{"id":52147,"date":"2021-02-03T20:51:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T03:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=52147"},"modified":"2021-02-04T21:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T04:58:39","slug":"its-mid-week-and-all-is-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=52147","title":{"rendered":"It’s Mid-Week And All Is Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I venture into the unknown today, but I have a wonderful friend to venture with me.\u00a0 I have not been happy with my teeth for years, but after 76 years, I should be happy that I still have some.\u00a0 So, I decided to see about getting them “fixed.”\u00a0 Mary was up and ready to go when I showed up this morning and said she would be happy to go with me.<\/p>\n

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Ready, willing, and able!<\/p><\/div>\n

We drove to Doctor Annie’s office, and I went through an hour of assessing, measuring, and discussing.\u00a0 Mary, constantly on the prowl to catch me in compromising situations, snapped a picture of me with my mouth wide open. Nothing unique about that!<\/p>\n

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Nice camera! The lens was extra-heavy-duty or surely would have cracked under the intense pressure!<\/p><\/div>\n

After all the pictures, I asked Dr. Annie, “What do dentists call<\/em> their x-rays?”\u00a0 She was at a loss until I blurted out, ” Tooth pics.”<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0I learned a lesson; don’t tease a dentist with sharp instruments in their hands!<\/p>\n

So I have thought about it, and as soon as I sell my other car, rent out a room in my house, and cash in all my insurance policies, I will begin the transformation.\u00a0 Although I pointed out to them that it’s like putting lipstick on a pig!<\/p>\n

Oh, did you hear about the Buddhist who refused to have an anesthetic injection when he was going for a filling? Apparently, he wanted to transcend dental medication.<\/p>\n

Mary, my trusty sidekick, always alerts me if I appear to be trolling.\u00a0 I thought of her when I saw this cartoon.<\/p>\n

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It’s an inside joke!<\/p><\/div>\n

We departed Huntington Beach and went to lunch at Rockwell’s in Villa Park.\u00a0 We had a great lunch.\u00a0 \u00a0I made a mistake thinking it was noon and ordered a glass of wine.\u00a0 OMG, it was 10:00 AM. I drank it anyway!<\/p>\n

From there, we went back home and awaiting Mary’s financial person to show up.\u00a0 I passed the time working on the puzzle.<\/p>\n

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I am always there to help!<\/p><\/div>\n

Went Paula showed up, we exchanged greetings, and I took off for Jan’s, then to Home Depot, and finally, I took a drive through Villa Park, keeping my eye open for a house for sale with a six-car garage!<\/p>\n

I am five days into using the Fluorouracil, a chemical that finds pre-cancer conditions and forces the cells to grow and self-destruct.\u00a0 I look like my face hit a meat grinder, and the meat grinder won. Fluorouracil is an anti-cancer (“antineoplastic” or “cytotoxic”) chemotherapy drug.\u00a0 We stopped by Ralph’s market, and Mary asked for a dozen brown paper shopping bags and a box of Crayolas; I think I know what might be coming my way.<\/p>\n

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“Why Me?”<\/p><\/div>\n

At 4:00 PM, I returned to Mary’s, where we talked to Colleen for 45 minutes.\u00a0 We then went to The Rib Trader and picked up dinner.\u00a0 All the financial mumbo-jumbo made Mary tired because, at 6:00 PM, she crashed on the couch.\u00a0 I watched Two And A Half Men until 8:00 PM and then sent Mary to bed.\u00a0 I headed home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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