I've ben suffering with an infected tooth - the root actually. I woke up with a swelling on my lower left jaw on Saturday and no amount of Advil would touch the pain. I went up the hospital (which is now really just a clinic in this tiny town where I live) and was reprimanded for the amount I took over night - 12 to be exact within an 8 hour period. She gave me a prescription and 10 Percocet for the pain. Hey! I must be a movie star with drugs like this, I thought. To tell you the truth the Percocet didn't do too much but was better than the Advil. I get the tooth pulled tomorrow. My second tooth yanked this winter. At this rate I'll be toothless by the time I'm divorced. Just kidding. Both teeth are way in the back of my mouth and no matter how huge I smile you can't see them. It just makes chewing a little weird.
One thing about all these dental issues I've been having lately - stress attacks your weakest point, some people get zits, some people get colds or flu, I get toothaches - is that it takes my mind off all the other issues. The house has been shown a few times recently but no bites. We are lowering the price by $10,000 hoping that will help. I'm not panicking. I know my stars are inching their way into place and I'm just going to let them inch. My mom told me awhile ago not to fight the bad stuff. Accept the good and the bad equally because it all has to happen in a certain order. I believe this. And so, through all my money problems and my dental issues and the stress of not really knowing where to go or what to do, I'm pretty relaxed. I sleep okay. I have a very strong sense that if I just go with the flow that eventually my life will be, maybe not exactly as I picture my perfect life, maybe it will be better, but most probably it will be different. And this is exciting. I'm ready for a new adventure because I didn't really like the last one. The past 20 years have been hard and not that I need it easy I just want it to be nicer.
This new painting is called Reflection, Three Quarter Moon. It came from a photo my daughter took and I just had to do it for whatever reason. I like it. It's calming. As though the whole world is asleep and everything is very quietly resting, getting ready for something fabulous.