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{March 29, 2016} What exactly are they doing up there?!

I know I live in a basement apartment, but come on! This is ridiculous!

It’s like I’m sleeping in my parents basement. Ok, so technically, this is the basement apartment in a converted house, now full of apartments, but I don’t make nearly as much noise as those people upstairs. It’s not possible!

I think I’ve told you before that sometimes they share my insomnia, I hear them walking around. That’s nothing new, I lived in an apartment with walls so thin, I could hear my neighbor brushing his teeth.

But this…there’s crashing and running and falling and I don’t know what else. It’s one thing when it’s daytime, that’s when I vacuum and do whatever, I even chalked up ask the noise this weekend because it was the weekend, I know there was a party by the music, ok, but it’s after 11pm, it’s been going on for a while and just now, crash, run, crash. Really?

What exactly are they doing up there?!

{March 28, 2016} Tooth out…data out…what’s next?!

When I go all out, I go all out, I tell ya!

Apparently I think Monday equals dental work. Last Monday I went to the dentist for a cleaning and had a cavity filled. Today, i went in for an extraction, jealous?

When I went in for the cleaning/cavity on Monday, as I told you I knew I would I needed a root canal. Well, you and I were both misinformed. I went to see the endodontics professional and as he took x-rays it was determined that it wasn’t a root canal that I needed, the roots were not dead, there was resorption, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_resorption. Basically, instead of the tooth growing, it sort of ate itself, if you would, from the inside out. Ok, so, my teeth ain’t so smaht. What does that mean? It can’t be fixed and it must come out. Uh, ok.

I must tell you that whatever the doc did while he was in there worked, I was no longer in pain, ahhh.

So, as it is Monday, I go in for more dental work. This time, lots of numbing, split the tooth because it can’t come out whole with the whole in the middle. I’ve told ya, I go for the gusto. They start and about twenty minutes later, it’s done…tooth gone, hole in the head, oh so many one liners! two stitches, extra gauze in my pocket and instructions…pain reliever every four hours [what do I have at home? Uber ibuprofen and some oxycodine, oh yeah] I’ve been taking ibuprofen every four hours, just took an oxy, he said it would help with sleep, I’m gonna be hurtin’. I took my first oxy almost an hour ago and I’m starting to feel it, oh yeah…ha ha. And I’ve been icing on and off every 30 minutes, trust me, I’m timing it, I need it! I don’t have a soft ice pack in the freezer, the doc told me to use whatever I have, wrapped in a towel. I need to go to sleep soon, I’m running out of food!

That, my friends, as they say is that…on that front. Tooth is gone.

I got home and wanted to look something up online on my pc, so I hot spotted. I got a love note from tmobile, you’ve hit 100% of your hot spot data, what? I was at 80% on Friday, haven’t used it for anything but streaming this weekend. Last week, I used it for work.

Here’s the skinny…I have unlimited talk, text and data on my cell phone, all good. I also have 7Gb of data hotspot, great. Normally, I barely hit the limit, especially if I’m on the road for work, I use everyone else’s for my laptop. I don’t even burn data on my phone unless I can’t connect.

When I called a while back to confirm that using my Hotspot to stream videos [Netflix, Hulu, etc] would not affect my 7Gb of data. They have this great thing called binging, if you don’t have unlimited data, steaming music or video won’t count against your data package. Go binging!

What they do not tell you…if you use your hotspot, like I do, to power your Amazon Firestick, which I love by the way, when you search for a video, watch any previews or commercials [like Hulu has] count against your data. What?

So…I will not be using my Firestick for the next few weeks and I will be paying extra if I hotspot, unless I spend my time at Starbucks for their free WiFi. Oh well.

I am currently doing what I used to do when I was back in Atlanta, watch my movies or watch on my phone. Luckily, I brought my movies back from Denver, I’ve been burning them to a portable drive, it’s actually been great. I miss my 400 disc DVD player, but this works.

I am now really feeling the effects of the oxy, who’s ready to pass out with me! Tomorrow…I get to rinse! Maybe even eat hot food! Jealous?

{March 27, 2016} Hello, My Name Is Doris…I’m in vegan heaven…and I’m exhausted!

Yup, that about covers it.

You know how when you’re not feeling well and you stay in bed and day or two and then you feel like you’re fine and ready to conquer the world? And you know when you do that you realize that you’re nuts and probably should have stayed in bed? Yup, that’s me. Go figure.

The Nyquil and Dayquil have been great, making me sleepy and stay in bed, getting up every once in a while to stretch the legs, make tea, you know how it goes. So, today after being in bed almost two days, I figured, why not, time to go out. Away I went.

I took the train to the movies, ulterior motive…the theater was near Chinatown, guess what I’m going to do later!

I went to see ‘Hello, My Name is Doris’, staring Sally Field. I must admit it felt a little weird not having popcorn, but I was saving room. The movie, I loved it. It was charming and sweet and loveable and awkward and funny and well, A+!

Sally Field plays Doris, an older woman who just lost her mom, they lived together on Staten Island and she commutes on the SI Ferry into her job in NYC.

Really enjoyed it, a lot of fun, good supporting cast. I love seeing Tyne Daly as a foul mouthed, on occasion, radical.

She meets the new art directorat her company and develops a crush. She’s sixty something [or as Naomi Judd once said, sexty] and her crush…let’s just say…isn’t.

She daydreams and fantasizes she isn’t ready to act her age, her clothes are fabulous, all mish mosh, mismatched and fabulous, cat-eye glasses, saddle shoes. I totally see me in the future, just without the fake hair. C’mon, friends who have met me, you can see it, can’t you?!

The tag line “She’s not ready to act her age”. Totally get it!

After the movie walked a few blocks to Chinatown, I knew exactly where I was going. When PSM and I went to Chinatown for New Years Eve we saw it and I know I would go back sometime.

My Thai Vegan Cafe, ‘Authentic Thai cuidine, unique vegan preparation’. Really good, I can’t remember the last time I had wonton soup, yum! It’s nice to go somewhere that I don’t have to ask what the base is on the soup or if there’s anything I can’t eat in something. Wahoo!

Now, I’m back in the apartment, eating a slice of vegan NY style cheesecake. Mmmm.

And…I’m eating it in bed because I am officially tired! I may have overdone it, but it was all worth it!! I may pass out before I finish eating!

{March 25, 2016} MBFGW2 and Nyquil

Friends, I’m about to pass out!

I think in getting a cold, so I took Dayquil earlier and I just took some Nyquil and it seems to be working! I’m very drowsy! [A very good thing right now!]

I saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 and I loved it! I will tell you all about it tomorrow when I’m conscious!

{March 22, 2016} I…am an overachiever

When I do something, I go all the way. I’m a perfectionist, on some things.

But…there is something rotten in Denmark. Well, if my tooth was called Denmark.

Ok, enough of that. Here’s the skinny. Every time I go to the dentist, I am surprised if I walk out without something being wrong, a cavity, need for a root canal, something of that nature.

I had x-rays done in July when I first went to a new dentist in Boston. A few weeks ago I started to have pain in one of my back molars and I was finally able to get an appointment at the dentist office. I went in yesterday and when they took an x-ray, the dentist was go-smacked and amazed!

“I have never seen a cavity grow that fast!” I told you, I’m an overachiever…I saw the x-rays, then and now, and wow, that was something. I knew going in I had either a cavity or a root canal and ding, ding, ding, I have an appointment tomorrow to see about scheduling my next root canal, this will be my third or fourth, go me!

On the way out of the office, I told the new dentist, who I liked very much, that I wanted a tiara instead of a crown when all this is over.

Brush, floss, rinse. Repeat

dental cavity

{March 20, 2016} Will it snow? Won’t it snow?

It’s the first day of Spring…snow?

Have you heard about the big snowstorm coming to hit the northeast? They keep warning us…there could be a snow day tomorrow.

Is Mother Nature not feeling well? Does she have a cold? Does she not know it’s Spring? My allergies have kicked in, today I saw a Robin red breast, houldn’t that mean it should be getting warmer?

It’s cold enough, but it doesn’t smell like snow. Don’t you love that smell? I do.

The kids were already talking about a snow day, what they’ll do if school is closed.

Talk about random rambling! Love…it!

So…snow or no snow…I’ll let you know tomorrow!

{March 19, 2016} Wow, can those 9 year olds can party!

Today we had a party for one EJS, who turns NINE tomorrow.

What a day we had! I got to GES’ house, hugs and kisses all around, then it was off to Karate with EJS, she really is getting stronger with her kicks and punches. She was even called to the front row of the class, that is not a common thing for lower level students, that’s what she told us when class was over. The Master instructor called her out after class to tell her how well she did. Go EJS go!

Then back to the house, make rice crispy treats, never knew how easy they are, butter, rice crispy cereal and marshmallows.

A few errands and then the girls started showing up. Thirteen in total with EJS and MGS, oh my! It was a great mix of girls, some from school, temple, book club, family friends and camp, very nice.

Since they were from different places, not everyone knew each other, I had all the girls sit in a circle and we played an ice breaker game to get the girls to relax, laugh and maybe learn each other’s names. It worked a little, by the time they started the festivities, the girls were laughing together.

We started in the dining room with instructions, we were having fun with food.

They started with decorating their own containers with markers and stickers.

Next, on to the fun with food… first, they were making candy sushi! We made two different sizes of rice crispy treats, blocks and long thin pieces. Then take a Swedish fish or gummy worm and either roll it in the longer thin piece or put it on the block, then wrap it in fruit roll up like seaweed. How cool is that!

Next was melting chocolate and crumble cookie pieces to pour into molds and then after they harden in the freezer, wrap them in foil for their own candy bar.

Lastly, we had different flavored puddings, whipped cream, cookie crumbles, Graham cracker crumbs and mason jars to put it all in, with labels hand made by each girl.

Perfect timing, as one group of girls left a station, they went downstairs to play, then, after we finished taking the chocolates from the freezer, it was time to sing and eat ice cream cake. Pure perfection! Parents started showing up just about that time.

After most of the girls left, five stayed behind, four were spending the night, was doing a sleep under, she would stay until bed time and then go home.

The girls put on their pj’s, watched Paddington then headed upstairs to set up the sleeping arrangements air mattresses and sharing and floors and mommy and daddy’s bed, play a game, while they waited for the sleep under to head home and one other girl to come back.

By now, it was almost 10pm and I headed for the hills, or at least my place and my furry kids [and yes, they did exactly what I said they would].

Tomorrow, more fun with family and a birthday dinner.

I told you those nine year olds could party!

{March 18, 2016} I love you, but please give me a minute!!

You must know how much I love my cats, right?

Anyone who says cats are not affectionate or attentive or needy is nuts! I got home tonight after being gone for two weeks and it was exactly as I predicted…

They cried and meowed and followed me around like puppies. They Kelly “asking” when I was getting in bed to sleep and cuddle. I said soon and I knew what it would be like…

I would try to get under the convers while they compete for my attention and the best spot to sit on…me. Where can they knead and dig their claws the most to be most comfortable? Where can they put their cold, wet nose to inflict the most jump while giving me kisses? Where can they headbutt me the most to ensure I know they are there?

How long can they do each of these things to prevent me from going to sleep? And then when I do fall asleep, how often can they do those things to ensure I don’t sleep through the night because they are nocturnal?

I’ll let you know tomorrow. It’s a good thing I love them!

{March 17, 2016} Goodbyes are always bittersweet

Another city…another hotel…another hotel family…

This is my third time here in Buffalo, same client, different phases of the project. The team has stayed at a few different hotels while here.

I started starting at the Hyatt downtown sometime last year and I really liked it. You know I’m a Hilton girl but after staying here, I’ve been splitting my allegiance.

I got used to staying at the Hyatt in Buffalo, so much so that one week they were booked and I stayed at another hotel chain for that week and I feel like I cheated!

The hotel is nice, in a good location, but you know what’s important to me…the people.

The front desk staff has been great, I really only know the evening/night shift, the day shift is nice, but I’m not there in the morning, not much more than leaving for the client site.

The valet’s are great, some better than others, they know who I am, recognize me when I check in, sometimes even remembering my name. The front desk staff knows my name, it makes me feel good.

I try to bring them treats when I can, sometimes it’s leftovers from dinner, sometimes just a flat out treat. They work so hard, they deserve something extra. If they are free, I get to hang out and chat with them or when I come in from whatever in did that night.

I made sure to go down to the front desk to say goodbye tonight, I knew I wouldn’t see them tomorrow, as I am checking out. They were disappointed that I am leaving, they said I’m a favorite of theirs. That made me smile, if it’s true, ask the better.

I will definitely miss them all when I go. Parting is such sweet sorrow…sigh.

{March 16, 2016} Game addictions

Help! I’m addicted.

Nah, I like them and don’t want to stop. There are four games I play every day, a few times a day.

They are all based on Disney movies, Maleficent, Frozen, Cinderella and Inside Out,
and all Free Fall, along the lines of Bejeweled, where you need to match at least 3 in a row, but with different challenges and ways you can move.

Each of the games gives you points in different ways, I think Maleficent is the best in terms of points and extras. You get five lives at a time, you get to play until you lose five times, then it’s twenty-five minutes until you get full lives again.

EJS and MGS both like to play, they get a hold of my phone and it’s on. They don’t play all the time on mine, they have their own tablet and only when they remember I have it. I have, however, gotten JCT and ST addicted, at least to Maleficent! Muwahaha

Gotta go and play, see ya later!

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