April

Watched The wire, Flash forward, Castle, The big bang theory and Trauma today.
Bought new shoes – they were discounted three times since I first saw them, it was a sign that I HAVE to buy them!
Froze my ass off the whole day. That is not how april is suppose to be!

Veggie soup

Chop the onion, heat some oil in the deep pan and add the onion. Wait a few minutes, stir, add all the chopped veggies you want to eat. I usually take potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, bell papers and zucchini – basically the same veggies used in potatoe recipe, because that are the veggies I usually have in our refrigerator.

Add water, season with red paprika, salt and some pepper.

I boil it for about 20 minutes, then it’s done.

Then there are three options – you can eiter eat it like that, or you can use a stick mixer or any other blender of your choice. You can either blend it all, so it becomes a creamy soup, or just half/half.

Healthy, warm, filling, quick, easy. Enjoy!!

What happens at orthos’ office after you already have braces

You are in and out in 3 minutes 45 seconds!

(I tried writing this poetically, but I think it will be more useful for my mysterious readers, who I suppose mostly come here for braces related topics, if I just describe the experience.)

I got in, sat /lay on the chair. She told me to show her the teeth&braces, then I had to bite the way I normally do. She checked it from all the angles, told me all looks great.

She took some sort of thin silver object, it felt like a saw, and she sawn between my teeth – like a floss but much thicker and sharper. She was so gentle, when I told her it hurt my gums she immediately changed her technique so it didn’t hurt me anymore.

She asked if I have any problems eating harder food, and I told her my teeth are all wobbly. She said they will be untill they get to the place where they are supposed to be.

 This wire has a memory, and she “told it” where it’s suppose to guide the teeth, and when they will be in their final place, they will be stable, but now, they are all dancing around, moving toward their place 🙂

She didn’t change my wire.  My most protruding tooth is my second tooth, and she said that that is the smallest and the weakest tooth, and if she would put new wire in, it would cause too much pressure on it too soon, so I’ll see her in 6 weeks. She said “I am expecting all the teeth to be straight by then, and we will put in the new wire”. I said I am expecting them to be streight by then too! We both laughed, it was so relaxed and nice, I was really happy with the visit!

Good news!!

The gods have heard my plea, the answer in the envelope was positive!

I was very  afraid to open it. Terrified.  I could have opened it online for the last 7 days, and then had the envelope at home for two days.

Still I was just dreaming about the negative answer, which only made me more afraid to open it.

I had thousand excuses, but then had to open it. I called my BFF so he held my hand over the phone. I lit up my cigarette.

Ripped the envelope open.

YEEEEEEEEY!!!

I was shaking from relief for the next few hours!!

While telling the good news to my friends, I told one of them that she is to help me make a plan on monday when I see her.

Because it really is time for me to do something with my life!!!

No big news

I got my mom a present for her Bday.

I am too chicken to open a letter that came from the uni.

I really want to cut my hair – I think I am going to call in the salon tomorrow.

Warmer weather is here, but that also means I have to start using the ticks spray again.

The doggie doesn’t sleep in my bed every night anymore, she must have gotten used to me being home full-time.

After god only knows how long, somebody tried flirting with me on-line. I am too fucked up in the head even for that.

Anybody understands why my blog doesn’t come up if I google it? What does that mean that I have to ping it? (I learned that after I googled “Why doesn’t my blog come up” 🙂  ) Can somebody give me an explanation that I will understand, please?!

New watch!

Who still wears a wristwatch ?

Not many.

I had to help grannie choose a watch for mom’s Bday, and she was feeling generous and told me to pick out one for myself. I didn’t put up a big fight 🙂 but I did choose the cheapest one that I liked but didn’t really have Mickey painted on. I choose one that can be mistaken for a bracelet, so it’s multifunctional 🙂

How do kids learn to tell time nowadays, where everything is digital and most people have cell phones to use instead of watches?

What happens at orthos’ appointment?

Who knows?

Will I get a new wire, or will she just tighten this one?

Is it going to hurt more, preventing me from eating solids again? Not that it will make a huge difference, the tooth I was talking about that already moved is making me bump my teeth together while chewing anyway, and ever morning it hurts, I think I grind my teeth together rather strongly. So I slide my tongue between my teeth to rest my upper jaw on it, because I can’t put my jaws together like I used to anymore.

Weird or normal?

My appointment is this saturday, I am getting nervous!!

Pasta tuna

Tasty, quick and satisfying!

While pasta is cooking, take the oil from the tuna can and pour it into the pan. Roast onion or garlic in it, then add tuna, roast a little bit more, then add tomato sauce and stir. You can add some water to dilute it, and at the last-minute – after you take it from the fire and right before you stir the sauce in the pasta – you can add some sour creme /Crème fraîche.

Still together. Can serve  with parmesan cheese if you prefer it that way.

Enjoy!

Curls curls curls

I have straight hair. Naturally it’s boring light brown; at 14, I started experimenting with colors, I was red, black (a mistake!) orange; then I was dark brown for 5 years, and two weeks ago, I went back to golden orange 🙂

No matter what color, I love curls! I’ve even had perm, twice in the last 4 years. Sounds very 80ies, but like other things, perm also evolved, so I did not resemble a sheep.

But even after I grew my perm out (and before I’ve had it) , I love to use curlers. I do it old fashion way and use velcros or foam curlers.

It used to take me forever, because I put the velcros in completely wet hair.

No need!

Now I dry them to 75%, put mousse for curly hair in, then the curlers. Because I don’t do it for the volume, but to have actual curls, I don’t put them on the top of my head, like you see in the movies, when they all have this perfect rollers sitting on the top of the head –  I just make a central part with the pointy part of the hairbrush (HATE!!!!!  When women are all made up but their central/side part isn’t straight!! ) and roll them on the sides.

When you are taking them out, carefully spin it out, then turn your head upside down and spray.

I ALWAYS do it in the evening, so the sleeping crushes the curls some, and then in the morning, your fingers through it to get the wanted result.

Option three are the hot rollers.

I have only tried them once so far, and I would describe hair more wavy than curly. They also don’t last as long as velcros or foam curlers.

Option four is curling with your hair straightener. You grab a strand on the top of your head, roll it around the straightener, then pull all the way to the bottom. I also saw versions when you roll it upward after you slide id downwards, then wait a few seconds, then release.

You can find some nice tutorials on You tube.
I don’t like it because it doesn’t last long enough for me.

Happy curling:)

Liver flush

I am doing it today!

Not very complicated.

I should be drinking apple juice for the past few days, but I didn’t read that soon enough, so I ate an apple yesterday and had an apple juice today.

I only ate a banana for breakfast and then some cooked veggies and fish for lunch, since you are not supposed to have anything fatty. Then, after two o’clock, you are not allowed to have anything else. Not true!! You are not allowed to EAT anything else. You are allowed to drink. I messed that up, I didn’t drink and woke up with very dehydrated skin.

At six, I  had my first 3/4 cup of water mixed with epsom salts.

((You dilute 2 cups of water with 30grams of epsom salts upfront))

I was suppose to be running for the toilet soon, didn’t happen.

At eight, another 3/4 cups. At 10, I’ll mix olive oil with freshly squeezed grapefruit juice, then go right to sleep (and the instructions said to think how the stones are passing through me. I ain’t that zen! 🙂  )

When I wake up, another salt mixture, and two hours later another one. Then I am allowed to drink some fruit juice again, then slowly eat some fruit, and by afternoon, I can eat normally again.

The point is that the stones pass through you, and a lot of places tell you to look for the green pebbles in the toilet with the flashlight, but I am not doing that!!

Here is some detailed information.

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I am writing about toilet activity. It really shouldn’t come much as a surprise when people say they’ll need a beer or two to like me.

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Update # 1

Things started moving just before ten, so I didn’t get to drink the olive oil+ grapefruit mixture until 10.30.

Like they say in the instructions, diarrhea is a mild description of what happens, and the mixture is not nearly as bad as it sounds. I slept poorly, because I was afraid I was going to have to run to the toilet. I didn’t have to – until 6 in the morning. Then the fun started. It’s still going strong.

I could barely gulped down the remaining two portions of the potion, I really don’t like it!

I declare the cleanse as successful.

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Update #2

I passed out.

I guess because of dehydration. Woke up on the floor of my room, no idea what time it was, nothing.

Mom, who didn’t know anything about my cleanse, found out because my brother called her all upset. She, naturally, freaked. So now I am drinking electrolytes and resting.

I am never doing it again, needless to say…Still, I am not sorry. Better to know then to wonder!