Journal – Page 17

Dec 19 2011

Where I have been without my teeth

At first I was all like, omg I haven’t blogged in almost a week, my fans must be missing me! Then of course I remembered, no one actually cares about my blog. I don’t have widely crazed reader that go crazy if I don’t post for a while, nor do I have a lot of subscribers who only check their inboxes at 5am to read my latest post.

That being said I’ll catch you up anyways. We’ll start with the wisdom teeth. A lot of us have been there, the jaw striking pain jolting through your mouth. Surprise! It is a tooth you don’t really need anymore. Yes, that is what happened to me, but not really. Rewind about a year, both my bottom wisdom teeth broke through my gums into my mouth. Praise the lord, they appeared to be coming in straight, or so I thought. They ever so slowly grew into my mouth and all the while I was thinking I was getting an extra pair of chompers to gnaw on food, they had other plans though.

Back to present day or December 2, 2011. Hello pain! What I once thought was straight was actually forward. My two lower wisdom teeth were moving forward, pushing on my other teeth and cause horrid pain in my jaw bone when I would chew and close my mouth. Time to see the dentist it was. The call was made, an exam setup for the following Wednesday.

While at the dentist for the exam, I dreaded the bill. 21 years old, live on my own and have no dental coverage, but it had to be done. So I got the $99 exam done, which is when I found out the teeth were not growing up, they were growing forward. Another appointment is set, this time for the extraction.

December 12, 2011, 5 days before I’m set to fly home for the Christmas season. After 6, yes 6, injections to freeze my mouth it is frozen. Then the pulling the prodding begins. I can’t feel a darn thing other than the pressure, which is fine. After digging around on the left side of my mouth for about 7 minutes, the dentist and his assistant switch to the other side. Which they then dig and prod for another 7ish minutes and finally pull the tools out of my mouth. I hadn’t realized it, but they were done. The teeth were gone, I had holes in my mouth.

I commend my dentist, he did a quick clean job. I was literally only in the chair for 30mins, which is good from what I hear. After waiting for my ride I was back at work by 9:30am. Yes, to work. I went to work right after, frozen mouth and all. I could walk, kind of talk, so I figured I could sit at a desk and work as well. No point going home and doing nothing.

Over the next work week I was well enough to work but I was drained. I had very little energy to do anything else. I would work, get food from somewhere – this was a challenge not really being able to chew, so I had a lot of soup and pasta – and sleep. That would explain why I wasn’t checking Twitter much or writing my normal weekly rambles.

Many people would tell me I had nothing to worry about in the healing process and other would tell me horror story and to be extremely careful. Needless to say I sat in the middle. I was very cautious about what I ate. I would still eat pastas, salads and such, but very slowly with lots of water and no straw. My stomach seemed to feel a lot better as I had cut out all carbonated drinks and only ate what I absolutely could. I truly hope this trait continues in my diet.

Today I’m feeling good, I didn’t take need to take any pain killers and I actually ate a burger. It was good.

So that is where I am at. I’m about 70% on Christmas Holidays and have a stock pile of blog posts to write, not like you really care.

Merry Christmas.

Dec 12 2011

My Jeep Wrangle Sahara after one month

It has been just over one month since I rolled off the lot with my brand new 2011 Jeep Wrangle Sahara and it has been a fun ride. For those who don’t know, I bought this new Jeep after coming to realization I wanted something dependable on the highway and something that, if it broke, it would mostly likely be covered by warranty.

I bought my Jeep from Derrick Dodge after scouring different vehicles and dealerships all across Edmonton. I commend my Sales Rep, Trevor, because I know I’m a difficult customer when trying to get the initial sale. I’ll be honest and say I don’t trust sales people. Most of the time I know the exact product I want, I don’t need to be sold on things, but I’m also really cheap. Part of me feels as though I probably went to far with asking for a better deal, but the other part of me knows that they wouldn’t sell it to me if they weren’t getting something from it.

The Jeep is a stick shift and I feel like I’m 16yrs old again. It being standard did probably help the price, which I’m glad. I did learn to drive on a Suzuki Samurai and my first truck was a stick shift 1993 Ford F150, but it has been awhile. I find the one thing I don’t think I learned completely was downshifting, I’m working hard to master that. I’m also a little rusty on the highway and hills. Part of this is most likely because I’m not as familiar with the Jeep yet, soon it should be fine.

The Jeep handles well in the winter conditions and I absolutely love the ground clearance. However I’m not a big fan of the traction-control; I learned to drive in icy conditions, I know how to correct the vehicle if the backend slides sideways. When that happens though, in the Jeep, and I go to correct it by steering the other way, suddenly the vehicle backs off the throttle and tries to correct it itself. Annoying.

I was also concerned that the Jeep might not stay heated very well, since the roof is removable fiberglass, but I was wrong. The Jeep takes 5 minutes to start blowing hot air and I generally have to turn it down. Although I’m not sure how well it heats up the rear of the Jeep, since there is no heat directed back there.

Overall I’m very happy with this Jeep and don’t think I could get anything similar for what I paid. I have yet to have any problems with it and hope I don’t in the foreseeable future.

Dec 03 2011

Being Different is Awesome

http://youtu.be/TdkNn3Ei-Lg

Every time I see a video like this I want to start writing. I want to write about how I feel, what I see, what I experience and how I live my life. I always want to do this, but I can never get the words out. Someday.

I would like to say that being different is awesome. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you believe, who you love, being different is, in my eyes, more beneficial than a burdan. Embrace it, use it, love it.

Just remember, you are fabulous, no matter what you do.

Dec 03 2011

Help the Salvation Army and Spread the Word

When someone, a business or an organization asks me to write a blog post or make a video I’m not opposed to it if I believe in the subject or think my readers will get some use out of it. That is why I’m here to spread the word about a national charity contest that Food Banks Canada and Air Miles Canada are putting on. I’m not necessarily here to promote their contest though.

They did a cleaver thing by adding some incentive for food banks across Canada to promote the contest. For every action that is done by the group to promote the contest, they can get a $100 Shell Gas Card. An action being a blog post, newsletter, tweet or Facebook statues. I was asked to write this post by the Salvation Army in Yellowknife.

I grow up around the Sally Ann in Yellowknife; at one point the people there were like family. Times have changed, yes, but what they do still stands. Everyday the food bank in the Sally Ann is open for those who need it. They help keep the food bank stalked by driving the Sally Ann van around to get food items. As you can imagine the gas cards would go a long way, especially this time of year.

So do me a favour and follow this link http://on.fb.me/tIHlSR and vote.

Once you have done that, copy the link into your own Facebook statues, tweet or blog post and share it around, but make sure you tag the Salvation Army Yellowknife’s Facebook Page or @YkSalvationArmy on Twitter so they can track it.

That’s all from me, for now.

Dec 01 2011

Epic fun with a fake MO and a camera

I had way to much fun with the Northern Groove Movember Photo Booth and I don’t even have a real Mo. Regardless of that though, I get theatrically when a camera comes out, as you might notice. Thankfully I had friends, Asia and Brent, also there at Marc Josephs taking photos with me. Cheers to them and cheers to Northern Groove for boosting my ego and putting them online. They have over 200 other photos on Flickr, check them out.

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