Day 2 of having invisalign braces. I slept fine with them in and woke up today with minimal mouth pain. Ali’s feeling it a bit more than I am but nothing terrible. People really can’t tell you are wearing them unless you get in their face and show them.

It’s Friday before a 3 day weekend! One of the best feelings is the day of work prior to an extended weekend! Not much beats it in my book. I am planning for our Labor Day to be anything but laborious. Unlike the past few years where we normally wound up busting ass all labor day weekend, I would like to keep the amount of work to a minimum this time. Some yard work, minor cleaning and sealing the grout is all I need to get done. It will be awesome to have the kitchen back together.

Our inivisalign braces are now in. The process was painless, open your mouth and snap them in. They feel like a really tight mouthguard. The first 72 hours will probably be the worst as far as the soreness is concerned. Talking with them in takes a little adjusting as well. You can not eat with them in so it should cut down on unnecessary snacking as well as improved oral hygiene since you need to brush your teeth everytime you take them out and back in. I saw the computer models of my teeth in the office. They are very crooked and some of the teeth will be moving a long way (in tooth terms) during the 18 month treatment. From more than 2 or 3 feet away you really can’t even tell I have them in, pretty cool.

I’ve been deluged with tile information, suggestions, and opinions. Seal, don’t seal, use silicone caulk, don’t use it, wet cure the grout, don’t, wait 3 weeks to seal, wait 3 days….. This is the final decision, we DID wet cure the grout (after all the bag says to), we WILL seal after 5 days, and we will seal just the grout and not the tile itself since it is a glazed tile. Don’t like it? Tough.

Paradise Hotel, the only steady reality TV we are watching currently is finally winding down. It really stands out from most shows because basically there are no rules. It appears that every week the producers seem to get together and figure out what can they do to create drama on the show and then do it whether or not it is fair and/or makes sense. It seems that now, all of the people that have been booted are ALL coming back to raise all sorts of hell with those who are left. It should be good fun. Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 on FOX.

Today is B-day, braces day, we both get our invisalign braces slapped on today. I probably will have a sore mouth for the next week or so. We are anxious to finally get this done. 18 months from now it will all be over, hopefully.

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I’ve had fishy for a long time now, probably close to a year. He has had several episodes where I thought he was going to die. I was able to resurrect him through some treatment. This time I think it might just be old age. From what I read, fish don’t live much past 2 years old. He has just sat at the bottom of his tank basically for the better part of 2 weeks. He doesn’t eat, doesn’t want to do anything. Part of me feels like I should put him out of his misery but a bigger part would rather not and see if he snaps out of it since he has before. Feel bad for the little guy. I’ve tried all my tricks with no success. 🙁

Yep it looks different huh? I switched to a new blogging program. It is more flexible than what I was running, allows for multiple users and multiple blogs. As you can see from my links area, I have added some additional people already. 🙂 I also was able to migrate all of my old messages to here so you can still search all of my prior idiocy.

Blog on!

Taxing lan connections, what sort of idiot comes up with this plan? You have GOT to be kidding me.

I think I may be addicted to home projects. 🙂 I need to go cold turkey. It wreaks havoc on the bank account.

I finally posted my tile progress pics. Look at them here.

A few puppy pics have been added here.

I’ve been getting up early to spray the grout lines with water for the past 2 days in anticipation of the final sealing of the tile tomorrow. I can’t wait to be able to move the fridge back into the kitchen and get back to “normal”.

I’ve been trying to find someone to go see Freddy vs Jason with me but I don’t know anyone down here that enjoys that type of movie. I used to watch all of the Freddy movies growing up. They used to scare the hell out of me but I would keep coming back for more. I only saw 1 or 2 of the Jason movies. I might have to wait for it to come out on video or bite the bullet and go see it myself.

I was playing more Frozen Throne last night and came up against a player with the handle RAPISTWITHAIDS. A truly repulsive handle and surely the person that chose it was a first class lowlife. I was very motivated to beat the scumbag. I did.

3 day weekend coming up.

The weekend of tile, all tile, all the time. We BUSTED ass on it Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. The good news is it is basically done! All we have to do yet is wet the grout twice a day for 3 days and then clean it and seal it. The final result looks pretty sweet, a big change. There are a few imperfections here and there but nothing bad. Grouting was a chore, my knees were screaming by the time I was done. So what is the bad news you ask? We have 3 more rooms to do! However we will be taking a break before we begin the other rooms. The kitchen is probably only a little smaller than the other 3 rooms combined so it wont be as bad. Plus we know more about the process now, so it should go better.

We got done wiping down the floor about 2pm Sunday afternoon. Great, now we can take a break! Nope, the grass needs to be mowed. 🙁 Ali and Nicki almost stepped on a snake cause they couldn’t see it in the high grass so Ali really wanted to chop it down. We set the mower deck nice and low and spent another 2 hours performing lawn care. We have several small pond areas around the yard from the large amounts of rain we got this past week. We got somewhere in the range of 5-6 inches of rain. The skies looked very gray and threatening but we managed to get it all done with only a few drops falling on our heads.

Begin videogame geek talk. As busy as we were, I still found some time to play some Frozen Throne. I had one extremely frustrating match. I was night elves and was playing an undead player. I had an big early advantage, I killed his hero, killed most of his army and had a big lead in resource collection. I let up the pressure and tried to simply accumulate resources and troops since I should easily outgain him. I got cocky and fought some sloppy battles where I lost more troops than I should have and eventually wound up losing a game I should have EASILY won. I don’t mind losing when I am clearly beaten, but to lose a game I should have easily won drives me NUTS. I did manage to win a few games this weekend which is better than I had been doing so I guess it wasn’t all bad.

The “I LOVE THE 80’s” & “I LOVE THE 70’s” is some of the best stuff on TV if you are 30 something like me and like to look back at the past. The show is funny as hell because of the people they have commenting on different aspects of the decade. It is really good stuff. You should check out VH1 and watch one show. You will be hooked. They talk about all aspects of each year, the shows, the toys, the style, the movies, very entertaining.