How Was Your Appocalypse? Mine was Great!

Man, you do not realize how good it is to chew like a normal human being until you finally can again. I got the permanent crown put in Wednesday and it wasn't too bad having it done. I didn't use novacaine, though I had a couple seconds where I wished I had. Still no numb face was worth it. I did have to take an oxycodone on Wednesday night and then took it twice on Thursday and then woke up this morning with no pain at all. Talk about your Christmas miracles. I had steak tonight for dinner.

Now I will have to repeat this in February on the other tooth, but now that I know it is worth it I won't be so anxious about it. And it looks like no root canal will be needed on the tooth with the new crown. So I'm very happy about that. This crown cost $606 (instead of the $505 quoted) out of pocket. A root canal would cost even more.

We have finished our Christmas shopping tonight, thank goodness. And even stayed within the budget for it. Tomorrow we will wrap everything and hopefully get the little 2 foot tall tree up. And put up the Christmas train. I just haven't been with it enough to do so, but it's amazing how much better I feel now that the tooth isn't painful. The kids are making Christmas cookies tomorrow. It'll be a nice, cozy day.

Two of the Many Reasons Why I Will Always be Team Pacey

It's that moment at 1:06 and again at 2:05. He can imbue so much love so easily into his touches and words. Joshua Jackson will always be one of my favorite actors. And he will always make what should be just a silly teen soap opera, well worth my third watch in three years.