An Event and an Achievement

Kathy pointed me in the right direction to Mr Toast's Blog and the 1st Annual Christmas Tea in Aspen Colorado.

I need to be there by 3pm local time, and it wraps up at 10pm so I figured that my fairy godmother would ensure that unlike Cinderalla that I would be back in time for work tomorrow and kit me out with something absolutely magical to wear and arrange the transportation too.

She came up trumps, the fairy godmother (FG), I have a black velvet gown and warm red velvet wrap which matches the shoes. Apparently I can get concorde direct to Aspen and arrive in time even leaving after work. FG has also arranged for hair and make-up to be done on the flight so I am going to look stunningly gorgeous. I love having a FG, and am looking forward to meeting up with some blogging friends.

I have always wanted to visit Colorado, it is just a shame that I won't have any time spare to look around and see the beauty. At least I will have a fun time meeting all the blogging faces I see are attending.

Yesterday saw the end of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month (all you had to do was write 50,000 words - simples), I had fun with this but it was incredibly hard work and not helped by me having a crisis of confidence a week in resulting in me starting again from the beginning (though I have kept my original 20,000+ words in case I want to revisit it. I tried to do as much as I could daily but even though the daily target was 1666 when it was hard to even think of 50 words to add to a story it was difficult enough. I took a week offline (except for blogging) to concentrate on what I had and my final tally stood at 56,211. I could have had more but I edited a lot of rubbish out in the end and felt it didn't matter as long as it was over the 50,000.

Time to put the writing tools away for a short while, think about other more pressing things..

A sore point

Last week I lost a filling, eating peanuts (I'm sure there is a moral to this tale somewhere), on my top right hand side of my mouth.

Monday I had an appointment with the Mistress of Pain, the Dentist... (actually she is very, very gentle and even numbs the gum with a local gel on a pad before injecting the painkilling injection I begged for).. I am such a wimp at times :-).

It was over and done with very quickly, but can someone tell me why they insist on talking to you when you have a mouth full of numbness and instruments?

I was out the door about 30 mins later, with instructions to watch what I was going to drink as I might burn myself, and the filling would take about 24 hours to set... I had to have an amalgam filling, never my favourites as they taste horrible and feel worse to my tongue which will explore any new 'thing' in my mouth.

After the anaesthetic wore off, I sat down and had a reviving cup of tea, the solace of the english.. anything wrong.. cup of tea will fix it... of course this doesn't apply to all things, but it does ease the dull ache of pain.

Glad to be back blogging... onwards and upwards...