Hello! Well, I believe Steve summed it up quite well in his last entry about the amount of work and overall school week-related stress that keeps us busy everyday. It's a shame neither of us can barely post, but at least we have weekends right? :P Last time I wrote about a new kitten that suddenly appeared at my house Friday after school. It stayed with us the entire week, and each day my family grew closer to it. We took care of it and even played with it. I really liked her, she was so cute, and really cheered everyone up in her playful curiosity over things. Yesterday [the most recent Friday afternoon], she disappeared and we haven't seen her since. We got some thunderstorms and my mother said she hasn't seen her since then. I spent some time looking around the yard for her, but had no luck. I'm not sure where she went, and honestly miss her. :P I think we all do because we were growing attached. It is ironic, however, how she disappeared exactly one week later just as sudden as she appeared. I hope she's okay though, wherever her little booty is. :P
After a long school week, I was excited to go to my friend Heather's house after school and relax. :P We didn't stay there very long though. We went up to the barn, and after feeding the animals had to come back and get ready for this "Teen Night" being held at Heather's church which she invited me to come along to. It was really nice actually. =) I think everyone was hoping for more teens to be there though. There was a good amount nonetheless, and all people I had never met before, with some I had heard of from Heather. I was excited on the way because I wanted to meet new people my age. :P It's weird, sometimes I get these surges of excitement and confidence where I want to go and meet more people my age. I only know the crowd from my school, and I think meeting others will widen my view and expand my friendships which I actually want to happen hehe. :P Everyone there was really nice. :] There was a small mix of ages between 12-21, but I think most were 16 to be honest. :P We ate first and then after playing outside for awhile got to go on a really fun hayride as the sun was setting. Everybody was worried rain might ruin the plans, but thankfully it held off and we got to go on a pretty long ride past all these farms as it was getting darker by the minute. I thought it was so much fun! :P Sure, it was a little chilly, and kind of spooky, but I enjoyed it! :] Once the ride was over there was a big fire to warm up near and people were passing out glow in the dark earrings and things which was cool. xD It then started to rain so everybody had to go inside and thats when the pastor and a friend of the pastor [I think?] spoke to us a little and then there were some guitars and people started playing songs and singing and such. =) It was all real nice, and I was glad I got to finally put faces to some of the names Heather always talks about. ;)
When I got home, Steve told me of the great news that Jonathan Coulton is playing nearby on October 19th. [see his last entry!;)] That got me really excited. However I'm not sure what's going to be. We sort of need a ride there...yknow? xD Anyway I love JoCo and I would love to see him! hehe. :P
Today was a really nice day, aside from the fact I couldn't find that little kitty anymore. The weather was perfect. I was going to go out shopping or something, but didn't feel like it actually, haha. Instead I went for a long walk down my road to take in some fall foliage, fresh air, and iPod time. xD Afterwards I went driving! Woo. :) It went great, which I am glad to announce! :P I really "wanted" to drive this time and was "excited" believe it or not. :P My goodness I change fast. xD I think I was driving for a full hour, give or take, and got in a lot of practice in the parking lot. I finally think I found a spot to focus on to align the vehicle better up with curbs and lines and that sort of thing. That was hard for me to do the first few times I tried. I'm also turning corners a lot smoother at a consistent speed and staying to my side better than I had previously where I went too much into the other lane. I was happy I could park right up against the curb with only a few inches apart. That was thanks to my new focusing point, haha. That probably doesn't sound like much to you advanced drivers but for a newbie that was kind of hard for me. :P I had fun though, which is a good step. ;)
I'm feeling tired now, believe it or not. :P I think I wrote all I intended to write about. Unfortunately, you can't expect another entry until next weekend with my busy schedule and all. xD See you. (:
Radically Random...
For my Journalism class, we had to hand in Entertainment articles. I took some lines from online and then added a few of my own to spazz up this "90's Child" list. I thought it was fun to do. I know I've pasted one before, but it's classic, and this is my updated one for the school newspaper so I thought I'd share it. That way if you never saw such a thing before, you'll enjoy reading through it. =)
You know you're a 90's child if...
You remember playing Red Rover, Cops&Robbers, Hopscotch, Hacky Sacs, and yo-yo's at recess.
You got super excited when it was time to play "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" in computer class at school.
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "Psyche!", "NOT!", or "Then why don't you marry it!"
Trading Pokemon cards and playing it on gameboy was your life.
You collected Beanie Babies, Troll dolls, Furbies and/or Pogs.
Spice Girls were "da bomb" and so was wearing high heeled sneakers just like them.
All your school supplies were the "Lisa Frank" brand.
Micheal Jordan and the Chicago Bulls were the best and only basketball team you knew of.
You will never forget where you were when you heard your first Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and N'Sync song.
You enjoyed partying with S-Club 7.
Scrunchies were a girl's best friend.
You remember writing M.A.S.H. notes and those little fortune cookie things that predicted your life.
Tang, Ring Pops, Warheads and Lunchables were the coolest new things to eat.
You ever watched Wishbone, Reading Rainbow, Step by Step, Doug, or Ren & Stimpy on television.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.
You remember when Super Nintendo and Skip-it's became popular.
You remember the craze and then banning of slap bracelets.
You enjoyed reading Goosebumps or the Baby Sitter's Club series.
Things like who's "it" and other issues were settled by "rock paper scissors"..or "bubble gum bubble gum in a dish"...and even better, "daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky."
Phew. I really feel like blogging! It's a shame I am too busy during the week to sit and write anything then. I noticed blog stats seem to go the lowest then, and it's hard because there isn't much Steve and I can do when we are drowned in school work. ;P Well, I had a tough week. I am looking forward to the weekend and being rejuvenated for the following school week. Picture Day was Thursday, say cheese. xD The weather got warm which I enjoyed. I was sick with a cold though. I have this weird cut by my eyebrow. My thumb keeps bleeding since I whacked it hard off of something or other. :P I feel reaaaaally itchy. I am currently addicted to listening to the song "Dark Blue" by Jack's Mannequin. Big Brother ended this week. My English teacher told me my outfit was cute today. :] I like to sleep. I think cats are cool. &that's all my current rambling introductions for now. :]
Yes, Big Brother ended Tuesday night with the season finale. I felt sad in a way because it is such a great summer reality show, and this season 8 was hands down the best yet. =) I remember when it started back in July. Aw, I will miss watching it. For the record, Evil Dick won the grand prize and Daniele won second, but to me, just the fact that the both of them made it was enough for me. The Donato's stole the game's heart, they both got money, the end! :D Can't wait until next summer ! ;]
I felt bothered today at school, so didn't have the greatest day. I was probably tired too though. I was supposed to leave for a doctor's appt. but this is the second week it was cancelled due to unknown reasons. :P Ridiculous eh? Well, we've had it with that I suppose so now have to look for another. :P
I know, I bet you all probably miss me dearly since I haven't posted in about two weeks, but here I am, reporting back to you my life, rants, and experiences. And what reason can be used this time against my inactivity? School. Yes, during the summer I had unreasonable excuses such as spending hours playing a computer game or staying outside long and getting tired, but when you have four things for homework and two to three tests to study for all in one night, then that is the best excuse in the world. It's not even an excuse but more of a limit. Honestly, if you've been writing for six hours in school, taking notes, doing homework, taking an essay test, etc. then I doubt you would feel like coming home and after all that homework and studying write a blog entry. However, not a lot of high school students have their own blog either and if they do, it's not updated regularly. Actually, most of the blogs owned by high schoolers can probably be found on the popular website of MySpace. But back to not wanting to write after writing all day long -- there's only so much you can take until you need a break from it and need time to relax. If you just write all day and then have a website which should be more of a recreational hobby for you, you would probably push off any production on that site and more or less do another activity. That's like going to football practice all day and then going for a jog to keep in shape afterwards -- some can do it, some may, but in general, there's only so much you can take. I hope this made some sense...I'm just rambling on illogical thoughts.
But back to the initial point that I was making (I tend to get very offtrack), this school year is hammering us with work whereas last year was somewhat of a joke. And I have to somewhat blame the curriculum for this. School should be like a tower of Lego blocks, and gradually you'll add one block at a time to the tower. The blocks represent your intelligence levels and everything that you do in school builds up that intelligence. Adding one block at a time prevents the tower from falling over, however adding multiple blocks at once interrupts the balance and down goes the tower. Well, the curriculum at my school, Lakeland, should be helping us add that one block at a time to our tower -- our overall intelligence. But when you have a period of time like when I went from ninth to tenth grade, blocks were barely added to the tower at a fast rate, but they were added slowly one at a time. This means that the learning curve in both grades wasn't very different. But when you're going from tenth grade to eleventh grade, you're just piling on twenty blocks at a time at a fast rate, and then the tower falls over. Your intelligence can't take in all the information at once and you lose it. What I'm trying to say is that the school goes from babying us to treating us like college students out of nowhere, and we can't adjust to that change. The school should be constructed so that we shouldn't feel that change, and that the blocks are added to our intelligence tower without us knowing about it and feeling the stress. We should be able to write essays and research papers without bursting a blood vessel in our brain at this point in our education, but still for many of the students including myself it creates problems. We don't know where to start, we don't know how to properly create a transition from paragraph three to four, etc. -- it's huge problems for us that kids at other schools probably don't have to ponder too much about. And the school wonders why our scores on standardized tests like the PSSA are going down. But of course, they throw "At The Bells" and other stupid programs into our classes now that barely help at all, and they're avoiding the problem in being able to transit students from one grade to another without a major change occurring in the way the student has to work and perform. Yes, eleventh grade should be harder than tenth, maybe by a far margin as it's really starting to prepare us for college with the introduction of our first AP courses as well as major tests like the SAT and the PSSA, but we shouldn't be totally loss and confused in our courses either. I'm having an extremely hard time trying to explain myself (I'm going to do good in peer tutoring; note the sarcasm) so if you can actually take anything useful from the bundle of text, then wow, you deserve an award.
Hola amigos! :) Senorita Caitlin es aqui escribir. Ooo now, mi espanol actually might be bien! ;P Well now, I just got back inside from a fresh walk around my large backyard. It's almost dark, but not black yet, it's at that stage of day where the sun is gone and everything is just "gray" and getting darker by the moment. That time of evening is actually growing as my favorite. I love how just before when I was outside the wind was blowing brisk at times and everything around you has this black and white shade to it. The clouds in the sky were threatening and bats circled overhead. Wow, I'm growing poetic here now in a way, but really, it was so, awesome. xD Anywho! My brother, dog, and I wandered outside for a late day walk to the deep back of our yard to see if we could hear any noise from the home football game currently going on. I live close enough to the school that this is very possible. I could be at the game right now I suppose if I chose to go, but I simply felt like staying home this time around to relax as this school week was exhausting in a way, considering it was a full five days. I guess I am still adjusting to the summer-school change. :P Well we wandered around and were able to hear the beat of the drums from the bandreally clear in one spot and picked up enough of a rhythm that we could maybe hum it if asked. Pretty cool huh? :) I stood and listened for a while, and when there is no drum playing you can mainly hear a mixed "commotion" sort of noise, associated with a lot of congregated people. :P
Accck, I am like so itchy now everywhere too. Every few words I have to stop typing to scratch my head, leg or foot. xD I probably got bitten by bug[s]. :P I am listening to some good music right now, thought I'd add that. Aside from Family Force 5, I have a sudden interest in the songs of the bands "Boys Like Girls" and "The Rocket Summer". I really adore the male voices in these bands, something about them, makes me feel good all over. :) hehe.
I know what I want to write about in this blog entry, but of course I am saving it after I get my basic weekly rambling out of the way. ;) I think I want to vent a little on school this week. I have nicknamed last week "the week of homework", and this one "the week of studying". Reasons being obvious, but true in my personal opinion. Last night I had four exams to prepare myself for. It was rough. I don't mind studying, it's like reading and then trying to remember what you read [if you think about it that way]. Well when I have four different subjects, I don't get to spend the proper amount of time I'd like to reviewing the topics. I have to shortcut and go over basics mostly, and sometimes not study at all for the subject I hope I know best. :P Well out of the four, A.P. Chem was the only quiz, and turned out being for me the one I worried most about. Let me say, that I absolutly adore the new teacher. The only problem was this quiz would be the first quiz of the year and I didn't know what to expect, yet predicted it'd be hard for me. I've learned from experience that you go into any class's first exam of the year blind, not knowing what to expect. For example, biology last year was deemed a test to cry over. Once you have taken the first though you at least know what to expect for the next all year. :P That's how I think anyway. I found the AP Chem quiz tricky for me out of the other things I took today. =/ Therefore I think, if that's just a quiz, how may the test be? I believe in my last entry or the one before I mentioned Pre Cal and AP Chem will be my personal most challenging classes, and so far I've been heading in the right direction with that prediction. :P
I am liking 11th grade though in a lot of ways. I like that my attitude over things I use to worry about in school before has deterioated. I feel more confident and not as shy to go ahead and do things myself anymore. I enjoy having English first period a whole lot. :P I like my health teacher much. I like using fresh clean notebooks. xD I like that I've been greeting past teachers whenever I see them. I like how there are so many new kids of which more I hope to meet. I like how Nicole and I only have each other in gym class. I like my new clothes and shoes [some I didn't even wear yet! :P] I like how I'm talking to more people, and other people even more. :]
Now to easily contrast: I miss Abby in my class, much. I don't know why I sometimes feel awkward to participate in Spanish. I have yet to figure out how to have gym 3rd period as opposed to having it last period my whole life. xD I will have huge muscles by June due to heavy book lugging. I miss Heather on the bus in the afternoon so much I could cry. :P I wish everybody wasn't sick with colds right now. :P I am always worrying the senior boys next to me at lunch will spill more stuff my way or bother my friends like was done to me in 7th grade. I think my high school is stereotypical to the term "high school." I hope nobody hears my stomache growl 4th period and on. I feel like "Drama" is missing from my life with no fall play and memories. Every single teenager is just that, a teenager, with teenager thoughts, teenager likes, and teenager gossip, yet every single one of us is the same. I observe too often. I'm ending this paragraph now. ;P
Finally, I want to exclaim that I am a HUGE Big Brother fan! Last night had to be one of the best shows of the season, yet that's hard to say because this season as a whole was amazing, and probably my favorite! :) My entire family actually united on this one, and we rooted for the Donato's ALL THE WAY! I adore Danielle and really like her. Usually every season of this TV show I'd pick someone I like but then they'd show me a side of them I had distaste for, changing my opinion to "eh, let's see who wins for fun, I have no preference." This summer = totally different! Each show I was literally on the edge of my seat rooting for Dick and Danielle Donato to make it. They are amazing at this game, and to think this duo of long lost father and daughter could reunite under these circumstances and blow the house to pieces is awesome. Sure, Dick used some very nasty and rude tactics, demoralizing the souls of every player, while Danielle won seven competitions and they pushed each other further. Last night after studying, watching BB was superb, hehe :) I was sooo hoping Zach would go home. [Sorry Zach fans.] As soon as Julie announced that Dick answered the last question right in the final round of that last HOH competition I just started cheering and I must have arm pumped my arm right out of the socket, hahaha. :D This secured Dick and Daniele in the final TWO. That's right baby, final TWO. Donato's all the way!! Doesn't even matter who wins the grand prize now [although I hope Dani does], just the fact these two, astrained father and daughter, rocked this house like no other, deserves a big shout out, YAY! :D
If this week is any clue as to what is to come, then this school year is going to keep me mighty busy. :P Therefore I've decided to try my best to write a blog entry at least every weekend, since that will probably be the only time I have the most "free" time. ;) I think I ended up doing that same thing last year too anyways. I'll either catch up on events of the past week or ramble on about nothing worth your time. xD However, it is a gorgeous day today, and I am sitting outside wirelessly on my laptop, in a hammock, underneath shady trees, (considering I am hot from riding my bike beforehand). ;P It's quite cool how I can be online in new and unusual spots. With a desktop you have to be at your, well, desk. With a laptop, wherever your lap can travel, it can travel too! :P
Moving on. :P I went to the first home high school football game Friday night. I have to admit I think that game was one of my favorites. I had so much fun going that time. I'm not sure what made it different exactly, maybe the fact it was't freezing and I felt good helped that be so. ;) I like going to the football games now. It's something fun to do after a long school week, and plus everybody can socialize. I always said those games are like one big recess, like the kinds we had in elementary school, where everybody from school is there, you see all your friends, you walk&talk with your closest, and then you have the more sporty people playing sports [in this case football :P]. You see my point? Haha.
This week at school I had two issues. One was physical, the other cognitive. [I hope I'm using those words right!] My physical issue was that I suffered with an infected elbow cut all week [haha that sounds funny]. :P Really now, from tubing last weekend I scraped my elbow massively. Then I took poor care of it the day after and suffocated it, then it got infected. Hurt me like crazy because an elbow is an awkward place for a bad cut. [It was more like a scrape then a cut though.] I came to realize how often I move my elbow. For example, putting shirts on and off! :P You have to bend your elbows, and that hurt a little or just plain stung. Then when I had special creams and goop all over it, I couldn't put my elbow on things. That's even harder! :P Haha, I didn't realize how much I set my elbow down on tables when I sit, or when I go on the computer, or when I sleep my elbow lies on the bed! All those times I had to be in weird positions to prevent elbow goop drippage. xD Haha. It is a lot better now though, and has shrunk in size, and the best news is that it is finally scabbing! Which means it probably lost it's infection-part. [I hope ;)] Nice story huh?
The "cognitive" issue this week was that I could not, and still can not, think of my own good idea for an article to write in my school newspaper, since I am in Journalism and all. I went around asking everybody I knew for help. I still am undecided, so will probably resort to asking the teacher tomorrow what ideas are left open and which does she think I should do. :P That means, if any blog guests happen to stumble over my entry and have an idea to share, please comment and fill me in. ;)
I'm feeling hungry now so may go find something tasty to eat. :P Dont'cha love my randomosity in blogs? It's not even like I am anywhere near that way in person, or at least I don't think. :P My RR today will have to be, of course, the link to mine (and I'll say Steve's) Jonathan Coulton fanlisting! That way all other fantastic "nerdz" can score some points by clicking the beautiful link and expressing their personal JoCo pride. :D Hehe. ^_~
I had a great time this weekend! :] My friend Nicole invited me to come with her to spend the weekend over her cottage at the lake. This was my first time there, and it really felt like I was on vacation in another state. x) Their cottage is adorable, with small rooms inside, and it was fun because I got to share a bunk bed with Nicole. When I first got there, Nicole and her friend Annabelle were riding their bikes so after showing me around a little, I got to go bike riding too. I did a lot of that while I was there, and it was really fun because you just have numerous little dirt side streets and paved parts of road that you can take up and down small streets lined with cottage after cottage [each with their own dock on the lake]. I enjoyed that, and it got me more familiar with the area since like I said, I had never been there so it was all new&exciting to me. :]
The three of us rode our bikes down the road, then into a large hidden field that had a basketball court. Annabelle had brought chalk so with all of us helping, we made the longest hopscotch I had ever been on. xD Phew, after hopping through that one you were heavily out of breath! :P We invented new hops, like the cube, and the ape. It was really fun. Once we were done, Nicole and I grabbed chalk and went crazy writing Family Force 5 stuff ALL OVER. xD We wrote FAMILY FORCE 5 really big on half the court, then while Nicole was writing in huge letters the names of all the band members, I went on the other side and wrote lyrics, song titles, and anything else like "CANs love ff5!" and "we met family force 5!" haha and just tons of things like that. :P By the time we were done the entire basketball court was covered in our markings. It was really great though, because we know other kids will come play there too and see. :P It was quite a work of art. ;]
We had to go back to the cottage then as it was getting dark. Nicole and I ate marshmallows around the fire, and I'm pretty sure more than half of the time was spent playing this one particular board game with Annabelle, who loved it. :P It was called like "Disney's Guess Words" game or something. Well all you had to do was get a one worded clue and then you have to name what Disney movie it's from. [Ex: Dwarfs; Snow White] Although many were much harder than that, haha. I liked the game, and it was really hilarious at times and got everybody laughing with the ridiculous guesses we'd say for clues we didn't get. :P
The next day Nicole, Annabelle, and I did a whole bunch of things. We started off by playing more of that Disney game, and then I was having tons of trouble calling my house [I must've tried 5857856 times. :P...turns out my phone/phone line was broken!] We went for a few more bike rides until lunch, and then after we ate it was time to go out on the boat. I was pretty excited because the three of us were going to go tubing. Nicole talks about how she goes tubing a lot [since her parents have the stuff] and we always wanted to go do it together sometime, and now we finally did and it was a blast. =] I had only been tubing once before, last summer, and it was a short ride and I was scared to get on at first, but this time it was a lot more different. Two tubes were being dragged behind the boat, Annabelle sat in one, Nicole and I lay on the other. We must have been dragged for an hour straight, at least, allll over the lake, over all these waves and bumps and then we'd go faster or slower suddenly. It was quite thrilling, haha, and loadsss of fun. I love water stuff, because I'm a fish, who loves to swim. xD We really did go for a nice long ride. I loved it! Some parts were SO bumpy though, and I had to hold on so tight because you're like flopping up and down. :P At one point, Annabelle and I jumped into the water and switched tubes. I had a hard time climbing up on a huge tube in the middle of the lake, but hey, I actually finally got into it and I liked that side, because you always flew up and over the boat's main "back" wave, and it's like you're flying! :P My arms felt really numb afterwards, I guess because they aren't use to being in such a tight position for so long. I also scrapped up my one elbow pretty bad and parts of my body are sore but other than that I didn't fall off and it went very well. ;)
Around dinnertime that day Nicole and I tried desperately to figure out how to play "Family Feud". :P We had a hilarious time at it. xD First, it was hard for us to set up, then asking the questions and getting the answers to show in the right slide view was harder. :P I remember this one time in particular, the question was like name 5 bands that consist of all family members. Well her and I are sitting there writing things like the Jackson Five and the Osmonds [etc etc] :P Well then we go to view the answer [hoping&considering we got the card in right] and the answer it shows says "Bottoms/hips". We were laughing so hard over this, because we didn't expect that to happen and it was hilarious at the time! xD Another time this happened again, with a question saying something like name specific battles fought in America, and then the answer showed up as "Soap." :P Hahahaa. It was bad, but then! Miss Annabelle is like so smart, she comes over later and figures it out better than we ever could because she has actually seen the TV show before, and she's only in 5th grade. xD Finally we started to play, and I really loved it, but we spent so much time fooling around over it that then I had to go shortly thereafter. :P
After playing World of Warcraft for the majority of this holiday weekend, I have developed an idea for a new blog feature here at BFBv.2. You may recognize three new icons underneath the pictures of the fellow blog authors on the left sidebar. These icons, used in World of Warcraft, represent the three types of currency in the game -- copper, silver, and gold. So why are these icons placed here and what purpose do they serve?
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Where did this past summer go? Honestly, all I remember is hanging outside with Craig sometimes, having sleepovers, doing community service for the National Honor Society, going to Hersey Park, going to my hunting cabin twice, and playing World of Warcraft on and off. Otherwise, the summer literally jumped from July 11th to August 29th and school was back in session before one could fully take in the relaxation that the summer vacation offers. This summer was a very carefree one, however, and after a stressful school year, it is well worth it to just sit back on the computer doing whatever the hell you want or go sit outside without that worry in the back of your head that you have tests to study for or homework to complete. But alas, the new school year is here and more worries, more stressful attitudes, and more challenges await. One of the things that I hate about my school's yearly schedule is that we go back to school before the holiday weekend (Labor Day). Honestly, what are we going to achieve in three days that can't wait until the following week? Well, I would've had that thought before this school year. Eleventh grade is no joke -- we got homework on the first day and more on the other two days, and I already have a quiz and a test next week. And I know deep down that this is only the beginning of the troubles that I'm going to run into in my education career. With classes like AP Chem, anatomy/genetics, English III, Spanish 3, etc., I'm going to have a lot of homework and studying to do. My AP Chem homework on the first day of school took three hours to complete! That's one class with one assignment -- imagine having homework in four classes and two tests in others on one day. See -- fun, eh?
This school year may introduce me with new wisdom, but at the same time, some old wisdom left me. Specifically, wisdom teeth. Yesterday I had my three wisdom teeth removed down at my oral surgeon in Scranton. I wasn't looking forward to the operation (mainly only because I had to miss a day of school which I disdain), but already having around thirteen to fifteen operations in the past on my birthmark and then the remaining scar, I was used to the procedure of getting the heart monitors hooked up to you, the IV in, and then the medicine that causes you to 'pass out'. However, it went by so fast and that I wasn't used to such. Mostly before I had my birthmark surgeries, they took their time when putting me to sleep. Maybe that was because I was younger then. Having this surgery, I sat down, the surgeon asked if I had any last minute questions to which I replied 'no', they stuck the monitors on me, IV was put into my blood flow, they inserted the medicine, and within a minute I was fast asleep. Just the speed of it all amazed me. And before I knew it, I was awake with a numbing sensation around and in my mouth and pretty doped up on nicotine. They took me to the recovery room in which I was only in for five minutes max, they went over the procedures that we had to carry out at home, and before I knew it I was walking out of the office back to the car. The pain didn't start coming until a few hours later when the nicotine began to wear off. I couldn't take any painkillers beforehand as my whole mouth and chin were numb (and I was drooling saliva and blood badly due to the gauze in my mouth) so in-between having to wait for the numbness to wear away before taking any pills for relief and the intensifying pain, I wasn't a happy camper. I was incredibly miserable, giving everybody a hard time, and at the peak of the pain, I was in tears. Finally I was able to get sense in my mouth to swallow a single painkiller and within fifteen minutes the pain finally went away a bit. When it did, I took another painkiller as a precaution to prevent that horrible pain from returning. And then, finally, my mouth stopped bleeding and I no longer had to place gauze inside which made me feel a lot better. I had to place ice on both sides of my mouth to control the swelling then (and I should be doing such now however I'm writing this blog entry so go figure). And I couldn't eat much yesterday because my stitched areas would hurt when the food slipped over to them and I couldn't really open my mouth wide enough and even had a hard time swallowing -- and this was simple and soft foods like this frozen snack, pudding, and soup. Today I can eat much better, thankfully, and I already ate about three puddings, a frozen snack, and Jell-o.