Beneath the Wraps

              This morning I watched a couple of “remembrance” videos found on YouTube starting with 20 Things From The 1960s, Kids Today Will Never Understand! found here . As I watched I smiled at some things I remembered and laughed at others.  Most I could remember first hand such as Sunday drives and record players.  There were only a couple that I either couldn’t remember or dared to try myself.  I do remember trying the pogo stick but only a try.  I never owned my own pogo stick.  I never gave myself the opportunity of perfecting it.           I remember green stamps.   I remember having watched them dissolve – not that I was ever attached to them.   I was a kid.   I didn’t care about their existence or what could be purchased with them.             Though I have done “remembrance” and “evolution” posts befo...

                 I have only one dose left of the nasty mouth wash I will swish around after my next meal.  I have five pills left from what I told was a day’s worth of what I thought to be pain killers.  They are actually “knock-me-into-a-coma-so-I-forget-the-pain” pills.  I found that out one evening when I took the one pill at 5:00 p.m. instead of my usual 8:00 when I am ready to retire to bed anyway.                I bet I could cut the remaining 5 pills in half and they would still be as effective.   I wish they were memory pills.

                 I fell asleep early.   I got up at 2:00 quite warm and decided to take a shower.   I did not return to bed as I had had six hours of sleep. I took my kindle into another room to pass the time.   If I had thought about it I would have cleaned the carpet in Richard’s office.   Of course I did not think about it.   I returned to bed at 4:00.   Sometime between 4:00 a.m. and 5:30 I had a really hard sleep.   I know that I was sleeping hard as I had another really bizarre dream with no connections to anything.                  I was driving down a road that leads to downtown Myrtle Creek.   A deer zoomed in front of me.   I think I stopped hard to let it pass.   And then I saw a woman slowly moseying down the middle of the road.   She was wearing a c...

                 In my last post I mentioned a nasty mouthwash that the dentist gave me to rinse my mouth three times a day – I guess until it’s gone.   I am supposed to swish for 45 seconds and not eat or drink for 20-30 minutes after I spit.   It isn’t terrible swishing it in my mouth, but once I spit it does leave a horrible after taste – and then my teeth hurt.           I have learned to take the pain killers before I swish.   I am glad I waited on the “one-day” dosage of pain killers.   Thus far I have taken three.   The mar above my lip and cheek that I posted five days ago has faded but I seem to have a small bruise close to my left chin.   (Well there's an grammatically incorrect sentence that Would hurt an English grade)  What is up with that?   All the teeth that were extracted were on top.         ...

  My mom said that I had mumps on one side of my mouth.   I don’t remember. I wonder if that is what my left cheek has felt like since my dental incident on Tuesday.     I picked up my prescriptions yesterday.   One was for a nasty mouthwash that is to get rid of whatever germs have built up.   The other was for a pain killer that could send me into a coma if I’m not careful.   I am too scared to take it.   And really, the pain is not as bad as I had predicted.   I was given only one day’s worth and so will save it for a time when the pain is more severe.   But I will also pray about my decision in the event that my pain does get that bad.   And it doesn’t have to be my face that is hurting.   The outward appearance indicates that I am in a lot more pain than I am.

  I have always had a low pain threshold.   I have also been a drama queen exaggerating the results of my pain thus I didn’t always get the sympathy that I sought.   On Tuesday I had three teeth extracted from my mouth.   I was certain I would have to have surgery with at least one – being lost in the gum line and have to be removed in pieces.   That is how it was for my mom.   But then again that was over 60 years ago.   Technology has made things so much easier since then.              All three teeth were removed within half an hour.   I thought I would be in the dentist chair for at least two hours – or close to it anyway.   I don’t hurt nearly as much as I had expected.   In fact, it only hurts on one side – mostly in the cheek area on my left side.   In time the pain will go away and I will be back to eating solid foods. But as of right now it’s been mashed potatoes, pudding and Jell-o. ...

          I don’t know which Easter – two years ago I think – when I learned the resurrection rolls (some call them tomb rolls) from Emily Belle Freeman (In one of the Easter videos that she did with David Butler)   Neither David Butler nor I had ever heard of the disappearing marshmallow treat.   They souned good along with symbolic message and I tried them.             I vaguely remember explained the symbols as I held up the marshmallow and said that it would represent Jesus’ body and that we would symbolically prepare the body in oil (melted butter) and fine spices (cinnamon and sugar) and dress His body (the crescent roll or biscuit or whatever I happened to use) and when we opened the oven His body would no longer be inside.   I don’t know what recipe I used.             Yesterday I decided that I would surprise the other two as they ...

                 The year that the Church had come out with the “Come Follow Me” program is the same year that having three meetings at the church was cut back to two meetings and strongly suggested to continue study that third hour but at home with the family.  Richard’s calling kept him after church and so Jaime and I would come home and read the manual and watch videos together.  Read scriptures with discussion, but that tapered out.  We weren’t so diligent about studying together quite as often.           I continued to study the manual and watch videos though not as diligently as this year or even in 2022 with the Doctrine and Covenants.   Good until summer hits and slowly have gotten back on track during fall – except for the Old Testament which I wasn’t so diligent about.   But I have gotten much better this year.   I try to study each week as though I will be...

             For several years I have thrown a dry towel or two into the dryer along with my wet load as the water may absorb on the towel and cut down on our energy bill – which it seems to have done.   I do use dryer sheets on occasion – especially with my undergarments.   We have somehow stocked on dryer sheets and have a good supply.              It has been less than a month since Richard grabbed a package marked “dryer balls” that we might try.   According to the tag they were supposed to cut down on energy and replace dryer sheets as the static would be taken out and the need for purchasing any further fabric sheets would be nil.   The tag must have gotten thrown away or fell between the washer and dryer for I cannot find it to use as reference.              My daughter-in-law uses dryer balls and seems to find them essential.   There are many reas...

                 When I was younger I would often spin around several times until I felt dizzy and stop – either of my own will or because I had crashed into something.  The dizziness was not completely bothersome as a youth as it is as an adult – an aged one at that.              There are times I have felt dizzy due to ear or sinus infections though I don’t ever remember feeling so dizzy that I wanted to throw up.   Well, there was that time when I was pregnant with Jaime and Richard and I were at a movie theatre watching “Limitless” – the opening photography is spinning as I recall or maybe somewhere else in the movie.   I remember looking away as it was making me dizzy.           Getting into a car when I am feeling light headed is not always the best idea. The dizziness had seemingly made me naucious and when we had stopped for gas on the w...

                 This time it stuck – slushed on the roads.   Dry now. Snow’s been falling.   Finally let up.                It’s noon and picture shows signs of spring trying to poke through.  

                 As we were returning from church yesterday Richard pointed out a snowman near a senior trailor park.     The snowman looked tall against                                                            th e green grass.   As we passed the pathetic looking                          snowman it seemed to take on                                                                  the form of a skeleton.     It was quite near ...