Not exactly what I said to my dentist this afternoon, but a close approximation. Crap. I am numb up into my right nasal passage. Just got what I hope will be my last round of fillings done. Yay! Now on to the super fun stuff. Root canal, extractions, and implants, oh my! Hahaha. But seriously, that's what is next at this point. I will be going in for the root canal after our much needed vacation and shortly there after get the permanent crown in place. Then it's all down hill until January, when (barring any unforeseen circumstances) I will begin the implant process for my two missing teeth.
Have I mentioned how much I love my new dentist? Yea, he rocks.
Having part of my nasal passage numb feels weird.
I am so freaking hungry... I still have about an hour until the numbness will be worn off enough for me to eat. That's part of the reason I am on here; trying to kill time while not drooling on the keyboard.
Now would be a good time to get any sort of lip piercing on the right side of my mouth...
The past two days have been so draining... The rest of the week should be better. Key word being should.
Saturday we are going to the Tacoma Zombie Festerval and Preparedness Expo. I am super stoked about it. It should be fun. And then we are immediately turning around and heading to the coast for the normal bi-weekly trip...
I really want my soup. It's hard to focus on this.
We went to the weekly group run this past weekend only to find that almost all of the group was at various races in the Pacific Northwest this past weekend... Our fearless leader did show, so we went running with him. And this is where we made the fatal error...
We recently changed our 15 seconds running / 60 seconds walking intervals to 15/45. Well whilst running at that pace we were able to keep up a full conversation... Fearless leader decided that we can probably switch the ratio up even more. He suggested 20/40 until after we complete a 10k (we are looking forward to a potential Thanksgiving 10k) and then we may make adjustments from there as we ramp up towards the half marathon.
Yep, that's right. We are aiming to do our first half again. This one will be in April (in about seven months). We are looking to run in the Eugene Half Marathon. I know we can do it. We have done the distance so I know it won't kill me. We just have to work ourselves back up to that kind of distance. Since we were so sick in May we haven't done much more than four to five miles on a run.
But back to the more immediate future. The 10k. What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than burning a thousand calories running a 10k before scarfing down all the nommy foods associated with said holiday? I am truly stoked about it. Heck, even if we don't actually settle on a race for that day I will probably want to run that distance in the morning just to do it! Yes, I know, I have a sickness. I can't help it. I really truly enjoy running.
Speaking of, as I mentioned above regarding the fearless leader's suggested new intervals for us, we tried out the 20/40 pace last night for our run. At first my legs were like, "Woah! This is not how we do this! We should have stopped back there... What gives?!" But after the initial half mile to a mile it became fairly comfortable. Well, at least it wasn't painful. It was more physically demanding but in a good way. And conversation was limited to us focusing on how we breathe out. More sage words of wisdom from leader dude on Saturday. He told us to focus more on breathing out since our body will make sure we breathe in, but we can control how quickly we breathe out. It helped quite a bit.
My nose is no longer numb! Woo hoo!
I am seriously jonesing for my chicken tortilla soup from Costco that is sitting in my fridge... I have been waiting for this stuff to come back out! Now it's Fall (my favorite season) and all the awesome things associated with it are resurfacing, like pumpkin and maple and apple and spice scented stuff, fall coffee flavors (I know they can be had year round but they taste better in the Fall for some reason), still warmish days and cool crisp nights, and Grey's Anatomy comes back on!!! I really love the Autumn months.
I am hoping they love me too, and that the weather is mostly agreeable for our trip. I would love to catch a thunderstorm or two while we are out on the Great Plains. It would be amazing. I can't wait to see what kind of pictures we manage to capture on this adventure. I will be sure to post my favorites on here.
That reminded me. Earlier this month we went on an awesome train ride on the coast thanks to my new addiction: Groupon. It was such a fun and awesome day. By the time we got home we were exhausted and wired like kids! As we were getting ready for bed that night I checked on a deal we had been seesawing about and realized it only had two hours left. Being drunk on fun, we did it. We bought two hours each for custom tattoo work at 50% off. We are stoked. We have until March to use it. We will probably use it in the next couple months. I told Collin that we can use the vouchers after he does his CCNA certification test. Motivation never hurt anyone.
Well, I am going to go wash my face and then start heating up my soup, and find something stupid to watch on Netflix...
Ramble again soon.
