Hi there!!!!
I thought I would pop in with some petals to cheer your day.
There is this hazy cool winter light coming in the window that I love.
Although, my fingertips are more than chilly typing this.
I know I know, it's nothing as cold as you are.
But I'm from the desert, I'm weak :-)
I picked up all sorts of flowers last night and I am so glad that I did.
No garden flowers here yet, but I did notice that the roses are filling up with those fresh glossy leaves of early spring.
Do you buy yourself flowers?
I love buying flowers, it's so very important to do nice things for yourself.
I think we let our mean self out too much - more than we let the nice self out.
(I don't know why the quality of my pics goes down when I load them here, but you can click them to see better quality)
I don't have anything major to report.
I just got back from the ocean which was lovely and I got overly numbed at the dentist yesterday to fix a filling I cracked.
Besides that, things have been pretty mellow around here.
I read that if you massage your face or do exercise that the numbing from the dentist goes away faster.
I had a very weird reaction to it, but I still took out the roots of a dead tree yesterday with the hatter.
I was acting so loopy.
I set off the house alarm.
I panicked from the feeling of choking on cotton.
I felt all the pain in my tooth but my throat was so numb I couldn't swallow.
My heart was racing.
Silly silly silly.
I just can not take any kind of anything it seems.
I'm so sensitive to anything chemical, I can't even do coffee, boo hoooo.
This was not the topic I planned, but since I'm nothing but honest here's something funny.
After my dental appointment and the panic that came over me from not being able to swallow or feel (I know most of you know what this is like) -
I went to house 2 (we'll call the country house "house 1"), and I set off the alarm somehow.
Then I called the hatter and I started sobbing, do you have people you just turn into blubbering mush around?
He was like, you know what to do to calm down (Insert DARE book by Barry McDonagh), and he just overall made me feel better.
I got into the car and I had mascara running down my cheek and neck :-) (insert belly laugh)
I was like, what can I do to make the time go faster for the numbing to wear off?
I know!
I'll go shopping.
I went to the antique store and I bought 175 pieces of china.
(I fixed my makeup before going in, I promise, at least I think I did - scratches head)
5 pieces of framed art.
A huge ugly rain umbrella (I still don't know why I bought that).
Christmas decorations.
And a basket of books.
Oh and a huge mirror.
I didn't just feel numb, I felt a little wacky too.
I was like, Jim, I can't feel my tongue or throat- and he was like, yep you must have had some tooth work done, and I was like - yes and I would not like to feel like this forever.
And he scoffed at my silliness and said, it's not gonna last forever and looked at me funny but with a smile.
Oh, btw, Jim is one of the volunteers and my friend at the antique store.
I'm trying to get him to let me use his pass in the 55+ gym by my house but he says, he'd get in real trouble if he turned me loose and I ran amok!!
Hahaha!
Oh so, I also found a fabulous rocking chair sitting outside the dumpster so I took it to house 1.
I tried to eat 2 French fries and almost choked to death so I had a smoothie.
I partook in some random garden shenanigans.
Then, I got into bed fully clothed (coat, jewelry, etc) at house 1 and tossed and turned.
The hatter brought me ibuprofen, water and peeled fresh oranges from the trees.
I know, I sound like a ridiculous baby.
But I'm certain something weird happened.
(I know, who cares about a little numbing - no big deal, there are real things going on this world, I know this)
When the numbing first went in - about 30 seconds later my heart was racing and thumping as though I took some weird drugs.
Not that I would know anything about that, but it's what I imagine :-)
And I felt the entire procedure like being electrocuted in my tooth.
So, I'm not sure what happened, hahahaha!
I'm laughing whilst typing as it is quite comical now.
Borderline even ridiculous to share.
I had not had a dental procedure in so long that it wasn't until later that I remembered my old dentist (who retired) used to not give me numbing due to my bizarrest reactions. Slaps forehead with palm of hand.
Sidenote - I am not calling it Novocain because apparently that is not what they use these days? I'm not sure.
All I know is it was hawwwrrible, and I would not like to take part in that again.
Oh and did I mention I was numb for 7 hours!
7.
(I didn't stay in bed all 7 hours, I'm restless by nature, as you may have guessed - after shopping I did help ML with the stump, hacked up some rose bushes and ran around checking the endless wild chamomile all whilst drooling - then I got in bed and had some pain killers)
But when it wore off I had a whole new lease on life.
I was like, I'm freeeee I'm freeeeeeee!!!
I was doing an Irish jig and was like, I'm outta here.
I hopped out of bed and went flower shopping.
I then took all my flowers to house 2.
And then...
Late at night I decided to look in my car to see what loot I picked up while completely insane.
I'm still staring at this giant box filled with 175 pieces of china.
O.M.Geeeee.
Luckily, I shop second hand so the damage I do is minor.
It's minor in dollars but major in stuff.
Gotta love that right?
(In hindsight - I've had much more serious procedures done in life and handled them much better than a tooth, lol. Just to be clear, I would have kept this entire debacle to myself, but why the heck not dramatize for your reading pleasure, or eye rolls? Haha! Assuming someone is still reading a blog in 2019, or is that only in my dreams - and why am I all of a sudden singing a Debbie Gibson tune from the 80's?)
Anyways...
I had a ball at the ocean even though it poured rain.
I got some moments of sun here and there.
Mom and dad and Irishman were with me.
I saw the Tim Shaw exhibit at Balboa park at SDMA.
Very creepy but very interesting & intense.
I brought home 2 sea shells.
There weren't many.
The ocean was littered with little plastic garbage from the storms.
No shells.
It's chilly here.
Do you think I should get a little dog to join my boys?
Matty is 9 and Miles is 8.
I'd love them to make a new little guy like them.
They are so non-destructive and well behaved.
It's been on my mind.
Also, I'm going to say something very controversial.
I'm getting bored with social media.
The algorithms show me nothing but the same thing over and over and over and over.
Where are my friends and why am I seeing the same random odd video over and over?
And honestly, it makes me feel a little cuckoo.
I was never much into Pinterest but I noticed the tailoring is very intense there too.
I feel like I'm in groundhog's day.
I go on my phone and see the same thing served to me for months in a row.
How about you?
And I rarely see any of my friends unless I seek them out.
Anyways, I'm blabbering and my oven is all warm for me to make a peach crisp.
I best be on my way.
Love love love, V
Stay warm, be nice to yourself and buy some flowers.
Oh and order seeds soon for the ground.
xoxo!
How ya been, watcha doin', what's going on?
Tell me your funny dentist story, won'tcha???!!
ps:
Here is a photo of me on vacation.
Just kidding, obvi.
;-)
Those are just the javelinas that live on my property at house 2.
Yes they can be dangerous if provoked.
They are nearly blind and have huge tusks.
They can severely injure your dog so you have to be careful.
17 of them crossed my driveway the other day with tiny babies in tow.
Life must be hard out there for those root and plant eaters in winter.
But they are cute in their own way, no?
