only half as smart as i was this morning

Just got home from pulling two wisdom teeth (right side) so I'm messing around on the computer until the Novocaine wears off.

Some thoughts about the process:

1. That huge needle they use to inject you with Novocaine is just as scary when you're 24 as when you're 10.
2. I have big ass teeth. Not just big teeth. Big ass teeth.
3. And a small ass jaw. Not just a small jaw. A small ass jaw, which made it exceedingly difficult for my dentist to get in there with all her scary dentist gadgets and yank those suckers out. She estimated an hour, but I was in the chair getting multiple Novocaine injections for an hour and forty-five minutes.
4. It's still cool to keep your teeth. I did. And posted pictures on Facebook. And Twitter.
5. I always did enjoy poking my numb face and moving my numb tongue around in my mouth;
6. The go-to food of request for me is still Campbell's chicken and stars soup. It's chicken noodle soup with tiny star-shaped noodles that are easy to swallow whole.
7. I am still traumatized from childhood teeth pulling during my pre-braces years. It was freaking scary, but I'm glad that my dentist didn't have to crack any of my teeth during extraction. That sound just freaks me the fuck out.
8. At one point, I didn't close my lips over the spit sucker thingy propery and got blood and drool all over the place. That is why they make you wear those plastic-lined bibs.

I anticipated a quick recovery even if we had planned on pulling all four wisdoms today (no guts, no glory!), but I wonder if it'll be more painful since she was in there for two hours rummaging around to get the teeth loose? We held off on the other extractions since the right side was taking so long and my bottom left molar isn't fully out yet so my dentist didn't want to have to do any slicing and dicing to get at it.

UH graduation

Went to UH graduation on Saturday to watch my sister participate in commencement exercise. It was long, crowded, and hot as heck--the standard to expect. Ran into a bunch of people graduating and visiting graduates, which was nice. I think I finally found the perfect leis to make for graduation: chip leis. I went to Costco and picked up a couple of boxes of those mini-bags, then attached ribbon to the corners and strung them together. The cost came out to less than $4 per lei and, after I got the hang of ribbon tying, each lei took only about 15-20 minutes to make. This was way cheaper than buying flower leis (where I spend over $6/lei because I can't stand to give tacky-looking leis), and way faster than the last time I attempted to make leis (ribbon leis took forever, and the li hing mui strawberry belt leis were a big mess on top of being an arduous process). Chip leis were also something different, although I don't think I'm the first to think of the idea or anything. All in all, a really good deal if you need to get more than a couple of leis made. I used six bags of chips, and that made for some pretty big leis; I'm sure five would suffice.

Of course, I made my sister's lei with more expensive sun chip rather than the cheap stuff I used for most of the other leis. Upon showing it to her in the morning and explaining how she got the better quality stuff, she told me, "I like Doritos." Bleh. In fact, she pretty much prefers all the chips that came in the cheaper box of stuff I picked up. I told her she could have the remainder of it for a graduation present of sorts.

Got a little sunburnt from walking around on the field looking for graduates because I'm so pastey white (I like being pastey white, for the record). Nose got burnt, have a nice square-shaped tan line on my chest from my shirt, and I just noticed that my calves feel a little tingley when I scratch them. Boo, sun!

just do it

I've been telling myself to write something--anything, really--to get back in the habit of blogging. Today I was unexpectedly called off from The Restaurant so I thought the newly-found time would be put to good use by writing something.

Reasons why I think I haven't been in the mood to blog:
1. Twitter feels so much like mini-blogging and I tweet multiple times a day about most of the things I would normally blog about.
2. Freelance writing has take up a lot of my time lately and while blogging is usually one of the many ways I procrastinate, my fingers just haven't been into replacing writing with more writing.
3. I haven't been home as much or had ample free downtime since I started seeing someone new.

But here's to making a renewed effort to write! I'm (sort of) unemployed again--although I feel about twice as busy as when I was still at the Capitol--and really want to get back into blogging.

I am a little freaked out about the current job market right now, but I'm hopeful and optimistic. In the mean time, I'm doing all sorts of freelance work to put on my resume and make some side cash.

This is a lame post. Eh.