Boob tube.....

I used to get up and switch on the TODAY show (with hesitation since 9/11) but to try to stay on top of the current events. I also enjoyed the evening news. Lately, I'm just tired of the drama with politics. The blatant favortism of the news media as far as political parties. Living in PA we thought that we wouldn't have much say in the political process since we're so late with our primary but here we are......the big vote! I'm for neither! We're watching commercials by both potential candidates that just turn my stomach. We have the guy who gave the supposed wonderful speech from Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago. The speech was about race. We are being slammed with his commercials about being raised by a single mother and his grandparents. The commercial is centers on his mother's side of the family and her parents. Interesting! We have the female who brags about her experience that far out weighs others because she's lived in the white house. Well so did the pastry chef! In fact, I'm sure there are some that have been there through more than an eight year term. Let's get them and vote them into office. The guards or maybe the cleaning crew. Let's vote in Monica; she's got oval office experience and she's female! Poor John McCain has to use his video of being a prisoner of war in his commercial. Great! The most unpopular war of all time and he's trying to get votes from that. Maybe if he'd run in the 50's. Let's change the law and then Arnold can be president! A Republican married to a Democrat. Would be interesting! It's going to be a long month till they move out of the state and forget about us again.

I broke my titanium glasses yesterday. Snapped in half at the nose piece. I loved those glasses! Now I'm stuck with little granny glasses from the drug store that give a person a headache. My favorite optician in the whole world is in Hawaii so it's a long flight to get to him.

Better

I'm doing much better in the root canal department. No longer need drugs and just feeling a little pressure.

Finished a great book by Jeffrey Archer. "A Prisoner of Birth." Archer is a former member of the House of Commons, and the House of Lords in Britain. He's also spent two years in Her Majesty's prison. He's written wonderful stories, including "Kane and Abel," which is one of my all time favorite books and was a TV miniseries. I enjoyed this one book immensely. He took his legal knowledge and his prison knowledge to write this story. He took the main character from the East End of London. A young man with a future as a mechanic in his fiance's Father's garage. The night he proposes to his girl is the night that life changed. He's accused of a murder and sent to prison where he's befriended by his cell mates. This leads to a total life change for him and a way to escape his wrongful conviction. He's seeking revenge and setting his traps. Throw in a little "Prince and the Pauper." Definitely a hard book to put down.

Spent some time with my new friend. A little comfort food, knitting and chatting at a necessary time. Thanks MA!

Another Harlan Coben

This time I finished "Gone for Good." I thought the last one was suspenseful but this one was even more so. I never knew who was the good guy and who was the bad guy. I didn't expect the ending at all and I usually am able to figure them out. Excellent author! Great story!

I think I might finally have a handle on the root canal pain. It's evening and I haven't had to take my hourly hit of pain relief.

Another Mystery

I finished "Tell No One" by Harlan Coben. A great suspense thriller! Dr. David Beck married his childhood sweetheart and then watched her kidnapping while he was being beaten and left to drown. For eight years he believed her dead! Suddenly he's being questioned by the FBI about his wife's death and his possible connection to it. To top it off, he's receiving strange emails that could only be sent by his dead wife. Wonderfully written and definitely a page turner!

I had to call the endodontist this morning to find out why I'm having such pain after the root canal. He said since I'm unable to take Advil or something similar that I'm not getting the benefit of an anti-inflamatory that is needed to help with the pain. I was told by my family doctor that since I have stomach problems that I shouldn't use anything but Tylenol. Now I need to dump the Tylenol and take Advil. 600 milligrams of it! If I don't time it right so that it is in my system at the exact moment then the effects are devastating. I have to wake up every 3 hours to make sure that I take it regularly. Gee, let's guess what's next month's horror story! Stomach problems maybe!

Got my root canal

I was taken in as an emergency to the endodontist and my root canal is complete. Used to take several sessions but now they do it in one sitting. Another fortune was spent to keep this old body together. Now I get to go back to the regular dentist and have his put a crown on the salvaged tooth. Bet that won't cost much either! My tongue is doing a dance over the sharp edges of the temporary filling.

Finished "Killer Heat" by Linda Fairstein. It's her latest and she has regular characters in her books but you don't have to read them all to enjoy them. She's one of America's foremost legal experts on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence and she ran the Sex Crimes Unit of the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan for more than 20 years. With that background she definitely knows what she's writing about. This book was about a serial killer that liked his victims in uniform. A very good story if you like a murder mystery.

Root Canal

That's the latest! I was sitting at home on Easter Day and the pain started above a molar. I thought I'd just gotten something trapped under the gum but as the day went on so did the pain. By this morning it was pretty bad. I called my dentist and needless to say he was on vacation until tomorrow. I called the backup "guy." Got in to see him at 3:00 but all he did was x-ray and confirm that it needed a root canal which I had started to suspect. He wrote a prescription for antibiotics and more pain pills and off I went to the drug store. I took the first pill at 3:45 and it's barely fazed it. I have to go to my dentist now to decide whether to do a root canal on a tooth that has been rebuilt several times or to just pull it and put in a fake. Here we go again! Tomorrow I have a real estate class till noon; office duty till 5:00 and my oil painting class till 9:30. Hmmmmmmmmmm.........wonder what I have to give up to see the dentist. The way I feel I'd like to give them all up.

The Monsters of Templeton"

I finished this book by Lauren Groff. I enjoyed it but there were parts that left me a little confused until later in the book. It's loosely based on Cooperstown, NY even though the author has renamed it Templeton in the book. It spans two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical and part ghost story. It's basically a town that holds the secrets of a family. It even has it's own "lake monster" that unfortunately is found dead in the beginning of the book. Since I've been doing family tree searches for about two years now, this book held some interest. The main character was busily searching her family history which was also the key to finding her biological father.