Bye Bye Wisdom Teeth

So yesterday, I had my upper wisdom teeth removed and I am in so much pain. I had to wait in the waiting room for almost two hours, which drove me crazy because getting your teeth pulled is something you don't want to wait for. You just want to get it over with so you can deal with the pain and move on. I asked them to put me under anesthesia because when I had my bottom wisdom teeth taken out it literally scarred me. I had to hear everything and my teeth were fully grown in. In order to take out the teeth they had to crack the teeth before they took them out. Can you imagine being wide awake hearing the doctor practically chiseling away at your teeth. Not so pleasant. It took me four years to give in to get my top wisdom teeth taken out and I went to a different doctor. He reminds me of this bad guy from Lost, old looking, big nose, but he was very nice. I was asleep for most of the surgery, but woke up towards the end after the teeth were out, thank goodness.

Being home has been nice even though I'm a great deal of pain and my face is swollen. I had an ice pack wrapped around my face yesterday. Sure it was difficult to breathe, but the cold ice pack felt amazing on my swollen face. The medicine I'm taking makes me extremely loopy and the doctor said while I am on it I can't drive.

All next week I will be in training and I will be rowing twice a day. I am hoping that I will be fully healed and recovered by then. As of right now, don't know if that will happen.

Despicable Me (haha like the movie)

February and March haven't been going too well. I feel like I am the biggest scatterbrain lately. I don't know what is wrong with me. As stupid as this sounds I was so on top of my game when the semester hit off, but constantly being put down by that one annoying teacher, being called clueless and an airhead makes me want to give up on everything I work for. Crew started and I have never been this tired in my life. You would think after four years of rowing I would get used to this, but I'm physically and now mentally drained. I want spring break to come already so I can regain all my strength. I would take a mental health day, but the past days I've missed of classes are either because of the freaky weather or not having a car from the accident. It has been over a month and I still am using my Mom's minivan to drive to school. I'm hoping that this week flies by because my brain is slowly shutting down. I just want to sleep, row, eat and do nothing for a week so that I can be put together for when school starts in April. At least the semester is well over halfway done. I honestly think that senioritis came a year late because my brain is mush right now. I have so much work to do and midterms to study for that are coming up. I keep forgetting about this blog because I always post on Saturday or Sunday when I am at my computer. Fridays are busy because I coach a high school rowing team alongside my coach for Hofstra and Sagamore, the team I was on in high school. I'm hoping I can get all my work done today so I can worry less about how my grades will turn out this semester.

Finally....

I am on time for this blog for once! I am watching Scrubs right now before I go to my old high school's play. One of my friend's who is a year younger than me has the lead role. The play or musical they are showing is "The King and I." I used to be on the stage crew when I was in high school, but I left in perfect timing because the people who are on stage crew now are all freshmen everyone else quit (go figure).

Today wasn't that bad. My spanish teacher didn't yell at the class, which was amazing because he is a nasty teacher. In all my years at school have never come CLOSE to failing in a class and I am getting D's in this class. I have no idea what I am doing wrong and I'm too afraid to approach him because he just yells at you and makes you look like everything is your fault and he is just the most amazing teacher in the world, which is completely wrong. I just want this semester to end and I want to finish this class with a passing grade. I want summer. I want the beach. I want to stop looking so pale and people asking me if I'm sick. No, I'm not sick I just haven't seen sunlight in months, not a big deal. I'm so desperate to be sun-kissed I have even considered the tanning salon. It's the closest I can get to the sun without paying a fortune to go on vacation.

I have, however, been saving up for a trip to Florida because my best friend from middle school moved there right before we went to high school. We're still really close and she usually visits every winter, but because her and I have low paying jobs and both our families aren't doing as well financially we haven't seen each other in a little over a year.

I'm so thankful it's the weekend. This week was probably one of the longest weeks this semester. I have so much work to do, but right now all I want to do is sleep. =)

Well Overdue

I can't stop thinking about Food. Inc. I'm really upset. I haven't been eating much. The only protein I ate was sushi. To be honest I hate that I watched that movie. I was blind and naive about how the meat industries are treating animals, but as selfish as this sounds I was happy living that way. I was talking to one of my friends who has been Vegan for a good portion of her life and she is a strong activist and has been showing me videos of poorly treated animals. There is a documentary called Earthlings and the video is on Earthlings.com. I couldn't finish watching it. I saw a man stand on a dogs head to kill the dog and he bled through his nose and his skull was crushed. Is this really the world we live in? It's disgusting and unforgivable. Animals were put on this world to live as we do and yes I believe in the circle of life, but we don't need eggs, milk, and meat to survive. I barely got through the preview of Earthlings before I closed my laptop and burst into tears. I'm a big animal lover. I've rescued baby bunnies in the woods behind my house and set them free without imprinting and I have two dogs I play with every day when I come home from school. I grew up being allergic to chicken, pork, beef, milk and eggs and it's probably because of all the drugs and hormones that they inject the animals with. I outgrew most of my allergies except milk, but even if I was allowed to eat things with dairy I wouldn't. All day I just thought about how those chickens have never seen daylight and can't run around like a normal chicken would. I'm so shook up by all of this. I don't know what else to think...