Good morning!

My throat is complaining mildly; that's allergies, and will go away once I get to take my antihistamine, which isnt scheduled for an hour.

The tooth ached miserably when I had water this morning, but hasn't - yet! - bugged me other than when being hit with cold liquid.

I have a sandwich, and a bagel, and I'm going to try to get to work now...yay, food. The deli at work is really good, but darnit, eating every day there is spendy!

Stupid tooth.

So it hurt worse, not bad, but worse. Then I was in a meeting and I noticed that when I leaned on my hand, I felt it in my tooth.

Ugh.

So I went back in (she fit me in before her lunch break, since they were solid today), and she thought it was just the chip in the filling that she'd sealed yesterday, that she should've filled it.

So she etched it and filled it, and here's hoping that's the end of the problem. On the plus side, I didn't have to get a needle stuck in my mouth. It stung when the etching stuff hit the chip, so that at least suggests it's the right area. And the whole thing hurt awfully for a few moments when they rinsed it off with water.

They were willing to numb me, or not; asked what I wanted. Needles in the front of your mouth hurt. A lot worse than just a bit of cold water on a sensitive tooth.

Now. May I please not need to see the dentist 'til my next scheduled cleaning?

My parents are wonderful.

Some people get relatives (neighbors, people from six miles down the road they've never met) who give them zucchini.

I suppose that works, if you like zucchini. I don't dislike zucchini, I simply am not used to the zucchini-ing culture.

But I know the general syndrome. My mom does it. But with fruit. This is good. Fruit sounds much nummier to me than zucchini.

It was blackberries. Then it was plums. Now it's seedless green grapes.

A fair amount of seedless green grapes. Mom, are you sick of grapes, or is the vine bearing that heavily? Eek. But yum! Thank you!

They also gave us their old TV stand. It's a short, simple thing, actually simpler than the one we already had that now holds the Mac - in other words, it's exactly as I remember it. It will hold a TV setup, and a few videos below, and that's really all I need for it to do, so it's all good.

My parents are wonderful.