Trimmed hair, lizards and wasps & orthodontists

Well, I did get Shadow's hair trimmed...And the poor thing looks "skinned". :-) Ha, not quite that bad...But I do think she looks better with some "fluff". Without all her "fluffy" hair, she looks more like a poodle. :-) Here are a few pictures of her now.



My cute munchkin









She looks so skinny without her hair!






Awww...my baby's tired.









Are you talking to me? cute little, innocent me? :-)









Yum! this tastes good! (okay, so anything tastes good. ;-)








I am so tired...I shall start snoring soon!








The weather has been very nice here lately...I like that, except the bugs and creatures are coming out in full force! It seems I have lizards here at this place...there are some cute little "fluorescent" blue ones that seem to like my back door. Plus I have seen some rather drab scaly ones that look like they could grow into alligators or crocodiles. I really don't mind lizards...But I think I read somewhere once about poisonous ones...If you eat them...And I am afraid Shadow will try one for a snack. So far they have not come in the house...Just sun themselves on my back porch and under the screen door. HOWEVER there is a wasp in my house today...And I DON'T like them! Great! I am not sure how to get rid of him...As I don't want to spray everything in the house in an attempt to kill him! I have turned off all the lights inside the house (except in this room, where I have closed the door.) and have turned on the porch light, leaving the front door open, in hopes that he will decide to fly towards the light. I hope it works...Otherwise I may have to move out and leave all my stuff behind! :-D Just kidding! But truthfully, only one of us will be staying, I just have to figure out how to get rid of him. I think I may contact a bug sprayer person...Or look into spraying my house myself. I was hoping to find somewhere to move...But that is slow going right now, so I may have to spray the place down before I get a chance to move.

Lynetta is planning to come for a few days this week. I am hoping that we will be able to go to the Opera on Thursday. I don't know what else we will do...but I plan to have fun. :-) Then I am looking forward to Brian, Molly & Andrew coming next week. :-) Wow! I get company! :-) I am pretty excited!

Mom & Dad...I tried to call you yesterday and didn't get anyone. Lynetta said she had tried as well. But we did try. :-)

Holli and I looked at a house today...but didn't really like it. Who knows...I may just have to settle in here for a while and deal with a "duplex" and such...

Well, I should venture back out and see if my "wasp getting rid of trick" has worked. I sure hope so! Love you all!!!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the orthodontist part...well actually I did forget it and am now editing this post. :-D Anyway, my teeth have moved a lot lately and I can't bite off things any more, and my back teeth clench a lot etc...so my dentist suggested that I go see an orthodontist again. I went this past Thursday. It was just the initial visit and then I have to set up a consultation or something like that. The next visit they will take x-rays, do those nasty impressions etc. Then they will come up with a "fix it" plan and tell me in the next visit. So we will see. I have noticed a significant increase in problems over the past year, and so am hoping we will be able to resolve many of those. At this initial visit, the orthodontist indicated that my lower jaw gets rather out of place trying to compensate for some of the deficiencies. He thinks this tension might be a contributing factor to my headaches (of which there seems to be an increase from recent past years). He mentioned something about my actual jaw bone and not just the teeth placement...I don't know if he is thinking it will take surgery to fix or what...but if that would help, I think I would definitely consider it! Can you imagine...going 1 day without ANY headache!!! Wow!!! that would be pretty incredible!

I think he also will want me to have my wisdom teeth removed. The seem to have come in the "rest" of the way in the past year...and I had wondered if that had contributed to some of my problems.

Anyway, he comes very highly recommended by my dentist, who was highly recommended by someone from work. Apparently he and his father (it is a father/son team) are well known in orthodontistry (is that a word?) :-) and orthodontists from other states send their "problem" cases to them for consult. So, that would be great if he could figure out mouth. :-) I mean I can live with it, I do...but I can't eat certain things very well any more, and I have a lot more "tension" type headaches that seem to originate in the jaw area. So my next visit is the 28th. You can pray that they will find out everything they need to know, and be able to figure out the most effective form of treatment.