It's a lazy Sunday and although I had a vague inclination yesterday to get up this morning and go for a nice long walk in the woods, the inclination didn't survive the night. It's very gray and windy out, although the rain has cleared up in the last couple of hours - the kind of day that makes me wish I had a fire to light. Not because it's cold, oh no. Despite the rain and generally miserable feeling of the day, it's still not far off twenty degrees, as it has been for over a week now. We had a couple of weeks where I was glad to add an extra cover to the bed and even a few nights where I happily donned my night-cap again. And now we're back to just needing a summer-weight duvet and me throwing that off during the night, too.
If I get a burst of energy later, I'll try and get back to tackling the Table of Doom - I did actually do a bit yesterday and the day before but just small things. I'd like to spend an hour or two on it though and then tackle whatever is left using the same 5 things a day method that helped before.
So far today though, after having slept late, I've mostly been curled on the couch, watching stuff on the internet and knitting a bit. I got myself some more cotton yesterday and have been making myself some more cloths. It's such an easy way to get back into a bit of knitting again and I was really pleased with the ones I made for my sister's birthday. Knitted cloths are the best and for the most part, the only thing I really use anymore. I do still have a few micro-fibre ones for dusting that someone gave me a couple of years ago but otherwise it's homemade all the way. I have a couple of different colours so that I know which ones to use for what. Yellow and green are for the kitchen, i.e. washing dishes, wiping tables etc. Pink and red are for washing myself. Blue and purple are used for cleaning the bathroom. Next up I'm going to try and knit a few very long ones, which I can use with my e-cloth mop. Well, I'll do one anyway and see how it works out.
Apart from that all I've done was prepare a spice rub for the pork neck I bought yesterday. I last bought that in June, when I wanted to make pulled pork in the slow cooker. On that post I have a note that it cost 7.60 per kilo and yesterday it was 8.90. What I bought yesterday wasn't on the bone but that's still a big difference. I'll have to make sure and enjoy every single bit of it. It's resting in the fridge right now, with the spices all rubbed in and later on I'll be trying out my new Romertopf for the first time. I'm not really following any one particular recipe - have used a similar spice rub to those I've used for pulled pork in the past and for the sauce, I'm going to use a cheap pils. I didn't realise I was that much of a beer snob though - I found it really difficult yesterday to pick up the cheapie can of beer (45c) and I spent a good few minutes looking at the bottles of "proper" beer (prices starting at about 89c, only a small selection in the place I was) and even holding one in my hand before I just put it back and bought the no-name one. Hopefully it will turn out alright. I should go now and do the washing up so that I have space in the sink to soak my Romertopf. I may come back later and post photos.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Tight but getting there
I had my dentist appointment today, which was the follow-up after my check-up a couple of weeks ago when he saw that a large cavity had developed under an already large filling (and in the tooth right in front of the implant - obviously this is the part of my mouth that's always going to give me most trouble). Bloody painful because as per usual the first lot of anaesthetic didn't quite numb everywhere that needed to be numbed. Nor did the second lot. But after a third round it was alright. So he worked away, taking out the old filling, cleaning it all up and then filling it with some kind of a medicinal, disinfectant temporary type filling. He's is optimistic about the chances of saving the roots and wants to leave it now for two months to see how it recovers. All being well I won't need a root canal and will just have to have a partial crown fitted. Still expensive but not as bad as a root canal and full crown at least.
Unfortunately about five minutes after I left the surgery I started getting intermittent electric shock-like pains in the tooth. Actually it feels like it's on the top of the tooth but I realise it's the nerves inside, even if it doesn't feel like it. I held out for, oh, about thirty minutes before phoning them but apparently it's not all that unusual and I should just wait for two or three days for it to calm down, take ibuprofen to deal with the pain and it'll all be good. I have never, despite my terrible teeth and over the years having lots of things done (teeth out, teeth filled, gum removed, root canal, crown, abcess under the crown, implant, partial crowns - the only thing I didn't mind having done was wisdom teeth extraction, 'cos they give you a general anaesthetic for that!) I have never experienced this type of pain before. I even left work early this evening - and that was after getting the strongest ibuprofen I could from the chemist. Really hope it does calm down as I'd hate to end up needing an emergency root canal or something like that. As things stand, I have to go back in December for him to check how things are and see if the roots are still vital and then he'll make a treatment plan for the partial crown. All going well, that won't happen until January, which also means no bills until then either. Fingers crossed.
I also just checked my bank account and saw that we've just been paid so I immediately sprang into action, transferring money all over the place. The bulk has been transferred to my Irish account and most of that, as soon as it has arrived, will go to paying off my Visa. Then I will just have the overdraft on that account to deal with. I'm planning on just clearing a small amount in December and then the rest of it in January and February (possibly into March, but that will depend on what happens with the dentist). It'll be tight going be at least it feels like I'm getting somewhere again.
I have also transferred 100 to my Mastercard. Part of my savings goals is to build up a positive balance on that card. It pays a small rate of interest on any positive balances and, more importantly, if I have a positive balance I don't get charged interest on any purchases (so long as they don't go above that balance). I'm considering possibly going to Frankfurt for the weekend at the end of the month, so transferred less than planned to my travel savings account and put it onto the card instead. Either I'll use it to buy a ticket (also received a ten euro voucher from Deutsche Bahn that I could put towards it) or it can just sit on the Mastercard earning interest.
And then I just made my usual transfer to the savings account I use for annual expenses. My payrise also seems to have come through. After tax it works out to about 40 euro extra per month - I think we got less than inflation this year but still, every cent will be put to good use.
I will be checking my Irish account every couple of hours for the next few days, waiting with bated breath to see the money arriving so that I can clear my Visa and be down to just one debt. Budget is tight enough for November again although slightly more generous per week than October. With a choir weekend away at the beginning of the month, concert weekend the weekend after and potentially a weekend in Frankfurt at the end of the month, I will be too busy to spend much money on the weekends anyway. Says she hopefully!
Unfortunately about five minutes after I left the surgery I started getting intermittent electric shock-like pains in the tooth. Actually it feels like it's on the top of the tooth but I realise it's the nerves inside, even if it doesn't feel like it. I held out for, oh, about thirty minutes before phoning them but apparently it's not all that unusual and I should just wait for two or three days for it to calm down, take ibuprofen to deal with the pain and it'll all be good. I have never, despite my terrible teeth and over the years having lots of things done (teeth out, teeth filled, gum removed, root canal, crown, abcess under the crown, implant, partial crowns - the only thing I didn't mind having done was wisdom teeth extraction, 'cos they give you a general anaesthetic for that!) I have never experienced this type of pain before. I even left work early this evening - and that was after getting the strongest ibuprofen I could from the chemist. Really hope it does calm down as I'd hate to end up needing an emergency root canal or something like that. As things stand, I have to go back in December for him to check how things are and see if the roots are still vital and then he'll make a treatment plan for the partial crown. All going well, that won't happen until January, which also means no bills until then either. Fingers crossed.
I also just checked my bank account and saw that we've just been paid so I immediately sprang into action, transferring money all over the place. The bulk has been transferred to my Irish account and most of that, as soon as it has arrived, will go to paying off my Visa. Then I will just have the overdraft on that account to deal with. I'm planning on just clearing a small amount in December and then the rest of it in January and February (possibly into March, but that will depend on what happens with the dentist). It'll be tight going be at least it feels like I'm getting somewhere again.
I have also transferred 100 to my Mastercard. Part of my savings goals is to build up a positive balance on that card. It pays a small rate of interest on any positive balances and, more importantly, if I have a positive balance I don't get charged interest on any purchases (so long as they don't go above that balance). I'm considering possibly going to Frankfurt for the weekend at the end of the month, so transferred less than planned to my travel savings account and put it onto the card instead. Either I'll use it to buy a ticket (also received a ten euro voucher from Deutsche Bahn that I could put towards it) or it can just sit on the Mastercard earning interest.
And then I just made my usual transfer to the savings account I use for annual expenses. My payrise also seems to have come through. After tax it works out to about 40 euro extra per month - I think we got less than inflation this year but still, every cent will be put to good use.
I will be checking my Irish account every couple of hours for the next few days, waiting with bated breath to see the money arriving so that I can clear my Visa and be down to just one debt. Budget is tight enough for November again although slightly more generous per week than October. With a choir weekend away at the beginning of the month, concert weekend the weekend after and potentially a weekend in Frankfurt at the end of the month, I will be too busy to spend much money on the weekends anyway. Says she hopefully!
Monday, October 21, 2013
Cake tins
Just a quick note for myself on what cake tins I have. Just as I decided to post this so I would be able to find the information again, I remembered that years ago I started to tick off the things on the Good Housekeeping Cookery Book list of basics that I already had. So now I'm off to add this information to there, too.
1 x 25cm round springform
1 x 20cm square
1 x Tupperware flower form 21.5cm x 6.5cm (height)
Edited to add: Ha! I knew I had a citrus zester. Haven't seen it since I moved here so if I haven't found it by next weekend, I'm just going to buy another one. This is something I would get a lot of use out of and I'm sick of using the ordinary grater that I have.
1 x 25cm round springform
1 x 20cm square
1 x Tupperware flower form 21.5cm x 6.5cm (height)
Edited to add: Ha! I knew I had a citrus zester. Haven't seen it since I moved here so if I haven't found it by next weekend, I'm just going to buy another one. This is something I would get a lot of use out of and I'm sick of using the ordinary grater that I have.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Christmas cake
Despite my very sweet tooth, I'm not a huge fan of cake. Well, that's not entirely true. I do like cake. But I don't often have much difficulty in only eating one piece and not wanting more. Except perhaps if it's apple tart that's a little bit warm and comes served with cool whipped cream.
When it comes to christmas sweet things, however, I definitely seem to have missed out on the liking gene. Don't like the traditional cake, don't like pudding, don't like mince pies. Never have. Although to be fair, it's so long since I've been forced to eat one of the above that I might find my tastes have changed and I love them. The fact remains that I'm never tempted - even though several years in a row I took to making masses of mince pies, which always went down very well. I did make real mincemeat with meat a few years ago but then ended up going through a very bad patch and not actually using it up. It still smelled fine when I did eventually get back to it but given that it was raw mince, I decided not to take a chance and threw the whole lot out.
Today I got confirmation from a friend that they have definitely booked me in to be the house-sitter during the christmas holidays. I have two weeks off and my tentative plans of flying off somewhere sunny for a week have had to be shelved, given my recent large outgoings. So I asked a friend who lives in Frankfurt if she'd be away and if so, if I could stay there over New Year's. Because while I like christmas, I really don't like New Year's. And Germans celebrate Silvester (as they call New Year's Eve) in a big, and very, very loud way. Given that I live on a main street with several pubs and restaurants close by, that means very loud crowds and, at midnight, fireworks zooming past my windows. So instead of letting all that ruin a good night's sleep, I'll be heading south and sleeping in a nice, quiet residential side-street with the only fireworks going off in the distance. It's the same place I stayed in last year for a few days after getting back from Oz so this might just be the start of a lovely tradition (it might help that I used up all the veg my friend hadn't been able to get rid of before going home for the holidays to make a couple of different soups, which I left in the freezer for them. Nothing better than getting home from holidays and realising you don't actually really need to cook for the first couple of days. :) ).
I've also been reading through Frugal Living UK's blog. I first came across this blog about three months ago, then forgot about it, then found it again, then lost it before finding it once more. That happens sometimes when I forget to bookmark things! I've been really enjoying trawling through the archives and since Dan, who writes it, is a professional singer it's even more interesting for me than most frugal, simple living blogs. I'm so in awe of anyone who can make their living from music but also really love hearing about some of the nitty-gritty of what it's actually like, how it's not all celebrities and loadsa money, etc. Dan mentioned yesterday that he was going to start his christmas cake and then today, I happened to reach the place in his archives where he made last year's cake. Coming across that just after having received confirmation of a place to get away to in December I had a sudden brainwave. I might not like cake, but most other people do and what better way to say thank you than with a homemade something. I loathe cucumbers, too but everyone who has ever tried them loves the bread and butter pickles I've made.
So I've dragged out my Good Housekeeping Cookery Book, because although I may have a dozen recipes in various books (haven't looked but I'm sure it's at least that many), I have a feeling that the GH book will not steer me wrong. When it comes to the classics, it's almost always the best. And they have measurements for a rich fruit cake in eight different sizes. Just so perfect, no wondering how to adjust something to make it fit into the one tin you actually have on hand. So I'll be searching my cupboards for dried fruit this week and hopefully get it done next weekend. And in the meantime, I'll be paying close attention to the other recipe I found a few pages on in the book for Bouche de Noel. Now that is the kind of cake that I can get enthusiastic about! I may need to make one for myself.
When it comes to christmas sweet things, however, I definitely seem to have missed out on the liking gene. Don't like the traditional cake, don't like pudding, don't like mince pies. Never have. Although to be fair, it's so long since I've been forced to eat one of the above that I might find my tastes have changed and I love them. The fact remains that I'm never tempted - even though several years in a row I took to making masses of mince pies, which always went down very well. I did make real mincemeat with meat a few years ago but then ended up going through a very bad patch and not actually using it up. It still smelled fine when I did eventually get back to it but given that it was raw mince, I decided not to take a chance and threw the whole lot out.
Today I got confirmation from a friend that they have definitely booked me in to be the house-sitter during the christmas holidays. I have two weeks off and my tentative plans of flying off somewhere sunny for a week have had to be shelved, given my recent large outgoings. So I asked a friend who lives in Frankfurt if she'd be away and if so, if I could stay there over New Year's. Because while I like christmas, I really don't like New Year's. And Germans celebrate Silvester (as they call New Year's Eve) in a big, and very, very loud way. Given that I live on a main street with several pubs and restaurants close by, that means very loud crowds and, at midnight, fireworks zooming past my windows. So instead of letting all that ruin a good night's sleep, I'll be heading south and sleeping in a nice, quiet residential side-street with the only fireworks going off in the distance. It's the same place I stayed in last year for a few days after getting back from Oz so this might just be the start of a lovely tradition (it might help that I used up all the veg my friend hadn't been able to get rid of before going home for the holidays to make a couple of different soups, which I left in the freezer for them. Nothing better than getting home from holidays and realising you don't actually really need to cook for the first couple of days. :) ).
I've also been reading through Frugal Living UK's blog. I first came across this blog about three months ago, then forgot about it, then found it again, then lost it before finding it once more. That happens sometimes when I forget to bookmark things! I've been really enjoying trawling through the archives and since Dan, who writes it, is a professional singer it's even more interesting for me than most frugal, simple living blogs. I'm so in awe of anyone who can make their living from music but also really love hearing about some of the nitty-gritty of what it's actually like, how it's not all celebrities and loadsa money, etc. Dan mentioned yesterday that he was going to start his christmas cake and then today, I happened to reach the place in his archives where he made last year's cake. Coming across that just after having received confirmation of a place to get away to in December I had a sudden brainwave. I might not like cake, but most other people do and what better way to say thank you than with a homemade something. I loathe cucumbers, too but everyone who has ever tried them loves the bread and butter pickles I've made.
So I've dragged out my Good Housekeeping Cookery Book, because although I may have a dozen recipes in various books (haven't looked but I'm sure it's at least that many), I have a feeling that the GH book will not steer me wrong. When it comes to the classics, it's almost always the best. And they have measurements for a rich fruit cake in eight different sizes. Just so perfect, no wondering how to adjust something to make it fit into the one tin you actually have on hand. So I'll be searching my cupboards for dried fruit this week and hopefully get it done next weekend. And in the meantime, I'll be paying close attention to the other recipe I found a few pages on in the book for Bouche de Noel. Now that is the kind of cake that I can get enthusiastic about! I may need to make one for myself.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Places to go, things to see, songs to sing
One thing I really would like to do is to start visiting more places in Germany. So once I am debt free, I will need to decide how exactly I want to do that. I'm thinking something like a weekend away every second month and a day trip every other second month, so that every month I do go somewhere. Every month feels like a lot though so I suppose I'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, I thought I'd start a list of potential places to visit.
Day trips (no more than 3 hours away, preferably no more than 2)
Xanthen
Bremen
Bielefeld
Neanderthal (no excuses, this is only half-an-hour away!)
Aachen
Bonn
Weekend trips (no more than 5 hours away, must be reachable after work on a Friday)
Stuttgart
Hamburg
Bayreuth
Longer trips, minimum long weekend
Dresden
Leipzig
Munich
Bodensee
Rostock
Sylt
Berlin
I'm going to make this stuff into a separate page and keep it updated as I think of new places to go or to tick things off as I start to actually go on trips. Hmmm, while I'm at it, I should add some of the places outside Germany that I'd like to go to and some of the things I'd like to see.
In a few weeks time, choir will be performing Haydn's Creation. Last night, as part of our fund-raising efforts for that concert (the big choral works are expensive to stage - we're talking minimum 12,000, which is why we only get to do one every couple of year or as a support to other, state or otherwise subsidised groups), we performed extracts from it at a very posh old folks' home in town. They have a nice theater in the building (and a pub in the basement, so all the facilities!) and it was very close to capacity, I'd estimate just over 200 people attending. It's lovely to sing for an appreciative group and know they really want to be there and haven't been dragged along because they're family. LOL. We sang with just a small six-piece ensemble, with the piano picking up the slack for most of the missing instruments and had two soloists (the tenor bits were mostly left out, except for one trio when our conductor sang the tenor part.
What was particularly lovely about this concert was that because it wasn't a full orchestra and space was limited, the soloists sat just in front of the choir. Normally they sit at the front of the orchestra and the only time you get to hear them properly is during the dress rehearsal when they might turn around and sing towards the choir instead of towards the empty chairs. It was really wonderful to have them so close.
There are one or two places where we could probably do with a little bit more work but overall we gave a pretty good performance. And in two weeks we have a long weekend away to rehearse all day long for a couple of days.
I don't want to start spending money I don't have (even in my head) but I do want to get down on a list some of the things that I feel like I've been putting off or just never gotten around to over the year simply for lack of funds. I may never do all of them but once I have them on a list, at least I can think seriously about them and decide once and for all how important it is to me to give them a go. And one thing that will definitely be up there is singing lessons. I've never really had any proper ones, except for the once-a-year 20 minute session my current conductor insists on having with everybody (and honestly it's a fantastic extra service really, he doesn't get paid anymore for the days he comes early to do this). And I'd love to have more control over what I can do - being able to sing not just loudly but strongly, better breath control and so on. In the meantime, I found a song (don't think it's gone viral yet but it certainly deserves to!) that I think I may need to learn the words for (have already typed them up and printed them out for my books of lyrics) and sing next February during one of our after-rehearsal pub sessions in Halle!
The Ballad of Lidl and Aldi
Day trips (no more than 3 hours away, preferably no more than 2)
Xanthen
Bremen
Bielefeld
Neanderthal (no excuses, this is only half-an-hour away!)
Aachen
Bonn
Weekend trips (no more than 5 hours away, must be reachable after work on a Friday)
Stuttgart
Hamburg
Bayreuth
Longer trips, minimum long weekend
Dresden
Leipzig
Munich
Bodensee
Rostock
Sylt
Berlin
I'm going to make this stuff into a separate page and keep it updated as I think of new places to go or to tick things off as I start to actually go on trips. Hmmm, while I'm at it, I should add some of the places outside Germany that I'd like to go to and some of the things I'd like to see.
In a few weeks time, choir will be performing Haydn's Creation. Last night, as part of our fund-raising efforts for that concert (the big choral works are expensive to stage - we're talking minimum 12,000, which is why we only get to do one every couple of year or as a support to other, state or otherwise subsidised groups), we performed extracts from it at a very posh old folks' home in town. They have a nice theater in the building (and a pub in the basement, so all the facilities!) and it was very close to capacity, I'd estimate just over 200 people attending. It's lovely to sing for an appreciative group and know they really want to be there and haven't been dragged along because they're family. LOL. We sang with just a small six-piece ensemble, with the piano picking up the slack for most of the missing instruments and had two soloists (the tenor bits were mostly left out, except for one trio when our conductor sang the tenor part.
What was particularly lovely about this concert was that because it wasn't a full orchestra and space was limited, the soloists sat just in front of the choir. Normally they sit at the front of the orchestra and the only time you get to hear them properly is during the dress rehearsal when they might turn around and sing towards the choir instead of towards the empty chairs. It was really wonderful to have them so close.
There are one or two places where we could probably do with a little bit more work but overall we gave a pretty good performance. And in two weeks we have a long weekend away to rehearse all day long for a couple of days.
I don't want to start spending money I don't have (even in my head) but I do want to get down on a list some of the things that I feel like I've been putting off or just never gotten around to over the year simply for lack of funds. I may never do all of them but once I have them on a list, at least I can think seriously about them and decide once and for all how important it is to me to give them a go. And one thing that will definitely be up there is singing lessons. I've never really had any proper ones, except for the once-a-year 20 minute session my current conductor insists on having with everybody (and honestly it's a fantastic extra service really, he doesn't get paid anymore for the days he comes early to do this). And I'd love to have more control over what I can do - being able to sing not just loudly but strongly, better breath control and so on. In the meantime, I found a song (don't think it's gone viral yet but it certainly deserves to!) that I think I may need to learn the words for (have already typed them up and printed them out for my books of lyrics) and sing next February during one of our after-rehearsal pub sessions in Halle!
The Ballad of Lidl and Aldi
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Meal plan
So, in an attempt to get out of my head a bit, I need to put together a belated meal plan for this week. I had friends visiting my town this weekend and we went to my favourite Korean restaurant (warning, that website comes with noise :) ) for dinner yesterday evening. They treated me and I returned the favour, so to speak, by buying breakfast this morning in another nice place, Florians. Budget for the week gone but well worth it. I opted for a very big breakfast so that I wouldn't even need to think about lunch and for dinner I've finished off the lentil cottage pie I made earlier in the week. It kept really well in the fridge, although the last portion was maybe a teensy bit dry in the lentil part of it. Potatoes were still fabulous though and heating it up again ensured a really nice crispy top to them. So, the weekend has taken care of itself and I just need to plan for the week. With so much on though, I've more or less decided to have a bread and cheese and cereal week.
Monday
Cereal
Bread roll with tuna
Pasta with tomato sauce from the freezer
Tuesday
Cereal
Sandwich with the rest of the tuna
Leftover pasta
Wednesday
Cereal
Lunch out
Fasting
Thursday
Fasting but cup of hot chocolate after first meeting with counsellor, which is very early in the morning before work
Sandwich with cheese and dried tomatoes
Scrambled eggs
Friday
Cereal
Lunch out or bought sandwich
Popcorn at cinema (have a voucher to use up before mid-November that includes popcorn)
Monday
Cereal
Bread roll with tuna
Pasta with tomato sauce from the freezer
Tuesday
Cereal
Sandwich with the rest of the tuna
Leftover pasta
Wednesday
Cereal
Lunch out
Fasting
Thursday
Fasting but cup of hot chocolate after first meeting with counsellor, which is very early in the morning before work
Sandwich with cheese and dried tomatoes
Scrambled eggs
Friday
Cereal
Lunch out or bought sandwich
Popcorn at cinema (have a voucher to use up before mid-November that includes popcorn)
And time goes by
On Friday it was four weeks since my sister died, today it's a month. A couple of friends have made sure to contact me today to make sure I'm doing alright but I have to admit it was Friday which hit me harder than today. Partly because Friday was also the monthly meeting of the Deutsch-Irische Gesellschaft, which is the meeting I was on my way home from when I heard the news. I really had to kind of force myself to go because I felt like if I didn't it would become the kind of thing that would build up in my head and, as they say in Germany, I'd end up making an elephant out of a mosquito (making a mountain out of a molehill just makes so much more sense. Not sure how German, which is often such a logical language decided to go for elephants and mosquitoes to express the same idea).
At least it was the Germany/Ireland world cup qualifier match and I got delayed in work so I only arrived half-an-hour or so before the match started and so there wasn't much talk to be gotten through. I'm not much into sports but it was a fun match to watch - the fun was cemented during the national anthem when myself and one of the other women spotted that Johnny Logan was singing the Irish one and squealed with excitement. Well, really I was just aiming for a surprised exclamation but it came out kind of squeaky, which made the others laugh so we both played it up for all it was worth. An amusing thirty seconds or so to start us off. And come on, I wasn't quite 13 when this happened, who could resist?
It still doesn't seem quite real though and I'm still very much at the stage where almost everything I do or see or think about ends up in a memory of my sister or having to deal with the "must tell her..." issue. And I know that it will get better as time goes by, etc., etc., etc. But hate the fact that the reason I know that is because I've been through it before what feels like just far too many times. Have an extremely busy week ahead of me this week so again that'll keep me going. At least there are no dentist visits to deal with until the week after. Yep, I have a giant cavity underneath an already big filling so that's going to have to be dealt with. He doesn't think I'll need a root canal but can't come up with a definitive treatment plan until he's opened it up and tried a disinfection of some kind. So it'll be the end of the month before I find out what kind of costs I'm facing in that regard. Murphy is quite welcome to pack his bags and leave me the fuck alone now.
At least it was the Germany/Ireland world cup qualifier match and I got delayed in work so I only arrived half-an-hour or so before the match started and so there wasn't much talk to be gotten through. I'm not much into sports but it was a fun match to watch - the fun was cemented during the national anthem when myself and one of the other women spotted that Johnny Logan was singing the Irish one and squealed with excitement. Well, really I was just aiming for a surprised exclamation but it came out kind of squeaky, which made the others laugh so we both played it up for all it was worth. An amusing thirty seconds or so to start us off. And come on, I wasn't quite 13 when this happened, who could resist?
It still doesn't seem quite real though and I'm still very much at the stage where almost everything I do or see or think about ends up in a memory of my sister or having to deal with the "must tell her..." issue. And I know that it will get better as time goes by, etc., etc., etc. But hate the fact that the reason I know that is because I've been through it before what feels like just far too many times. Have an extremely busy week ahead of me this week so again that'll keep me going. At least there are no dentist visits to deal with until the week after. Yep, I have a giant cavity underneath an already big filling so that's going to have to be dealt with. He doesn't think I'll need a root canal but can't come up with a definitive treatment plan until he's opened it up and tried a disinfection of some kind. So it'll be the end of the month before I find out what kind of costs I'm facing in that regard. Murphy is quite welcome to pack his bags and leave me the fuck alone now.
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