August 2007

I did something stupid and irrational. I dyed my hair black. It seemed like such a good idea at the time! I thought a change would do me good. I was standing in the store with the black in one hand and the Dark brown in the other and a little bird on my shoulder, called my husband, was egging me on to go with the black.

I have black eyes, and black eyebrows, so in theory it should look natural. But it’s just too much. I had it black as a teenager and liked it, but I guess I wasn’t going for the natural look back then.

I saw several people yesterday including Hubbabubba and Margrethe II and both of them said it was nice. But what are they going to do.. laugh in my face. Well ok Hubba would. “HE” likes it anyway and he’s the one that has to see it the most so I’m happy for him.

Oh…. never mind.

I just finished watching both miniseries, “Anne of Green Gables” and “Anne Of Avonlea.” I haven’t seen either for 10 years or so, but they made me feel the same exact way they did as a kid. I still want to be her and live there, and by god… Gilbert is still dreamy! I think I can now say out of all the movies I watched as a child these are my favorite. I use to wear ribbons in my hair and ride around the neighbourhood on my bike reciting “The Lady of Shalott” Yeah, I was kinda lame.

I also watched the third installment from 2000, “Anne Of Green Gables: The Continuing Story.” The plot wasn’t based on any book that Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote. It was Anne in the middle of WWI and dealing with espionage. Funny how she meant everyone from Avonlea on the front line. There’s a new one coming out 2009. Anne fights off robots.

I can’t play the guitar so I can’t be Django Reinhardt, but I can play the violin. So my new goal is to play gypsy violin and be Stéphane Grappelli.

Notice How Django Reinhardt only uses two fingers. The others were left motionless after he was in a fire. It’s insane!

I just found these on the net. Someone took away all of Garfields thought bubbels. It actually makes it better. I know a lot of people hate Garfield but I always loved it.

They took it out yesterday. The surgeon decided he wanted to try pulling it just to get a feel for it and as he said “if it fractures the operating room is right next door. If it doesn’t and I get it out here it’s cheaper for you.” I’m never one to turn up a deal! So he gave me the Novocaine which was the worst part. It felt like a golf ball was slowly growing on the roof of my mouth. He was trying to make small talk with me but images of swallowing my own tounge were flying threw my head. I started gaging. If I had eaten anything, (which I didn’t because I know myself so well) I would have thrown up all over the pretty little white porcelain spitting sink. He started tugging and I could feel that it was loosening. He kept tugging and yanking and within 5 minuets it was out in one piece. No muss no fuss. He asked if I wanted to keep the tooth to which I said “YEAH!!”

The recovery sucks! I’m living in constant fear of dislodging the blood clot and getting what is called “dry socket.” Today I ate and although I chewed on the other side, something I can’t do without tilting my head(?), and then washed it out with mouth wash and water, I’m still a little nervous. I mean if I had an open wound on my leg I wouldn’t rub soup and Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream all over it would I?

I’m taking Ipren and Alvadone for the pain. Which is Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen. I took them just as the Novocaine was wearing off, so I got a good 15 minuets of pure “this is what it feels like when someone ripes a tooth from your head” pain. This morning around 7 I woke up and the drugs had worn off, that was also bad. It was so stiff. I couldn’t open my jaw enough to say the word hand.

But I can feel it’s getting better and then I’m going to eat nothing but hard scratchy food for weeks! Oh and snus!! My God! I got the patch and used that yesterday and today, but it hurts! I’ve tried it on both arms and every few hours I get like an aching in my arm for 10 minuets or so. It’s gross to think that’s from the nicotine seeping into my skin. So skip that. I’ll take 1 or 2 snuns tomorrow. I will live.

I went in to the dentist this morning. Instead of the prickly old man I got last time it was a nice young woman who made me feel very at ease. Again they had trouble with the x-ray and ended up giving me a full x-ray. I stood alone in a broom closet with this giant machine spinning around my head beeping. It was rad.

Not only are my roots in different directions but the tooth is cracked. So I have to go to an Oral surgeon on Monday to get the blasted thing out. It sucked because I liked this doctor so much and I felt so comfortable, I was really hoping she would be able to do it there and then. On the plus I got to see my 3 other impacted wisdom teeth in the x-ray.

As you can see in this artists rendering… the only impacted one at an angel is at the bottom right side. The others are straight which means they aren’t irritating any teeth beside them. I’m going to ask the oral surgeon what he/she recommends I do about these others. Maybe it’s worth the extra pain and time just to take them all out.

A couple of months ago I got this infection in the gum of one of my lower front teeth. The pain was bad and spreading threw the whole left side of my mouth. I called the dentist in Nora. 3 weeks later they finally saw me. It was gingivitis. He cleaned it and gave me an anti-bacterial mouth wash and it got better.
A couple of days ago I was feeling pain again on the left side. Last night it was unbearable. So I called the dentist. They said they could take me as an emergency. I was thinking that the infection had spread. So I went and told him about the infection. He looked around, apparently more thoroughly then the dentist in Nora because he found a cavity in my upper left side wisdom tooth. Also known as the only wisdom tooth I have. They have to pull it!! They have to pull a tooth from my head!! I’ve never had any medical procedure so I’m freaked out about it.
He wanted to do it right away so he did an x-ray and sent me to the waiting room. So I sat there not knowing if they were going to do it ASAP or not and not being able to call my mom! I was gagging to much for the x-ray, so he called me in and we tried it again. I didn’t gag but it still didn’t get the roots. He said that in order to get the roots he would have to stick the x-ray plate.. thing in way back and he didn’t think I could handle that. Apparently if the roots are straight pulling it takes about 1 minuet.. if the roots are curved in opposite directions, like an anchor it can take an hour. I guess he’s going to try and get another x-ray before he does it, I’m guessing after he numbs me up so I don’t gag.

It’s going down tomorrow. I just hope to God the roots are nice and straight and it wont take to long. The good news is that he said the rest of my teeth were beautiful. They should be since I bought this electric tooth brush a while ago, and have been manically taking care of my teeth to get ride of this gingivitis, which the dentist says I have. So that’s good.

To be completely honest… I have never really spent any time taking care of my teeth. Ever. I snus, I drink too much coffee, and yet I’ve never had a cavity, my teeth are white as pearls, and I’ve never had chronic bad breath. So it is pretty amazing that the only problem I have now is 1 cavity in a wisdom tooth. But that’s all in the past. I am now dedicated to brushing twice a day and flossing. In my defense it’s hasn’t been just me being lazy. I have this highly sensitive gag reflex that makes brushing and flossing hellish.

The whole thing is going to coast 1 or 2 thousand kronor, which is a lot when your not use to paying more then 100:- ($14) to see a doctor. The dental system is a little messed up if you ask me. The nurse here said if I just wanted a check up I would have to get on the waiting list and should not expect an appointment for at least a year!

I’ve been playing on this site Avanoo all night.  It’s a polling site and you can upload your own questions. Then it gives you details about the results. So if you want you can find out how many people on this site read on the toilet.  Think how many papers a sociologist could write from the data on this site. HA! *SNAP*

Yes I am a full blooded Beatlemaniac but I haven’t listened to them as much the last few years. I’m listening to The White Album now.. and it’s just so amazing. Obviously I realize I am not letting people in on a secret, but almost all of my friends don’t listen to The Beatles. So many people my age just think of early pop “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” when they think of The Beatles. So I am recommending that everyone who hasn’t before listen to Beatles. The White Album, Yellow Submarine, (I always skip the title track when I listen to that album) Revolver, Abbey Road.

I guess what I want is for everyone to love them the way I do, which isn’t going to happen. My husband is a good example of that. He likes them, and has heard every song they have via our close proximity and yet he lacks the obsessive love that I feel for them. Although he really dose enjoy “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide (except for me and my monkey.)”

I was watching John Lennon Vs. The US a few months ago and there was a clip of an interview John had in the 70’s with some uptight conservative WHORE (pardon my language.) The interview was also in the movie “Imagine” which I watched every week for a good 2 years. So I said a few sentence as John was saying them.. and I have never seen my husband look so disgusted with me before.

I guess it’s all timing. It seems the bands you listen to in your teens, and for that matter as a child … I wanna say hold a special place in people hearts.. but that may be the lamest sentence ever so I will say… are more… you know… people are always more into them. Since I was listening to The Beatles in the womb, there’s no way I could ever get my husband to feel the way I do about them. That and he seems to be unaffected by Paul’s puppy eyes and John’s cool quick wit. That boggels my mind!

I’m alone! W00t! “He” is off sell sausages with his parents till Tuesday! TUESDAY! Lord. It’s been so long since I have been alone, able to wallow in my own crapulence. Tonight I watched 3 movies, cried to 2 of them, ate nachos for dinner, and clipped my toenails in bed. Oh yeah. I’m that gross! On the other hand, I did also break one thing and almost break another. See I was on my way from the computer room to the living-room with our brand new 2 gig memory stick with a movie on it. Oh and the cap was off.. that’s an important detail. But I needed to wash my hands. So I did what any normal person would do and held the memory stick in my mouth between my teeth as I washed my hands in the bathroom sink. Then I started to get worried that having it in my mouth for the time it would take me to wash my hands thoroughly would make me gag so I leaned down and tried to lay it on the top part of the sink while still washing my hands. Of course it fell into the sink which was full of soapy water. But I picked it up really quickly and dried it off and it still works. So then later.. I accidentally ran the wheel of my desk chair into the wireless usb that was sticking out of the front of my computer. It’s bent and I can’t bend it back. You think I would have learned after breaking “HIS” blue-tooth usb thing that was sticking out of the front of his computer a few months ago. Heh. I’m about as delicate and thoughtful as a 11 year old boy. I wounder what I will do/break tomorrow night after a few glasses of wine.

I’m such a tard. I figured out what was wrong with the sound in my browser. Tonight I realized other things were lacking sound too, but it was really random so I new my sound card was not dieing. I opened this MSI sound manager and it was set up for like a 24 speaker sound system. I changed that and it still didn’t work. So on a whim I checked to see where the speakers were actually plugged into. Yeah… not the right plug. I’m a total goofus. The good news, I now have sound! Let’s celebrate!

So why is it the all the comedians I love never do anything? Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, Harland Williams, David Cross. They are all really funny people, but only show up in these shitty movies with minor roles. With the exception of Harland Williams who’s portrayal of the hitchhiker in “There’s Something About Mary” was great. But a girl can only live on the six minuet abs scene for so long. Why can’t they come do stand up in Sweden?

Firefox/flashplayer is disobeying me. I have no sound in embedded videos. Which means I can’t watch any thing. No YouTube, no video blogs from Rosie O’Donnell, and no clips from the comedy central insider.

is this funny? Willem DaFoe and Will Farrell in The Procedure

Is this? Nell Carter + Bea Arthur+ Carlton Banks = OMFG!

I’m sure this is.. Zach Galifianakis’ Kanye West Video

Apparently a lot of people have had this problem. Most of them have fixed it by adding a string in the registry but that string is already in mine and it’s still not working. I hate technology.

I’m going to work at Elvis’s café tomorrow. I’ve never work a service job before, I suck at math, and of course the interaction with Swedish people speaking Swedish is scary. I just hope they don’t ask to many questions and just stick to the basic “en kaffe tack.” But it will be worth it. Elvis and I negotiated and I got benefits out of it. That includes Dental! So after work tomorrow I should get that root canal I need. Maybe a grill.

Tweedledee is leaving for China tomorrow. He’ll be gone for 6 months. And unlike the other Tweedle, I think he will actually stay there that long. What will I do!!??!! Well in truth I am going to be going back to Linköping soon anyway so it wont make that much of a difference in my life. Which is all that matters.. my life. And I am really excited to hear how it goes for him.

It will be nice to get back to my apartment and life, although I will be really busy. I’m going to be study full time and getting my licenses and working here and there. I have like a million little things that need to be taken care of. Since I got married my name has changed and the visa in my passport has expired. So I need to get a new passport with the right name, and get a new visa put it in. Plus my Swedish ID card expired in 2004 so I need a new one of those with the right name, and my bankcard not only has the wrong name but is also demagnetized so I need to fix that. Not to mention the Swedish citizenship form I need to send in, then the Swedish passport I’ll need to get. At this point I can barley prove my existence to either the Swedish or American government. These things aren’t difficult just a pain. The American passport will mean a trip to Stockholm to the Embassy and the Swedish citizenship form asks me all kinds of detailed questions like how much money I’ve made since I’ve lived in Sweden. I’m going to have to get several forms from the tax authority for that and to verify to the American government that my name has changed. I need an assistant. Plus I don’t even want to think of the hassle that awaits me in arguing to the Swedish government the my middle name is indeed Kerr. I’ve been told before that Kerr is not a legitimate middle name because it’s a surname. OK fine.. but I wasn’t named in Sweden according to Swedish rules!

That’s all. Now I’m going to wait until Tweedledum calls me and tells me I can come over and cry while I watch him pack his suitcase and leave my life forever.