hand eye crafts

My son was in Richmond from last week into this, and I ferried him to and then from the car rental place.  Why do young people pick such all weird times for stuff?  ANYway, he visited this statue, and took this picture for me: Arthur Ashe.  A true hero of mine, and Briton knows it.  This was very sweet of him. He enjoyed his trip, said it's a very nice city.  I have driven past  Richmond on my way farther north, but have never been in the city.

This has been such a weird week.  The pain, the painkillers, sleeping at odd times, low energy...  It's a good thing it's only Thursday.  Maybe things will turn a corner tomorrow?

My gum is extremely swollen and sore today.  Not a surprise, but limiting when and what I blog today.  Even my therapist noticed, and we spent a lot of my session talking about it.  One of my stitches is out already, which means something, I imagine.  I'm trying not to take all the hydrocodone, so I'll have some for future Monster Headaches. I once had a student (now become an invaluable friend) who has raised two fabulous sons with Huskies.  This put me in mind of all of them.. Evidently, you can make a type peanut butter fudge by combining peanut butter and cream cheese/buttercream/vanilla cake frosting.  You can , but should  you?

Down one tooth, up a pack of gauze pads.  It took three injections to get me numb "enough."  The tooth came out in four pieces, the crown being one.  For as much trouble as that tooth gave me, it was extremely hesitant to leave my jaw.  I've never had a tooth pulled before;  my wisdom teeth were surgically removed.  Until something different comes along, that remains the best pain medication I've ever had.  And I got morphine after both my C-sections. As I type this, the local is still holding, but weakening.  I've taken a roughly equine-size ibuprofen, trying to save the Hydrocodone for later.  I'm icing my jaw, and was told to change the pack every 20 minutes. (No frozen peas ---plain old-school ice cubes.)  I was given an admonition against spitting "aggressively," which I found funny.  As opposed to "laid-back" spitting? Tap is keeping his distance.  He gives me a thorough sniffing every time I come home, and he was quite d...

The University of Florida / University of Georgia football game has been called that for as long as I can remember being aware of the game.  UGA is A Top Party School just any ol' time, but throw in a game against a true rival, tailgating and the like, and the name kind of explains itself. Thousands of people show up pre-game for the festivities, and the majority of them don't even go into the stadium to see the game. I had two male students one quarter who disappeared on, I think, Tuesday before the Saturday game.  They rolled back in on the Monday after, looking very much the worse for wear.  Turned out they had had a kerfuffle with some Florida fans and their heads were repeatedly slammed against a parking curb. Honestly, if you had dropped me in the room on that day without a calendar, I would have been able to tell you exactly where they were for the weekend. Tooth pull tomorrow.  I may or may not be back then.  Depends on how effective the pain meds are.

 About "The Cocktail Party," that is.  It's next weekend.  That doesn't explain my ease of parking and picking up at "Big Box," but I'm all about accuracy here, so there you go.