I got a break

It was a good weekend. The weather was decent, not great. Only a couple more weeks... We hung out at the house all weekend. We didn't lounge around though, as it is back to work on the house. We accomplished something that has been bugging me since we first saw the house. It was filthy and we managed to pressure wash the entire house, including the rear deck. To me it was a great accomplishment as every time I drove home I noticed the dirty siding. I had been planing on paying someone to do it but ended up doing it myself. I am glad I had the chance to do it. I felt a lot better this weekend. I was very glad to not be sitting in the house with some part of my mouth hurting..........School is over.......The greenhouse is soon to be in action again.........Spring is coming..........Thats about it. It was a good weekend.

Can I get a break?

This is the last week of school and I am so very glad. I finished my final project for design (picture), have completed my Final homework for Spanish, and I am ready to take the final and get it over with. Come on already. I had plenty of time to catch up on my homework as I had a long weekend because of my teeth. I was forced to go to the dentist, and have a tooth yanked. I am so tired of my teeth hurting! I do believe I have solved the problem, as I found out I was confusing the pain in a molar with the wisdom teeth I had just had removed. After two days of excruciating pain I was forced to go to the dentist and face a decision between a fifteen hundred dollar root canal or a considerably cheaper extraction. I chose the later. It is amazing at how the brain will work after a couple days of pain. I feel a huge amount of empathy for people who live in pain. I just want to have a weekend off. No pain, no complications. I feel I may be asking for a miracle. I would just be happy to have a week off of antibiotics. I feel like an old man talking about my aches and pains. It is that my teeth are all that have been happening in my life, so it seems...........ANYWAYS, Anna had her first soccer game(picture), and her team won....The weather is fantastic here. Seventies and fifties. Fantastic. The time change allowed us to hang out in the yard till almost eight. with short sleeves on. Nobody is complaining about that......Speaking of outside I do believe I have figured out what I want to do with the yard. Nailed down a plan, for this week anyway. Now I need to find someones yard to do so that I can have some money to work on mine. Tis' the season. I might even draw up a design. I want to practice more, as I am proficient in drawing skills but I need a lot more practice to be great at drawing. I don't have any problems picking plants or 'the right plants' but I need to master lettering............Rambling. Thats about it. Oh yeah, the temps are finally nice enough for us to put all those cactus outside. Seed flats too. I hope we dont have to bring them in until November.

What to say?

I don't have much to say, or much that is good to say. Things have not been going all to well lately. There is however no sense writing about that. There are a couple of good things happening, one of which is that the school quarter is coming to a close. Only one or two more weeks to go. I am so burned out with school, I need to take a break but I have to get it done. I only have eleven or twelve classes to go to complete my associates degree, and at the rate I am going it will take me almost another two years to complete it. I am taking one class this spring, landscape management, or something like that. I was offered a deal I could not refuse, which was to do the class completely on line and therefore avoiding going to school. It is a class that I really already know about, as I do maintenance for a living. So that is good. I guess the other good thing is that spring is coming. It has been very nice around here lately, with temperatures in the seventies. I am so ready for spring, it is very boring for a landscaper in the winter. Very boring. I put in a picture of the house, it was a nice day for a picture or two. Somebody needs to do some landscaping around that place, huh? The ladies are all good, Anna is playing soccer and Valerie is now an official "soccer mom". I refuse to get a mini-van though. Cathrine went to the dentist for the first time for a check-up. She had fun.

Cat's B-day

We had Cathrine's birthday party today. It was a lot of fun, we had everyone over to the house for the first time. As a group that is. Cathrine, Anna, and all the other children had a good time. It was nice to have everyone over, and it is especially nice to have a home to host a party. It was a fantastic day outside, with the temperatures flirting with the seventies. Oh man I can smell spring. It makes me want to do some things around the house(on the outside for a change). I did a bit of landscaping this week, and I am glad that I had the chance. I am not finished with the bed, I plan on adding a crepe myrtle, and a couple other plants. I did accomplish one thing, however that I had been putting off. I managed to put down pine straw around the house, and I made a couple of beds around the shrubs and trees. Its getting there. I am getting the gardening itch, it must be getting close to spring.

I'm sick of......

I feel like ranting. It comes as no surprise(to me at least)that it stems from a visit to a doctor. I had my wisdom teeth removed about, let's see, about five weeks ago. This weekend one side of my mouth starts to ache, and by the end of the weekend it has turned into consistent excruciating pain. Using deductive reasoning I had figured out that the pain was coming from a partially removed tooth. I should explain. About two days after my wisdom teeth were removed I noticed, after I realized my mouth was part of my face again, that there was a sharp "piece" of what I assumed was a piece of my wisdom tooth. O.K. then, Back to today. I was forced to visit the surgeon again today to be diagnosed with a "bone spur". He actually told me that the bone had grown back to form the sharp point that I had been feeling. What the hell? Thanks for flexing your "doctor skills". Thanks for the massive brain power that went into that amazing diagnosis that solved all. And all of this was done with a ten second exam of the tooth. Is it genius? Or is it B.S.? I am putting my money on the later. At least he admitted fault. I don't know why doctors piss me off, but they do. I think it is because I have held them up to a higher standard, only to realize that they are human, as human as you and I. Whatever. I know my tooth(or half-tooth) freakin' hurts, and the soonest I can be worked on is Thursday. Ahhhh! Here is a picture of my orchids........damn it........