One of the last hot days

[susandennis]

The sun is streaming trying to fry this room but the A/C is holding it back and the weather map says it will soon be over... so I'm totally focused on the Coming Cool.

I swear this computer operated better with the cat hair and cat vomit and and tangled wires. Ever since I cleaned it up, it's been slower than Christmas. I think it knows it's best days are gone. Oh well. It works ok as long as I keep a limit on the number of stuff I have running. Monday, I get new DSL juice and while that won't help the CPU operation, it won't hurt it either.

I'm giving serious thought to... actually I've pretty much decided to cancel my dentist appointment next week. It's for a cleaning and to me teeth cleaning is just torture plain and simple. I've been stressing about it for weeks now and trying to come up with a way of coping and nothing is working so I'm going to bale. I'll deal with the consequences if and when they happen. Probably this whole dental stress is what has caused the high blood pressure!!

I have one uggy work task - adding some content to an internal website with a tool that is the digital equivalent of a stubby chewed up golf pencil - I think I'm going to get it done this morning and get it over with. I can do the rest of the work over the rest of the weekend. I do need to make a library run and a grocery store stop. I'll do that this afternoon after lunch with Susan. She's bringing tomatoes from her garden.

Susan's are good. We don't get enough hot sun here to make those sweet luscious things with the tender juicy meat that you find in late Summer in the southeast or in New Jersey. For some reason I've never known, Jersey tomatoes in August are always orgasmic. The best ones here are not even close to those.

About 10 years ago when my friend, Earl moved from Texas to Virginia, he drove up to New Jersey and bought a bag of those giant beautiful things and got on a plane and brought them to me. We sat on my kitchen floor on newspapers with a salt shaker and ate about half of them with cold beer. It was hilarious. And sooooo yummy.

I'm absolutely having a tomato sandwich for dinner.

The telemarketers are really on over drive this morning. I've had three calls in the last hour an a half. I love caller ID.

Time to get to work...

Comments

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

I can so identify with this post. I cancelled my dental cleaning appointment last October, and have not made a new one yet.

I keep meaning to, but..........

Our tomatoes did badly this year since we were gone for a month. Last year I had all the tomatoes I wanted, heaven.

[susandennis]

I canceled by email and told them I'd reschedule at a later time (liar, liar pants on fire). I'll be interested to see if they respond.

Life is just too short, you know? If I have to have implants or dentures, so be it. I'll cross that bridge... If they want me to have clean teeth, they need to figure out a better way to do it!

[kyrielle]

I gotta say, as little as I like cleanings (and I hate 'em), I'd rather have those than have teeth taken out.

[susandennis]

And there's no doubt that your take on the situation is the more rational. I wish I could adopt it. I've tried. No works.

rationalization

[henare.livejournal.com]

they like to do cleanings 2x/year. a long time ago i had gone for a very long time (maybe something like ten years) without a professional cleaning because i didn't have insurance.

naturally i was pretty undone by the prospect of going in for the big dig but it all worked out well ... but it gave me the information i could use to decide that if i could go for nearly a decade i could probably go a year at a time between regular cleanings. i do schedule them for every six months but if i need to cancel i feel absolutely no guilt about it.

i also note that, except to have some mercury fillings replaced, nothing has ever been discovered during a cleaning that has required further action. any dental problem i've ever had (only a few) has happened between cleanings. i'm sure cleanings have preventative value and i might feel more diligent about them if they had some other desirable side effect (like, maybe if i lost 20 pounds with every cleaning ... then i'd easily go 2x/year).

Re: rationalization

[susandennis]

this joint wants me to have cleanings 4x times year. I spend a month stressing over each one so that means 1/4th of my year is spent in dental terror. once I got that figured out, it was a pretty easy 'no thank you.'

If they start that 20 pounds off with each cleaning idea, I may have to revisit the situation.

Re: rationalization

[henare.livejournal.com]

*four* times a year? holy crap! that seems kinda excessive.