Oh hi! Is this thing on?
Sorry for the extended silence around these parts!
I've moved! I found someplace else to write my silly little thoughts. Email me for the link! katrei626 [at] gmail [dot] com. (I don't want to put the link on here because this has become a little too easily google-able, hah)
It's not you, it's me. I promise.
Sorry for the extended silence...I've been in wisdom tooth exile. Trust me, it's a place you never, ever want to visit. Your wisdom teeth are bothering you? Even a little impacted, you say? LISTEN TO ME: NEVER EVER EVER GET THEM OUT. Trust me on this. Just suck it up and deal with the constant headaches, sore teeth, etc etc...whatever you do, do not have a stupid surgery on your stupid mouth to get your stupid teeth out. EVER.
It really actually wouldn't have been that bad except for the dry sockets that I was so lucky to get. I had them out Friday, was still swollen and hurty on Saturday but nothing unbearable, about the same on Sunday...and then on Monday they started to hurt worse. And worse. And woooooorse. I kept making reasons for why they were hurting, maybe it's because I'm talking more, maybe it's because I tried to (GOD FORBID) eat something more substantial than pudding, maybe...yeah. No. I woke up sobbing around 5 a.m. Tuesday with the worst pain I have ever felt in my entire life. I finally got into the dentist around 12:30 p.m. (that was the longest 7 hour wait of my life, by the way) and found out I had dry sockets.
What's that you ask? Apparently it's when the blood clot either doesn't form, or detaches, and then your BONES ARE EXPOSED TO THE AIR. And then you want to die. I still can't figure out how I got them...I followed all the rules and did/did not do everything I was told to do/not to do. Anyway, the dentist stuffed them with gauze soaked in clove oil, which tastes kinda gross but was instant relief. I went back yesterday and he changed out the gauze, and I go back Monday to have him check it out and see if they're better. Until then my life is just kind of revolving around Orajel, frozen yogurt, and painkillers.
I'm just annoyed because I really thought I'd be out with this for like...3 days max. I don't know why I thought that, seeing as how they were pretty big time impacted so he had to dig around quite a bit in my jaw bone area, plus I'm on the old-ish side for getting it done, plus anytime there's a chance of any kind of medical misadventure I'm usually lucky enough to have it happen. But it's been a week (A WEEK!) since I've had anything of any substance to eat, and I gotta tell you, sister want a burger. And I don't even like red meat!
I'll stop whining about it now because I know nobody likes a whiner and I'm pretty sure some people think I'm being a baby about it but I am here to tell you, I would not wish this stuff on my worst enemy. Well, maybe on my WORST enemies. That's just the kind of person I am. But seriously, blahhh I am soooo done with dealing with this. I cannot wait to get back to normal!
This weekend should be fun, at least. After a week of being cooped up inside (at my parents' house for the majority of it, no less - which, side note, turned out to be a surprisingly awesome time) I am so ready to get out and see my friends and have some good times. I've got some fun things lined up so that's something.
So yeah...just checking in to say yes, I did survive, but BARELY. Also, I think I am single-handedly keeping Lexington's one and only frozen yogurt place in business right now. I'm a little ashamed that they know my order by heart now.
Hi! Let's just pretend I have been good about keeping up the whole blogging momentum and haven't totally forgotten to update in the past week. Okay? Okay!
Last weekend was excellent. Highlights include late nights on the front porch with our crazy neighbors and their friends, laughing until my stomach literally ached; watermelon rum and diet pepsi; having approx 4,000 ridiculous and funny boys in our front yard on Saturday night; lots of other stuff but my stupid Diet Coke addled memory has already made me forget.
Oh! Yes, 1 other thing:
Nikki got a bunny! So we now have a bunny and 2 cats in our house, which I personally think is awesome, although I'm not too sure how Beth feels about it. BUT! It means we get Caturday AND Bunday so I mean it's pretty much a win-win.
Meet Greta (her nice name given to her by her mama Nikki...I prefer to call her Bunniqua)
Aghhh bunny snorgles = most excellent.
Uhmmm..this week has just been workworkwork, nothing too exciting to report.
Big thing: I have my wisdom teeth surgery TOMORROW! AGHHHHHHH I am so scared. I know it's no big deal really, that people get it done all the time, blah blah, but it's my first time to go under anesthesia and I am so so so so worried about it. Ahmed is getting his done the same day, so at least I'll have someone to commiserate with. IF I MAKE IT OUT ALIVE.
I've been so anxious about the stupid surgery that I haven't been able to sleep and it's also making me feel sick, so last night I ended up taking some Dramamine...and then did not wake up until 8:45 this morning. And I am supposed to wake up by 6:30 a.m. AND BE AT WORK AT 8!! Ooops...I felt horrible about it but thankfully my workplace is pretty cool and didn't make a big deal of it, mostly just teased me. But still. No more Dramamine late at night, I think.
I also keep waking up with a split lip? Just for the past few days. It's very random, I am starting to think that I am getting beat up in my sleep (Chuck Norris, I'm looking at you). But that's another thing, now I'm going to have to go and have my mouth stretched open while they do surgery and my stupid lip is all split and gross. Awesome.
Oh, one last awesome thing: I found out that my ex apparently lives down the street from me?? Ex as in...the one I had a pretty bad breakup with. As in, the last time I saw him I threw an umbrella at his head along with some colorful profanities (oh come on, he totally deserved it). I haven't talked to him in a long time (a year or two) so I had no idea. It's just sorta...awkward. But I haven't seen him yet so maybe our paths won't ever cross. Seriously though, is this town THAT small?? For real???
Alright, time to get down to bidness...I will see you on the flipside of wisdomteethgate08!
Hey guyth. I kinda dropped the ball with the ~day in review~ blogs because, guess what, MY LIFE IS PRETTY BORING LATELY!
Here's what the past couple days consisted of:
So...where was I? Oh right. Friday night was Nikki's birfday party...I was going to leave for Indiana around 10:30 pm, but then I had a somewhat interesting conversation with someone that made me decide to stay in Lexington. We all went to Charlie Brown's at midnight for grilled cheese (which is somewhat of a tradition in my group of friends...the most delicious tradition ever)...then got home around 2 a.m. Then something stupid happened that made me mad (sorry for all the vagueness but I only put the uncensored stuff on my livejournal!)...so then I decided to drive to Indiana right then. At 2:30 in the morning.
I've never claimed to have excellent decision making skills.
So I got on the road and was following the Mapquest directions I had printed out...which seemed kind of weird to me, since I know a very simple and direct way to get to I-64, but I figured that Mapquest had some sort of better route...yeah. I got lost, big time. Finally when I was like halfway to Elizabethtown I realized I was real bad lost and freaked out, because it was the middle of the night and I was on the road alone in BuFu Kentucky and had no idea where I was headed. Thank goodness for OnStar...I pressed the little blue button in a panic and totally felt like one of those OnStar commercials where the person's freaking out and the OnStar person is all calm and reassuring. Seriously, I couldn't recommend it more.
Anyway they got me back on track and I finally got to Indiana around 5 in the morning. Am so smart! And responsible!
Eh I guess it was maybe dumb to take a spontaneous road trip in the middle of the night but in the end I'm glad I went because I had a pretty good time, and it was nice to get out of Lexington for awhile. There wasn't a whole lot to do up there because he pretty much lives in the TINIEST TOWN EVER but it was alright because it forced me to just chill out and relax for the weekend.
Things I did:
