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I am baking pumpkin bread right now and it's taking longer than I'd like. It's been in the oven for over an hour and it was still raw in the middle last I checked, which wasn't that long ago. I did a little experimenting with it and put Chinese 5 spice in it.

Current Music: unidentified jazz piece

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Had some Downton Abbey estate blend tea. Went to Berkeley Bowl to buy more tea, coconut Pu-erh in this case. I was going to get some of Berkeley Bowl's deli takeout Chinese food for lunch but they don't do that anymore so I got some Mexican food in the next block and then went home.

Current Music: Martin Scorcese Blues soundtrack

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I had a two hour phone conversation with a friend yesterday who I hadn't heard from in a couple of months. Really enjoyed taking to my friend.
I noticed a weird mistake in the House episode "Maternity" that I never noticed before. Although the episode clearly takes place over only a few days, House says it's December in the middle of the episode but at the end of the episode the dialogue between House and the obstetrician indicates it's late October!

Current Music: the Rolling Stones

greghousesgf

OK. I'm sick of people thinking I voted for Trump just because I'm American. I fucking hate Trump. I have never voted for him and I never will. I'm also fucking fed up with being assumed to be racist just because of when I was born. I hate racism and bigotry of any kind, just because some other people my age are bigots it does NOT mean I am!

Current Music: Martin Scorcese Blues soundtrack

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Current Mood: angry
Current Location: Vancouver Island

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I had a really interesting day yesterday. Beautiful weather. Hung out with a couple of friends, had tea and a slice of red velvet cake at my favorite cafe, did a lot of fascinating reading and pub hopped with one of my friends. Heard some great music. We even did some karaokeing. The only negative thing in the whole day was I went into Whole Foods to try to get roast beef to make a sandwich and the deli woman took her time and I couldn't even get any because I like it rare and the whole damn roast was burned to a crisp. And she gave me an argument when I complained.

Current Music: Segovia

greghousesgf

I saw a movie last night I hadn't seen since it first came out 12 years ago, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter. What a great movie!!

Current Music: Martin Scorcese Blues soundtrack

xinas_island

First ever visit to our new Dentist (that is actually IN Sooke, No more treks to Colwood for appointments *yay*).

Don't get me wrong. There was nothing wrong with our old Dentist. We actually quite like him. But the travel time and trying to schedule around Aaron's work was getting harder and harder, so it was just time to switch. And since Aaron had already been to the Dentist in Sooke for an emergency recently (our Dentist was not available), he already knew he liked the work they do so far and the way their office is.

Plus they are open Monday thru Saturday! Amazing!😍

Anywho, We had our initial admitting appointment yesterday afternoon. Paperwork, X-rays, and an initial assessment of the teeth.💕

All looks great still for me. *phew* I do have a couple old white fillings on the right side (upper and lower) that will get replaced in Feb., as they've shrunk quite a bit. I could have deferred till next year, but figured our insurance just rolled over, and so doing it now was better. 😄

So, I'm getting a cleaning on the 24th (A Saturday! Holy crap, we have a Dentist that's open on a Saturday now!). And then, the first week in February, my fillings will get dealt with *hooray!*. I'll need to remember to take Advil before hand.

Aaron's got British teeth, ie: They tend to crack and break down more easily. And so he'll have to have a lot more checked on as time goes on.
So he'll possibly more visits than me going forward. They really want him to consider implants, but he's pretty nervous about that option (I don't blame him).
And I guess the cost they mentioned is approx $3K per tooth (Includes the surgically installed post, and custom-made crown installed). The numbers freaked him out a bit (as well as the idea of posts being installed in his jawbone), so he's at the 'thinking' stage for the near future.

But being closer to the Dentists office will make things a lot easier all around, regardless of what he decides.

We were still in the old mind set when booking things, so my appointments are a bit wonky on the time and days (Still scheduled my things around A's work... but the place is walking distance, so that was silly of me. Leaving them as they are, but any future appointments for myself I'll just set for when ever I want them. (I prefer early, and on a weekday)😄

Note to self :

It's now easily walking distance to get there, so you Don't have to book around travel time/A's work schedule any more.

Remember that the next time you have to book.

greghousesgf

Got some groceries, on the way back home some asshat almost ran me over with his damn SUV when I was trying to cross the street. He stuck up his hand like that makes it OK, I swore at him but he had his window closed so I doubt he heard me.
Had an interesting conversation over text w/a friend about Lord of the Rings.

Current Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers

xinas_island

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greghousesgf

Had a great breakfast earlier this morning, bacon and eggs, a croissant and some hot chocolate.

Current Music: the Dandy Warhols

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I had plans for tonight but they got cancelled. :(

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music: Radiohead

greghousesgf

Dinner last night was great, I had spaghetti and clams at LoCoco's with a couple of glasses of this great wine and bread and a cannoli.

Current Music: the Beatles

greghousesgf

Having some Lapsang Souchong. The ice cream was great. I don't know why they don't publicize this more but they do this thing called a flight where you can have little scoops of six different flavors. I had chocolate, maple, banana, black walnut, butter pecan and mocha almond fudge. (I would have had eggnog but they ran out. Frankly if they sold eggnog in June I would buy it.)
Tonight I'm going to LoCoco to get Italian food and a glass of wine for dinner.

Current Music: Velvet Underground

greghousesgf

Having some Darjeeling tea. Had a great time with my friend last night and later today I'm going to get ice cream at Fenton's.

Current Music: Bizet

greghousesgf

Had some black tea with cinnamon and cloves and then went out to pick up a six pack of beer because I'm having a friend come over tonight for pizza and popcorn and movies. I'm really looking forward to it.
I finally got so fed up with these fucking phone scammers that I told one of them they were all full of shit and he called me a "bloody whore bitch" and I just laughed and hung up on him. I'm not the fucking criminal here, they are and I have no idea why they think we're stupid enough to fall for those scams. They all seem to have the same Indian accent and I can't help wondering what the fuck is going on in India that there seem to be so many of them there.

Current Mood: lazy
Current Music: Paolo Conte

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