Dentistry

I had a dentist's appointment this morning. Filling and two crowns, all in one quadrant.

Fortunately Dr. Dave is a really really good dentist. Makes darn sure that I'm numbed, despite my weird reactions to anesthetic. Has actual conversations with me, the only doctor I know that will do so. Turns out for people like me, apparently it isn't so much that we need more anesthetic, but that we need longer for it to take effect, and that's due to differing blood pH. I know I have a weird pH, given that shots and eyedrops and such that are supposed to be neutral, sure aren't on me. So this made sense.

Still. It sucks. And the loaner mp3 player I had with me I couldn't get to work until afterwards, so no music while drilling.

And mostly I just have this immense sense of I spent HOW MUCH money? On teeth that weren't hurting? The guys keep saying well, they *would* have hurt later, this is a good thing to have done, but eeeek.

And because of the medications, and because they were taking out an old filling with the mercury stuff in it, Alanna's not getting breastfed today. She's getting bottles for the first time. fordprfct is helping with her, took care of her while I was at the appointment, and got her first bottle of pumped milk down her. This afternoon I'm pumping and dumping, which I don't like, but needs to be done. Poor Alanna.

Adventures, with cream

Last night Alanna and I met up with fordprfct to go do some errands and Christmas shopping together. We did one stop, then went to have dinner. We were up in Southlake, and feeling adventuresome, so just figured we'd go somewhere different, whatever we saw that appealed to us. We ended up at the Cheesecake Factory, where neither of us had ever gone before.

My, it was GOOD. I had steak diane and herb crusted salmon. VERY tasty. And we had cheesecake afterwards, of course. A slice of vanilla bean cheesecake and one of Godiva chocolate cheesecake. Both with lots of whipped cream.

When I'm eating out with Alanna, she spends part of the meal in her carseat, so I *can* eat, but often spends a good chunk of the meal in my lap - while we're waiting, or while I have something I can reasonably eat one-handed. So she was in my lap, and I decided to offer her some of the whipped cream.

MAJOR success. She adored it. 4 pictures, starting here. They were low-light cameraphone pics, but I've lightened them up as best as I could. She was happily glomming onto my finger.

The waitress adored her, held her and talked to her for a while. She was admired by another of the waiters, too.

Then after dinner we went out on the rest of the shopping - which, sadly, I struck out on, and will have to try elsewhere. But Alanna was admired some more.