Christmas In February?

Maybe not but that's what it felt like the other night! On Tuesday I headed in to town to do some errands and I picked up the mail before I left. There was a parcel notice in the mailbox but it said I couldn't pick the parcel up until after 5 pm. Drat! While I was in town, I met up with DH and gave him the notice so that he could pick up the parcel on his way home from work. Good thing I did because when he walked in the door with this HUGE box, I almost fell over ;o)

When I saw the box, I immediately knew who it was from...my friend J :o) J lives in British Columbia and we've been friends for...well...I'd say at least ten years. We met through our love of model horses. Anything horses really. LOL! J's like my model horse dealer because she's the only one that will fuel my addiction and this was definitely one of those times!

As you can see, there was 'a lot' in that box -

The model horses I'm talking about are called Breyers. I've been collecting them since I got my first model back in 1986. At one time I probably had close to 500 but over the last few years, I've sold a lot of them off. I just didn't have the room for them anymore! LOL! But once in awhile, J brings out the kid in me ;o) All the red boxes you see are Christmas ornaments made by Breyer and I'd say I have enough to decorate a six foot tree. Someday, DH and I are going to have to get a bigger house so we can have multiple trees.

Anyway, THANK YOU J and I'll be firing an email off to you soon :o)

Yesterday I went to the specialist for the abscess on my tooth. When I left in the morning, it was swollen but the pain was gone. By the afternoon, the swelling was down to about 1/4 of what it was but it was 'bright' red with a white dot. Hmmmm. Dr. B was wonderful and very informative. I brought my x-rays from my dentist and they did another set there. Well...come to find out that there was this little white spot on the x-ray and between the two pictures of the same area, it had moved. Huh? It turns out it was a piece of cement from the root canal and it was floating around, trying to make its way out. That may be the white dot I am seeing.

Since I've been back on the antibiotics, the swelling and the pain are doing much better but we're not sure if this will be a reoccurring problem :oS Dr. B gave me four choices. One, to wait a month and see if it heals (my immune system is not the best). Two, he could go back through the root canal and try to see if there were any ends off the root that didn't get killed off. Three, he could go in through my gum and that would mean surgery. And four, he could take the tooth out. Well as you can see, since I am quite the chicken shit, I chose option one ;o)

Tomorrow afternoon is the Pink Party and I'm starting to panic, hoping that I will have everything ready. My enthusiasm is coming back so I hope it goes as well as I picture in my mind. I hope I'm not expecting too much. The house is in order except the dishes in the kitchen but that won't take too long tomorrow morning. One thing I am disappointed in is that one item did not arrive for the goodie bags :o( I guess I'll just have to give those out later on. When I recoup, I promise to post a summary and lots of pictures :o)