Teeth of wisdom

I got my wisdom teeth out today.

Before you start thinking "Unicorn After" on me, I did not rap about Jesus.

(Though that would've been super cool)

I'm more wondering how that girl managed to speak so well with the gauze in her mouth, and judging by how numb my mouth was, she must've bitten her tongue or cheek a couple of times.

Anyway. For those who haven't gotten yours out yet, let me describe it.

When you first get there, you'll probably wait for a bit in the waiting room (of course, haha) and then you'll be called in to one of the rooms. The nurse lady will ask a couple questions about allergies and meds you take and then she'll explain what all will happen.

She should take your blood pressure and then start hooking up the electrode monitor for your heart. Then she'll put on the oxygen mask that will also give you the laughing gas when it comes closer to starting the surgery.

The anesthesiologist person will come in and hook up your IV. If you've had your blood drawn before, it's a poking feeling and then a little irritating/discomforting, but it won't be for long. After that, they'll give you the laughing gas and the IV drugs. They also gave me a sugar-water mixture in the IV, but I'm not sure if that's normal procedure or if they did it for me because I'm diabetic.

You'll black out pretty fast once the drugs start pumping. The surgery should take around 30 to 40 minutes, but when you're out, it'll feel closer to a couple seconds. When I first came to, I kinda went back under for a couple minutes and then woke up again. They didn't seem too concerned about it, so I think that's relatively normal. I feel exhausted afterwards but not in pain. The nurse waited till I didn't feel nauseous or anything, had my dad pull up the car and helped me into the car. That's when I started feeling really tired. I slept the way home, other than mumbling at my dad to get me a chocolate frosty.

When I got home, I took out my gauze and ate my frosty- though I was too numb to actually taste it. I thought I could feel a little pain, but it wasn't terrible. I replaced my gauze and I slept for about an hour and a half.

Then it really hurt. I woke up and realized it hurt like a you-know-what. I took out the gauze, practically screamed, then put more gauze in. I crashed on our couch and walked tv while icing my cheek. The nurse said to alternate 20 mins on and 20 mins off, but I just did what felt good- didn't go by actual time increments. I made sure not to keep it on for long periods of time though, because it really didn't feelthat good.

The bleeding stopped (to the point where I could stop using the gauze) at about 6- like 5 hours after the surgery. They said to start soaking the gauze in ice water if it doesn't stop after 4, but I didn't and it was fine. lol.

So now I'm still icing my cheek and every once and awhile I'll eat some pudding or drink water, but even that hurts so I have a feeling I won't be eating much the next week.

Anyway, that's how it went!

They say you've got to lose a couple fights to win

It's hard to tell from where I'm sitting

A Slight Figure of Speech

I am very tired.

But relatively pleased.

I had Blazer production night tonight and sold an ad. :) WOOT!

Then I went to the barn and soaked Rainy's hoof in epsom saltwater. ICK.

(But she's getting much better, thank goodness.)

And then I went to the YMCA and exercised with Sara Helen Plensdorf. TIRED!

We did the treadmills, the bikes, part of the lift-y machine-a-majigs, and then finished with the ellipticals, which sucked hardcore. But I felt fit!

And then I came home and ate ice cream. :/

Bwahahaha, blogging at school. :) Not that it matters, because NO ONE'S ON BLOGGER ANYMORE! THANKS A LOT GUYS! D:<

"You say go slow, I fall behind."

First- the cat [Tally-wa]. Check her out on facebook.

Second- the horse. doing better.

Third- Mumford & Sons

Fourth- Noah Jones, Time After Time

<3

mmrph

Whenever I'm texting someone, I always want to add some sort of awkward noise at the end. Like URGGH, or AHGHHGHGH, or maybe even PSHT! But I never know how exactly I should spell such word in a way that they could understand what I mean.

I hate that.

So usually I just put 'grr', which is overrated and overused, and I dislike it. Occasionally I'll put 'argh', or 'ugh', but they just don't convey the same message as NURGHHHH!

I'm also slightly concerned that if I used such noise text, they would think I just fell down a flight* of stairs, or turned into a zombie, or perhaps nailed my hand to tree. None of which has happened to me...
yet. Knock on wood.
Anyhow, I think I'm going to go change my background/template thing, cos I'm a little sick of the birds.

*Why why why is it called a flight of stairs? It's literally begging people to fall down them. Sigh.

the coming fall

The first day of school.

I'm not even going to describe it- if you are to the point where you need someone to do that, I've lost hope. But really. Where did summer go?

Ah well.

I welcome fall with open arms.

I brushed my dog's teeth today.

It took about a half an hour.

She doesn't like toothbrushes.

She doesn't like toothbrushes at all.

Sigh.

In other news, I'm going on vacation tomorrow to Monday- woot!

I start school & work on Tuesday. Yay for fall.

A New Be[nto]ginning

So, I'm not sure if any of y'all have heard of bento- it's from Japan, and it's a way of packing a lunch. [Pretty much] I discovered http://www.anotherlunch.com/ and read her entire blog. Realized that bento is pretty flippin cool, as is Melissa. :) She inspired me to purchase some fake bento boxes while at Walmart today & give bento a try. If I seriously like it, I might look into purchasing some actual bento boxes via the internet. Anyhow, the horse day camp for the little kiddies starts tomorrow, and since I'm helping out, I need to bring a lunch. So just now, I buckled down and made my first bento box. :D Remember I have next to no clue what I'm doing, so check out anotherlunch for the real scoop on bento & let me know what you think.


Without further ado, my first bento lunch:

Alright, so starting on the top left and working our way down...

-Turkey & swiss on a fresh baguette roll

-Baby carrots

-Fiber chocolate bar

-Strawberries

-Lemon cake w/strawberries

-Swiss cheese dino

Who's amazing? Me.

<3>

PS: My riding instructor, Laura, had her daughter a few days ago. Baby McKenna has serious heart problems & was rushed into emergency surgery today. Please pray for her & keep her in your thoughts.

well, sorry i guess

alright, you want real. here's the real life thing-

i'm not more important than you.

you're also not more mature than me. i know you feel like it, but honestly? guess what i'm tired of.

people posting stuff on the internet instead of talking to me.

i'm not mad. i'm just frustrated.

i wasn't dissing you, or your extracurricular activities;
i was being a teenager and joking around. if you can't handle that...
i'm sorry. i guess i'll stop.

whatever. i guess i'm done. i'm sorry, people.

i'm not perfect. not even close.

Rent

Rent.

You should watch it.

something to think about.

http://chaospet.xanga.com/730475550/the-official-guide-to-arguing-with-atheists/

Something to think about.

I'm not an antheist though- I'm agnostic in a way. I can't no for sure what's out there, so I choose to just chill until there's some proof on either side. It might be an enternity of wait. I'm okay with that, I think. Atheism is just another assumption, and you should know what happens when you assume things.

you make an ASS out of U and ME.

Anyway. I'm not one to argue about this, especially because I have friends who are deeply relgious, but I think we can all learn from reading the above link, simply because a lot of it rang true to me.

As of 2007, 18.4 % of single-bias hate crimes [out of 7621] were motivated by religious bias.
As of 2007, 1477 hate crimes were reported to be motivated by religious bias.

Something to think about.

IT WON'T HAPPEN TO ME

It won't happen to me.
It can't happen to me.

That's what so many teenagers think about so many things. [don't worry, nothing bad has happened to me.] About sex, about drinking & drugs, about the decisions they make.

Don't be another statistic. Don't have sex unless you're ready, and if you're ready, be safe. Don't drink underage. If you do, be smart about it. Don't drink & drive. Don't do pot, don't do heroin, or cocaine. Don't get addicted to shit that will kill you. Cigarettes count.

And for the love of god, if you are responsible for a pet [be it a snake, a dog, or a horse], keep it safe. Keep it happy. Specifically for horses, don't overestimate what your horse can do, don't push your horse too far. Be happy that you can own one of these beautiful animals. Don't overestimate what you can do either. Keep yourself safe as well.

Be smart. Be safe. Love yourself. <3

Queen Latifah is a boss

Stranger Than Fiction
Last Holiday
Beauty Shop

My favorite movies with Queen Latifah. She is a mofo BOSS. Quotes? Hell yes.
"What are we doing here? I don't even think we're supposed to be in here." QL
"You told me I need visual stimulation."
"Yeah, I meant a museum or something." QL
"I don't need a museum. I need the infirm."
"You ARE the infirm." QL

"I read this, in this fantastically depressing book, that when you jump from a building, it's rarely the impact that actually kills you."
"Well, I'm sure it doesn't help." QL

"I will gladly and quietly help you kill Harold Crick." QL
"And this coming from from someone who's never thought of leaping off a building."

"And I suppose you smoked all these cigarettes?" QL
"No, they came pre-smoked."

"You wait and you wait for somethin' big to happen...and then you find out you're gonna die." QL

"What world was I living in?" QL

"I spent my life living in a box. I don't want to be buried in one." QL

"You are going to fall flat on your ass."
"Well I got some cushion. Wanna kiss it? I didn't think so." QL

"You know what, you could be black, white, ghetto past, no ghetto past, ain't nobody using the N word up in here, and no bitches and hoes either, except for the ones that don't tip." QL

"Vanessa, do these pants make my ass look big?" QL
"Yeah, they do."
"Good." QL

"Alright, anybody else leavin'? Because this white bitch is stayin." QL

ily <3

stuff to do

God I'm tired. Very rarely do I pull allnighters. They're really fun & worth it in the end, but damn. I'm freakin exhausted. I don't even feel like going to the barn. [Yet.] But here's my To Do list for the next few days:
[ ] Get out to the barn at least 3 times
[ ] Pack for Higgins Lake.
[ ] Pack for horse show.
[ ] Possibly get permit before leaving for Higgins Lake.
[ ] Have fun at Higgins Lake
[ ] Use sunscreen.
[ ] Come home in time to ride again.
[ ] Prep for show [Rainy & me]
[ ] Have a sucessful show.

It's gonna happen. Stay tuned. <3

Guess what? I'm fantastic, that's freakin what.

Yep. That's pretty much it.

Actually, there's more. There's quotations!
"The ironic thing about naming our group HAM- Helen's cat is named Pig."
"That black man is black. You're a black man."
"EWWW! Look at his nose!"
"Is he going to RAPE her?"
"Don't ask me questions I don't know the answers to!"

"Is it even possible to eat an ice cream cone without looking sexual?"
*Helen tries*
"There, I did it!"
"Uh, no."

"My leg is spasming!"
"Well look. Now you've killed her."

"Hey guys...are you awake?"
"Well, I am now."
"Will come pee with me?"
"NO."

"I've never really like jelly doughnuts, but one sounds really good right now."

"Can I see your horse's teeth please?"
"Uh, sure." *thinks* 'How am I supposed to open her mouth without her biting me?'

"He asked to see her teeth so I tried but it was so slobbery..."
"Why did he ask you do that?"
"I don't know! THERE WAS SO MUCH PRESSURE!"

Some are from horse shows, other from my non-horse friends.

Ah, my great friend the thunderstorm.
BOOM. CRASH.
Oh yes. I love it. Rain is fantastic, especially since it's been humid for the past bajillion days. Hopefully it'll cool down now.
iloveyouguys.

Bwahhahahaha, summer has finally hit me. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I'm so excited for these last two horse shows, especially the one in August cos I get to [FINALLY!] do my second dressage test. And Rainy and I are finally working in a snaffle instead of the gawd-awful double-reined 'Wonder'bit. Everything's going well- even cantered in the snaffle! Felt so much more comfortable than in the double-reins.

We're set to go to Higgins Lake in like a week and a half, which I'm super excited for too. Except no Oscoda this year. :( I will miss the sesame chicken. But hopefully next summer we'll go.
Oh! Story time.
So every year, my dad's side of the family always goes to Higgins Lake- it's like our tradition, started forever ago by my now-deceased grandma. So we've rented several different houses/cabins on the lake, and now we go with my aunt's family for three days. It'll be wicked fun. We use their boat and go fishing and tubing, and then we'll go Jet-sking around. Except my cousin goes super fast and scares the sh*t out of me. But whateves.

So excited.
Look out world, summer has officially landed!
<3

Driver's Ed

I suppose it's my turn to talk Driver's Ed. So far, I've logged 10 hours of class time- will it ever end? [NO] I've driven on the road twice so far, once in the suburbs [which I greatly dislike cos of all the parked cars and the fact that a child or a dog could run out at any second] and once on the country roads [which is really easy]. I've done the range once, and we're going back out tomorrow.

Let me explain what range is. In our hugenormous student parking lot, they set up a bunch of cones and stuff, and you do patterns and practice parellel parking and such. It's pretty boring. The first [and only] time we did it, we drove from one end to the other, backed from one end to the other, serpentined through the cones forward, then serpentined through the cones backward, then did follow the leader, except I didn't get to drive so it was pretty boring.

But I didn't knock over any cones! Yay!

I pretty much love driving. I hate the class part though, because all we learn is...
wait, do we even learn anything?

<3

So I got a question- do you wanna have a slumber party in my basement?

Uh, no. Cos my basement is SUPER gross. It's not a finished basement, so it's all moldy and cold and just plain EW. But anyway- Your Love Is My Drug, by Ke$ha, is totally stuck in my head, and while that makes sense for the simple reason of me listening to it almost constantly, it also makes sense because it's true for me.

I'm not the typical teen who thinks she's in love, but I am the teen who likes this one guy for *about* four years now- this fall will be three years. Pathetic? HELL TO THE YES!

Sorry. Just me beating myself up. Slamming my head into a brick wall, etc. I do that WAY too [should that have the extra 'o'? I have no clue, and googling it makes me feel dumb] often. Blah.

In short- I hate liking a total flirt, because I have no idea if he actually likes me, or if I'm just another girl to play games with.