stuff that other people think is important and you like to be all controversial and you have a potty mouth. Yawn! That does not mean everything out of it is funny. Joking about abortions is not funny, pretending to be a black person is not funny, joking about AIDS is not funny, joking about being raped IS NOT FREAKING FUNNY! My husband seems to really like her show (I assume since it’s always on the DVR) so I asked him why it’s funny. The other people on her show are funny, but for some reason we’re forced to listen to her nonsense through the whole thing. How un-funny is something when you actually have to ask other people why it’s funny? I’m really trying to see the appeal. I think I have a very open mind and a pretty decent sense of humor. I’m no prude in any sense of the word. Why don’t I get it? Jeff says it’s because she’s ironic and she’s totally anti-Politically Correct (like that’s a new thing). Carlos Mencia is anti-Politically Correct and I laugh my ass off when I watch his show. I don’t even crack a smile when I watch The Sara Silverman Program. Worse yet, it made me feel uncomfortable and unclean and I wanted to change the channel (but Jeff was watching it so I just did something else). Now that I think of it, Jeff doesn’t laugh either. I’ve said it before…Why is everything that’s considered hilarious always more like trying to come up with the most shocking, crude, disgusting thing? It’s unimaginative and obvious and boring.

I thought maybe I am just getting old and crotchety so I Google’d “Sara Silverman is not funny” and came up with all of these people who seem to be writing the same thing. If so many people think her show is crap, why is it still on? Why didn’t they cancel it and put on more South Park or something like that? As much as I dislike South Park (at times…I’m rather bored and tired of jokes about poo), I’d rather watch that than 5 minutes of un-funny, un-talented, un-witty Sara Silverman.

TaDA!!

It’s a washcloth!

10…number of days it took to finish
15…number of times I cast-on and then started over.(yes 15)
3…number of HUGE mistakes that I had to teach myself how to fix without ripping out rows and rows.
1…the number of days it SHOULD HAVE taken me to finish this. My hands kept getting crampy and going numb. Damn you carpel tunnels…

I used Sugar ‘n Cream 100% cotton yarn in Country Side Ombre. It comes in all kinds of nifty colors and stuff…and it was cheap. The pattern came on the package, which was handy. It was good practice anyway.

Now what am I going to DO with it??

I’m going to attempt to knit Elyse a scarf next. I should be done with it by the time the weather gets warm…

Lately

Not much new has been going on. I’ve been battling Travis about naps. He doesn’t seem to want to take them. I know I personally would love to take a nap…I don’t know what the problem is. This week we started Travis on peas. So far he’s eaten brown rice, acorn squash, sweet potatoes, and bananas. He seemed to really like the peas so that was promising. I don’t know why anyone would want to start their baby on solids sooner than now. It’s so much easier just to pop the boob in and be done with it. I’m enjoying making the food for him though so that’s kind of fun and I guess it’s sort of fun to see his reaction to different foods. I’ve started giving him baby food puffs as well. He gums away on them. They’re pretty tasty! I would eat these as a snack myself.

We bought a new laptop last night. The hard drive on our old one finally bit the dust after threatening to for about a month. This new one will be good enough for us to play our games on. This will be good when I get my wisdom teeth out in a couple of weeks. Here’s a piece of advice for you…get your wisdom teeth out as soon as your dentist tells you to. Even if, like me, your dentist doesn’t tell you to, do it anyway. The oral surgeon (yikes…scary saying that) says there’s a 30% chance that I will have permanent nerve damage in my jaw from getting my wisdom teeth out at my age (all of 32!). That plus the insurance company has to have special proof that you “really” need your teeth out and then they take their sweet time in approving it…blah blah blah. I should have had this procedure done back in August, but I couldn’t because of the stupid insurance company.

In other news, I’m learning how to be a gramma…
…by teaching myself how to knit! I figure why shell out close to $100 for a pair of wool pants for my baby boy, when I’m perfectly capable of making them myself with a little a lot of practice? Plus my family will have a life time supply of hats and scarfs when I’m done.

It’s so not gramma-like though! There’s a ton of people “my age” that are doing this sort of thing. It’s actually fun. I found myself thinking about knitting while I was playing LOTRO earlier this evening….weird huh? The web site I was looking at to figure all of this out was instrumental in my pseudo success.

Here are a few pics…

Wool (100% merino)

First cast-on (double cast-on)

I’m now working on a washcloth (it’s not quite finished…yeah I’m that slow) and after that I’m going to make a scarf for Elyse. It might be done by the time the weather gets warm again…we’ll see.

My husband was playing around with our pictures the other day and this is the result.

Don’t they look like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza?

New Page

I posted Travis’s birth story up there at the top next to About.