My first game of pool ever! (taken a couple of months ago!)

Hello!

I am indeed with the living.
Its just living is taking up a lot of time right now.

(it took me a day and half to get back to this after typing that!)

Wisdom teeth are a bitch.
Vicaden is my friend!

On the papers from the oral surgeon,
They listed several things that might happen after having my wisdom teeth out.
They included:
Swelling (check)
Pain (check)
Neck Pain (check)
Difficultly opening mouth (check)
Ear Pain (check)
and, get this, bruising.

I didn’t bruise.
except that my boss looked at me oddly yesterday, and said,
“Ariel, you are GREEN!”

So I did bruise, after all, just 6 days after the fact.
I’m green now, actually.

I’m going to tell anyone who asks that BS (fellow coworker/partner in crime) beats me when I give him phone messages he doesn’t like.
He thought that was funny, especially considering the client who caused us so much grief yesterday… But that’s another story.

Anyway, the actual procedure was really a breeze. They gave me an iv, I went to sleep, woke up 45 minutes later with gauze in my cheeks and a numb mouth.

I remember a very soft blanket, which I said I was going to take home with me. (When I truly woke up, the blanket was gone, so I don’t know if I just imagined it, or they wisely hid it from me. It was really nice and soft)

I seem to remember a young boy in the recliner next to me, and I think I told him that if I had to get up, then so did he.

I have no idea how in the world I got to the recliner, either.

My mom took care of me for the next two days, and I slept.
I have no real cause for complaint, except for the cost of the procedure $$$$, (no dental insurance sadly) and the fact that I had one stitch, which was driving me crazy, until it finally broke last night and I took it out.

So sorry life has been so busy, I hope to get back into regular posting soon…
I’m filing for divorce finally, on Monday or Tuesday, all aspects finally sorted out.
I love my job.
I love me!
I’m really really happy with me, and where I am in my life.

So here, to leave you with an idea of how I am these days, are the words to a Rascal Flatts song-

Feels Like Today

I woke up this morning
With this feeling inside me, that I can’t explain
Like a weight that I’ve carried, been carried away, away
But I know something is coming
I don’t know what it is
But I know it’s amazing, can save me my time is coming
I’ll find my way out
Of this longest drought

And it feels like today, I know
It feels like today, I’m sure
It’s the one thing that’s missing
The one thing you’re wishing
The last sacred blessing
And hey, feels like today
Feels like today

I treated life like a picture
But it’s not a moment that’s frozen in time
It’s not gonna wait till I make up my mind, at all
So while this storm is breaking
While there’s light at the end of the tunnel
I’ll keep running towards it
Releasing the pressure that’s my heartache
Soon this dam will break

And it feels like today, I know
Feels like today, I’m sure
It’s the one thing that’s missing
The one thing you’re wishing
The last sacred blessing and hey
Feels like today
Feels like today

Its All Relative

You can think you are having a bad day, but really, it can always be worse.
Yesterday, as I was leaving the house to help get ready for a party, I hit a baby kitten.
There were 3 underneath my car, and I didn’t know it.
I got to watch in horror as the poor thing died before my eyes.
Then I got to bury its tiny broken body.
And I was feeling bad because I had hit the teeny thing, but then I realised, I was still alive.
The tiny baby kitten wasn’t. So what was something terrible for me was fatal for it.
Ya, life throws you some shitty things, but at the end of the day, you are still breathing.
Guess its not so bad after all.