Old Dog

I’ve never been a person to learn everything there is to know about something in one sitting. On the one hand I thought for years that I must be dumber than dirt. On the other hand I’m sort of coming around to the idea that I think I just learn in stages. Same thing goes for healing.

So, what sparked this line of thought? I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to intersect two things in either Photoshop or in XaraX. Both of these are nice graphic software programs and I’m a ditz in either one I’m working in. So, rather than get the book out….God forbid….I surfed around on the internet thinking somebody has put something out there into cyberspace about the topic at hand. Well, I got a bit. Except, I’m working with older versions of these program and maybe that’s why the directions won’t work? Who knows. I’d had enough and figured I’d go online to see what’s interesting at Costco since DeeDude and I are heading that way on Friday. It’s a few days before my birthday and maybe we can pick up something nice for dinner and maybe, just maybe, something interesting for my birthday too. Otherwise, DeeDude has promised me that he will help me to organize all my craft things in the study. Right now they are scattered all over the house and I just don’t have a good handle on what I’ve got in the line of craft supplies.

The other thing that sort of intersects into the one hand dumber than dirt other hand slow learner is my jaw. Or, rather what is being called my TMJ. It still hurts. My bite is back again, but it’s a pretty hard bite. My back teeth really, really meet. More so than any of the others. Which is why I sort of come to during the day with me rocking them back and forth. I’d better watch it or sure as shit I’m going to crack them. Anyway, I got impressions made on Friday for upper and lower teeth for a bite guard. Or, it might be a splint. I’m not sure if they are the same or different appliances.

The other advice I’m getting:

Relax more
Deep breathing
Touch tongue to roof of mouth when at rest
Don’t open mouth wider than a thumb’s width when yawning, laughing, coughing, sneezing or singing
Valium only for a little while
Alternate hot and cold
Massage affected area
Eat soft foods
No chewy stuff
No hard crunchy foods like nuts or popcorn
No food that requires prolonged chewing like hard crusts of bread, tough meat or raw vegetables
No chewing gum ever again
Cut down on caffeine
Do not bite your lower lip
Do not bite your fingernails or on pencils
Do not rest your jaw on your hand
Advil or ibuprophen is okay
Sleep on back
Try to avoid stressful situations whenever possible

My sister told me she knows one lady who must wear her bite guard while driving. I got a vision of a croakie attached to the bite guard…sort of like how glasses hang around your neck when you’re not wearing them.

While It is Cool

God, it’s going to be hot today. It’s 6:15 am right now and it’s 78 degrees already. Last night after 8 pm it was still 100 degrees out on the patio. It felt hotter than that inside the house. Ugh. Drank lots and lots of water.

Got an object lesson on how important it is for a diabetic to stay hydrated in hot weather day before yesterday. After lunch at work it began heating up. And, I went from okay to a really cranky, really upset and very sick little puppy in no time at all. I thought I was going to faint. I went outside and sat on our steps where it’s a bit cooler for a couple of minutes. Then, I went back inside and decided to test my blood sugar. At 2 hours after lunch It was 187 which for me is sort of edging into really high territory. I drank 2 glasses of water in quick succession and an hour later suddenly realized that I was feeling fine. I tested my sugar again and it had sunk to 114.

Have plans to be really busy this morning. Figure as the day wears on it’ll be harder and harder to do things other than sit here and sweat.

I don’t know where I am anymore, but yesterday I signed up with Feedburner to enable folks to subscribe to this blog via their newsreader (which I’m not all that clear on how to work) and via email (where I am more comfortable). I’m my first subscriber to the email version, so will see what it’s like after I post this. In fact, I’d best do what I normally do which is to fiddle around with the post several times as I tweak it into shape. Wouldn’t want folks to be getting an email every time I decide I see a misspelled word or realize I want to change something.

Okay, sort of answered my own question as I went back into the Feedburner program and read more. I can select what time of day I want my emails to be sent out. I fixed it so it would be from 9 to 11 am, so I'll see in a little bit what happened.

I want to go transfer my membership at Curves today, go to the library, pop into that fabulous bakery on Fruitvale, buy some stuff at Longs after Curves and then back home again. By then it will be hot.

Also, am thinking about rescheduling B's and my lesson for tomorrow from 2 pm to earlier in the day when it will be nicer. Probably better for both of us. I'm teaching her beginning computer stuff. Figure we'll look at what the keyboard does for a bit and how to fart around on the internet. Who knows? Maybe I can develop a bit of a side business if it is successful.

Where I Build A Widget

I've been interested lately to see these rather cool looking widgets on people's blogs. Folks have their blogs compressed into a weenie little thing (nice technical talk) that others can put on their blogs if they want.

So, I went and built a couple of them. The one for Psychic Vents needed an image and the picture comes from this blog, so I figured I would create something that fit in with my theme. Voila....and here it is. They're at Widgetbox

I'm just about tapped out after having built two. I'll build the others over the weekend.