Nothing says “I love me again” like a new do and nails!  I positively sparkle now (just agree with me, ok?)!! 

I’ve been on antibiotics for three days now and I have to say I am feeling much better but… I am still in pain.  I was chatting with an orally connected friend and he explained ‘dry socket’ to me, which the cure for sound absolutely horrid!

A dry socket occurs usually about 2-3 days after an extraction. If it happens it is because the initial clot has been dislodged for some reason.  When it hapens it leaves a bare, dry socket, with exposed bone and nerve endings. It causes a nasty ache in the jaw… If one does occur, the dentist/surgeon will shoot you up with a local, then scrape the inside of the socket to get it bleeding again . He or she will then pack the socket with a strip of gauze soaked with iodoform… The bleeding will allow a new clot to form, and the packing will promote clot formation from the bottom of the socket up.  Sometimes a clot forms above but leaves the bottom part empty....

Sounds pretty nasty, huh?

Anyway, on a happier, less painful note… I got my hair and nails done!!  Yay me!!  And, after I order up a couple amazon vouchers online tonight I am totally finished with my Christmas shopping!!  Double Yay Me!! I had lunch with my mom and Mary Jill ( Hi Mary Jill *waves*) in Glasgow today and I managed to knock out the last of the shopping list.  I ‘did’ Costco on the way home and thanks to rotisserie chickens and rama noodles the kids are fed and in bed!

I will spend the next 2 hours alternating between wrapping presents and doing laundry.  Tomorrow I will go to the grocery store and and finish cleaning the house.  I have a dear friend coming to dinner tomorrow night with his family (who I’ve yet to meet).  Simon and I hung, back in the day, and the last time I saw him was at my wedding… he was my photographer.  It will be fun to catch up again and to meet his wife and children and to pick his brains about starting out as a freelance photographer.

Friday will be my day to finish wrapping gifts and to catch the things that slipped through my ‘List of Everything That Needs Done Before Christmas’.  After the kids get home from school, we’ll pick Len up at the airport and go to the movies.  Saturday is the day before the day before Christmas *happy dance*… Let’s hope I won’t be spending it at the dentist getting the inside of my socket scraped and packed!!