there's a reason why they say 'death and taxes.'

I arrived quite late to work, yesterday, but as I mentioned it was okay - in fact, they hadn't expected me at all, as the message had been relayed that I was going to be out sick rather than that I would be late.  They had moved Tinkerbell upstairs in my place because they needed another woman at the checkpoint, but that worked out perfectly.  I needed to be downstairs for one day of the week anyway, to keep my certification.  (I think it's actually one day a month, but they're making an effort to make it one day a week so that if they end up missing it my certification won't lapse accidentally.) 

And yesterday was a good day for me to be downstairs, also, because my new trainee, V., had gone home as soon as she arrived that morning. ( I'm not the angel of death, I swear. )

Still...  I don't know.  I don't want to come across sounding like some crazy-ass mystic or something - honestly I don't know how to think of what I'm going to say.  It may just be something I made up for myself to give me comfort.  But while I was under sedation for my wisdom teeth being pulled, you recall I mentioned that everything seemed like it Made Sense for a moment?  It felt like everything swirled faster and faster down a funnel, all of my life spiraling in toward that one moment, and it was the same moment before the universe began and after it will end.  It made me feel as though after we get done playing this game we can get together and have a laugh about it and then play another one.  That doesn't mean I feel like slacking off, because part of that 'realization' (or comfort, whatever it was) was that the game is more fun when you play hard.  To experience is the point. (ETA, because, perhaps, I've thought of a slightly better way to say it: We keep ourselves from remembering that moment because if we lived there all the time we wouldn't throw ourselves into the game as hard and have as much fun.)

Yeah, okay.  :)  Like I said, maybe I made this up because I felt a need for it.  Ha!  I just realized I need a new icon!  *googles!*  This picture only needed the slightest manipulation to be a perfect icon.:)  I have this t-shirt, it's always been one of my favorites. :)

news flash!

I've figured out how to eat baby food.  You put it with some hot water and a little salt and it becomes a hearty broth.  And one of those little jars has 60% of a baby's daily protein. 

We have only chewable vitamins and I haven't wanted that in the holes, so I've been lacking for vitamins the past few days.  Today I finally thought to take the chewables and ground them in the mortar-&-pestle and will mix them with a little warm water, too.  It might taste like medicine, but then again, it is.  *sip*  Oh, yeah - tastes like something you would feed a cat. :P  ;)  (Okay, probably not that bad, really, but if I mixed it directly with the baby food, maybe.)  Chug-a-lug!

Why didn't I figure this stuff out before I got the damned teeth out?  I don't know.  But I think I'll keep baby foods on hand for the rest of my life, now, because that's damned handy.

Also, big white things that looked like feathers were just falling from the sky.  I think it may have been this fabled thing called "snow."  On the other hand, it's stopped, now, so it might just have been a couple of seagulls having a fight overhead. 

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It's back!  It really is snow! 

Why am I excited?  Where were you at Christmas, snow??  You let me down!  And now you're going to cause the car to have to be put in a garage and... the car... oh... 

I said I was going to get the oil changed, today.  And it needs gas.  I need to go.  Out into the snow.

:P

ETA because I can't keep spamming everyone's f-lists...: The damn snow is not only gone again, the tiny bit that fell is all melted. This is the stupidest excuse for a winter I've ever seen.

yet another news flash...

(although I figured this out last night, actually, but had already turned my computer off.) 

A really odd discovery - warm salt water and Citrus Listerine both taste a lot better if they're mixed together.  Strange but true.  They sort of cancel each other out.

I think I need to compile all this into Derien's Guide To Getting Teeth Out.