Craftiness!

I've been crafting like crazy. Luckily, my mom doesn't read my blog, so I can post pictures of the Mother's Day present I made her!
The pattern that I used for it is Sublime Stitching's "I love Veggies" and it's too cute. You can put whatever face you want on each of the veggies (and fruits). So, I made my mom a dish towel with six of them on it, and another dish towel with a bunch of different desserts on it (there's no pictures of that one though, at least not yet). I also am learning how to crochet, which is way more difficult for me then sewing is. I picked up sewing really fast, and crochet seems like it's going to take me a bit of time. I started last night, and it's going okay (as you can see in the picture above). I think in order to really get it I'm going to have to have someone who knows how to really well show me in person.

I've also been doing a bit of stitching for the costume shop at MPC. It's been a lot of fun, I like embroidering, and I'm glad that it can be of use to the theatre.

Time to go see if the Jello is done! (We used 7 up [cherry with antioxidants] in it, and we're really excited to try it!)

I need to clean the apartment, but I'm going to put it off by writing a blog.

This week has been LONG. I feel bad for poor Nathan because it's been even longer for him. He's been leaving at 5:30 every morning this week for the CDX competition he's doing. But that's all over today, yay! This means that I'll finally get to see my husband again!

I just had a nice exchange with the neighbor that we had dubbed Crazy Lady. The fed ex man had left a package for her with me this morning, and she came over to pick it up. Let me tell you, I was not looking forward to her coming over to get it, because, well, she seems weird. I should really be nicer and not so fast to make assumptions about people. She was very kind today, and seemed like a pretty nice person. Lesson learned. I also found out that her name is Anna, so no more calling her Crazy Lady. Nathan and I were actually discussing yesterday that we think she suffers from insomnia, because she's up at all hours of the night (part of the reason for the name dubbing).

Well, I want to clean up a bit before Nathan gets home, which should be in a half an hour!
Maybe later today I'll post some pictures of the crafts that I've been working on recently, some of them are pretty cool.

I survived my root canal!

And it wasn't that bad!
They started out by doing a teeth cleaning (which was actually more painful than most of the root canal), while they were waiting for the Novocaine to kick in. Then he did the fillings that were on that side of my mouth (yes, multiple fillings. I know, I know: bad Megan. I hadn't been to the dentist in about ten years until now, so really a couple of fillings isn't that bad. The root canal? Bad, Megan, bad.)
Then he started on the root canal. I didn't feel anything, and then there was suddenly a very sharp pain. Turns out that one of the nerves wasn't dead like they thought. So they had to give me a shot of something else, which hurt like a monkey because it was straight into the nerve. I like this dentist a lot, part of it is because he didn't lie to me. He said "This is going to hurt for about twenty seconds, pretty bad, but then it will feel better" I would much rather know that the pain is coming. It definitely hurt pretty darn badly, but not even for twenty seconds, more like ten. After that I felt absolutely nothing pain wise.
When he was cleaning out the roots it felt really weird, because I could feel it because of the sound (anybody know what I mean by that?)
Then they put medicine in it and capped it temporarily, I'll go back in ten days for the to take out the temporary filling and make it permanent.

Afterward they showed me the nerve that had still been alive, it was CRAZY. It wasn't even the size of an eyelash. It's amazing how something that small can cause so much pain.

The dentist was amazing though, and I would highly recommend him. He was very careful and fast, and also very concerned as to whether or not I was feeling any pain. He really made me not nervous about going to the dentist. Everything he did today took just about an hour, which was awesome.

I went to the dentist...

and found out that I have to have a root canal.
Fun, no?

It all started, apparently, about a month ago. I was having some pain the lower back right corner of my mouth. I thought that it was because my wisdom tooth was coming through my gums (the tooth was indeed, but it was not the source of the pain), but it turns out it was a darned cavity hitting the nerve in the tooth. Then on Sunday night my tooth broke, which was strange (and weirdly not very painful) and I spent all yesterday morning calling dentists trying to find one that could see me. I found this one and made the appointment for this morning. It was a very nice dentist office, and that was really comforting for me. The dentist took a look in my mouth and poked around a little bit, then the dental assistant took a bunch of x-rays, the dentist then came back and told me what he was going to do. Luckily, the wisdom teeth are not going to be a problem, which is great. They offered to cut the gum off of the top so that they would come in easier, but I told them that that wouldn't be necessary, since apparently they haven't caused me any pain (all the pain was from the other tooth). They think that it will take three appointments to do all the things that they need to do in my mouth, and the first is the root canal this Friday.

Should be a day of fun for my mouth, a party in my mouth (if you will). Probably not a very fun party, but a party of dentist stuff indeed.

Dear Monterey,

Thank you for finally having nice weather.
Thank you also for not being nasty when I was flying home and making all kinds of turbulence.

You're pretty awesome, and I'm glad that we're going to get to spend the summer with you.

Love,
Megan

In San Diego

I know, I know, I never posted pictures of my hair. Mostly because I'm not in love with it. I do not like the cut, but love the color. Let's just say that the stylist did not listen to what I told her to do, or (apparently) even look at the picture I showed her.

I'm flying home tomorrow, after two days of quakes, and I am so excited. I haven't seen Nathan in nine days, and that is just way too long. We didn't even get to talk that much, which was completely my fault, because I was always with people hanging out and visiting. I miss him so much, and I'm so happy that tomorrow I'll get to be at home with him again. I miss him being there next to me when I roll over, talking over dinner, cuddling on the chair to watch tv shows, just being able to see him there.

I need to head off to bed now, so I can get up bright and early (okay, not really early) and go to the airport to fly home to my love!