Getting a dental bridge?
Home, tired, laundry is done.
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**gotti, **I hope you’ve got some help with the packing. Aren’t you and your SO recovering from surgeries?.
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Yes, but our plan is either brilliant or insane. We know the area we want to move to, so we’re getting a storage unit in that area, and are moving stuff to it slowly, rather than knocking ourselves out in one or two heroic days of moving. The potential insanity is that we don’t have a new home picked yet. For now, we’re stashing unessential things like the Xmas decorations, extra linens, books, and such.
I’ve got a final cost of my neck surgery - $70,000 billed to the insurance company. The actual artificial disc implant was over $18,000 on its own.
Thank heavens for insurance, gotti. That’s certainly a whole lot of money! How’s your neck doing, by the way?
Finally sleepy. I’m in the phase of jet lag where you don’t get sleepy for a long time and then wake up disgustingly early.
Guess I need to take advantage of the fact that I’m yawning, finally.
Hugs all.
GT
“Hey Y’all!” Channeling Paula Deen tonight, I guess. 
Sorry to have been MIA; I don’t really have an excuse either. But here I am. Hugs and good thoughts to all in need.
My family didn’t have our own particular games that we played while traveling in the car. Probably my favorite was the license plate game. We always tried to find cars with tags for where we lived, or where our relatives lived. I remember once when we were going to Maine from Delaware one August; I think we were on the way to the Tappenzee Bridge, so somewhere in NY state or upper New Jersey. At any rate, we saw another Delaware tag car, and as it got closer to us, we realized it was a neighbor from up the street; the widowed mother was my 11th grade English teacher! She and her sons were headed to their summer cottage somewhere in upstate NY. Small world!!
Sunday I cracked my crock pot crock; I used it to brown a roast on top of the stove, and when I added some broth, it cracked. Dummy me, I don’t know why I thought that you could cook on the stove top with it, but I did think that and no, you should NOT do that. So don’t try it, okay? :eek: I was able to order a replacement crock although it probably would have been just as cost effective to get a new crock pot. This one was fairly new, we’d only gotten it in October. I was browning it in the crock pot because it was going to be cooked in the crock pot, and I didn’t want to have two pots to clean (by way of some explanation for my own stupidity, I suppose!).
I have also been trying to crochet hats. I am thinking of maybe working with a group that makes things for Project Linus, except my skills are really not that good. I am so clumsy, most of my efforts come out lumpy and uneven, unfortunately. I have been able to crochet one hat so far that looks okay. I’ve currently got at least three going, including one that I’ve unraveled several times so far! The current version seems to be going okay and I think I’ve gotten the hang of the simple pattern, but the two that I’ve tried to make so far with that… well, one of them is -huge- and the other is a bit too snug. LOL I feel like Goldilocks - where’s the one that’s “just right?!”
Tuesday I have an appointment with the opthamologist; I’ve been seeing “floaters” in the eye that I had the cataract surgery in a little over a year ago. I still haven’t had surgery for my other eye yet, so I’m going to ask about that. I may have to wait a bit longer, though - there’s a $250 co-pay for out patient surgery in my new plan! :eek:
In the mean time, it’s off to the grocery store tomorrow morning. Hope everyone is doing well. And I am dreading taxes this year - I haven’t seen a W-2 for work yet, and like FCM, since June no state taxes were withheld. I may, for the first time in many many years, have to file for an extension. Like I said, I really hate to think about it. Oh well.
Happy nearly Thursday, all!
I’m going to drop a huge update email on Irish Brother today and ask if he can come down here this weekend to mediate among everyone in the house because I’m sick of being the monkey in the middle. Nobody is seeing how their behavior looks from anyone else’s point of view except me and it’s frankly driving me to another breakdown if it’s not resolved posthaste.
In other news, I finally rescheduled my headshrinker appointment for next Wednesday. I couldn’t do it before due to moving and the earpiece on my phone up and dying for no reason. This is the third phone of this type I’ve had. I’m death on them, apparently.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN 'tis 43 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of <snerk> 69 <snerk> and windy. It’s supposed to get down to 28tonight. BRRRRR!
doggio I just knew somebody would step up with a dentist/architect joke!
Sounds like a plan in the makin’ gotti.
Herbs remember crock pots are for low heat cookin’. Hence the name slow cooker. 
Today I get to go to the doc for a physical before irk. Appointment is at nine a.m. I could go in to irk for a bit first but I choose to be a sluggard and not go until after the doc.
OYKW is goin’ back to irk today. He got his pizza yestiddy and is all better now. Oh and I do have chili cookin’ away in a big slow cooker. Yes, I actually put it on when I got up this mornin’. This way it cooks today, gets to set and mellow overnight and get eaten/frozen tomorrow. Chili is one of those things that’s better if’n it gets to set and mellow IMO.
I need more caffiene and some brekkie for rumbly tummy. Then I should get purtified for the doc and irk I guess.
Happy Thursday Y’all!
Blurf. I’m grumpy today.
My blood sugar has become an issue along with my expanding waistline, therefore, I am no-carbing. Three days into it, my mouth tastes funny and my pee smells, so I’m doing something right. It’s the presence of ketones, meaning I’m metabolizing fat.
I’m sure the dieting is a contributing factor to my grumpiness, but not the sole cause. It’s time to hoist the Jolly Roger and start slitting throats.
Good morning, Mumperworld!! I fell asleep to raindrops on the roof and awoke to many puddles on the ground, not that it was a surprise. Last night’s weather radar had a huge expanse of green headed our way, and it definitely passed thru. Today we’re supposed to hit low 60s - weird, weird weird…
Nothing exciting planned for today. My sweetie needs to take it easy. After 2 days of working on the aquarium, he was hurting last night. I keep reminding him how recent his surgery was (barely 4 weeks ago) but that doesn’t seem to stop him. I swear, I married the world’s worst patient!
**tarra **- I found the hardest part of crocheting and knitting was mastering tension control. Once you get the feel for that, your too big/too small/too lumpy problems will go away. Patience - it’ll come to you. Have you tried making little blankets rather than hats? Flat and rectangular or square is easier to master and around here, Project Linus seems to emphasize blankies. 
Speaking of crock pots, I get to buy a new small one. We’ve got a nice big slow cooker, but my older, round crockpot has died, giving me the excuse I’ve been seeking for ages - a reason to get a new one! After we get back from the cruise, I’m gonna find me one.
That’s all I’ve got now. Off to read the funnies, even tho they’re rarely funny any more…
Happy Thursday!
Up, caffeinated, off to irk.
I’ve been physicalled (physicaled?) and it appears everything is ok. So rah. No major health problems other than what comes with age, I reckon.
That’s pretty much the news. It’s all sunny and bright out but sooooooo windy!
Laterz!
We’re having our first ‘major’ snow of the year today. Of course for the local news this means it’s the end of the world.
I have a really hard time crocheting. Everyone says it’s easier than knitting. I already know how to knit, so maybe that’s why I have trouble with a crochet hook. Plus I cannot learn from a piece of paper. Maybe from youtube.
It’s N.O.L. time! YAY!!! I’m munchin’ on some chikin sallit and crakers. The chikin sallit is from The Cookie Shop. They make good chikin sallit and cookies. Thus, there’s a big homemade chawklit chip cookie for dessert. Double YAAAAAAY!!!
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For now, we’re stashing unessential things like the Xmas decorations, extra linens, books, and such./QUOTE]
You’ll be surprised what you decide is ‘unessential’.
I missed a taijitsu class last night. I keep forgetting that the first class on Wednesday starts at 5:30. For some reason I can manage to remember on Monday. I’m not terribly worried about it.
Woke up feeling more girly than I’ve felt in a while, so I’m actually wearing a blouse, and woman’s jacket instead of a dress shirt and an unisex jacket. And heels! Technically, they’re boots I bought to use for Pirate Faire, but they’re nice heeled boots. I think it’s about a two inch heel, but it doesn’t feel that way.
And then I got in the car, and drove like an asshole*, and swore at other drivers.
(* I exaggerate - I ran a lot of yellows, but didn’t do anything dangerous).
major weather-induced sinus headache pretending to be a migraine.
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I’m sorry I killded the MMP. Forgive me?
You’re forgiven.
I’m starting to sort through clothes for a comfy after-having-babies wardrobe, so I don’t have to think about what to wear. Everything will be a)fairly pretty and decent-looking, and b) as comfy as pajamas. I know I won’t have time or energy to figure out what I can and can’t wear for the first couple of months. Better to do it now.
Massive blurf.
I’m getting caught up on all the sleep I missed with all those years of insomnia. I’ve slept at least 12 hours each day since the weekend. Too bad the bed is too soft and it’s making my sciatica come back. Ugh.
I need to start sleeping a normal schedule soon since school starts in a few days. We still haven’t gotten the jeep back. This could be bad. I hope he finishes it soon.
It snewed. woohoo.
It looks icy and dangerous outside. At least when we get the Jeep back, it’ll have heat.
I need to make more clicker-lanyards and magnets for my dog trainer to sell but my motivation is totally non-existent. I just wanna be lazy.
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It’s time to hoist the Jolly Roger and start slitting throats.
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I’ll bring my sword.
It’s bad enough that real estate people exaggerate, but when they lie, I’m outta there. If you say the appliances are new, they had better be NEW and CLEAN. Not looking like something out of a frat house. :mad:
Evenin’ Y’all! I made a nummy dindin of cheese steaks and oven fries. MMMMMMM!!! We had a rain front come through this afternoon and behind it cool temps and very windy. The temp is definitely fallin’ outside from near 70 around four this afternoon to around 50 now and down to 30 overnight! BRRRRRR!!!
gotti realtors do have some strange ideas of new and clean I’ve noticed over the years. I had da cave built so it was indeed new and clean, appliances included (I even bought a new fridge and freezer) when I moved in. Ok, the washer and dryer were not new but have been replaced over the years. I’ve been in da cave almost 16 years. WOW!
I’s feelin’ sleepified. Think I’ll go lie upon the bed and watch teevee 'til sleep doth overcome.
Nitey Nite Y’all!