January 16, 2012
Of Mordor and missing husbands.
It’s finally starting to pick up more at work, which is great because sitting around with nothing to do up there is torture. I’ve gotten a couple of long term projects that are moving slowly, but filling up my days. Can’t complain. The only thing I have to complain about is the fact that we’re moving back to our old floor. Last Easter, our floor caught on fire and we were moved for the cleanup and rebuild of our old floor. We’re moving back down to it starting Tuesday, which isn’t something I’m looking forward to because it’s still fume-y and I’m concerned it’ll trigger migraines. So times where I have no work, I’ve been packing up my cube.
That means that I’m starting to fall behind on my sketchbook, though. I got some work done while on a call, but I’m still at the formation of the moon. Have a LONG way to go and the month is already half over!
I didn’t do great at the gym last week, because Thursday I worked from home.
Monday: bike to work. Lunch: High Intensity Training (not so bad. Lots of jogging). After work: 15 mins on machines. Sauna.
Tuesday: Lunch: Pilates (do not like). After work: 25 mins on machines. Steam room.
Wednesday: Bike to work. Lunch: Zumba (very much enjoyed, although I don’t have much rhythm). After work: 15 mins on machines. Sauna.
Thursday: biked to my bank in downtown (on my new bike!) and back.
Friday: Biked to work. Lunch: Kickboxing (different teacher, didn’t like it as much. Almost punched him in the head, oops!) After work: 1 mile on the AMT machine (12 mins). Steam and Sauna.
If you noticed, I switched on Friday from minutes to miles. That’s because I’ve decided to make a map of middle earth and walk my way to Mordor. I consulted the Atlas of Middle Earth, so the path is as accurate as I can possibly make it. 1779 miles from Bag End to the Crack of Doom. I am still somewhere between Bag End and where the hobbits stopped on the first night. They walked 18 miles the first evening!
Speaking of Lotr geekiness, I’m at Minas Tirith with Pippin and Gandalf now in the book. I also decided that since Tim was away, I’d watch some more of the commentary. The design commentary isn’t as good as the filmmakers’ commentary.
Thursday, I was working from home, so I had a great opportunity to do laundry and make the place less of a disaster for when Tim returned. Also, I attended my first Girl Scout service unit meeting. They’re at 7, so I believe I’ll continue to work from home the second Thursday of the month to be able to make those. It was held at this crazy huge church that had an elevator. Most of the talk was of cookie sales, which my troop has been doing pretty well at. I’m excited to hopefully be able to do some trips with them after the sales.
Tim returned to Atlanta Friday evening. I talked him into biking down to my office and eating at Alma Cocina with me. I’d been trying to get him down there for a while, and i finally won out. He was also impressed with the food. We’ve talked one of his lab friends, who is a big foodie into having lunch there with us. Win!
The weekend was spent driving to Athens on Saturday morning to pick up a letterpress. I’m so ridiculously excited about it! It’s a 5×8 Kelsey Exelcisor Model U in perfect working order and it came with all the furniture needed other than quoins. We even got some ink and type with leading and letterspacing bars. I’m trying to source quoins and type wash to be able to try it out. I have a feeling I’ll be blowing up etsy soon.
Saturday night was MLK themed cocktails and cupcakes. Tim made peach and tea themed drinks, and I made pecan pie cupcakes (since pecan pie was MLK’s favorite food). Since Tim essentially just made a shitload of long island iced teas, the level of drunkenness got way out of hand pretty early on.
Luckily, that was after the founding director of the non-profit I work for left. While she was here, we talked some shop and I believe we’re going to take on a design intern! I’ve been working with this foundation for 4 years now, and it’s been incredible to watch them grow.
Sunday and today seem to be lazy days. We’re cleaning a little, running small errands and just sitting around catching up on shows and such. I managed to talk Tim out of going in today since I have it off. It’s been nice having him around again. :)
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January 8, 2012
2012 thus far
I’m still working on catching up a few back posts, but It’s time to move into the present. I’ve vowed to keep up with this better in the future. It feels like there’s something missing when i get too busy to spend time on this little self indulgence.
2012 started out with some awkwardness and a broken bone. My cousin decided that he was going to be a bad ass and jump over a dry pond’s bank on his four wheeler and flew off, the four wheeler rolling twice. The four wheeler is pretty jacked, and he’s in a sling for a while. Worst way to start a year, definitely.
While visiting my family, I went through a large box of crap I packed up to go down there when moving from my apt to the loft. I found a ton of old pictures and such. Luckily, I used an award I received at work to purchase a little portable scanner. I got the scanner mainly to help with family history stuff, but I suppose I can spare it to scan embarrassing high school pictures to tag on facebook.
It was a pretty lax week at work, since not everyone is back from vacation yet. I definitely prefer having stuff to do to having to train endlessly. Training is altogether more wearisome than having a full schedule (unless your full schedule is full of crazy people).
My new swank gym, shamelessly lifted from their website.
At one of the holiday parties at work, I won a 30 day membership to an incredibly swank gym that’s in our building. Given that I work odd hours, I can’t take advantage of their morning or night classes. However, I have been taking group fitness classes during lunch and hitting it for a bit after work as well. This week it was:
Monday: Nothing, mostly sitting in a car on our way back to Atlanta.
Tuesday: Lunch: Power sculpt n’ core. AWFUL class. My upper body and core are shit, and that’s all this worked. My abs are still sore.
After work: 5 mins each on: Elliptical, upright bike, recumbent bike, AMT (which is a combo stair stepper/elliptical. you set your own stride and it’s extremely customizable), This machine that’s like a no impact stair stepper. 10 mins in the sauna. Did I mention that his place has both a sauna and a steam room? heaven!
Wednesday: Lunch: Kickboxing, which was probably my favorite class. Killed my shoulders, but was a lot of fun.
After work: 10 mins AMT and upright bike, 5 mins impact-less stair stepper. 10 mins steam room. I’m torn as to whether I prefer the sauna or the steam room. The steam room is a bit scary, i have this ridiculous fear that I’m going to drown.
Thursday: Biked to work.
Lunch: Spinning. I much prefer biking, but not terrible.
After work: 10 mins rowing, 10 mins AMT. 5 mins each sauna and steam room. biked home.
Friday: Biked to work.
Lunch: Endurance Sculpt. I was apprehensive given my experience with the first class, but this wasn’t bad at all. I did spend part of the time doing elevated pushups on a bench overlooking the lobby full of people eating at the awesome restaurant, which made me feel like an idiot.
After work: 10 mins on the AMT, both sauna and steam. biked home.
Saturday: Rest. And by rest, I mean ride various bicycles for about half an hour on my quest to buy a new one. I actually did buy one at the end of it all, a silver bianchi turismo. I bought it from Outback bikes down in L5P. It was the first one I tried and after having test ridden a few I came back to it. The salesperson nailed it when he suggested it to me. I was going to attend heels on wheels, but my hair appointment ran over super late :(
Sunday: I was planning on biking to my girl scout meeting, but it seems to be raining :\ It’s not raining much, but I don’t know if i want to take my new bike out in the rain yet, since i’m not used to riding it. The meeting place is a bit too far to ride my commuting cruiser.
My new bike, except mine is silver. Also lifted from the website. I'm lazy about taking pictures.
In non-fitness related news: I’ve been working pretty hard on my sketchbook for the sketchbook project 2012. I picked prehistoric as my theme and am starting at the singularity and big bang, going forward through the death of the dinosaurs. I’m doing the entire thing in woodless colored pencils, which isn’t something i’ve worked much with, but they’ve been fun thus far. Somewhere between a colored pencil and an oil pastel.
sketchbook and colored pencils
I’ve not very far, I just finished the big bang. I have 13 more spreads that I have to finish and postmark by Jan 31st. It’s going to be hectic.
Yesterday morning, Tim left to go to his second conference. He’s in Texas for a week at an origins of life conference. He’s presenting his research. At his last conference he had a poster and a talk, but i’m wanting to say this one is just a poster, but he’s excited to meet some of the people who are there. One of the people in particular is the arsenic backbone girl, who he’s excited to see flounder.
It’s lonely here without Tim. It’s just me and Gordon hanging out, him curled up by me while I read Lord of the Rings for the ninth time. I’m at Fangorn forest right now. The reason I was digging through that box back home was the find my beaten up copy of Lotr, finding the pictures was just a happy coincidence. Something about watching the extended editions back to back (which is a holiday tradition around these parts) made me want to reread the book this year.
Having the time alone is nice sometimes, but I’m already tired of it and still have 5 days to go.
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January 4, 2012
Thanksgiving(s)
2011 was the first year that Tim and I were able to celebrate both American and Canadian Thanksgiving. Since most of the time we go to Canada for family stuff and don’t really have time to just bum around, I took a few extra days off for extra exploring time.
We drove up over 2 days, which is something we rarely ever do. It’s a 14 hour drive to the in-laws’ house, and we generally just drive it straight. We stopped at the Cumberland Inn in Kentucky (which completely overcharged us, it was pretty awful) overnight, and began the day going to the Mountain Life Museum in Levi Jackson State Park.
Crazy old sewing machine which was still fully functional
Weaving in process/ We weren't there when they were doing demonstrations.
Some of the log cabins, which were moved from their original sites log by log and rebuilt
The evacuation sign. "Troff" kills me.
Old tractor
Gordon loves geese, I almost had to ride with a wet dog in my lap up to canada
We then stopped in Dayton to visit the Airforce museum (which is intense and free) and grab dinner with John (who was in my wedding party and has the misfortune of living in ohio).
just an adorable plane. no pictures from dinner with john... we went to a lame mexican place that got my order the opposite of correct.
Over the weekend, we took a day trip to Toronto where we visited Kensington market. This was the first time I'd been to Toronto and actually gotten out of the car to look around. It was pretty nice.
We saw these two sitting in a park, the girl petting a bunny and the guy wearing an honest-to-god labcoat. I think something fishy was going on.
Toronto's cable car system is insane. Also, a VERY pedestrian friendly city. I'm so jealous, Atlanta isn't pedestrian friendly at all.
A month later, my in-laws drove down from Canada to the wilderness of south Georgia to partake in American Thanksgiving. This was awesome because I had two opportunities to eat pumpkin pie, but was kind of not awesome because i ended up having to make 6 pies between both of them.
While down for the holiday, we took the opportunity to show the inlaws the historic parts of Jekyll Island, as it's an hour drive from my family's home.
Nothing says "the old south" quite like spanish moss
My lovely MIL enjoying the view at the Jekyll Island Club
Sunset over the marshes
During thanksgiving weekend, we visited the homestead of my mother's childhood best friend's family. Rusted out old shacks are a common site where i'm from.
The homestead. Someone lived here up into the 2000s, which is insane for me to think about. It barely had indoor plumbing!
One of the highlights of the farm day at the homestead was that they made cane syrup from freshly harvested sugar cane. They also made lye soap (which will apparently eat off your skin until it cures for multiple weeks). We brought a bottle of the fresh syrup home, which i'm excited about.
Pecan trees and a perfect sky
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January 2, 2012
the library
…or how I lost my life over the course of one lunch break.
My office is a block-ish away from the Atlanta Central Library. When the weather wasn’t so ass, I spent my lunch breaks walking down to the smoothie place in Fairlie-poplar, which is how I discovered its proximity. My library card had expired and was in my maiden name anyways, so I swung in to get a new library card and poke around.
When poking around, I noticed that there was an entire floor dedicated to genealogy stuff. I didn’t have time to check it out, though. I left with a copy of The Bonesetter’s Daughter (which was surprisingly good!) and a burning desire to go back and check out that floor.
I devoured that book and 2 days later arrived back at the library with my coworker, Sarah, in tow. We found ourselves up on the 5th floor, where there was a pretty intense Margaret Mitchell exhibit and the genealogy department. Walking through the delightfully musty shelves, I happened upon an early 1900s census of Coffee County, where I’m from, and found a listing of a man with my maiden name.
And that verily started my downfall.
Upon returning back to work, I sent a facebook message to my father asking him if I was related to this man. As a bit of an aside, I’ve had, at best, a strained relationship with my father since… forever. My parents divorced when I was 3, but my father was in the navy and stationed out of a base in another state so i very rarely ever saw him before that. About 2 years ago, he reached out to me via facebook and we’ve been in spotty contact ever since, culminating in meeting for the first time in 20 years at his youngest sister’s funeral in 2012.
Anyway, I’ve known for a while that my father has been doing genealogy research, so I knew he’d be the person to ask. However, due to his rather transient job, I didn’t hear back from him for over a month. Within that time I had:
- joined ancestry.com
- found his profile on there
- done enough independent research via the website (thanks to free trial) to match his
- started doing my own research at the library during my lunch breaks
Genealogy research has a tendency to eat up a LOT of time, I’ve noticed. But, it’s something that I have found extremely rewarding given that my immediate family have been displaced from my extended family since my mother was in the womb. We’ve always been very isolated and it’s great to learn about these other relatives and start making connections. My crowning achievement has been finding my Opa’s family in Germany. It’s truly incredible, no one I have contact with knew that my Opa had more daughters than just my grandmother.
Having all of this information has very much colored the way I see myself, my family, and life in general. Knowing where I came from and seeing how far back it goes is just mind-blowing. I’ve traced certain branches of my family back to the 16-1700s. I learned that my mom and dad’s family fought on opposite sides of the Civil war. I learned that I have multiple ancestors that fought in the Revolutionary war. I haven’t really wrapped my head around all of it yet, because it’s so different from my isolated upbringing.
There are still some mysteries. I have no idea who my grandmother’s father is, because she was an illegitimate child. That’s the biggest one I’m working on right now. I have a name written in her baby book, but I have no idea where her mother was living at the time of her conception, which is making it difficult to track down.
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January 2, 2012
Tim, the PhD Candidate
Most of 2011 wasn’t very fun because Tim was finishing up his course work/academic requirements to get his PhD candidacy. Finally, the mid/late September, he passed his candidacy exam. Because I am a loving wife, and somewhat crazy, I treated him to a weekend at this favorite place on earth as long as he’d drive.
So after a half day at work, we left Atlanta to drive down to Disney. We stayed at Port Orleans Riverside, which is right next to the dog boarding facility (which I’m excited to bring Gordon to at some point!). We decided to do Epcot on Saturday and Magic Kingdom on Sunday, because MK had extra magic hours on Sunday night. However, I had to work Monday, so we stayed at MK until 1am and then Tim drove back overnight. I ended up making it back to work with minutes to spare Monday morning, which was completely crazy.
Yay, giant golf ball! The park was absolutely dead, it was quite nice.
See? Completely dead in the morning. It filled in a little as the day wore on, but nothing crazy like I'm used to.
Inside the Land pavilion, getting fast passes for soarin'
Dew on the flowers in the courtyard, before the harsh Florida sun burnt it all off.
The sea! Where I spent no less than 20 minutes watching manatees eat heads of lettuce.
A gorgeous day at the China pavilion
We had dinner at Bistro de Paris, which was amazing. Not going to lie, I did miss the beer cheese soup at LeCellier, though. This was snapper coated in scales of potato on a bed of spinach and pine nuts in a creamy rosemary sauce. heaven!
For dessert, lemon soufflé with raspberry filling and raspberry sorbet
Magic Kingdom was decorated for Halloween, which was exciting for me. Halloween is by far my favorite holiday, and I'd never seen the parks decorated for it.
Cute jackolantern/scarecrow band on Main Street
All along Main Street, there were tons of jack o lanterns, bunting, and autumnal garland. it was super cute.
The castle in front of some foreboding skies
Some covert shots of the Fantasyland expansion. That's Belle's castle in the background there.
More Fantasyland expansion. not sure what this is, though. It's back next to the tea cups and the motor speedway.
We were rained in at the Hall of Presidents for a while, which was really unfortunate, because the attraction broke at the same time. It eventually reopened, and we stuck around for it. It was the first time i'd ever bothered watching it.
Anal violation carousel pony
Real jack o lanterns carved to say "see ya real soon"
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January 1, 2012
Geekery and one year together
This past labor day marked our first year anniversary. We celebrated with a Dragoncon themed cocktails and cupcakes, and I attended my first Heels on Wheels ride around Atlanta.
Photo courtesy of Cameron Adams of Atlanta Street fashion
Heels on Wheels is an event hosted by the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition. On the first Saturday of every month, a group of finely dressed ladies meet in Woodruff park to take a leisurely ride down Peachtree Street and enjoy eachother’s company. I’ve since been to 2 of these rides and am looking forward to going to more in the future.
The September ride was great, because he cruised through DragonCon to people watch. Our Cocktails and Cupcakes that month was held the same weekend because our dear friends Kat and Paul were down from NJ for con.
Kelly also showed up with Gavin, who spent most of the night playing with Tim's Green Lantern rings.
I made various super hero themed cupcakes in honor of the geekery. Spiderman was red velvet, captain america was american themed home made funfetti, and batman was devil's food cake.
After Dragoncon festivities were over, Tim and I headed to the Bahamas to celebrate our anniversary. We stayed on Paradise Island, right next to the Atlantis resort. Here are a ton of pictures in no particular order:
The bahamas!
The seal of the Bahamas, on the door to the patio at our hotel
One of the aquariums at Atlantis
One of the various places to buy conch
The swankier part of Atlantis
Barbed wire on a roof in Nassau
Poseidon, the giantic ray at Atlantis
The beach at the Nassau Hilton
The beach at Atlantis
The shops next to Atlantis
Inside the Mesa Grill
The Versailles Gardens
ugly fish
At the cloister
Lobby of Atlantis
Versailles Garden, with the cloister in the background. This garden and the clod.ster were moved from france and rebuilt on Paradise Islant
View of Nassau from the Cloister
Mesa Grill, where we had an AMAZING meal.
One of the sculptures in Atlantis
The most authentic Bahamian food we had while there, it's in an area called the wharf
racially insenstive knickknacks
More swanky Atlantis
I love this guy holding the conch
A view from the wharf
The cloister
Sunset from the wharf
The gazebo next to the shore at the cloister
Paradise island from the water taxi going toward Nassau
The Hilton in Nassau
slipper lobster!
crazy chiulily lights in the casino
More mesa Grill
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December 31, 2011
Grunty stinkday, dear Gordon
August 10th marked Gordon’s first birthday, he shares a birthday with my dear sister in law. We held a special cocktails and cupcakes in his (/their?) honor.
People had carrot cupcakes, and Gordon had an amazing meat cake. I made two tiny meatloaves of turkey, carrot, and oat in some of our mini cocottes. When the meat pucks cooled, I spread spray cheese between the two layers and frosted the whole thing with mashed potatoes.
meat cake: confection of stinky champions
Preparing for the eatening
An extremely fast video of gordon devouring his cake:
After gordon spent the better part of half an hour destroying the cake, it was time for Dinosaur’s Bane to receive his prehistoric themed presents.
Dinosaur chew toys for a dino-chewing loving dog
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September 18, 2011
A wedding in Destin
Over July 4th weekend (July 1st for he Canadians out there), Tim’s cousin, Kevin married his lovely long-time girlfriend, Liz. Fun fact: Tim used the inheritance he received from his grandmother to buy our wedding bands and Kevin used the same inheritance to buy Liz’s engagement ring. I can’t think of much better ways to use inheritance money.
They had a destination wedding in Destin. Tim and I packed up Gordon and spent the weekend down there, enjoying family and the beach.
Kevin and Liz had a waterfront wedding at a local resort. It was quite nice.
The lovely bride and groom
However, mid-way through the ceremony a plane flew overhead carrying a banner. I don’t believe you’ll quite realize the hilarity without hearing the violin in the background.
In case you couldn’t read it:
Close up
I’m not sure if anyone involved in the wedding noticed it, but some of us in the audience got a bit of chuckle. Afterwards there was cocktail hour while the family pictures were being taken.
Favors and decor
Cocktail hour. That's Tim in the front there, getting some hors d'ouerves
Sunset over the water during the reception/cocktail hour
We clean up well
After dinner was served, everyone crowded the dance floor and their photo booth. My husband is a dancing fiend when you get a few drinks in him. Also, speaking of drinks, they also had a photobooth which filled up as the drinking commenced.
The dance floor rapidly became packed
My husband, ladies and gentlemen.
From the photo booth
After the wedding, Liz’s family invited us back to where they were staying for a little afterparty. I don’t have very fond memories of this party because Tim made me the nastiest drink to have ever existed. He mixed together ginger ale, triple sec, and maker’s mark.
I took one for the team and finished it.
It took me the better part of an hour to choke it down, though. Ugh.
The rest of the trip was spent just hanging out.
The pool where we were staying
Uncle Richard (father of the groom) riding bitch in smart car
Gordon tries to get free ice cream. Little did we know, that dogs apparently always get free ice cream at Bruster's
Awaiting his doggie ice cream
He happens to love ice cream.
We decided to take Gordon to the beach and see how he’d do in the ocean. Apparently it’s illegal to have dogs on the beach in Destin. Oops!
Gordon loves the beach
Dig, dig, dig.
He does not love the ocean
After a big day
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September 18, 2011
Great Food Truck Race – Atlanta
Tim digging into a very tasty sandwich
So back during Tim’s birthday weekend (Memorial Day weekend) the Great Food Truck Race came through Atlanta. I was alerted to the fact via the King of Pops’s tweet and made it my mission to hunt down at least one truck. There were three by the time they got here: Roxy’s Grilled Cheese, the Lime Truck, and Hodge Podge.
It was actually pretty difficult to find any of the trucks other than Hodge Podge, because there was some girl from Hodge Podge’s hometown that was flooding the hashtag on twitter and tweeting erroneous locations for the other two trucks. I’m not sure if she was hired by Hodge Podge to do such, but it left a bad taste in my mouth and we did not seek out his truck.
We however did eat at the Lime Truck when it was at Colony Square. Jason complimented my geeky graphic design tattoo, because he happens to also have a tattoo in ridiculously small type. There was a bit of smack talking there of Roxy’s, saying that they started the race serving kraft cheese on white bread and such. Their food was pretty good, I liked the beverage choice there the best. There wasn’t a lot there for me because I don’t eat red meat, and there wasn’t a lot there for Tim because it was “too Californian”.
Our favorite truck was Roxy’s. We actually sought them out twice. We found them the first day in Little Five in the parking lot behind the Star Bar, and then the next day when they were in the Virginia Highlands. I had the goat cheese sandwich with prosciutto de parme (okay, so I do occasionally eat cured red meat) and quince preserves and the peach brulée. Both were delicious, I still have dreams about that sandwich. Tim had the ridiculous cheddar with foie gras and bacon as well.
In VaHi, Roxy's partnered with King of Pops. The pops were great for standing in the heat waiting on sandwiches.
So yeah, the food was awesome (we decided to visit their truck after having learned they picked up supplies at Star Provisions. Quality.) and the guys were super nice. They were obviously struggling a bit the first day, so I hung around and blew up twitter, trying to let people know where they were, since there was so much misinformation. I’m not sure if they made it past Atlanta, but I certainly hope they did!
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August 3, 2011
Reliving my early teenage years
It's an odd realization to have at 27, to see that you look the same as you did when 13.
Whenever I get bad news from a dr about some new medical problem, I always call my mom and thank her for contributing her awful genes.
I know that sounds terrible, but I’ve watched my mother slowly deteriorate since I was in preschool, being subjected to surgery after surgery. The poor woman doesn’t have any of her non-essential organs left. The scary thing is, that a lot of the things that have gone wrong with her are now slowly starting to go wrong with me. Yay for aging!
One of the things that I thought I had missed out on was my mother’s family’s awful teeth. My mother and aunt both had severe crowding and were in braces throughout my early childhood. My mother’s case was especially bad, as the crowding was coupled with an overbite so severe that she was completely lacking a chin.
She had jaw surgery when I was around 5 and almost died due to the stellar care she received in my hometown’s local hospital. She was apparently given solids before she was supposed to be and her incisions got severely infected. Her face blew up like a balloon and I wasn’t allowed to see her because she looked so awful.
Somehow, due to more stellar south Georgia medical care I’m sure, I was diagnosed with the same severe overbite during a consult with an orthodontist about some minor crowding of my upper teeth when I was 13. It’s amazing how I had a dentist that just missed that considering I’d been going to the same one every 6 months since I was 5 years old. I never had any idea anything was wrong because I have a prominent chin and no one had ever told me.
I didn’t have the surgery. I had braces for 9 months to fix the mild crowding and went on with my life. However, once I hit my 20s, my teeth started to shift much as the orthodontist said they would. My lower teeth started tilting forward to close the gap, which I was told would cause the roots to destabilize and make it much more likely that I’d lose those teeth.
I chatted with a few different dentists around atlanta about it, and they all agreed that I needed the surgery. I never acted on it because I am terrified of surgery and didn’t have adult ortho coverage on my dental insurance.
Fast forward to landing my new job with ridiculous benefits. My dental insurance now covers adult ortho, and within a couple of months I had made the leap and gotten braces. I’m in them for 2ish years, and I’ll have my jaw broken and reset sometime next spring/summer. My jaw will be tightly wired shut for 2 weeks and loosely wired shut for 6 weeks after that.
I’m expecting lots and lots of milkshakes.
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