My Kingdom For Dental Benefits
Good morning.
As promised, I let the Hubster rest yesterday. It was a lazy day for all of us. I was up very early, posted an entry here and went back to bed until 11 or so. We went up to Shelburne to check out Giant Tiger and to get groceries. Thats about the most we accomplished.
Since Hubby had spent about 3 hours driving with my dad, he kept thinking of things father had said, to repeat to me. I guess he is still talkative when he has a captive audience, and since Hubby hasn't heard the stories a million times, he was attentive.
We ended the day with a couple of Christmas movies. It seems the only time we ever buy new movies is Christmas, so most of our movies are Christmas movies. We watched Miracle On 34th Street and The Polar Express. That is a strange movie. The graphics are amazing. Its animated but at times looks quite real. Miracle is one of Hubby's favourites and I am growing fonder of it as I watch it each year. I didn't used to like it at all and I think thats because there is no snow in it lol. Gone are the days of having to wait for these movies to come on TV.
My father watched most of Lemony Snicketts Series Of Unfortunate Events while I was busy cooking dinner, he didn't like it, but he didn't say anything, like, can I watch something else? But hey, he picked it. It was the first time he had seen our big screen TV. I thought it would be easy for him to see, but he still had to pull a chair half way across the room to be closer to it. He is blind in one eye now. He was telling us he plans on buying himself a plasma TV, sheesh. Ah well, the better to watch all those DVDs he'll be getting for Christmas with.
We finally finished decorating the tree last night too. It was just a matter of hanging the tinsel on it. Years ago, I had to actually teach Hubby how to put tinsel on a tree! He used to take a handful and just fire it at the tree so it would land in clumps. Hubby is Hungarian. The Hungarian traditions differ from Canadian? North American? The parents put up the tree and decorate it on Christmas Eve while the kids are sleeping. So he had no expreience with tree decorating. They also don't hang stockings, instead they leave their boots out, by a window or door, for St. Nicholas to fill with goodies. I had asked him years ago if he wanted to combine some of his traditions with ours and he didn't want to. But I think he misses it. I think he misses his family too. Even more so now that mine is more or less out of the picture. Hubby lost both of his parents, his father around 1996 and then his mother less than a year later. We have no contact with any of his siblings, well, if you know me, or have been reading this for any length of time, you know all about that. For whatever reason I think it is particularly difficult for him this year. Oh I'll be glad to see 2007! We're going through the motions but, its not the most happy, cheerful Christmas we've ever seen. It seems impossible for us to lift each others spirits. I hoped going to that party Friday would help maybe get us in a celebratory mood, it was fun while it lasted. Now I'm hoping the upcoming break from work will lift his spirits, but I'm thinking it may backfire and he'll just dread going back. He has really become unhappy with his job in the last few months.
And then I got a toothache this morning. I seem to wake up grinding what few teeth I have left. I woke with a start one day on the weekend as I heard a noise like a crack or a crunch, like I broke a tooth. It must have been Sunday because it was bothering me last night and then worse this morning. There wasn't a drop of Oragel in the house. Luckily I was able to make an appointment with the dentist for today. It happens to be one of the two teeth we are keeping which the bottom denture will hook onto. The dentist couldn't find anything wrong with it and so wrote me a prescription for antibiotics and told me to feel free to come back if it doesn't clear up. That visit cost me $81. I haven't got the scrip filled yet. Grrrrrrr. I came home and slept all day. Little R was home from school, not feeling too good, and she slept all day too.
And the constant promise of looking into dental benefits with no results is one reason Hubby is unhappy at his job. This has been going on for years. Every time he asks his boss about it, the boss will say, yeah I'm looking into it or something similar, and Hubby believed him. They have no benefits. The boss buys them all coats and vests and shirts and crap instead. Its stupid. Little R needs braces, she seriously needs them and that will cost $5000. All our teeth have suffered because of this job with no benefits.
Now Hubby just walked in from work, I'm off to spend some quality time with the family. Chow.
As promised, I let the Hubster rest yesterday. It was a lazy day for all of us. I was up very early, posted an entry here and went back to bed until 11 or so. We went up to Shelburne to check out Giant Tiger and to get groceries. Thats about the most we accomplished.
Since Hubby had spent about 3 hours driving with my dad, he kept thinking of things father had said, to repeat to me. I guess he is still talkative when he has a captive audience, and since Hubby hasn't heard the stories a million times, he was attentive.
We ended the day with a couple of Christmas movies. It seems the only time we ever buy new movies is Christmas, so most of our movies are Christmas movies. We watched Miracle On 34th Street and The Polar Express. That is a strange movie. The graphics are amazing. Its animated but at times looks quite real. Miracle is one of Hubby's favourites and I am growing fonder of it as I watch it each year. I didn't used to like it at all and I think thats because there is no snow in it lol. Gone are the days of having to wait for these movies to come on TV.
My father watched most of Lemony Snicketts Series Of Unfortunate Events while I was busy cooking dinner, he didn't like it, but he didn't say anything, like, can I watch something else? But hey, he picked it. It was the first time he had seen our big screen TV. I thought it would be easy for him to see, but he still had to pull a chair half way across the room to be closer to it. He is blind in one eye now. He was telling us he plans on buying himself a plasma TV, sheesh. Ah well, the better to watch all those DVDs he'll be getting for Christmas with.
We finally finished decorating the tree last night too. It was just a matter of hanging the tinsel on it. Years ago, I had to actually teach Hubby how to put tinsel on a tree! He used to take a handful and just fire it at the tree so it would land in clumps. Hubby is Hungarian. The Hungarian traditions differ from Canadian? North American? The parents put up the tree and decorate it on Christmas Eve while the kids are sleeping. So he had no expreience with tree decorating. They also don't hang stockings, instead they leave their boots out, by a window or door, for St. Nicholas to fill with goodies. I had asked him years ago if he wanted to combine some of his traditions with ours and he didn't want to. But I think he misses it. I think he misses his family too. Even more so now that mine is more or less out of the picture. Hubby lost both of his parents, his father around 1996 and then his mother less than a year later. We have no contact with any of his siblings, well, if you know me, or have been reading this for any length of time, you know all about that. For whatever reason I think it is particularly difficult for him this year. Oh I'll be glad to see 2007! We're going through the motions but, its not the most happy, cheerful Christmas we've ever seen. It seems impossible for us to lift each others spirits. I hoped going to that party Friday would help maybe get us in a celebratory mood, it was fun while it lasted. Now I'm hoping the upcoming break from work will lift his spirits, but I'm thinking it may backfire and he'll just dread going back. He has really become unhappy with his job in the last few months.
And then I got a toothache this morning. I seem to wake up grinding what few teeth I have left. I woke with a start one day on the weekend as I heard a noise like a crack or a crunch, like I broke a tooth. It must have been Sunday because it was bothering me last night and then worse this morning. There wasn't a drop of Oragel in the house. Luckily I was able to make an appointment with the dentist for today. It happens to be one of the two teeth we are keeping which the bottom denture will hook onto. The dentist couldn't find anything wrong with it and so wrote me a prescription for antibiotics and told me to feel free to come back if it doesn't clear up. That visit cost me $81. I haven't got the scrip filled yet. Grrrrrrr. I came home and slept all day. Little R was home from school, not feeling too good, and she slept all day too.
And the constant promise of looking into dental benefits with no results is one reason Hubby is unhappy at his job. This has been going on for years. Every time he asks his boss about it, the boss will say, yeah I'm looking into it or something similar, and Hubby believed him. They have no benefits. The boss buys them all coats and vests and shirts and crap instead. Its stupid. Little R needs braces, she seriously needs them and that will cost $5000. All our teeth have suffered because of this job with no benefits.
Now Hubby just walked in from work, I'm off to spend some quality time with the family. Chow.
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