Dental Appointment

Monday I had a dental appointment. It was just for a cleaning and a quick look over by my dentist. Well turns out she dislocated her shoulder or something last month and she's been out.  So it will be a year and a half until I actually see her again, if she is there in February.   I'm sure if I needed to I could see one of her associates but I'm glad I didn't see her this time.  I was anticipating her pushing for my front tooth crown replacement.  I'm not anxious to get anything done to my mouth right now that might rock the boat. I admit I'm the one who initially brought it up but that was before I did anything about it. By having those Invisalign braces, my teeth are straight now and it isn't really much longer than the natural tooth next to it. 

The hygienist that cleans my teeth is nice enough but she always asks me if I drink tea or coffee (because my lower teeth in the back get a little stained apparently). My answer as always is yes, but I always put cream or milk in it. She said it can still stain but I don't believe it can stain that much.  I only drink one cup of coffee in the morning and tea is one or two cups of green tea at night and again with a little bit of cream.   It actually gets me a little mad. I feel like saying, "Hey just do your job and clean my teeth". I already brush my teeth at least 4 times a day as well as floss every day too.   I am keeping up with my appointments and dutifully endure getting my teeth scraped and as far as I know have had no cavities in years.    There was a space of about 3 1/2 years there when I was not happy with any dentist and just didn't bother...but I have been going to my mom's dentist and I like her okay. 

So I am just going to enjoy life.  I am going to drink coffee and tea as I always do and not run to brush my teeth afterwards either.   So there!

Strange Moth

Hubby noticed this strange moth hanging out on the back porch screen. It really looked like it had leaves for wings.   So he grabbed a camera and took some shots of it. I am posting them below.  I have never seen anything like it.  Maybe it was attacked by something that took a few chunks of its wings.  That may very well be a good possibility too.

Hotter than He** !

Welcome to summer in Texas.  I still would much rather be facing a possible high of 105 degrees by Monday in Texas than experience all the tornadoes up north that they've been having. This weather sure is getting more extreme as each year passes. I just hope that something can be done to stop the global warming or whatever it is that is making more unstable conditions happen each year before it is too late. 

I finally got over my cold. I just have a cough that is I think from allergies or something unrelated to the cold. I just seem to cough at some point or another every day.  Could be allergies, could be the fact that we have 4 long haired dogs, who knows.  I read online that ginger can help with coughs so I have been putting it in my smoothies and putting some in my tea in the evening.  Hopefully that will help. 

I had a nice lunch today with the empty nester's group I started. We had a nice number with 10 total showing up. I am really grateful for the core group that I can tell are the ones that show up most of the time.  It really has been nice making some friends here.  That has been the only thing really lacking here for both me and hubby.  But I work at home so it is hard to meet people. I also used to work a lot, even weekends which took up a lot of what would have been spare time too. This year I've had plenty of extra time to dwell on the lack of friends..lol  so I'm happy I'm making some finally.  

Sunday already??

Well darn it is Sunday evening already.  Tomorrow starts a full work week.  Unfortunately I caught a nasty cold in PA.  When we landed Monday night I had a bad sore throat.  I was sort of hoping it was from flying or something but it was not as I still had a bit of one on Tuesday morning.  I got through that day without too much trouble and thought maybe I had staved it off.  I was loading up on orange juice and liquids in general.

Wednesday morning I took my normal walk with my friend (even though it was the 4th) but was pretty tired and by later in the afternoon the cold reared its ugly head and my nose started running, and I was getting a low grade fever and was wiped out for the rest of the day. 

Although I got through work Thursday and Friday, I didn't eat much, and was very tired so I slept as much as I could.  I even didn't attend the women's lunch club yesterday mostly to not expose anyone to my germs.  I was feeling better by yesterday but I am still hacking some.  Nothing too major.  I did do some Yoga today for an easy stretch/exercise routine.  I hadn't done anything since Wednesday.  After two boxes of Puffs, chicken soup and as much sleep as possible, I am doing much better. 

So tomorrow should be a good day!  

Happy 4th of July!

I was told it has been nearly a month since I blogged. Tis true!  Sorry about that.

I just got back from visiting my oldest back in PA.  I went with my other (youngest) daughter who lives here in Texas not too terribly far from me.

 I had not seen my oldest since August of 2014 when she got married.  So it has been a long time coming!  We were gone from June 27th - July 2nd.  Well I might as well say to the 3rd as we didn't walk in the door until 1:00AM.  The flight to PA went well and the flight back wasn't bad but there were at least 2 lightening storms outside our window to the South.  We took off nearly 40 minutes late too as the pilot got a different flight plan.  After seeing the storms to the south, I think I know why they had us fly to Dallas then southward from there.  There was also some more turbulence than there was on the flight out. But bottom line, we got home safe and it was wonderful seeing the oldest and her hubby and two fur kids.

It was nice to see what their life is like (well somewhat as Dani was off work most of the time).  We also got to see their cute house which I really like and is in a great location. The house is on a double lot and has a great expanded 2 car garage. Dani's husband has all sorts of car parts and tools in it and he loves to work on his Jeep that he is making changes to. I am very impressed!

During our visit we drove down to the dance studio that Dani co-owns with 2 other gals which is undergoing some renovation and will look great when it is done (doesn't look bad now either but it was literally being worked on when we saw it).  This was the first time we got to see the studio in person.

I also got a chance to have a short visit with a good friend of mine from 30 years ago. She remembered Dani as a baby~!  I plan to keep in better touch with her.  We used to be the best of friends!

We also got in some miniature golf and plenty of eating out. I'm surprised the scale did not indicate I gained any weight when I weighed myself yesterday.  Unfortunately but not a surprise to me,  I got a cold sometime during the trip. The last day there my throat got sore.  I don't go out much and work from home, so exposure to all the germs in the airport, plane, eateries, etc., got to me.  It was still worth it to see Dani and her family after all these years.  Their two dogs get along really well together and have such personality.  We enjoyed playing with them bunches too.

Hubby also had his own trip back to PA earlier in June.  He flew out June 8th and stayed with his friend and they went antiquing for some treasures to bring back.  His friend drove him back a week later but did not spend the night like I thought he was.  He just wanted to get the dreaded drive back over with I guess. Thankfully he got home okay.

The reason we didn't travel together is because we have no desire to put our 4 dogs through the trauma of being boarded.  Two of them are seniors and one has cancer so that added stress would certainly not do them any good,

I had off yesterday and today of course is the 4th. It was nice being off work for an entire week. I haven't taken this much time off at one time before.  I just have to get through tomorrow and Friday and then we have another weekend ahead. Yippee!