My tooth has started hurting again.  I went through this a while back where I thought I was going to need a root canal.  My dentist gave me some painkillers and had me wait a week for an appointment just in case it went away.  I got lucky and it went away.  Well, now it’s back.  I don’t know why, either.  All I know is that I’m in quite a bit of pain.  I really don’t have the money to go to the dentist right now, so I guess I’m going to play the “wait and see” game and hope it goes away.  Except this time I don’t have any of those good painkillers that my dentist gave me.  But it would cost a little over $200 to go to the dentist to get checked out just to get a prescription and I doubt they would be up for prescribing them WITHOUT me coming in to see them since it’s been over a year.

I guess for now I have no choice but to deal with the pain as best as possible.  I have some Orajel that works for about 5-10 minutes and I’ve been taking 4 Advil at a time.  I can tell the lower part of my jaw on that side is a bit swollen as well.  I can’t eat on that side and actually haven’t been that hungry anyhow since the pain is just constantly throbbing and I can feel it in my ear at times.  So yes, I’m a bit crabby right now.

I’m also still tired, but not as bad, at least.  I had a test on Monday in Spanish and a test today in Math.  I got a “B” on the Spanish test, which I was disappointed in.  I have gotten “A”s in Spanish mostly.  I did get an “A” on my Math test today though, despite me being in pain the whole time.  I only got one question wrong.  My next Spanish test will be a take home test over the Memorial Day weekend.  I should be able to bring up that “B” by doing well on this test.

Yesterday I found someone to carpool with to school and back.  That’s one major worry off my mind.  We have four frickin’ cars and only one is running.  So the days that hubby drives to work, I have been stuck with the motorcycle.  I don’t mind unless it’s like yesterday when it decides to rain.  I ended up not going to school because of not feeling up to riding 25 miles in the rain.  Because I missed class, one of my classmates called me last night and she lives just around the corner.  We have Spanish together and she also has a course right after Spanish like I do.  So it worked out perfectly and I can just ride with her and help her out with gas money.  With hubby having been out of work for almost 2 weeks with a serious case of strep, we just don’t have any money to throw at fixing cars right now.  I like carpooling anyhow because it gives me someone to talk to on the ride there and back.

I decided I’d like to possibly print out my own graduation announcements for the end of summer.  It’s only for my A.A. degree which is Phase 1 anyhow.  I’m going on for the Bachelor’s so when I graduate then it will be a bigger deal.  I’m not even going through the ceremony this time around.  I would like to just send a few announcements to some of my family and friends to let them know I earned my A.A. but that there is no need to send me any gifts or anything like that.  I’m not having a party.  I looked around on the Internet on how to word the announcements and to let the people know not to send gifts and came up with a couple of sites.  Now I just need to find what artwork, etc. I want to put on them and get greeting card paper to print them out on.  If anyone knows of any free sites that you can design cards or announcements, let me know.

I got a new digital camera I’ve been playing around with.  Actually it’s a 6 megapixel camera, plus camcorder, voice recorder and MP3 player.  You can download or record TV programs or DVD’s to watch on the small screen it has or you can hook it up to a TV or computer and watch it on there.  It has headphones with it and you can download MP3 files onto it for listening to.  It’s fairly small for its size, too.  It’s approximately 4″x2″x1′.  It stores information on SD cards so you can record as much video as will fit on the card.  I can tell I’ll probably need a 2 gig card if I’m going to do a lot of video.  It also came with a USB plug so that I can download pictures, movies, etc. right to my computer.  The video is pretty good quality.  The only problem I’ve seen so far is that you really need some light if you are videotaping anything inside.  It has a Night Shot mode but then if you move the camera too fast, things can get a bit blurred when using that.  It’s best to have it on a tripod in that mode.  I think all of it together was about $150, which is a pretty good price for a 6 megapixel camera, especially one that is able to do all the other things this one can.  It’s some off brand name that I had never heard of and I think some places bought a whole bunch of these and people have been snatching them up.  So far I haven’t heard any complaints about it, except one.  They didn’t give us a lens cap to protect the lens with.  Eventually I want to post some pictures from it to see how they look.  So far I can tell they look a lot better than my old camera.  I just haven’t had much time to mess with it and today I haven’t felt like doing much of anything anyhow.

In fact, I may just take a nap.  At least while I’m asleep I won’t know how bad I hurt.  I was in tears earlier until the Advil took some of the edge off.  They are wearing off way too soon, it seems.  I’ve got other stuff I really need to do, but it’s hard to focus on anything for any length of time while this pain is railing me.  I should figure out what I’m cooking for dinner tonight, since it will have to be creative.  We’re near the time when we need to go grocery shopping so it’s one of those nights where I have to figure out what I can put with what to make a meal.  The only problem is that I don’t even feel like eating, much less cooking.

It might just be one of those “fend for yourself” nights…