A small update.

So... Stuff has happened since I last spoke! Nothing really awesome for the general public, but a couple of things that are pretty awesome for me, and I'll even add photographic evidence, to boot!

First off: I got new bedding. For those of you who don't know my every intricacy, which I believe counts everyone out except my cat, I am REALLY picky. Not about food (except bell peppers...they can just DIE), but about anything that will reflect my personal "touch". So basically clothing, jewelry, posters and paintings, placemats for my kitchen table, and bedding. You know, the normal stuff.

Regardless of how crazy this makes me sound, it still brings me back to the fact that I have not bought bedding in many, many years. I find something I like, teeter on the edge of getting it, and then REFUSE. Well, I finally got the bedding of my dreams (for now) from IKEA. I bought it while I was still on vacation, but it came back home with my parents, as I didn't want to lug it on the plane. It is the stuff to the right, and it has every color I love (teal, dark purple, and lime). It's also incredibly soft.

Next thing: I saw Depeche Mode in concert! This was absolutely amazing. Never did I think that a bunch of 48 year olds could be so active and limber on stage. Sure, I felt a little molested after frontman David Gahan gyrated against his microphone stand the first couple of times, but you really get used to that. My friend and I had great seats, and it was basically a whole lot of fun.
The day started horribly, though. I had gotten the day (Sunday) off of work, which meant I got out at 8am (an hour late) Sunday morning and was supposed to sleep hard and fast before the concert, which was at 8pm in Phoenix. I couldn't. My work night had me all wound up, and I spent the next four hours completely miserable. I finally fell asleep at noon, only to wake up at 3:30pm and get ready. We were on the road (more or less) by 6 after a couple of snafus that were unexpected.
And then I drove.
And I drove.

Two hours on I-10 later, we were in Phoenix. I was a tidge grumpier than I should have been, mainly from the driving. There is NOTHING on I-10 except a bunch of blowing dust and signs announcing said blowing dust.

Once there, however, it was quite obvious that things were going to be great. They played a lot of new songs, but out of sheer obligation to their fans (I was of the younger generation that was there), they also played a ton of their older songs. My favorites were "Enjoy the Silence", "It's No Good", and of course "Personal Jesus" (done at the very end after their third encore). As for their new songs, "Wrong" and "In Chains" were great, too. The night ended with me riding strong on a concert high, and I returned to Tucson feeling quite warm and fuzzy.


Yesterday was a double-feature. I got off of work at 6am and showered, then had to drive out to the East-Central side of Tucson for a dentist's appointment. I got there incredibly early, so I sat and read for a while. Once in, however, I had...well, as much fun as one has at the dentist's office.

The dentist seems to be, for me, more awkward than an OB/Gyn appointment. Why? Well, you and your gyno already know that there's going to be uncertainty and discomfort. Your dentist, however, comes in smiling and talkative. He or she asks questions that elicit answers. You answer to the best of your ability, and then he or she asks you to open your mouth. You do, but then what? As your friendly dentist is busy scraping and scaling away at your teeth and gums, he (my dentist was male, so I'm going to stop the ambiguity) continues to ask questions! Questions that, again, elicit answers! So what do you do? What DO you DO?! Do you try to answer with hand gestures? Surely, he should NOT be looking at your hands as he's got those sharp objects in your mouth. So you try to speak. I found the "b" sound to be the hardest to do around a full pair of hands. The rest of my appointment involved me desperately trying not to bite the fingers off of my dentist in a vain attempt to converse.

I can happily say that there is nothing wrong with my teeth, though. Hooray! He says that I have straighter teeth than most people who had braces, and that I have very clean, nice teeth with great bone structure. Sweet.

I then got to go home and wait a couple of hours for my annual employee review. I was not looking forward to this, mainly because things like this make me nervous. But it turned out to be good. I got told that I was an asset to the team, and various other cliches. I got smiles from both the supervisor doing my review and my hospital administrator. I left feeling good.


After all that excitement, I decided that I should go home and go to sleep, as I hadn't in about a day now. Upon laying down, though, I realized that all I wanted to do was read Shutter Island, my most recent book of choice. I started reading it because the movie is coming out, and I want to see the movie. Two hundred pages later, I finished the book and went to bed. If the movie is anything like the book, it'll be great! Now I just have to wait until FEBRUARY for it to come out. BOO!

And here I'll leave you. Until next time, lovers!