A patient brought it to our attention that maybe his upper denture needed relining. The reason – He stated that he was a “preacher of the Gospel” and that if he was preaching for about 45 minutes he sometimes would cough and they would come loose.
In the back of my mind I am thinking – ahhh – God has his ways of getting a preacher to shut up. Should I interfere with that?
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Slipping in some work on this weeks sermon in between cases today. This week has come so quickly and I have been so busy the last few weeks that it seems as if time has simply vanished.
Today has been good though. I was really tired yesterday. I do have a quiz due in Greek but I think I can do it either tonight or tomorrow. Then I will take a bit of a break from that subject over the holidays – just will need to review the vocabulary from time to time so it doesn’t disappear from my memory.
Today has also been cold and has felt really cold and wintery all day. I just heard the radio folks say it is -21 with the windchill. I think this is about as cold as it has gotten so far this winter.
Tonight, Rachelle and Ronin should arrive in Saskatoon. They will visit a friend there tonight and then come up her tomorrow evening. I can hardly wait to see Ronin – it has been almost 4 months since they moved to Toronto.
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The chocolates have started to arrive at the office. Three boxes yesterday.
Chocolate is one of my Big weaknesses. Good chocolate just melts in one’s mouth – and slides right down to the hips.
I predict some heavy duty dieting once the holiday season is over. I have very little faith in self control. I fall victim to me impulses most every time I pass the boxes sitting there on top of the file cabinet.
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Coffee at 4 today. At the Bison again.
Paul and Verena are back from their vacation in Uruguay and looking browner. Laura is looking rounder as a young beautiful pregnant woman tends to look.
The coffee is as good as ever.
Last week while I was out grocery shopping, I almost literally ran into a friend who works with Leo. She and I arranged to get together for coffee today and brought along two other of her co-workers and friends. She seems to be fascinated by the fact that I am planning to go back to school to get my MDiv. Maybe I would be too if I met someone doing this but it does not seem so “romantic” or “fascinating” when I am in the thick of it and it is mostly a steady keep at it, keep refreshing the memory bunch of hard work.
The women I met today are friends first of all because I met them through Leo. They work with him – his harem – or so they call themselves. Yeah and it all has to do with sex. They run the sexually transmitted diseases clinic, HIV programs, Hep C clinics and needle exchange programs. We’ve mostly been to their places for meals and to sit around and talk. One is a bit of a gourmet cook and I am most certainly not.
She also snowshoes and so do I. A very little bit. And I am so badly out of shape that her idea of getting together on a regular basis to snowshoe puts fear into my little pitter pattering heart. I mean, my heart has been known to do the pitter patter flippy floppy thing. I hope she is up on her CPR. Maybe I should carry a defibrillator with me. Or maybe I should just work at getting into shape.
Maybe I should be up there on the exercise bike rather than here at the computer. Maybe I will.
Later.
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If I were an angry an impulsive person, I would take that stupid phone that is set on alarm and that I can’t figure out how to turn off and smash it on my hard ceramic tile floor.
It is not my phone. This is not the first time the problem has occurred. The problem has even been discussed!
Patience and self-control where are you?
This has not been a good week for my good qualities to shine.
But the phone still exists so I have some self control left. I think. Unless it rings one more time.
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… I get very critical and cynical. I can almost stand outside of myself and watch my heart grow icicles and sharp points that no one wants to get too close to. I don’t even want to get close.
I recognize this happening to me this week. I am very tired. I think my sinuses are also beginning to act up which is not pleasant to consider – or feel.
And tonight at practice, I was just not really into doing music. I hung in there but …
I will post something again when I’ve had some sleep; when I’ve maybe caught up a little. Hopefully.
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Today has been one of those very full days. Got to church earlier than usual to get the coffee on, practiced, worshiped God, led the youth class, cleaned up the coffee stuff and headed home.
Today I lunched alone. Leo headed off to the office to put in a few hours there – he’s a workaholic you know.
But part of the reason was that I had to leave pretty quickly to do my part for the orchestra. We were playing at the Festival of Trees which is a big fundraiser for the local hospital. So, I got there in time. Had to carry my bass across a busy street since there was no parking close. There are times when I regret having such a large instrument. This was one of them.
I also regret being the only bass in the orchestra. You have no idea how much difference another bass player would make. There would definitely be air bowing moments. There were a few non-bass moments as it was – no one to cover my mistakes. I figure silence is better than a horrible clash of sounds.
By the time I got my instrument back into my car I was tired. And there was still the meeting with the Livingstones which I wanted to go to.
So tomorrow when all I have to do is work is going to seem quite relaxing I think.
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I guess this is just one of those weeks that seems endless and terribly busy. It’s Wednesday already so half the work week is gone.
Before I know it Christmas will be here and I am in no way ready for that big event. It is a big family event and it is good but for some reason it makes me feel tired this year. I am very glad that Rachelle is coming home for a few weeks. I hope she will help me make some goodies, decorate the tree and help make the tourtiere.
I am on call this week too so maybe that is part of the busyness at work. There have been a lot of emergencies added to our regular schedule. Emergencies are always such an unknown. There is always a certain amount of paperwork so if they are late at all, some of the appointment time is gone. Then I have to figure out what their emergency is. Sometimes it is not an emergency at all but some vague pain in the tooth stimulated their brains to equate any sort of discomfort with toothache and thus to the patient it is an emergency. Therefore, being a diligent dentist with diligent staff, they are fit into the schedule – somewhere.
Add to that a weekend that had no breaks for me, a council meeting last night, trying to meet a deadline that I set for my next quiz in Greek in order to keep up and meet my goal of when I want to complete the course, too many late nights combined with waking up too often in the middle of the night or too early in the morning – and I am becoming so very tired.
Oh, yeah, and I am trying to practice hard at the Christmas carols the orchestra is playing for our local Festival of Trees.
I guess my tiredness is well earned.
Maybe I should just go to bed.
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