My Diet of Pie

So after my oral surgery Dr. Tyko prescribed some pills for me to kill the pain--otherwise I'd be dying right now--and for every one pill that I take I have to also take three Ibuprofen. This process is repeated nonstop (until I run out of pills) in four hour increments.

Of course, when you take Ibuprofen you have to eat something with it, otherwise the Ibuprofen will have some strange reaction in your stomach.

So yesterday (Monday), every time I took those pills, I had a slice of pie (from the apple pie that we had made on Sunday). And throughout that day, the only time I ate was when I took my pills; so basically the only thing I ate yesterday was apple pie!

I swear, I must've eaten 3/4 of that pie altogether. I wouldn't be surprised if the next time I go to the doctor's office that he'd inform me that I have diabetes. Of course the same goes for Thomas, who has ice cream soup practically every night!

Here's my breakfast from this morning.

Look at me eat that pie so lovingly, with my greasy hair...

Finals (which has now been published...)

Something I wrote at the beginning of summer but never published:

These past two days were FINALS. Unlike last year, I found the finals to be very easy.

English:
On the final on The Diary of Anne Frank, one of the questions asked where Anne and her family hid. Instead of writing Amsterdam, Holland, I wrote Holland, Germany.

Ah, those funny times when you slip up. :)

Wisdom Teeth

Aaaaaaaah! I'm in so much pain. Well, actually, it's not that bad.

Yesterday, I got my wisdom teeth taken out by Dr. Tyko of 1174 Montgomery Drive (though normally I would get Dr. Tolin (but he just HAD to break his wrist which brought him into retirement). Earlier this summer we met and set up an appointment to have them {all 6 [apparently I have 2 EXTRAS (as five is already pretty crazy)]} taken out, and now it's happened! Yesterday I woke up at 7:10 a.m., took a shower, and drove over to his office {with my mom's iPod [because mine doesn't have any music on it (I forgot to load some)]}, arriving at about 8:05. We checked in and then they took me to a room, gave me an oxygen mask (which had some very interesting smelling oxygen), and then gave me an IV (and of course I hate getting needles shoved into my arm). As it has always seemed to be in my family, you listen to one song on your iPod (or I guess your mom's...), and before you know it, you're out: I listened to "Now or Never" (for all you High School Musical fans), and I wasn't even halfway through the song before I was out.

So later I woke up in another room (which always gives you that weird feeling because you don't know what's happened to you in the past hour) with a bunch of gauze stuffed in my mouth to soak up the blood coming from my gums. My mom was there, holding my hand (so nice of her and so comforting), and then a nurse came in and gave me an X-ray to check for that sixth tooth (because apparently they only pulled out 5?!?), but apparently there were only five total... :(.

We headed back home {with a nice little "care package" from the office [with some more gauze, an (empty) water bottle, some chap stick, and a Juice Shack certificate for a free regular size smoothie (yum!)]}, but first we had to stop at CVS Pharmacy to pick up a prescription (painkillers) that Dr. Tyko requested for me. After that, we ACTUALLY went home, where I was ordered to the couch, where I had to sit all day and watch TV. Every twenty minutes I would switch switch between five packages of peas (which I would press against my cheeks to reduce swelling)--every ten minutes (during the twenty minute sessions) I would alternate from cheek to cheek with the pea bags--and then every forty minutes I would have to replace my gauze [which again my mom helped do (so kind of her!)], and then every 6 hours I had to take those pills, and let me just say, those things do stuff to you: I literally had like the happiest, most relaxed day (it's those pills!). During this time I watched 5 episodes of a 14-episode BBC TV mini-series, Little Dorrit (which is EXCELLENT and I think you all ought to watch), Phineas and Ferb, and Wizards of Waverly Place. I also ate some scrambled eggs and drank some beef broth. Then that night I had this really delicious crock pot chicken (the recipe was given to us by my brother and his wife) and then watched the Apple Keynote, "Introducing iPhone 4S" (CEO Tim Cook's first keynote) (probably my favorite keynote address, along with WWDC 2011 and WWDC 2012) from October 4, 2011 (the day before Steve Jobs died) (WHY AM I MENTIONING THIS???). And then while watching a few episodes of Monk, I accidentally pulled out a few stitches from my gum, but after calling the office today we found out that everything's okay. Phew!!!

Anyways, yesterday was a pretty lazy day...

Ok, now for some pics!!!

Here's me with the pea bag rubber banded to my face so that I could use both hands freely. Please excuse my awful hair.

Here's how I'd normally hold the bag of peas to my face. Again, please excuse my awful hair.

Oh yeah, and I also made myself some gourmet ice cream with some Original Moose Tracks form Safeway.

And then here are some pictures of my teeth!

As you can see, the tooth on the right is actually two teeth that were naturally fused together, which  is really unusual but really cool.

Here's a picture of the other two teeth, broken into pieces.

Here's a tooth with some gum still in it.

And then here's all the teeth together! Yay!

Yes, and as Matthew (or I guess his plaque) would say, "Don't forget to floss!"

A's Game

On Wednesday afternoon, my family and I went to an Oakland A's game (of course I'm guessing that many of you are Giant's fans, and one of you a Phillies fan, so you'll all probably hate this blog post).

So anyways, my Grandma and Grandpa Chem stopped by at about 9:15 a.m. while my family and I were packing up food and stuff for our tailgate party at the park. A little after 9:30 we finally left and headed for the park. Traffic was good, and we got to the park at about 11:05. We set up the Weber portable barbecue and started roasting sausages (normal and hot) and some casper hot dogs from Costco. While the meat was cooking and the condiments were being prepared, I walked up to the Bart station to pick up my grandma and uncle and bring them down to the tailgate party. The food was delicious.

We entered the stadium at about 12:15 p.m. The game went pretty well, and we got to enjoy some Junior Mints, Whoppers (yum!!!), Milk Duds, M&M's (normal and peanut butter), peanuts, and some root beer.

In the end, the A's won! Yay!

Now for some pics!

Yeah, most of these photos are very embarrassing ones of me due to the fact that I didn't get the chance to wash my hair, and because of the weird faces I made.

Left to right: Dad, Mom, me

Top Row, Left to Right: Uncle Dave, Grandma Carr, Grandma Chem, Grandpa Chem
Bottom Row, Left to Right: (see picture above)

...and now there's Thomas

Thomas and I

Uncle Dave

The FIELD

The FIELD... AGAIN

Random section of the crowd

I swear, those people looked like they were naked!

Uncle Dave and Grandma Carr

Grandma Chem and Grandpa Chem (with his... nice... face)

Random picture of my pants

And in the end I ate my nose... JK!