There's no place like home... no place like home...

Poor me... no more iPod. It sits here like a little lump of used-up metal. My hubby's iPod taunts mine. My iPod feels inferior.

We have a broken couch as well. It actually fell apart when we sat on it. It'd been slowly weakening, and finally, one of the wooden pegs holding it up split in two and crashed the couch to the ground. I had to take off the other three pegs, so it's no 6-8 inches shorter. Our behinds probably come close to touching the floor when we sit on it now. It's 15 years old, at the very least. Our whole living room suit used to belong to my Mom-Mom and Pa-Pa. They gave it to us, and they'd had it for a long time prior. It has been well worth its cost. You can't knock free things!

Time to get my red couch, finally! LOL - time to have a set that actually matches the things we've bought.

The money piggy has been re-established. Proverbial crack in the piggy from the last piggy bust-out has been repaired, and the count is:

$ in the Piggy: $300.00 - official marshmallow (mattress) fund. No, I don't believe in putting something like that on a credit card. Besides, I don't have credit card debt... why, you say? Because I don't have any credit cards (besides our jewelers card that has had no balance since we got our wedding bands paid)! It's funny how that works. If I don't have the money, I don't get the item. Yeah, I have suffered sometimes, but I've never starved or been stranded. I have learned to make the most of what I have. One can learn to adapt when they have no other choice.

Wanted CDs: River by Sarah McLachlan, The Fray, possibly Teddy Geiger

That's all... g'night!

#19

After an entire year of fixing what the bad dentist did to my molar, I FINALLY have a nice, new crown on the tooth I have officially come to call #19. Funny thing is that they sent me home with my teeth molds and the old temporary crown. So, if anything happens to the one in my mouth, I'll bring all that mess back and they have to make me another one. Let's hope THAT doesn't happen. This was too much mulah to spend on one tooth.

Let's see what was done to my tooth over time:

• broken due to weakness from cavity and pressure from wisdom teeth. (December 2005)
• incompletely filled by 1st dentist (December 2005)
• left for a year to get worse (I didn't want to go back to him anyway... he was NOT a customer-satisfaction type of guy, so I was without a dentist for a whole year)
• new set of panoramic x-rays (January 2006)
• filled with medicated filling by new dentist (& permanent, by the way!) (January 2006)
• filled with normal filling to see if it could stay that way (February-ish 2006)
• root canal (6 months ago)
• drilled down to a nub and a temporary crown attached (6 weeks ago)
• permanent crown attached (today!)

I can't even think right now of how much this cost me... yikes.

Anyway, I also meant to say in my last post that I finally grew the required length of hair to donate to Locks of Love. So I took myself in all my red-headed, tangled glory and had it whacked two weekends before Christmas. I donated 10 inches of hair and had an additional 2-3 cut off for styling. My hair hasn't been this short since 6th grade!

I feel - SO - much better now. I was getting incredibly irritated with my long hair. For some reason, it was getting more and more unmanageable by the day. Plus, I really wanted a shorter style anyway, so having it get longer and longer was a pain. The ONLY thing that kept me from cutting it off six inches ago was the fact that I was donating it.

I actually ate normal food today as well. Since I've been sick, I couldn't bring myself to eat anything of substance. I think I got my nutrition from Nyquil and Sprite. I finally discovered the joy of Saltine Crackers and Popsicles the day before I tried to go back to work.

Oh yeah - in December, while I was on vacation in Pigeon Forge, TN, I dropped my iPod Mini into a bubbly jacuzzi tub and left it there, without knowledge, for about 20-30 minutes.

Needless to say, it's toast.

FYI: Electronics and vibrating water vessels do not mix.

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Eternal Slack-dom

Good afternoon, all. It's been awhile since I posted.

No excuses... my bad.

Promise to do better.

In fact, I'm so slack that you probably have not seen my new niece at all. I'll post pics right afterward. Shame on me! Yeah, well, I've been sick for awhile. Be nice. :)

Pids are up to no good, as normal. While I'm home sick, they're taking advantage of extra Mommy time and snuggling more than usual.

Pics coming soon. I will have more to write when I feel better.