Monday, September 27, 2010

Teeth & panties

I'm finally back... minus two teeth and plus two gaping holes in my mouth, but otherwise, mostly my normal self. The wisdom tooth extraction was not nearly as bad as the first time (thank goodness!). The shots were terrible (all six of them!) and there was a bit of a struggle with the bottom tooth, but there was no swearing, sweating, or wayward blood this time. There was a lot of pain for the next five days, but thanks to my trusty friend bottle of Vicodin, I was able to manage fairly well. I also discovered how much more fun Vicodin makes grading a giant stack of midterms. :-) However, the fun had to come to an end, as I'm not interested in becoming a professional junkie. I'm still on occasional doses of Aleve, thanks to my shifting teeth (I feel like they don't fit together anymore, but my dentist assured me they will fall into place soon), but that's about the extent of it. I'm just waiting for the holes to actually close up so that I'm no longer tempted to constantly stick my tongue into them.

Now, back to the underwear issue. First, let me just answer the most pressing question (the one I received both in the comments and via email!)... I finally settled on the pair with the cutout crotch. The reason I chose them was because they're really the most comfortable of the bunch and with a simple modification, I was able to create a crotch (thanks, pantyliner!). I'm sure the inventor of the crotchless panties would be horrified by my creation, but it served me well. :-) Also, let me just say that I never thought my sexy underwear collection was particularly impressive, but according to your comments, apparently, I'm a pantie rock star (well, when they're not covered in pantyliners). If you're interested in expanding your collection of entertainment underwear (as my friend calls them) here are a few of the pairs I mentioned (and recommend): 1, 2, 3 (the links all go to amazon, but they may still be NSFW). I'm also all about this and this (non-amazon links!). Oh, and this has led to some crazy...well, let's just say it got the job done. ;-)

And yes, I finally did laundry (actually, M did it)... and yes, I still ended up buying more underwear before that happened.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Dental woes

I have so many things to say (including a detailed follow-up on the underwear situation!), but I'm too busy freaking out about my impending dental appointment to actually form some coherent thoughts about anything not related to my teeth. I'm dreading tomorrow's appointment even more than usual because I know from experience just how horrible I'm going to feel before (knots in my tummy & a stress headache), during (evil needles, scary noises & instruments, and mouth pressure from hell), and after (sooo much pain!).

I've been trying to avoid it, but now I have no choice: I have to get my remaining two wisdom teeth removed. I had the other two pulled back in '02 and I still haven't fully recovered from that horrible episode... the sound of my tooth breaking in half while the dentist groaned from exertion and cussed ("fucking deep tooth!") is not something I'm likely to ever forget. The giant smear of blood he forgot to wipe off my cheek, along with the nasty pool of his sweat that dripped into my eyes (ugh!) were both just added bonuses.

I have started seeing a new dentist since I had the first two teeth pulled (I'm now with Hot Dentist's partner - HD moved to the 'burbs & opened his own practice) and he has been great thus far (well, as great as an evil dentist can be). Although he's no HD looks-wise, he's very immaculate and always clad in Prada loafers - I really can't imagine any groaning or sweating coming from him, so I'm sure I won't have a complete repeat of the last time. But there's still the pain... oh, the pain... the pain that lasts for weeks afterward. :(

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Underwear

Don't you just hate it when you haven't done laundry in so long that you've gone through not only your good/favorite underwear, but also the ones you usually avoid wearing (because they're stretched out, give you wedgies, etc.)? After going through underwear group #2, you're then at the point in which you have no choice but to move on to the sexy ones that you would rather not wear because they are a bit uncomfortable, but they're not so uncomfortable that you can't suck it up and wear them every once in awhile.

Oh, but your current predicament goes beyond that fairly common laundry/underwear issue. This time you get to that dreaded day in which you realize that you've also gone through all of the sexy-but-tolerable underwear and now you're down to the ones that are not meant to be worn for more than a few minutes and definitely not in public (unless you're acting out some type of meet-someone-at-the-airport-in-just-a-trench-coat-and-raunchy-underwear fantasy). You're now left with an assortment of fine choices such as the red lace pair with the cutout crotch, the purple sequin-encrusted g-string with the vulgar demand (eat me!) emblazoned in cursive across the front, or the leather thong with the strategically placed zipper.

On top of the lack of comfortable/decent underwear issue, you've also started your period (which makes you especially not interested in wearing skimpy underwear) and you're faced with your longest work day of the week (12 hours at school: 3 classes, 2 meetings, 1 hour of tutoring). There's no time for you to make a quick Target stop before work because you've timed your mornings down to the minute to allow for maximum sleep. You absolutely must be on time today because you're giving a midterm. You also won't have more than a fifteen-minute break until 5:00, which is sooo far away, and by then you will have already spent the majority of the day in the quite uncomfortable, but very sexy, underwear. There's the option of going sans underwear (which you've done many times before - it was actually a quite frequent occurrence back in your single lady clubbing days) but again, you're dealing with the whole period issue, so that definitely is not going to happen. You could always go the skirt and tights route, but you feel like in your current condition, there still wouldn't be enough layers - not that you expect something catastrophic to happen, but you can never be too sure, especially when said monthly visitor decided to show up a full week early.

Of course, this all could have been avoided if you had actually done laundry... or hell, if you had even paid more attention the day before, you would have noticed you were down to the last decent-ish pair and you could have picked up some more on the way home that night. Well, that probably would have happened if you hadn't stayed up so damn late the previous two nights because you were engrossed in a really fascinating book... the lack of sleep (combined with the PMS) really did a number on you and you were lucky to have even made it out of bed that day.
 
You know you have to pick a pair and that you don't have too much time to think about it (there's that must-be-on-time-to-work issue). You also know the three you're staring down really are the best of the options (both the the chain front crotchless thong and the pearl thong were definitely not even on the table), even though the crotch cutout pair offers very little coverage (and lace can be irritating), g-strings lead to far too much ass-touching and wedgie-digging (and the part that goes in your crack is the part that is adorned with the sequins), and zippers can pose quite the serious hazard (not to mention what leather can do to delicate skin).

Yeah, I really would hate to be in that situation. It sounds like it would totally suck 

Sigh.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Updates...with bonus shoe & food porn!

First, let me just say thanks to everyone for your kind words and feedback. Despite the crazy and completely stressful situation at work (more about this later) and some people in my life who have been not-so-supportive of the changes I've made (not M - he has been great), I feel happier and healthier than I have in a long time. I feel much more in control of some aspects of my life (emotional & physical) that I had let slide into what I had subconsciously categorized as a place of no return. I feel good about who I am again (not that I hated myself before, but I wasn't comfortable with where I was). However, don't think I've turned into some blissed out Pollyanna - I'm still a snarky bitch with a long list of crap to complain about. :)

For those of you who asked about my workout routine, here are the basics:
Monday evening: 1 hour zumba class
Tuesday evening: 1 hour strength boxing class (choreographed boxing routine with light weights)
Wednesday evening: 1 hour Turbo Kick class & 1/2 hour deep muscle stretch (if I feel like it)
Thursday: off (I teach a night class)
Friday: off
Saturday morning: 1 hour zumba class and/or 1 hour Turbo Kick class (and sometimes the deep muscle stretch class afterward)
Sunday morning: sometimes off, but lately I've been attending a 1 hour Qigong class in the mornings (This class is supposed to be relaxing, but I think it's horrible! The stretches all hurt like crazy - and yes, I know that's an indication I need to do more of it, but it still sucks!)

When I type it all out, it seems like a lot, but really, it's not all that difficult to maintain the schedule because the majority of my workouts happen right after I finish at school. As much as I hate paying for a more expensive gym ($65 p/month - my old gym was $20), it has made all the difference. Not only do I like the classes and instructors much more, the gym is also on the way home from work and their class schedule works perfectly with my work schedule. My old gym was a bit out of the way and it involved me passing by our apartment building - whether I took the train or drove, it was way too tempting to stop and go home, rather than continue on to the gym. Also, I hated their classes (the instructors were terrible & the schedule sucked), so I always had to work out on my own. I'm really much more of a group class person, so it was difficult for me to maintain the solo thing for more than a few months at a time (I would get sooo bored with the machines!).  I do try to stick to this schedule as much as possible, but if I have something else I want to do, or if I just get too overwhelmed with all of the cardio, I take a break for a day or two (or even a week) and then jump back into it.

Okay, enough of the workout talk. Let's move on to some fun stuff (the crazy things students say! shoes! food!)....
  • One of the students told my colleague and I that she would rather earn a B+ in a class than an A-. When we asked her why she would prefer to have a lower grade than a higher one, she said that having a plus in a grade is always better than a minus because the minus will affect your GPA negatively. Therefore, although a B+ is technically a lower grade than an A-, it has less of an impact because the plus part will increase your cumulative GPA. (Thankfully, she wasn't in my critical thinking class, so I'm not taking the blame for her... um, interesting... logic.) :)

  • I am so in love with these shoes:
     
    Hot! Hot! Hot! However, they are a little too high for me (as much as I would rock the shoes, I'd probably also break my ankle, as 3 1/2" heels are a bit too much for me to handle) and there's no way in hell I would ever pay $800 for a pair of shoes. Seriously, the most I've ever paid is $150ish and that was painful. I do have a closet full of expensive shoes, but thanks to my super-barginista skills/discount codes & coupon hunting, I never pay full price for them (my greatest deal - $350 shoes for $30). I've been scouring the internet, but I haven't been able to find an acceptable alternative. There are tons of cute leopard-print flats out there, but I haven't seen any other heeled leopard-print Mary Janes that don't cost a ton of money, aren't too high, aren't too pointy (I'm more of a round toe girl), or aren't intended for strippers (and/or are tacky).  I need help! Please, send me suggestions!

  • Finally, some food porn (it has been far too long since I've posted any!) from XOCO:

    D & I took tons of nerdy photos before we even got to the food :)
    The Aztec hot chocolate:
    aka the best hot chocolate I've ever had
    (fresh-ground chocolate + water + chile + allspice)

    Pepito Torta (left) & Chicken Milanesa Torta (right) - sooo delicious!
    Churros with dipping chocolate
    I think the next photo gives you a good indication of what they were like...

    Surprisingly, there were a few drips left...
    that probably wouldn't have happened if public plate-licking wasn't frowned upon :)