Hi--New Post

Hi everyone.

Finally a new post.  About freakin' time, I know.  I've just been really busy, and for those of you who know me from Facebook, I've also recently been in a lot of pain.

On November 20th, I had a wisdom tooth extracted.  Since then I've been in varying, but often time, significant  pain.   I thought that I had an infection or dry socket.  I went back to my dentist last Wednesday (day before Thanksgiving) to look at it.  He says that it's healing fine, but it'll take a while to heal completely because of how big a hole got left in my mouth.  I'm also a diabetic and diabetics often take longer to heal from bleeding injuries or bruises.  

That said, nothing much helped my pain, not even Aleve did the trick.  And because of opioid addiction being a big problem, the Mansfield area being no exception, the dentist didn't prescribe me anything, and when he did, it was an antibiotic, not pain meds.  I've since been using an off the shelf oral anesthetic/antibiotic and ibuprofen.  Both seem to be working much better and I've been in much less pain the past couple of days.  

I'll still probably see my dentist again if things don't improve significantly with healing in the next few days.  Right now most of the pain/irritation is in the right side of the socket where the wisdom tooth was, just behind the tooth ahead of that wisdom tooth.  That's what I'll tell him to look into.

Now on to more pleasant stuff.  Thanksgiving was great, I'm a year older now, I have left overs and bought plenty of sugar free candy at Walmart yesterday.  

Also, as doubtlessly several of my friends know, I'm actually pretty interested in women's nail art and them doing their nails.  I've always been kinda fascinated by that and women's fashion in general.

Full disclosure, I did crush on Victoria Justice because she's very positive, cheerful, peppy and stuff I wish I was more of.  However, if I were a woman, she'd be my fashion muse, too.  Not her fancy dresses she wears to events, but her everyday style.  She's a T-shirt, jeans and sneakers girl most of the time when she's not attending a public event or doing filming.  I'd probably dress like she did for her dance rehearsal vids I posted from Victoria's YouTube page that I posted on my FB timeline.  Which, basically, was a tank top. workout sweatpants and sneakers.  

That being said, even Victoria can make something as mundane as that look ultra glamorous LOL.  And VJ has always been interested in doing her nails and such, even though she's also for the most part pretty low maintenance.   She probably got that interest from her late grandmother Libby, who was a Puerto Rican immigrant who lived in New York City and was a nail tech.  So I guess it can be said that runs in the family.

So that's what has been going on with me and what I wanted to write about today.

Everyone have a good one :)

Hi--What's Been Going On With Me

Hi everyone.

Sorry for not being more active on my blog or even on Facebook recently.  But I've been busy the past week or so.

I've had some stuff with Best Buddies at OSU and work.  I'm also starting to get up early in the morning to help with my home's wood stove, since it's gotten insanely cold pretty early in November.  I've also had my last day at work possibly until next spring on Thursday.

This all being said, I'm actually happier now than I've been in a while.  This past year or so I've been happier since I can remember, in all honesty.

I've been able to meet and socialize with people who like and accept me for who I am.  I no longer care about trying to be "typical" or "normal".  There's really no such concepts in reality.

I'm really glad that I'm able to talk with and hang out with people who like me for who I am and we can identify with each other.  That's becoming more important to me to try and branch out and get some local friends around here.

I know that I did somewhat explain some of this stuff in a Facebook timeline post I made last night.  However, I did feel like writing a bit more about it and let everyone know that you making me feel accepted and happy is the best thing that's happened to me.

Thanks everyone.

 

Hi--What's Been Going On With Me.

Hi everyone.

Some of you are probably wondering what's been up with me, seeing as I haven't written in nearly a week.  Well, I've been having some stuff going on, all of which isn't necessarily good.

Over the past few weeks, I've been doing a lot of stuff.  On top of working, I've done stuff like the OSU Trunk of Treat, an outing after work, a ton of running around, and trying to figure some stuff out as far as stuff that I want for the home.

Although I've had fun doing stuff, it's also been taking it's toll on me.  Trying to figure out how to do this stuff, namely trying to get to and from places since I don't drive, being really active and thinking about stuff has had an effect on me.

It kinda came to a head on Thursday when I attended a Halloween party at work.  While attending this party, I started to feel overwhelmed, almost as if I was having a panic attack.  I just started to feel really stressed and run down.  I never really recovered during the day, and I felt like crap Friday and most of Saturday.  

The weather change also probably bothered me.  I don't do well with rapid and sudden weather changes.  I don't tolerate heat and cold very well generally.  And it gets worse when such changes happen suddenly.  It usually does its damage physically, though, not so much emotionally or mentally.  

Thankfully, as of this morning, I'm starting to feel better.  Things are starting to look better.  There's now sort of a plan to get the new living room TV paid for by hopefully early next month.  I hopefully will be attending a Best Buddies function on Tuesday.  And I'll probably be coming to an end of my temporary employment within the next couple of weeks.  I was due to work for sure until 10/28, but I was allowed to volunteer to stay on for a time afterwards.  

I'll probably be done after I put in my next two weeks, though.  I'll be needed to help out with stuff at home soon.  And to be honest, I'd rather do that than do my current job.  Maybe by next spring I might decide to return to work if they have something for me, or maybe look for employment elsewhere.  

However, I've also made a new friend this morning and I talked with her for a while.  I also have an appointment with one of my doctors this week, and I'll let her know that I've been having bouts of depression and low energy. 

Everyone have a good one :)