doin'.work.and.other.things.

it's been a minute. a long minute.

with the help of google and about 30 minutes, i fixed the html code for the twitter widget to the right. the geek in me is super proud.

this blog is mine. it's my thoughts and memories and more importantly, how i've seen the world at any given moment over the last nine years or so. it was started at the request of several friends when i figured out that expressing myself in words was something that i was decent at...then i started to like it. what is here,  is various parts of my life as i saw it through my eyes, heart, and soul.

moving on:
in an effort not to expose my inner cheese and to maintain the privacy some of the most beautiful moments of my 27 years, 11 months, and 7 days on this earth, i will proceed with some sort of caution. when i met nicole, my heart raced. when she hugged me, it was different. when i finally kissed her, i knew. she is brilliant. smartest girl i've ever met with the most genuine heart and soul of any other woman on this planet. she has opinions and we don't stop talking. she is passionate about asl and the ability to one day marry the one she chooses regardless of their gender. i've never met another who is so proud of who i am, what i do, what i stand for, and the way i treat her. it's a mutual admiration unmatched by any other and i cannot wait to introduce her to the world as mine.

it.feels.like.bone.

last week while hanging with the nicholfam i told jo i felt like i had bone stuck in a socket. she looked at me like i was crazy and we kept going with the night's banter. sunday, monday, and tuesday i messed with said bone when brushing my teeth and after eating trying to get whatever it was out. today i got ballsy and took some tweezers to it. it moved...but wouldn't come loose.

insert the panicked calls to the surgeon and dentists offices. the nice lady who i find incredibly annoying says "oh sometimes there are pieces of bone that remain after the wisdom teeth are extracted."  yeah true because i pulled a tiny piece from another socket about a week ago (mind you i had my wisdom teeth removed at the end of june). i knew this wasn't small.

so at 3 p.m. it's just me and the doctor...i show him the suspected bone...he tries to move said bone...i wince...3 shots of novocaine...i think this one is pretty large but at least it's mobile and not stuck...all numbed up, let me try to grab it....more wincing and a tear....4 additional shots of novocaine...waiting...waiting...waiting...how does this feel?.....just get it out....alright, here we go, HOLY COW THIS IS THE BIGGEST ONE I'VE EVER SEEN!!! no wonder you've been aggravated.....mouth fills with blood and infection...tears....gagging....my goodness, i am telling you, i'm an old guy and i've never seen a (proper medical term for jaw bone shard) this large before....here, why don't you bite down on this.....let's rinse....keep this packing in there for at least 90 minutes....you're going to need some antibiotics....i wonder if i should stitch this up.....nah, i think it will be more solid if we let it fill in on it's own.

that was a whirlwind of 45 minutes. the piece of bone is slightly shy of an inch long. it's been almost two hours and i am already feeling the pain. oye! should i mention i am starving due to not eating today?

we have a long night of reading and possibly batman tonight. sad girl.

tuesday.

this is the first post coming to you from the new 11 in macbook air :) so far i love it...its small and dainty and delicate (like me!! ha). no microsoft office this time around....i elected for the mac product iworks. it's compatible with word and excel....just written by apple which automatically makes it better...yes. i can't get enough of the apple gadgets. still in love with the iPhone 5 (seriously....it's sickening).

alright, so now that we got that out of the way, last week i ordered a bracelet from a lady in canada off easy. it's an autism awareness leather wrap with a tiny autism puzzle piece for my little man. i knew all day that it'd be waiting for me when i got home anddddd YES. let's go ahead and put this on the list of my favorite things...i've already ordered another one in a different color. shhhh.

it came out last week so pardon the tardiness BUT anyone who has ever had their heart shattered, broken, or otherwise cracked the new tristan prettyman cd is for you! this album is so flawlessly written and her vocals are spot on. cedar + gold. get it.

recently tuesdays have become "our" night...meaning that i tell mom what i want and it's produced for dinner that very evening.

tonight....spaghetti. mmm hmmm fat girl. don't judge.

rebel.wilson.

this woman has made me laugh until i now have a real cough tonight. she was on ellen thurdsay...this is the two of them doing "shoop," by salt n peppa. youtube the rest of the interview...she says the most off the wall shit.

open.letter.

dear atlanta,
i'm pretty certain that we have all forgotten what the sun and dry pavement look like. please stop the craziness that fooled poor tom in to thinking that we were in the midst of a hurricane yesterday. the housekeepers are here this thursday afternoon and i'm sure hoping that i dont have four wet paws tracking in the rain water making perfect prints all along the hardwoods immediately after they clean. on another not so pleasent note, there are hundreds of displaced frog jumping around in the streets getting run over left and right. it smells like wet amphibians in the subdivision. that's gross. we are still a couple of months away from the doom and gloom that is winter; not to mention my hair is a curly mess given all of the humidity. a little sun, if you will.
thanks,
b.s.

i've.lost.count.

so i have no idea how long i've been working from "home," which is intermixed with 2-3 trips to the satellite office every week. what i do know is that if jake wasn't spoiled before, hold your hat because he is now. i havent woken up to an alarm for at least a month...jake wakes me up just before 8 usually by allowing himself to get on the bed and lay down on my pillow. if he wasn't so cute i'd probably get mad.

randoms:
lee and i went to the falcons game yesterday but the bigger news is that we ate raw chicken. just thinking about it now makes me gag. gross.

i'm borderline obsessive over the new jake owen endless summer EP.

the only station on pandora i've listened to at all lately is john mayer. it's pure perfection.

my truck hasn't been washed inside or out since january when a very certain special lady flew in for a visit....i did leave it outside last night and it's currently STILL raining and therefore still "washing," said truck.

saturday the mailman delivered the papers to get my tags...that means i have a month and 23 days to get two emissions tests and order my stickers.

hives the last few days/weeks have been no joke. ready for those suckers to take a leave of absence so my skin can recover from the scratching.