Potpourri

Tuesday, June 2 - random thoughts on a variety of topics

Since my last entry, things have been fairly busy around the new homestead. I've painted a couple more rooms, repaired an outside electrical outlet, helped wash windows and plant flowers in the window boxes we inherited, started to unpack boxes of stuff in the basement so that we can move down there, and also so we can find our tools! In addition, we've bought and hung several pictures, shopped for chairs to put in our living area (have not found anything, yet), and finished our list of address change notifications.

Today, I visited my urologist for my annual check-up, including the inevitable "prostate exam". Question - why do all male urologists have fingers like tree stumps? Yeowch! That was at 9AM this morning. This afternoon, I had a dentist appointment to fix a tooth I chipped a couple of weeks ago. Turns out I need to have two crowns done, so today, I spent 1-1/2 hours in the chair while he ground away at the two teeth needing crowns, plus the two teeth below those, which needed to be ground down to accomodate the crowns! Sheesh! He was drilling in there for 35 minutes! Thank goodness for novocaine! Here's a dental question: why do dentists start talking to you after giving you 4 shots of novocaine? Apparently, they've never tried to talk with a mouth full of novocaine. I mean, you can't move your lips, your tongue is numb so you can't form words that make any sense, and, even if you could, it's extremely difficult to talk when your mouth is full of devices like drills, suction tubes, gauze pads, fingers, etc. Add to that the fact that he had a dental student working in the office today, so he wanted her to observe and assist with the process. As a result, he spent so much time explaining the process to her, and why he was doing certain things, the novocaine started to wear off while he was drilling!!! Had to give me a couple more shots to finish up. I have to go back in a couple of weeks to get the permanent crowns put in. I can't wait!

Tomorrow, the dogs go to the groomer, K has a meeting at 8:30, and I WAS going for a haircut, but that will change. We will probably drive up to Kittery, ME to the Crate & Barrel outlet to look for a couple of items K wants for the house. It's supposed to rain tomorrow afternoon, so that should be an exciting drive.

Changing the subject, I've/we've become addicted to Subway! We are especially fond of the Spicy Italian footlong. At $5.00 a pop, you can't get a cheaper lunch for two that is both delicious and plenty to eat! Ours is loaded with pepperoni, Genoa salami, provolone cheese, and topped with lettuce, tomato, pickle and green pepper, then seasoned with oil and vinegar! Oh, yeah, I forgot the bread! We like the Italian herb and cheese bread, and we DO NOT get it TOASTED! I totally recommend this sandwich, or any $5.00 footlong at Subway. Great!!

That's it! I'm through rambling! The Sox are up 5 - 1 over the Tigers in the 7th and things are looking good tonight. Dice-K was his usual - walking batters, but then pitching his way out of jams. Look out, Yankees! Here we come!