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* I went to my quarterly dental cleaning in San Antonio today (or so I thought).  I got there and my hygienist said they didn't schedule me for enough time - so she can't do it.  Argh!!  I re-scheduled for the Tuesday after next.  Not a happy camper, but it's not like I traveled to Austin and paid for parking.....

* I did make the trip kind of worth it by doing my quarterly Sun Harvest Farms shopping.  I always come away with sticker shock, but I do get lots of stuff I can't get in New Braunfels: Ecover products (I use the dish soap and laundry detergent), Hemp Protein powder, nuts (raw almonds were on sale), grains (oats, red lentils), and bread baking stuff (vital wheat gluten, rice & rye flour - they had organic stone ground whole wheat flour for $1.99 a pound!!!  This is another justification for buying a grain mill damnit).

* I got gasoline in San Antonio today - $3.59 a gallon which is 10 cents a gallon cheaper than New Braunfels.  Why didn't anyone put the cents symbol on the keyboard?

* Some people who have been with my journal a long time might remember when I began my experiment with the Bach Remedies Mimulus and Wild Oat.  I'd had good luck with the Rescue Remedy in the past - so I thought I'd give it a go.  I think Mimulus might have had some effect on me - the Wild Oat, not so much that I noticed....though I could be wrong.  I am done with both bottles, and decided I'd move on to something else - so while at Sun Harvest, picked up the Bach Remedy Larch.  Larch is supposed to help instill a sense of self-esteem when you feel inferior, fear failure, or lack self-confidence.  I know all of you are probably wondering why in the world I would choose that one..... :-)

*  I'm converting my 300 cd collection to digital.  Has anyone done this?  How do you keep your files?  I was planning on keeping them on my pc, but I'd just started and I'd accumulated over 10 gigabytes of files.  My pc hard drive is 50gb and 30 of that is free - so no way all my music would fit.  Right now I'm transferring the files to data cd's until I can figure out how to do it.  My plan was to have a big jukebox on the hard-drive - but doesn't look like that's going to happen.

* Tonight the season finale of American Idol begins.  Looking forward to the performances.  It could be anyone's guess.  www.votefortheworst.com is telling their following to vote for David Archuletta which kind of surprises me.  I would have thought he would be the favorite.  I've been a David Cook fan most of the season, but I always vote depending on the individual shows performances.  I loved Archuletta the most when he sang Angel - gave me goosebumps.  Tomorrow's results show is 2 hours, but I think it's 7-9 not 8-10 so I won't get to see it live. Anyway - in 2 separate posts I'm going to put up my favorite performances from each. They are both pretty talented.

 

Yesterday I had gum surgery again.  All went well, and I'm always "rewarded" with a prescription of 15-20 Vicodin - which I milk as long as I can (what is it about that drug - I take one and everything is just peachy for a short while..... amazing).  I wish I could figure out what I could do to get that same feeling on my own.  Seriously.

My doctor asked if I would be interested in participating in an implant study he is doing for a company.  I could get an implant complete for about $1,100 (I'm assuming this is a good deal) all I'd have to do is come in for followups for a five year period.  I would love to do that as my missing tooth bothers me a great deal.  I just can't justify that kind of expense purely for vanity.  If I spent the money, there is a chance the implant could fail - then I'd have no tooth and out $1k plus.   As it is I spend an average of $500 a year on my mouth - and this is WITH dental insurance (I've had periodontal issues for the past 15 years).  

Today I had my quarterly cleaning.  My hygenist says my mouth is doing much better with me taking the periostat.  It was a very uncomfortable cleaning though - probably because she's back to using the ultrasonic water cleaner.  I haven't been brushing with the sensitivity paste, so I will go back to doing that.  All in all okay.  Stopped by the HFS on my way home and got some granola and oats.

Here are some feet pics.  The first one is my current desktop wallpaper at work.  The second on is now going to be my desktop wallpaper at work.  I like the second one best - this is how I've been gardening the past wet weeks in Texas :-)


I don't know why I took this, but it makes a good background on the PC.


This is awesome considering - when it rains - the fireants all come out of the ground.  Why are my legs to white?  I'm outside all the time!

Tooth pulled.  It didn't exactly go smoothly; when all was said and done there was a dish with about 6 pieces in it.  Got prescribed my favorite drug though (vicodin), so all is well.  Same evening the doc called me to see how I was doing - awesome, you don't see that kind of concern very often.  Hope when he gets older he doesn't lose that ethic.  Now I have a missing tooth on top and on bottom exactly on top of each other (I wonder if that's significant - probably not).

Dried soybeans were $1.79 a pound at Sun Harvest today.  That's about a 60 cent jump since the last time I purchased.  Time now to seriously consider buying bulk by mail.  The soybeans in the garden are doing good, but there's probably only going to be enough for edamame style.  There was no amaranth at SHF - so there goes the idea of buying some and planting it.  Instead I bought whole rye and will try that.  (the wheat I scattered on the empty row recently sprouted - will till it under once it reaches a foot high).