Minus 4 wisdom teeth

As many of you know, I went and had all four of my wisdom teeth out yesterday. Naturally, I was nervous and was anticipating a very long morning of pain and discomfort. My appointment as for 7am and I was originally told that it was going to take about 90 minutes to do a deep cleaning and then the extraction. So my mom came over from St. Pete and drove me to Port Orange. When we got there, I got to go right back. No waiting.. no time to be nervous. The shot me up with novocane and I was feeling fine. The did the deep cleaning, polished my teeth and then moved onto the extractions. They didn't even need to give me the gas.

All I have to say is that it must have been a new record. With all of the things they accomplished, I was in and out in 29 minutes! No joke. It was amazing. I was told that they wished all patients were like me. No fuss, no muss. They also warned me that red headed freckle faced kids typically puff up like balloons (or chipmunks), but I didn't puff up at all. No swelling, so no mess, just a little bit of pain. To be honest, the swelling and whatnot was not the problem at all, nor was the pain in my jaw. The biggest problem was the fact that the combination of painkillers and antibiotics are kicking my butt. They not only make me drowsy but to some extent they make me dizzy and nauseated. SO I have been spending the last 2 days relaxing on the couch eating a combination of mashed potatoes, apple sauce, ice cream and oatmeal. Yay for mushy food. 

Overall, I feel fairly good. I went to Joann Fabrics this morning and I don't know that it was such a good idea. It was a little warm in the store and that just made it worse. Now I am attempting to gum down potato salad that my made last night. I figure this little amount will take me about an hour to eat. Wish me luck.

Busy Weekend!

I must say it was a crazy weekend. I have been trying to get as much of my homework done for the next two weeks since I am getting my wisdom teeth out in 4 days. I have heard so many horror stories about the lengthy recovery times that I don't want to run the risk of not being able to function for homework's sake. So instead of the average load of homework, I have been working on double the fun. For example, within the next two weeks, I have 4 studio art pieces, a powerpoint presentation, 2 chapters with questions, an article summary, 3 page artist critique, discussion questions and responses, beginning work on our group project, and sketchbook work all due. Yay! No worries though, to be honest, if I continue at the rate I am going I will finish in no time. 

On Saturday, I decided to do something girly. For those of you who know me, girly is not a word that is used to describe me very often. My friend Andrea started up her Mary Kay business and invited to her debut party. It was a lot of fun. Aside from the fact that I poked myself in the eye with a mascara brush, I actually did fairly well. But, before you ask, no I didn't take any pictures with the make up on. It wasn't too much anyway, but the main difference for me was that it eliminated a lot of the red tones that are usually in my face. Granted, I am still not a make up person, but one thing I did discover is that they have a line of sun care products. One of which is an after sun gel. Considering the sun burns I tend to get, that just may come in very very handy. I also picked up some mint foot lotion for my mom as a gift for taking me to the dentist this week. 

Yesterday was a pretty crazy day as well. After work, I headed home to get ready because Ricky and I were scheduled to go to a first time home buyers seminar. We weren't expecting much, but we figured any information is good information. We found out that our chances of getting a house before I get a job are non-existent and that the options for help are completely gone. Granted, considering the economy, we figured that was going to be the case, but it also may mean that we have to consider looking elsewhere instead of staying in this house. I think from now on when we find a house we like, I am not going to say that we would consider buying it because every time we do, something else comes up. The thing is though that what is supposed to happen will happen, so we are taking the whole process one day at a time and figure it will work itself out. Besides, we have been renting for this long, what's a few more years, right?

After the seminar and dinner, Best Buy was having their annual store party at the Froggers in Oviedo. Ricky and I decided to go so that Ricky could see a few of the BBY people again. It was such a nice night and such a great turn out. A good portion of our store was there and most of them ended up playing beer pong at some point. Ricky hadn't played in a long time, and yet managed to win the game he was playing. I was so proud. 

Today (although not the weekend) was the crowning point of the week. I FINALLY got my student loans disbursed today! They came just in time too. I was able to purchase our airline tickets for May for our trip to DC as well as pay bills and the biggest event... buying our new TV! Ricky is picking it up tonight since the box would not even begin to fit into my car (thank you Gary!) and it will be joining our family this evening just in time for our Super Bowl Party this weekend. The one thing I couldn't get today was the new receiver to replace the old busted one we have, but it will do until the other ones come in. (silly backordered product)

So things are moving along here, I am off to work on some more homework. I just wanted to post an update since a lot has been happening lately. 

And in answer to the question that has been plaguing your minds.. no I am not going to take picks of myself and post them after I get my wisdom teeth out. No chipmunk faces here =P.

What do you mean 4?

Last night,  I had my studio art class (which I am enjoying by the way) and was siting listening to the general info at the beginning when the professor starts to discuss our first studio assignment. From reading the syllabus, I was under the assumption that we were going to have one large piece that contained four divided sections to show examples of the different types of art (representational, abstract, non-representational, and conceptual). I had started to formulate a few ideas, but nothing concrete as of yet. 

As he was describing the assignment, one of the students raised her hand and asked the magic question, "Wait are we doing 1 piece for all four or 1 for each?" The response, "You will have 4 total pieces." 

Oh...

So in the next 2 weeks I have 4 studio pieces I need to start, work on and finish. Welcome back to studio class!

Boo!

So last week as I was attending one of my graduate classes I became aware of some very unfortunate news. I am not going to be able to go the Flogging Molly concert. BOO! 

As I was sitting in class, our professor started to list off article for our class presentations. He was going one by one down the list and taking volunteers for each week. Jen (my classmate and MEd student as well) and I decided to select weeks that we knew wouldn't conflict with other assignments we were going to have to do. So we volunteered for week 3 since the article was short and there wasn't too much we had due for one of our other classes (we have class together on Wednesday and Thursday night). As our professor was looking for volunteers for the next week, Jen and I started deciding which one we wanted to do next, but all of a sudden, the professor just started assigning the rest of the weeks. Of all the weeks to assign, he gives us the night of the Flogging Molly concert. I am allowed to miss one class without being penalized and I was going to miss that particular one because of the concert. But no.. the only night I want to miss, I have to give a presentation that is 20% of my grade. Awesome.

So I know what you are thinking.. well what are you going to do with the tickets. Well, since we paid for the tickets and Ricky doesn't have any plans for that night, he is going to go with his friend Drew. So as they are enjoying the one concert I wanted to go to this year, I will be in class giving a presentation about an article I probably won't enjoy. Yay me!

On a side note, after telling my brother the story he told me that Flogging Molly is going to be part of the Warped Tour this summer so I think we all may go to that as well. Granted, its not HOB but at least I would be able to see them. 

Yummy White Sauce!

Yummy chicken and white sauce.... delicious!

This past Saturday, Ricky and I ventured out to I-Drive to meet friends for dinner at Kobe's. Normally, I have had fairly decent experiences at Kobe's, but unfortunately, there were a few setbacks this time around. 

My dentist had given my antibiotics to take to make sure that I wasn't allergic to them. Since I am allergic to penicillin they really just wanted to be sure that this particular drug wouldn't have the same effects. Although I didn't have the same effects, I did end up experiencing a few of the side effects. My stomach hurt and I was so incredibly nauseated. Apparently, that is a more than common side effect and of course they were right. Granted, i think the rest of my story had a little to do with the effects, but still it was not a good start. 

So we arrived at Kobe's around 6:30PM and they said that the wait would be about 45 minutes to an hour. Considering it was a Saturday night and was in tourist town, it wasn't that bad. Unfortunately, Kobe's has not adopted the concept of tell the guests a longer time and then when it is shorter they will be thrilled. They did the opposite. We ended up waiting an hour and a half. Now most people that know me fairly well know that I don't like confrontation and I tend to keep quiet about most things, but I was not feeling well and the monster was unleashed. There were multiple bachelorette parties going on that night, and although the first couple did have reservations, there was a third party who didn't. As we were standing by them, one of the girls came up to the rest of the group and was being congratulated because she managed to convince the ladies at the front to get them in faster. I think they may have been in the restaurant 20 minutes and were seated before us. I was no happy. I think I voiced my concern a little too much, but I was hungry and nauseated all at the same time. 

After 90 minutes, we finally were seated from a very nice and entertaining family from North Florida. We thought the wait had finally ended... we were wrong. After they took our drink orders, it was another 30 minutes before we even saw water. Once we finally did get our drinks though it went very smoothly and I would say efficiently. The food was delicious as always and the teppanyaki chef was wonderful entertainment. How could get the eggs to cooperate, but he made it very amusing. 

Once I got some food and liquid in my system, the nausea started to go away, but I was still a bit shaky. We all managed to have a lovely evening despite the wait, and although they kept filling my sprite glass with water it was an enjoyable evening. 

I did try my antibiotics the following day with food and I didn't get any of the side effects, so I do think the effects were increased by the circumstances, but I am still not showing signs of any allergy so I should be fine.  

Reaquainting myself with the dentist

Ugh.. today I finally ventured to the dentist after a long hiatus and it didn't go nearly as badly as I thought was going to. I am in fact going to have to get my wisdom teeth taken out on the 30th. I am getting all four removed. According to the dentist, three of them will be quick easy extractions, but the roots of my bottom right side wisdom tooth merge so they have to break it in half and pull out each part separately. I am kind of excited about it because it will relieve some of the headaches I have been having as of late, but at the same time, apparently freckled face red heads "puff up like chipmunks" when they are healing. That is going to make Super Bowl Sunday interesting, but hey if the headaches are going to go away, then I am all for it. Bring on the extractions. 

My First UCF Basketball Game

Knightro giving high-fives to the fans

Now that's pretty cool

UCF Team during a time out

Ricky and I at the UCF vs Memphis Game

At one point we were winning and I have proof (this was the score at the half)

Tonight Ricky and I decided that we needed to go to a UCF Basketball game. I attended UCF for 5 years and I never once made it to a basketball game. UCF was set to play Memphis who is in our conference and they were trying to make this the game of the season. Granted, we weren't expected to win much less score very often, but Ricky really wanted to go to this one. I have never really been a huge basketball fan and to be honest, I don't even know all of the rules. BUT I will say that tonight I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

The atmosphere is totally different than a football game in that it is constant movement. There is always something going on (Unlike our boring football season). Since I really don't follow basketball and I really don't know all of the rules, Ricky would fill me in if something exciting or strange happened. Most of the time, I would just wait to see how everyone else reacted so I could cheer or boo appropriately. It was just a fun atmosphere to be in . The Arena is supposed to hold 9,500 fans and today broke the record at 9825 approximately. So much for fire codes I suppose. It was just nuts. 

The best part was the fact that they gave the student section these posters that had spirals on them and a paper clip. Whenever Memphis went to make a penalty throw the student section would spin the spirals. I was getting dizzy watching it and I was on the opposite end of the arena. Apparently it worked because they missed a great deal of penalty throws tonight. 

In the end UCF lost, but considering it was supposed to be a blow out game and we only lost by 7 points (73-66), I'd say we made a fairly decent showing. It was a fun game and although I don't understand basketball, I think I would be interested in going to a game or two more often.