whew. the end of a stressful week.
had to work super late every day this week.
got my 50% drawing submission done though. it's quite amazing that at the age of 27, i will already get to see a building designed and built.
it's weird though because a lot of my stress this week wasn't about the job but the life i was neglecting on the side. jeremy's birthday is today (16th). i fretted for two weeks on what to get him. i can honestly say that for the first time in 10 plus years, i have not known what to buy him. in the past, i usually buy him 6-10 presents for his birthday. this year, a complete and utter blank.
a part of me felt guilty because i thought that maybe work was interfering with my thought process. maybe if i had been around more, i'd know what he wants. but then i started taking inventory of everything he ever wanted and all the things he already has. there is almost nothing left. for this birthday, he told me all he wanted was permission to dual out his truck (two mufflers twice the noise). but i've pretty much been refusing. i could never submit to allowing that kind of excessive nuisance.
so. instead of getting him some object of monetary value, i decided to get him a memory event. there are few events in our lives...lack of time..lack of will. we prefer to stay at home and play on our computers.
i bought tickets for him, myself, my brother, and our friend eric to go see the Spur's Basketball game tonight. I figured we could go hang out at the river walk and have a late lunch...then go to the game.
So, here's the message I wrote in my birthday card to him:
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JERMS
What do you get a guy who has everything?
Not a single person could come up with a viable answer.
Not a single one.
SO, I wrote you a poem instead....
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Who's going to a Spur's Basketball Game?
That would be you!
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Something in me thinks he'll still be disappointed in the lack of presents but I hope my creativity will make up for most of that.
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Saturday, April 2, 2005
sin city, plenty of sin
woke up this morning and starting doing chores right away. started with the bathrooms, then worked my way to the kitchen and laundry. now the house is squared away.
took a shower, ate left over Chinese from last night and then went to go see sin city with my brother and friends.
the movie is graphically interesting but i wouldn't say phenomenal or anything. story-line was right up tarrentino's alley who guest directed the movie. expect tons of graphic violence and a lot of penis severing. i don't recommend this movie for people who don't have a strong preference towards movies that over play the whole vigilante thing.
went to the groceries afterwards. we bought pie and fruit for when trish and alain come over. they're bringing us pizza for dinner. yum. i usually reserve pizza for once a year on jeremy's birthday. oh well. :) pizza is sooooo good. we're supposed to watch a movie called "being there". it's a really old movie. trish keeps raving about it so we'll see.
onward...
took a shower, ate left over Chinese from last night and then went to go see sin city with my brother and friends.
the movie is graphically interesting but i wouldn't say phenomenal or anything. story-line was right up tarrentino's alley who guest directed the movie. expect tons of graphic violence and a lot of penis severing. i don't recommend this movie for people who don't have a strong preference towards movies that over play the whole vigilante thing.
went to the groceries afterwards. we bought pie and fruit for when trish and alain come over. they're bringing us pizza for dinner. yum. i usually reserve pizza for once a year on jeremy's birthday. oh well. :) pizza is sooooo good. we're supposed to watch a movie called "being there". it's a really old movie. trish keeps raving about it so we'll see.
onward...
Friday, April 1, 2005
i'm becoming a masochist
lets talk about pain.
yes, shall we?
woke up at 6am and took an oral sedation pill. i got up and was completely nauseous. i waited for my brother to pick me up at 6:30am and then we headed to the periodontist's office.
when i got there, i was only a little groggy. it was pretty apparent to me that the oral sedation wasn't going to do me much good for the surgery.
around 7am. they started the surgery. i was to get a gum lift. i only had some idea of what it meant but i'm pretty glad i didn't know. otherwise, would have been petrified all week. the doctor started out by giving me a serious of 8 or so shots throughout the front of my mouth and in my lip. i could feel the first few of them but the rest were pretty painless since my mouth was becoming numb. next came the "claw"...
after he thought my gum was numb enough he started to use this claw looking tool to pry my gums away from my teeth. you can think of it like pulling carpet up to stretch it out again. once he got enough of the gum away from the tooth, he used tweezers to pull and stretch the gum up. after being properly stretched and pulled, he began to sew the gum in place. this is where the real pain started, if you can imagine.
i could feel the needle going through, at first only a very slight pain. then i began to have a feeling of soreness. he stitched it in place and then wired the stitches around my teeth for security. i was completely awake and aware of all of this. i could see the metal tools and blood and needles. the last part was the final blow. he pushed some gauze up against the area he had just worked on and then pressed very hard to apply pressure.
i thought my eyes were going to pop out of my head from the pain. then they gave me an ice pack and i was on my way home.
when i go home, i climbed straight into bed. i spent a good hour closing my eyes and trying to mediate the pain away. luckily, my sleepiness overrode the pain and when i woke up several hours later, the pain was extremely duller.
after i got up, i felt good enough to do my next self portrait shoot for Sunday. after jeremy got home, we watched bridget jones, the edge of reason and the incredibles. i def. liked the incredibles more than bridget jones. i just didn't really buy the chemistry between collin firth and renee zellwegger.
we ordered some chinese take-out and i'm now contemplating on heading straight to bed or working on my website.
trish and her husband alain are coming over tomorrow for dinner. toilets need to get cleaned, floors need to be vacuumed, kitty litter needs to get emptied, laundry needs to be done, dishes need washing..on and on on and on.. but i'm sleepy. maybe i'll have more energy tomorrow afternoon.
yes, shall we?
woke up at 6am and took an oral sedation pill. i got up and was completely nauseous. i waited for my brother to pick me up at 6:30am and then we headed to the periodontist's office.
when i got there, i was only a little groggy. it was pretty apparent to me that the oral sedation wasn't going to do me much good for the surgery.
around 7am. they started the surgery. i was to get a gum lift. i only had some idea of what it meant but i'm pretty glad i didn't know. otherwise, would have been petrified all week. the doctor started out by giving me a serious of 8 or so shots throughout the front of my mouth and in my lip. i could feel the first few of them but the rest were pretty painless since my mouth was becoming numb. next came the "claw"...
after he thought my gum was numb enough he started to use this claw looking tool to pry my gums away from my teeth. you can think of it like pulling carpet up to stretch it out again. once he got enough of the gum away from the tooth, he used tweezers to pull and stretch the gum up. after being properly stretched and pulled, he began to sew the gum in place. this is where the real pain started, if you can imagine.
i could feel the needle going through, at first only a very slight pain. then i began to have a feeling of soreness. he stitched it in place and then wired the stitches around my teeth for security. i was completely awake and aware of all of this. i could see the metal tools and blood and needles. the last part was the final blow. he pushed some gauze up against the area he had just worked on and then pressed very hard to apply pressure.
i thought my eyes were going to pop out of my head from the pain. then they gave me an ice pack and i was on my way home.
when i go home, i climbed straight into bed. i spent a good hour closing my eyes and trying to mediate the pain away. luckily, my sleepiness overrode the pain and when i woke up several hours later, the pain was extremely duller.
after i got up, i felt good enough to do my next self portrait shoot for Sunday. after jeremy got home, we watched bridget jones, the edge of reason and the incredibles. i def. liked the incredibles more than bridget jones. i just didn't really buy the chemistry between collin firth and renee zellwegger.
we ordered some chinese take-out and i'm now contemplating on heading straight to bed or working on my website.
trish and her husband alain are coming over tomorrow for dinner. toilets need to get cleaned, floors need to be vacuumed, kitty litter needs to get emptied, laundry needs to be done, dishes need washing..on and on on and on.. but i'm sleepy. maybe i'll have more energy tomorrow afternoon.