June 24, 2009

I know how Two Face feels!


So I got my wisdom tooth taken out today and it was ALOT easier than I thought! A dentist who wears tropical scrubs can't be too mean, right? He was awesome! A big shout out to Dr. Morgan. I didn't even feel the needle and barely heard my tooth crunch at all!! This numbing feeling is really weird! To drink water, it's cold on one side & warm on the other - crazy! And right when I started to wonder what on earth I was going to eat today my faithful friend Candace brought be over a big bag of wisdom-tooth-extraction-loving food! Ice cream, yogurt, jello & pudding. Thanks Candace for taking such good care of me!!

June 23, 2009

Can I Swap My Tooth?

So, I thought I might be one of those lucky people that never have to get their wisdom teeth taken out - I have a big enough mouth, there's room in there. Wrong! After going to the denist with an emergency visit of a possible abcessed molar (which was confirmed). The only way to get out of this pain is to get them taken out. Blah! Since we currently don't have insurance we've been shopping around - insane what dentists are charging for wisdom tooth removal!! But I have to say - if you want to get it done, get them taken out up here in Burns! My dentist was by far the cheapest with $136 a tooth!! (There is one office up in UT that specializes in wisdom teeth only and it would cost around $1100 for the complete visit)
I know that there are reseach centers that will pay you and/or will take your wisdom teeth out for free if you take whatever meds they are researching on, but there is nothing like that up here and our time in UT is short enough that I can't really spend 20 hours in an office filling out a questionaire every hour. Unless they'd let me have visitors.....hmmmm.
So to the dentist tommorrow (June 24th) I will go and get my main, problematic, vain-of-my-existance-if-it-didn't-come-in-I-wouldn't-have-this-problem wisdom tooth taken out.
The dentist said that I shouldn't swell up (I have perfect cone shaped roots that should slide right out) - I hope that he's right!
I found a cool website (no, not mine, although - it is pretty cool). http://www.swaptree.com is a fun little place that you can swap books, movies & games with others for free! It's pretty cool. I'm going through all of my stuff to see what I can swap. Check it out.
Too bad I couldn't swap my tooth!!

June 7, 2009

Last Weekend & Crazy Things!

Aaaah, as the season of summer begins I am itching to have the school year over and the vacations to start!! I haven't posted in a while so I thought I would give everyone a good ole update!

We are doing well. Ryan is working!! He got hooked up with an awesome job at the Argriculture Research Center out here and while the work isn't the most exciting thing ever (counting grasses, identifying weeds, driving out to experimental dirt plots out in the boonies) you can't beat the great government pay!! We are oober excited about it. He has work with them until August and then we'll see what happens! Ryan is still planning on applying for radio jobs this summer so keep your fingers crossed.

I'm doing well. I've been subbing a ton and I'm excited for summer. I have signed myself up to do a community theatre production of The Music Man! Call me crazy....I know that I am. In six weeks I will be showing Harney County what real community theater is! It's fun, good and no one will be reading their lines off of their hand (honest to goodness truth about the last play that was done here!!).

We had Ryan's parents visit us last weekend and that was fun. We went yard saleing, got bit by dozens of mosquitoes, watched movies, ate at Glory Days and one evening went up to Deliment Lake to do some dutch oven cooking & fish. I'm so mad that I forgot my camera - there were some beautiful shots that evening! The sunset was beautiful - never forgetting my camera again. We then enjoyed some Simpson's Clue (It was Mr. Smithers in Mr. Burn's office with the slingshot) & Catch Phrase ("Middle Evil", "Evil Times", "Dark Times", Dark Evil Times"....Medevil Times!). We enjoyed having them here and hope they come back again!
Hope everyone is doing well!!