Drunken Owls and Other Delights

I've said this in the past, but one of the biggest things I'd noticed when we moved out here to California is how blessed bright it can get on a sunny day! I know it's partly because we're closer to the equator (sort of) but we're also on the coast so there's less particulate in the air (far less than woodsy/pollen-y New England, at any rate). We were walking around the botanical garden and the Inner Sunset earlier and I couldn't help but squint and shade my eyes half the time. Lovely day, however! We got a few miles' worth of walking in, and now we're lazing around the house with the windows open. And yes, I will say one more time that I am extremely happy that we now live in a place with better windows where we can pop them open without a) one of them popping out or sliding askew, or b) one of the cats escaping through it.

Sunday is of course chore day, so the laundry is going, I've paid off a few bills, and taken out the trash. Oh, and I've also bought tickets to The Nutcracker at SF Ballet, which we've been going to nearly every single year since we've moved here! I of course still need to get my daily words done, so I'll do that a little bit later.

Meanwhile, my work schedule this coming week is kind of weird in that I once again don't have that many hours, and what hours I do have are all on the back end of the week, so I have the next several days off. WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF, I TELL YOU. Well, one is to maybe get myself to a dentist as one of my fillings fell out (boo!) and I'm probably far past due for a cleaning. I could go to the one I used to go to, but I've chosen a closer office this time, and one that I think might assist in some of my other dental work I've been putting off for far too long. [Not to worry, I won't go into details. But I do have a health-based account that was set up with my Former Day Job that I've barely touched, so perhaps I can use some of it to soften the financial blow. We shall see.]

Anyhoo! Not going to stress too much these next few days and instead try to get some major writing work done!


Hope everyone has a good week ahead!

Well, hell.

So I'm having lunch and I bite down on something hard, and my mind immediately goes "aaah, shit". Not because there was something in the tuna fish I had, but that a piece of one of my teeth just broke off. The front part, mind you. The tooth is on the side, but it certainly shows if I smile. It's sad that that's the first reaction I have, not 'omg what did I eat'. Sure, I'll admit that my eating habits have never been the best, and I grew up eating what amounted to sugar-coated sugary things with sugar sprinkled on it. I've gotten better, but there's definitely room for improvement.

Do I want to blame some of the dentists I've gone to in the past? Sure I do. I've gone to a number of them complaining of toothaches that turned out to be infections that they didn't catch last time, and root canals done ON THE SAME TOOTH over the course of six years or so. And I've had fillings that lasted a mere few months and had to have them redone since they did such a crappy job.

*sigh*

Well, time to look up some dentists. Luckily emmalyon's health plan covers it.