TOOTH ACHING NOT

Partly cloudy with temperatures rising towards the upper 70s. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph.

I hate it when the garbage men leave the garbage cans out in the middle of the road and I am all dressed and ready for work and I have go out there and hope that the garbage can doesn't throw up on my work clothes as I pick it up and bring it in.


We got in a game of Scrabble in last night late. My neighbor got home from her evening job about 9:30 so we were able to get a game in that lasted probably until 10:30. I lost again. I seem to be on a loosing streak. Right now from March 8th for a total of 50 games I have Won 21. Well I guess looking at those numbers on paper I am just shy of half won and half lost.

Sat on my front porch this morning, it was absolutely beautiful. No humidity like yesterday and the sun was clear and bright and there was a nice breeze. I am so looking forward to next week when I am not working anymore. I am going to try to walk in the cemetery by the house, lots of roads weaving around the big area.


At around dusk every night my husband makes and effort to get our cat Buddy in the house. He is out hunter and he loves to be outside after dark, as all cats do I am sure. However, we not only have small field animals like mice, snakes, frogs etc., we have large animals in our neighborhood like, opossum, skunks, raccoons, and deer. My husband doesn't like leaving him out, a skunk spraying would not be fun. The other night Buddy would not come. He tried enticing him with treats and he called and called and finally he was within his reach but Buddy just kept walking further and further toward the dark cemetery and my husband couldn't grab him. So my husband came in very frustrated and threw up his hands and said, "that's it, I am not letting him in later when he is ready to come in and I hope he has to stay outside all night and don't even let him in in the morning." Okay, I said, no big deal for me. Of course my husband is the one who would worry all night. Almost as bad as he would have worried when the daughter was home and coming in late. So we went to bed and Buddy was out playing with his wildlife friends. About a half an hour after we settled in bed I hear him get up. "Where are you going?" I say. He very meekly and quietly like he doesn't want me to hear him says, "I am going to see if Buddy wants to come in." I cracked up into my pillow. He comes back all happy. Buddy came in.

OMG!!!! I had a tooth pulled today. What a mess. About a month ago I noticed that there was swelling around one of my teeth and it was very sore. So I went to the dentist. He took an x ray and told me that the tooth I had a root canal done on and a crown on top was cracked and whole damn thing needed to be pulled. Imagine spending all that money on a root canal then a crown and have to pull it! I was pissed. So I had to take a 10 day course of antibiotic and today I went and he pulled it. It was not easy task. After he took the crown off he realized that the too was what he called "mush" a technical term. He chipped, drilled, scrapped and finally pulled that thing out. I'll tell you with all of the Novocain he game me I still felt pain. To tell the truth the pain from the tooth being gone is a lot less pain then the pressure of the bad tooth under that crown.

So tonight for dinner I had rice.

No work tomorrow, that's a good thing. I am going to the nail salon and then probably to the hospital to sit with my brother while he has a intravenous treatment of lasiks (that's a diuretic). They still don't know why he is retaining fluid.