It feels like a Saturday. I suspect most of the days this week will
feel like Saturdays. On the 21st
my post gives a little detail about my dental experience. The Novocain wore off eventually – long after
the dentist was closed. I don’t know
when I first noticed that my teeth were not feeling right. Well, two in particular. Was it the tooth he just worked on? The bite on the right side of my mouth made
contact before anything on my left. It didn’t
hurt but was quite annoying.
I remember the dentist and his
assistant having me bite on a paper and saw off some more. Wait a minute! I don’t think I am finished. Something is sticking up that’s not supposed
to.
That was Wednesday. I allowed myself to “deal with it” for the
next four days and called the dentist yesterday to see if I could get in before
my next appointment in January.
I don’t know what time I
called. Something was going on. Rather put me on eternal hold, the
receptionist took my name and number and said she would get back to me. I think it was forty minutes before she got
back to me!
I was pulling out of my driveway as
I had a 10:00 meeting. I wasn’t even
trying to get in yesterday. It was actually
NOT a good day for me to try and fit into my schedule. There had been a
cancellation for this morning.
Perfect!
The meeting could have gone better,
I suppose. Seemed like we got off track
a bit. We do get things accomplished,
but never anything on the agenda. When the meeting was over I returned home and
ate a sandwich before Jenna, Roland and I went to the school for parent/teacher
conference. Not much to be said as Jenna
is a great, wonderful, awesome student and everybody loves her. No questions.
Just introductions more than anything.
Next: the Big City of Roseburg. Jenna wanted to see Frozen II. We purchased tickets and then went to get
something to eat. Back to the cinema and
then to Costco to pick up Thanksgiving
supplies.
Roland allowed me to stay in the car
and play on my kindle. Have I mentioned
that I really really really really (that’s probably not even enough really) don’t
like shopping. I was even willing to
miss out on free samples (if there were any?) and played a few games before
Roland and Jenna returned to the car.
It was probably only 5:00 when we
returned, but it always feels later when it’s dark. Our usual routine: Roland unloaded the car,
Jenna brought food into the house, I put away.
Roland was tired and so I took Jenna
with me to the dentist. I spent an hour in
the dentist chair last visit. I think it
was only ten minutes this morning. The
tooth was filed down! No more grinding! Evenly chew.
Well sort of. I have jagged
teeth. Mostly where it can’t be
seen.
Jenna and I did not return home
right away. We hit a bunch of stores –
the same that we can find in Myrtle Creek, but in Winston we could have walked
to each of them and stayed parked in one space.
But the weather hasn’t been too friendly the last couple of days – not just
here but all across the nation – probably the entire globe as well. Not a lot of traffic. I appreciated that.
Roland wanted to do a trial run of
the food so that he knows how to time it Thursday. When Jenna and I returned, “lunch” was
ready. We had Waldorf salad (not a part
of my Thanksgiving tradition, but Roland said he really wanted to have some) yams,
turkey and stuffing. I was hungry and
enjoyed the food. I think the stuffing
will taste better on Thanksgiving after it’s been inside of the turkey (what we
had today was from a boneless breast)
Roland decided to go to the barber
and asked me if I’d like to come along for the ride – just to get out of the
house. He obviously had a nap and maybe
hadn’t notice how long I’d been gone. I’ve
been out. I got wet. I’ll stay home and create a new post. I’m good.
Now he is on his way to purchase
three big propanes in case the power does go out again – like it did in
February. It sounds as though blow out
before I get this posted. He is the one
that freezes when we don’t have any power.
I am still opening the window (if only a crack) when it’s only 30
degrees outside. I don’t like the
electric heat that is the only source of heat we have to warm our house.
The hilltops are capped in snow
now. The wind is howling. I hope it doesn’t blow the shingles off our
roof (or whatever else is up there). The elements sound very unforgiving right
now. It’s rare to hear the wind howling
as we’ve not heard much of it the entire time we’ve been in Oregon. We did in Salt Lake. Don’t miss that at all.