i spent most of yesterday sprinting from one activity to another, rushing rushing rushing all the livelong day.<\/p>\n
after all the activity, last night we went to randy\u2019s house to watch the country music awards.<\/p>\n
ok, i really had no desire to see the country music awards, but we were celebrating BEV\u2019S BIRTHDAY, which was monday. i baked a chocolate cake for the occasion. to make it more festive i added orange and black halloween sprinkles to the top, plus some of the gold dragees that i got for my wedding cake over a year ago. luckily, gold dragees never ever spoil. a while back my dad made cupcakes for some event and he loaded them with sprinkles. so i\u2019m starting to realize that a penchant for sprinkles clearly is an inherited trait.<\/p>\n
randy had made a VERY VERY DELICIOUS pork roast and i was eating it while watching the country music awards and continued to wonder who all these singers were exactly, when i suddenly realized that THE BACK OF ONE OF MY TEETH WAS MISSING.<\/p>\n
MISSING.<\/p>\n
GONE.<\/p>\n
the upside is that i suddenly stopped eating, instead of eating way too much.<\/p>\n
the downside is WHAT IF THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF TEETH BREAKING????<\/p>\n
i\u2019ve frequently had the dream that my teeth are falling out or shattering. also, some of them are actually loose, two dentists have verified this, so naturally i\u2019m kind of panicky about my teeth.<\/p>\n
so when i realized that the back of the tooth had broken off i tried to figure out if this was REALLY A NIGHTMARE, or reality. everything else about the evening seemed normal except that where there had once been a smooth tooth was now a HORRIBLE JAGGED PIECE OF JAGGEDNESS.<\/p>\n
bev looked at the tooth and assured me that this happens to people and it can be fixed and not to worry or PANIC UNNECESSARILY. she said this exact thing had happened to her, the tooth broke off from the filling.<\/p>\n
i was so freaked out about the possibility of ROOTS BEING EXPOSED that i didn\u2019t even have one single bite of the cake i\u2019d brought.<\/p>\n
CHOCOLATE, cake, mind you. with very very delicious CHOCOLATE FROSTING.<\/p>\n
this morning i called my dentist but they said they couldn\u2019t see me till NEXT WEDNESDAY. i knew that if i had to obsessively rub my tongue over this JAGGED MESS for a whole week that i\u2019d be crazy by then. kevin called his dentist, and by some miracle he was able to see me right then. well, in about half an hour, after i\u2019d had a chance to throw on some clothes.<\/p>\n
and now it\u2019s all better and not only that, but kevin\u2019s dentist seems to think that there\u2019s a way to make my teeth STOP WRIGGLING. very exciting.<\/p>\n
it\u2019s funny – last night at fencing, before my tooth trauma, this very cute little girl was showing me that she\u2019d lost one of her front teeth and she was so delighted about it, and another of her teeth is loose. of course i wanted to tell her WAIT TILL YOU GROW UP, KID, ALL KINDS OF BAD THINGS COULD HAPPEN TO THOSE TEETH. AND YOU SURE AS HELL WON\u2019T BE GRINNING LIKE THAT IF THEY\u2019RE LOOSE!<\/p>\n
but i didn\u2019t want to freak her out, so instead i expressed joy at the fact that she got a whole dollar for her tooth. her grandma sent her a dollar plus she got a dollar from the tooth fairy, so she had TWO WHOLE DOLLARS, she said to me, her already huge eyes as big as saucers. oh, to be seven again.<\/p>\n
things are much calmer tonight.<\/p>\n
here\u2019s one more photo from the little town of grein. kevin saw this car parked when were out for an evening walk. i can\u2019t remember what kind he said it was, but he was very excited about it.<\/p>\n
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the next morning we got up and took the ferry that was right there in the town across the river. the ride was very very pretty. i\u2019m doing my best to not post ALL the millions of great pictures that kevin took.<\/p>\n
he took this one from the ferry – that\u2019s grein across the way.<\/p>\n
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here\u2019s just another beautiful spot along the way. i want to blow these photos up so they\u2019re really huge and hang them on our walls. i\u2019ve printed a few 8×10, but they just don\u2019t seem big enough.<\/p>\n
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this is what the woods looked like along the path.<\/p>\n
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we passed a pumpkin field.<\/p>\n
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here\u2019s me outside a museum in Pochlarn. i can\u2019t recall what they had at this museum. we only stopped here so i could use the bathroom. the woman inside the museum was very nice about the fact that i had no desire to look around at all.<\/p>\n
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ok, never mind about that, i just checked the photo and the building says OSKAR KOKOSCHKA HOUSE in huge letters there in front, so it wasn\u2019t a museum after all. the guidebook says that it has rotating exhibits presented in the artist\u2019s birthplace. oh. my question is then, why was he born in a museum?<\/p>\n
theoretically i\u2019m just going to take a little break now in order to upload a few more photos, but if somehow i get distracted, well, i guess there will be photos at some point but maybe not right now. but you never know. our destination on that day, it was sunday, was the very very famous MELK ABBEY, a spectacularly photogenic place.<\/p>\n
ok ok ok,<\/p>\n
thursday night grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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