August 16-22

Well we made a last minute trip up to Mendocino to enjoy some site seeing, wine tasting, beer tasting and to visit with Shannon for a early birthday.  We were really enjoying our trip until we come to a road block, literally, HWY 5 was closed-yes closed. At the end of the grape vine some smart person thought it would be a great time to close the highway to do construction between 11pm-4am, we were stopped completely for at least 2 hours with not outlet there was a hill on one side and a cliff on the other side. We were very mad, but there was nothing we could do, but sit and wait. So our work week was okay, busy just two weeks before Pepperdine starts school and with this being the first time we have ever used our new PeopleSoft system students and staff our confused. I have come to terms with the fact that I can't help everyone and it's better to give quality then quantity when it comes to customer service. I am trying to enjoy myself, this positive attitude may also be because I have another opportunity to advance (for now that is all I'll say). I'll keep you posted. We've been watching the Olympics which has kept me up late. Well that's about it for now. take care-T

weekly highlights (August 9-15th)

Over the last weekend we walked down to Culver City and eat gelato on Saturday. Sunday we walked back down to Culver City and watched the new Batman movie. Chad caught my cold and stayed home from work Wednesday. Chad and I are both really busy at work with the fall term starting soon.  I gave a financial aid presentation to prospective students on Thursday night. That's pretty much it, nothing too exciting.

weekly update

Well my recover from the wisdom teeth extraction is doing great, no pain or problems. My office space and co-workers made me sick, literally. I came down with a cold and can't really breathe well at the moment. It started with a sore throat, then a cough, then the nose and now the congestion. This morning my co-work thought I was trying to seduce her with my raspy voice.

Mini Cooper

Our next car, some day.....

Wisdom teeth

I finally did it, I had my wisdom teeth removed. I was sooo nervous. I almost fainted before my appointment. Yes I am a big baby. 

I had to ask a million questions before the dentist could even give me the numbing gel. I even started to cry I was so nervous. He did a fabulous job at calming my nerves and giving me the shots of Novocain. He even brought me some sparkling water in between the shots and told me that 95% of the nerves (and my shaking hands) were just me and 5% the novocain. I finally mellowed a bit and he started to bend my tooth side to side and I thought (and asked) if my tooth was breaking because it sounded weird and felt weird. He said that was normal and weird is good, the tooth was not breaking. So not kidding 4 seconds later the dentist said "it's a boy, your tooth is out" I was amazed and he showed it to me. Then he took the other side out even faster, but this one was a girl. Now only if child birth was this quick and painless. 

I snapped a shot of the teeth really quick with my camera phone.  

I arrived at the dentist at 3:15 and got back into my car at 4:15, the longest part was me being a ball of nerves,  asking a ton of questions and freaking out about the what ifs'.

 

Wow I now know it wasn't a big deal after-all.  I'll let you know how the recovery goes. I already switched out the gauze, but I really suck at it.