Teeths

I'm feeling much better, but still not 100%. My teeth still hurt and I go tomorrow to get my stitches out. It's been a long week. A long, hungry week. I'm so sick of apple sauce, and pudding (never thought i'd say that), and cream of mushroom soup. My sister said that I'm going to gain ten pounds when my teeth stop hurting, but I honestly wouldn't mind if it meant that I could eat sushi and cookies again without having to swish with salt water afterwards and if I didn't get food caught in the big holes in the back of my mouth. I had lo-mein today and afterwards I checked my teeth and each hole on the bottom had a noodle sticking out of it. Disgusting!

Oh! And, gosh, I realized that I should have mentioned that those aren't my x-rays below. I just Googled "wisdom teeth" and I liked that photo the best of the options that came up. Though I do have an x-ray that looks very similar to that one, I don't have a copy of my own. It's in my chart at the orthopaedic surgeon's office. You probably wouldn't notice the difference between mine and the one I posted except that my wisdom teeth were more crooked and I have less cavities between my teeth and a crown, both which show up as big white spots on the x-ray.

Wisdom

It's currently 3am here and I can't sleep. I got my wisdom teeth out earlier today (Monday morning) and because of the meds i'm on, I'm not in as much pain as I had feared. However, after being in bed since after my surgery at 11:30am, I can't seem to get back to sleep. On top of that, I'm feeling nauseous and dizzy and all around like crap. And starving since I can't eat solid foods.

But there is nothing like lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, to think about things. So I've come up with more ideas to add to my to-do/do-make list.

I'm really loving the idea of designing and making coasters. We are badly in need of them. and yes, this is what I think of in bed.

–c.

Commenting

So I haven't had a minute to try to figure out the "Read More" thing. BUT yesterday, in my Blogger frenzy I forgot to mention that I changed some comment setting so now anyone can comment and also you can link back to any posts you want with the little "Links to this post" link (too many "links" in this sentence) at the bottom of every post. If you're confused by what I just said, just look below this post and you'll figure it out.

Since I haven't figured out how to do the "Read More" thing, I'm going to have to post many Amish Country photos in a row. So here goes:

I'm going to work backwards in our trip, because I think it makes for a better starting point and ending.



These are some kids hanging out next to the country store. There was one little girl, who was probably about 7 or 8 years old, shopping for groceries with another little girl (about 2 years old) on her hip. She looked like an adult! I don't have a good picture of them so this will do instead.



Ashery Country Store was our last stop on the trip and it, as you can see, has bulk foods. I'm not sure if they make all these goods, but the hot cocoa mix looked suspiciously like Swiss Miss. Guess we'll never know. I got a bag of chocolate covered almonds and some raw sugar. Andrew stocked up on "special" flour and such.



This is the parking lot of the Ashery Country Store. Special parking for the horse drawn carriages. I don't know a whole lot about the Amish other than what I've observed, and that isn't much. So if I'm misrepresenting anything in anyway, please feel free to set me right. But I swear I saw more than a few buggies driven by Amish men drinking Mountain Dew or Canada Dry or coffee out of a styrofoam cup. Is this allowed? I don't know why it wouldn't be, but it sort of makes you do a double-take.



Speaking of carriages, we rode in this one. (In this photo it looks like the horse is about to take a mad dash and the carriage is teetering on two wheels!) Andy is the horse's name and the driver is Lester. Seems like it should be the other way around (no offense to anyone named Lester!). I felt a little weird riding in the carriage because I wasn't sure how the horse was treated. The driver seemed nice enough and there are horses EVERYWHERE in Amish Country pulling carriages. But the fact that we were tourists of sorts felt like maybe it was more carnival ride and less necessity for transportation.



Last but not least is Lehman's. This is a huge Amish Department store. Even though I did see a few Amish people browsing and probably buying, I have a feeling it's not where they would go to get a bargain. Lots of cool stuff, for sure. I mean, it's famous! People come from all over the place to shop at Lehman's.



Abigail weighing herself at Lehman's and below is a really neato display of yard sticks.

"Read more"

So, I just spent many minutes trying to figure out, in Blogger, how to have a post with a jump page so the post isn't so long. However, I was unsuccessful. My brain hurts and I'm tired so if anyone knows how to do this and can help me, please, feel free!