Just call me Toothless.

 

Dental surgery yesterday.  Local freezing.  Not advisable but my only real option re: cancer.  So I was brave.  It wasn't painful but omg it was definitely horrifying.  The sound of your tooth being broken into pieces is soooo gross and crazy loud.  It bled for hours.  There are two pages of after care instructions. I drove myself and got to listen to my audio book there and back.  That part was nice.  The drooling the whole way home wasn't so great.  It comes with more diet restrictions.  Sigh.

I didn't sleep well, I was supposed to be elevated.  Instead in the wee hours I ditched the extra pillow and finally got a few hours.  I was waiting for the extreme pain, swelling and bruising but so far it's been only mildly annoying.

I did get out today.  Jia to the Dr. then Ramen.  A Walmart trip.  Picked up the boys.  Home for dinner and this evening we went to a 4x4 gathering in town.  It was cold and then it started to snow so we skedaddled.  We were back by 8 and all three teens are sleeping.  Wild.  Are we supposed to wake them for snacks or leave them alone?

We got in Oscar and his battery was dead.  Likely Eric left his built in compressor on.  So we had to take Onyx.  Embarrassing for Eric, but fun for me.  I met the owners wife of Cap-It and she came out to see my camp set up.  She's going to sus out a water container rack for my back door ;)

I keep thinking tomorrow is free because there isn't much on the calendar.  Except Fei is home tomorrow, we are doing our family dumpling night for Lunar New Year and celebrating Fei.  So it will be a busy day.  Making enough dumplings for this crew will take me a good while.

We have wheeling plans for Sunday.  Heading out with Jen and her crew on trails near Parksville we've never been on.  Then night wheeling again on Monday.

Cenote.  So fun.

I wonder if they want to come home.  Looks and sounds like they had a great time.

Random

 

Fei and friends are enjoying themselves.

A very odd occurrence.  All six pets in the same room, enjoying treats together.

The Ninja Creami is my current favorite thing.  Canned peaches with peach yogurt.  Sugar free ice cream variety for the win!

Tonight I get fresh strawberries with field berry yogurt.  Can't wait.

I got a call yesterday with an appointment with the surgeon who will do the protectomy. It's next Wednesday.  Dread.  Big dread.  BIG, BIG DREAD.

Today is quiet.  I'm waiting for a call for my dental surgery time for tomorrow.  Except I can't have dental surgery re: the cancer so the Dentist is going to use freezing instead.  A little apprehensive about this.  It was decided by him that a Chrones person chould handle this level of pain easily.  All the fun things I have to look forward to.  

It's possible today will include some wallowing.

Kai's Gotcha

Hanging with Jax.

We went to Mary and Charles for a Lunar New Year gathering.  Kai whipped in the house and got this comfy in seconds.

We went for Chinese buffet after.  He was thrilled.

 

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Omg, I randomly went to the app and it let me post a picture!  Could it be that blogging just got stupid easy again?!  

His hair.  And the blog let me post a 2nd picture.  Life altering.

On a second try the pictures posted sideways again.  So, nope, not fixed.

The Gentleman's Club

 

At the top of the Malahat Mountain, at a huge antenna where there is no light pollution, save our phones, we were able to see the stars in a way I've never seen them before.  It was magical.  It was also funny all of us trying to get through the bush to a clearing in the pitch dark.

Night wheeling.  Group of 5 cars.  We went to Oliphant Lake but it was too dark and I didn't see water.  Haha.  Had to ask later about it and was told we did get to it and then moved on.

I have read about the secret gentlemens club but we had no idea where it was. There is a structure out in the wilds.  Now we can say we got there and enjoyed a fire with friends and new friends.

There is indeed a stage and pole.

And a kitchen.  Rudimentary.  Even has a sink.

The Ninja Creamy does in fact make icecream.  This one was a chocolate peanut butter protein drink with a splash of milk to tame the flavor down. I see lots of frozen sugar free treats in my future.

Random picture of my babies.  It's hard to get them still because they always follow me.  I told them about 20 times to stay while I turned a light on and got my phone and they oddly listened to me.

Not much happened around here for Valentines day.  I put out the usual treats the night before for the kids.  Eric and I always skip V-day.  Lili wasn't here to get her treat and feel the love so Jia and I took it to her.  We met at Ping's for lunch.  Which was fabulous although pricey. 

Today Jia works and Eric the boys and I are going to visit at Mary and Charles house.  They hosting a LNY lunch. We're skipping the lunch part since we'll be late from dropping Jia.

Happy Birthday Fei!

 

Fei is on reading break.

Her and two friends booked Wednesday and took off yesterday for Cancun.  They just arrived this morning to their resort.

Nice way to spend her Birthday for sure!

Shawn Cassidy

 

Squeal!!

It was so exciting.

He is 67 and he put on a fabulous show.  Lili snuck a picture.

It's been a great day.

We're tucked in.

Home on the 9 tomorrow.

From his Facebook page.