Life, Leaves, and Luck of the Draw.

Its fall here in Michigan. The temp has dropped, the leaves are changing and the NHL season has officially began.

I am happy to report that I am doing significantly better from the dentist appointment. I no longer look like a reject from a horror movie with a swollen face and contorted lip. Thank you... Thank you very much... (I was looking alot like fat Elvis for a couple days there.)

It's been a rather boring week as a whole. Same old same old with work. Other than 2 trips to Mt. Pleasant, one for the dentist and one for the business expo, nothing else really interesting happened. I'm looking forward to this weekend though. My niece will be back up to play as it's my brother and sister in law's anniversary this weekend. I took some pictures of the leaves last Sunday. The pictures really don't give the colors justice. In a few weeks, we'll have a dazzling array from nature.

On Monday as I was walking out the door after work, I saw an older gentleman with a neon blue 4x4 post it note stuck to his forehead. I must have made a face of some sort because he blushed and said that his wife made him do it. Then, yesterday I went to the business expo at the Soaring Eagle Casino in Mt. Pleasant. This year both of my parent's offices had booths. I usually will go, steal all the pens and goodies I can get my hands on, and enter the contests that each booth has. In the past I've won a $200.00 car care kit and an attache case. Then I partake of the buffet which has some incredible food. Well, I got a call today saying that I had won a fall centerpiece from the local art gallery. So in all, for a $5 ticket (which was thankfully provided by firstbank) I left the casino with 4 bags of pens and goodies, a gourmet dinner and now a fall centerpiece.

The hockey season has started again. I'm happy to report that the Wings have gotten at least one point out of all their games. Their current record is 3-0-1. One of my friends has sent me a funny video clip from one of the games where the linesman fell down 3 times during the game. It's so hysterically funny that I watch it every day.

Well gang, I've got lots to do before tomorrow and only a little time to do it in. Talk at yall later!

Please kill me now! Pretty please with sugar on top.

I am so miserable right now it's not even funny!

Today I had to go to the dentist to have a filling replaced. The one that had been put in years before had started to break apart and in order to keep a new cavity from forming, the dentist decided to replace it with a new one. Ok sure, I can handle one measly little filling.

Let me just start out by saying that I love my dentist. He wouldn't say we needed to replace the old one if he didn't think that it would save me significant pain and problems later. He really is a quality dentist and an all around good guy as well. It's well worth the hour drive each way to go see him.

My appointment was set for 3:20 this afternoon and took around 30 minutes to complete. I got one shot of anesthetic and we were off to the races. I HATE needles, and he has this really cool thing that vibrates the needle so instead of the needle itself you feel the vibrations. I was out of the office around 4:00. (I chit chatted with the staff for a few minutes.)

Well, it is now 8:30 in the evening and I'm in agony. My face is swollen grotesquely. My head, face, jaw, ear, and neck hurt. I still have the Elvis lip curl thing going on because of the anesthetic. They said not to eat until the lip curl thing stops, so I'm starving. (I had lunch at 11:30 this afternoon.) I shudder to think what it's going to be like when the rest of the anesthetic wears off. I'm going to have a slim fast so I can have something on my stomach when I take a pain pill. I tried to put ice on that cheek, but that just made it throb worse.

So, tonight I'm going to take a big ol' pain pill, take a bath (because I'm woozy and might drown in a shower) and then go to bed. I'm going to give myself the night off of exercising. The thought of doing aerobics isn't a good one right now. I'll make the missing exercises up later this week. I'm sure that I'm probably over reacting, but DANG this hurts more that it ought to.

Oh Happy Day!

Oh happy day!

I found my missing remote tonight. It was in the box of envelopes that I keep on my computer desk. Why in the world I put it there, I'll never know. I must have set it on top and it fell into the open half empty box. UGH, that was a frustrating experience. I looked for the stupid thing for days.

It has been a busy couple of days around here. I took Friday off of work to babysit my niece. We had quite the adventure together. We went shopping, out to eat (She actually ate the hot dog this time and skipped the fries,) and went to play at Dow Gardens. Leah loves the outdoors and Dow Gardens has a nice kids garden area. We saw the big pig statue, climbed up and down the big structure, and ran through the tunnel. It wasn't all fun and games though. The gardens have a water feature that radomly shoots a small blast of water up at varying intervals out of 3 holes in the ground. Leah being the water bug that she is went over to investigate. She watched it come out of 2 of the holes and leaned over to check out the third. Only to get nailed in the face by the water. (I got it on film) We went home after that. It was funnier than heck, but I felt so bad for her having to experience getting nailed in the face.

Then on Saturday, we treked down to Grand Rapids for Leah's birthday party. First we went to the mall down there and got her 2 year old pictures taken. That didn't go well. 2 year olds don't have that long of attention spans to sit and pose for pictures. The photographer was terrible. She tried for 15 minutes of our half hour time slot and gave up. We've been to that place since Leah was born, and never have had such bad service. For our efforts, we got 3 ok pictures. For what we paid, they weren't worth it. After that, we took Leah to her house for her party. She got lots of nice gifts such as puzzles, a wagon, some clothes, and some plastic farm animals. She had to play with each thing that she unwrapped, so the gifts took forever.

Then today was a day of rest. I took 2 naps, did laundry, and played on the net. I went out and took some pictures of the coloring leaves. The weather was beautiful.

Well gang, I have to exercise and then go to bed. I'll talk at yall later.