Pain

Just a quick catch up for anyone who is interested.  Chris decided not to report Evil for biting Koda.  I don't understand this decision but I respect it.  Koda got her stitches out and is healing nicely.  Soon her hair will grow back in and it will be like it never even happened.  I just hope it never happens again.

So this week I have been in pain! Both figuratively and literally.  First I will share with you the literal pain I have been in this week. I cracked my back crown last weekend and thanks to my new husband's wonderful dental insurance I got to go to the dentist on Monday.  Nothing could be done for my crown besides dig out what was left and replace it with a brand new crown.  So after a quick 1.5 hours, I had a temporary crown on.  It was great!  I was completely numb during the drilling and digging portion of the show.  What they didn't warn me about was the pain I would be in when the numbness wore off!  My jaw has hurt all week!  I can't drink coffee without being reminded of the pain.  I have even started choosing my meal options based on what will cause the least amount of pain.  It's so funny because the dentist man made this big deal to only chew on the other side of my mouth etc.  Well let me tell you... there is no way I would choose to chew or bother that temporary in any way shape or fashion!  Hopefully my permanent crown will come in soon and all will be right with the world again.

Figuratively I have been in pain because I have been trying to officially change my name.  I ended up at the wonderful driver's licence place 3 times this week!  Not fun at all!  On the first trip, they couldn't help me because I had to wait 24 hours from when I went to the SS office.  Then on the second trip, they didn't believe me when I told them my new name and apparently the paperwork from the SS office wasn't enough and so they said I should just wait until the cards came in.  When there for my second attempt, the lady even tried to tell me my address didn't exist.  She told me I must be confussed, like I didn't know where I lived!  So crazy!  Finally, today I went back and had the new SS card and all the other paper work possible and they gave me a new drivers license.  Well, really they gave me a temporary.  The new one should get here in a couple of weeks.

Anyone else noticing the irony in my life surrounded by pain and temporaries?  Sometimes we just have to laugh or we'll go crazy!

So my weekend plans are so exciting I thought I would blog about them early.  I have got to get some more grading done.  I think probably another 2 hours.  Then I have a little bit of work to accomplish for my work team. Probably another 2 to 4 hours.  But my big goal is to work on my prospectus.  I want to finish filling in my research lit review triangle.  Then I want to begin writing the different pieces.  Maybe one day soon my pieces will begin to look like the picture on the front of the puzzle box!  Wish me luck!