woes

Mar. 26th, 2019 11:33 am
jmtorres: (uncertainty)
my wrist still hurts, making typing (and command keys) a pain. fortunately it's my offhand so i can still take notes for class without it bothering me (I just don't want to).

I woke up in the middle of the night with a toothache. Only, when I gave up on ignoring it and went to the bathroom to stare in the mirror tapping teeth to figure out which one it was (the one that's getting replaced with an implant? or the one that just got a crown? or a nearby one just ruining everything?) it went away? so i'm thinking it's sinus, because positional changes affecting level of pain. I had it again this morning and it went away again when I got up. I mean yay but also wtf why.

So i have 2 vids in 2 fandoms competing for headspace right now, and I picked one to work on on vacation based on not needing the entire series it was in to do it--it's a Killjoys vid about Pree, and in most of three seasons he's in about 2 scenes per episode, and cutting just his scenes means my source base is small enough to fit on the ipad for an attempt at imovie vidding. I am now up to s4 in vidding and he's in a lot more scenes but like, not doing anything, just providing reaction shots. Which might be useful for my vid, but are a lot more annoying to hunt down. Considering just taking the first three seasons' clips with me and seeing how far I can get on the vid without season four.

anyway, because I've been focusing on clipping Killjoys, I had a brilliant inspiration about the Magicians vid that I am definitely not vidding while away from the desktop. I mean, I wrote it down? It's not like I'm going to lose it in that sense. But the feeling, that's going to go away by the time I come home again, and damn it, I really wanted to ride that feeling to approximately oh look i made 3/4 of a vid I'm almost done. Instead I'm being a responsible graduate student and taking an exam, sigh.
jmtorres: The arch-elf from the movie Santa Clause, with pita. (food)
I have a temporary filling waiting for a partial crown for 2 weeks, it feels like a gob of putty stuck to my teeth I hate it. Awesome.

experiments with the ice cream maker so far:

1. coconut caramel with praline pecans. 1 cup milk, 1 cup cream, 1 can of coconut sweetened condensed milk caramelized by boiling for 4 hours, one 5oz package of candied pecans. Came out sweeter than I expected, also I was hoping for a caramel swirl and to do that you really have to put it in at the last 5 seconds, not the last 5 minutes, as the manual recommends for add-ins.

2. cherry garcia sherbet--1 lb package of frozen cherries, food processored with 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips, 1 cup cream. so the instructions are like "chill your ingredients before putting in the ice cream maker. no, colder than that. no, colder than that. COLDER." so anyway I was like "what if I just use frozen cherries is that cold enough?" it turns out it's too cold actually, the ice cream maker couldn't make the mixture like actually mix and take in air for fluffiness, it was just a huge hard lump pretty much. A tasty lump at least. Chopped dark choc chips a fave now.

3. Raspberry cheesecake ice cream--12 oz package of frozen raspberries food processored with 1/3 cup dark choc chips, 8 oz package of neufchatel, 1 pint half-and-half, 2/3 cup sugar. Too much volume for the ice cream maker, fluffed over the edge. Tasty though. commercial ice cream clearly uses significantly less fruit in their fruit flavored ice cream. the neufchatel did not fully blend with the half-and-half but I think that will work for getting chunks of more cheesecaky through the ice cream. Lots of raspberry seeds.

Teeth

Oct. 18th, 2015 02:24 pm
jmtorres: touching evil US, Creegan in bronze. are you okay? you've been shot in the head (fucked in the head)
My teeth continue to be terrible. They're up to three root canal's in the last month. Apologies for the terrible punctuation, and any weird spelling issues, for some reason when I update dreamwidth on my phone I can't get the cursor to be anywhere but the end of the entry so I can't correct earlier mistakes without deleting a bunch of crap.

I just called the endodontist on a number that I was told took voicemails for him on nonbusiness hours and I would get a call back. But he actually picked up the phone, which threw me, and I don't feel like I said everything I had planned to say about the condition of the most recent root canal.

Also I haven't eaten food yet today. I have root canal's on both side of my mouth, the left side has like a filling Cap so it's not too bad to eat on but I'm not supposed to eat anything crunchy or sticky. The two root canal's down front are fresh and sore and I'm not supposed to bite down with them so I need to eat food I can spoon into my mouth basically. Or that I can cram into the left side and bite off over there. But my basic solution to food distress only eating things that don't require utensils or plating -- Not working so much today.

my sinuses

Aug. 12th, 2015 05:46 pm
jmtorres: Text is "It's death for me to be caught with marbles in my possession" quote from Vorkosigan. Image of marble. (marbles)
First up: I have an appointment with an ENT. Not soon because that's not how doctors or American insurance works but in a couple of weeks. Naturally I had hoped to not be suffering from my sinus crap in a couple of weeks but apparently it will be ongoing so hey they can look at it happening live.

So today, my sinuses are doing a new and interesting thing: I keep getting these twinges (and by that I don't mean painful per se I just mean awareness of thing happening) where it feels like my teeth are adjusting position, as if the sinus pressure is pushing one or two of them out of socket. And honestly, compared to the typical sensations of sinus pressure on my teeth, a.k.a. sobbing pain, I'll take it. I would really honestly happily lose a molar if it meant my ongoing sinus crap was less horrifically painful.

I'm also going to the dentist soon hopefully, if any of my upper molars have anything wrong with them, which given the history of me and root canals it is sadly possible, I'm just going to tell the dentist to yank them: I actually have a theory that my existing root canal hardware pokes my sinuses whenever they are swollen and makes everything more painful so yeah. I would million times rather lose a molar than take another root canal.

so hey

Jun. 11th, 2013 07:07 pm
jmtorres: Close-up of the fuschia scarf Lilah from "Angel" wore after being beheaded. (coping mechanism: ribbon)
i had a root canal yesterday

i am misery

if you made plans with me for NYC, I will still meet you! But for limited amounts of time before i go back to curl up on [personal profile] grey_bard's couch. Walking around exploring will not be so much a thing.

also right now i am favoring soft foods. and. really hoping my vicodin 'scrip will last the whole trip.
jmtorres: Faith tortures Wesley. Text; Pretty when you bleed. (blood)
So I have pain, I have dental issues Expandmaybe you don't want to hear about this? I know I'm grossed out )

So I want to read fic for comfort and I have this problem of right now I can't read blowjobs. The thought of puttiong things in mouths makes me cringe so hard. I am okay with kissing and choosing not to examine this too closely. But blowjobs: who warns for blowjobs? No one, that's who. I certainly can't recall which of the many stories I've enjoyed did or did not include oral in their various sexcapades--I wasn't taking notes. (I have yet to test whether cunnilingus makes me cry. I think I would prefer not to test that one, since lesbian, can we not traumatize me for things that may ever be relevant to my real life.)

Fandom, please rec me fic in which there is NO oral sex. I really want long fic to wallow in, like 20,000 words at least, and fandoms--oh lord. I've been working on reading all of the Steve/Tony and am not averse to rereading things I am assured are BJ-free, and I seem to be down with random other pairings of Avengers and/or movieverse stuff. I read that really good Clint/Darcy one yesterday (carefully and with great relief when a dirty bathroom floor caused Darcy to nix blowjobs). I am willing to read other fandoms, even fandoms I do not know; heck, I've been lured into fandoms that way (see: epic Dresden Files recs), just saying, that's what fandom I'm currently in, and I know there are some Steve/Tony big bangs recently posted. I just need to know: which ones are blowjobless and safe for me???
jmtorres: Kermit and Miss Piggy's leg re-enact famous shot from film The Graduate. Text: crack-headed crossover. (muppets)
So hey, what is the average lifespan of a composite filling? I've lost 4 in recent memory.

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