I want to say I had a rough
Coincidentally, as I ran into the third mile, music-less, and turned down Pollywog Pond Road, it occurred to me WHY they named it Pollywog Pond Road, and I could hear the little bastards croaking. It was beautiful. I finished my 4+ mile run, and thought maybe I need to not have LMFAO telling me I'm sexy (and I know it), or Nicki Minaj reminding me that starships are meant to fly... and really just take advantage of my time away from technology, iThings, and let my brain get some unadulterated oxygen because lately I just feel like I can't breath... that could also be the high pollen count though.
Managing stress is really important and I've learned that nothing is really as stressful as we tend to think things are. With everything that goes on in life, how often do you want to look back and think, "wow that was a really stressful time" or do you want to enjoy the times you had? I've become a little emotionally detached these past couple months but I'm just hoping that once we get down to Florida and get some P&Q and downtime, I can recenter myself and get back to a happy place... I'm also hoping that there's a hot yoga studio somewhere near my house.
I've been working double duty between the station and the store, which has been awesome for my own morale but horrible for Mt. Laundry and the dust bunnies that have been collecting in my house (which, by the way could be a great name for a band if anyone's looking - Mt. Laundry and the Dust Bunnies). Kyle as usual has been doing an awesome job at keeping up his end of the bargain in cleaning as well as helping me out by either telling me I'm slacking, or just picking up my slack.
The first week of April I spent in Boston at LAMS. For my civilian readers, I was at Base Boston, in the north end, at Leadership and Management School. It is a Coast Guard run class for Coast Guard personnel. I took away a lot of good information and really enjoyed the class, the instructors, and the overall experience. I am grateful that during a time of budget cuts and sequestration I was able to take advantage of the experience and that it was offered to me in the first place. I felt SO good about the class that once the class was over and I was stuck in bumper to bumper traffic leaving Boston, I didn't even get mad! I also concluded that Karma does in fact exist because for the first time (and probably the last time) driving out of Boston, I did NOT get lost, not even for a second... amazing.
No less than a week later, the Boston Marathon bombings happened. I really don't want to get into a long political or conspiracy theory post here about analyzing what happened but I will point out that I am shocked by the amount of people who posted that they were shocked that this happened. It's not really shocking if you REALLY think about it. Things like this happen in other countries daily, America is not invincible. I am slightly disturbed by the media construction of the events turned circus, however, that is neither here nor there. Guess I'm just glad it's over with for the time being, and saddened for the people who were directly affected by the events that took place.
For the past six weeks I've had to make a trip a week off-island to go to an endodontist to get my grill fixed so I'm no longer a Dental Class III. So far, only one tooth has been corrected. Basically what happened was I needed two teeth on either side of my bottom jaw re-treated, so re-root canalled... Not REALLY a painful process since the teeth have no nerves anymore because they've already been root canalled, mostly just tedious and annoying. The dentist who did the original root canals used this high tech fill to fill the roots that's basically made of hot plastic, which made the process even more difficult for my endodontist to get out of the tiny roots. Three appointments turned into six very quickly. He finally got to the root of the problem (haha I just wanted to say that) and finished one of the teeth. We weren't going to start the next tooth for fear that it might turn into the same issue and I won't have time to get it done before I leave, however, being the pushy person that I am, I insisted he take a second look at it and a new X-Ray... this tooth had an abscess a few months ago that was treated with antibiotics which doesn't technically "treat" anything but just suppressed the symptoms enough to make the problem seem like it went away. He decided that we could retreat half the tooth since half the roots seemed fine. Upon entering the tooth, the crown almost immediately popped off, revealing a much bigger problem, and also one of the most disgusting smells I have ever smelled in my entire life. The tooth under the crown was pretty much completely decayed. Now I have to have an emergency tooth extraction, a bone graft implanted into my jaw bone, and eventually an implant put in my mouth. The only reason I am being so descriptive about this whole ordeal is that I want people to be aware of how important your tooth health is for you. During the past six weeks, my sinuses, stomach, and nerves have been SHOT... Mostly to blame because of the toxicity my own mouth is leaking into my body! Unfortunately many people do not have control over the destiny of their teeth due to genetics, water, and your diet/habits from the time your were six until the time you are reading this. What you do have control over is what you do now.
Finally... Mavilla... Mavilla... Mavilla... our new home, located in beautiful Interarity Point with the Gulf of Mexico a block in one direction and a bayou on the Florida/Alabama line a block in the other, Kyle is dreaming of the fish he will catch, and I'm dreaming about the fish I'm going to cook! Our fingers and toes are crossed that the transition to life afloat will not be as bad as some people make it out to be, and that Kyle will be able to secure a good paying job sometime in October... and life will be good in our boat!
