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Yesterday I had my last wisdom tooth taken out. I had the oral surgeon put me totally under because I didn’t want to remember anything. (For those of you who don’t know this was my second time having my wisdom teeth out. Last time they took out three and this was the last one.) It took a while for the sedation drugs to wear off and by the end of yesterday I was feeling better but still quite numb.

This morning I woke up and I had 5 Jott’s in my inbox. 4 to myself and 1 to Mat. I have no memory of sending these voice messages.

Apparently after the procedure was done Ash drove us to Whole Foods to get some arnica cream. While I was waiting for her in the car I took out my cell phone and started Jott’ing myself and also Mat and told him that I had just had my wisdom tooth out (Listen here).

For your listening pleasure, here are more examples of me coming out of sedation:

“I just got my wisdom tooth taken out”. Listen.
Mumbling. Listen.
Something about Amazon and movies. I’m not really sure. Listen.
Talking about the drugs wearing off (yeah, right). Listen.

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in this video, watch as ash talks about how it is so cold she has to wear longhandles.

(and stop laughing mat, it really was cold)

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Below are some pictures from various regular days.

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So for Christmas my boss gave me a gift certificate for the Amadeus Spa and Salon. I went there today with Leah, and we got haircuts. Here are pictures of my new hair. I love going there, I got a haircut there last year when I had a gift certificate, and I wish that I could get my hair cut there all the time. Its like $100 for a haircut though, so I’ll just have to be satisfied with Fantastic Sams. After that, Leah and I went shopping and then picked Nate up from work and we went to The Stinking Rose, a garlic themed restaraunt in Beverly Hills. We had garlic bread with garlic spread, garlic chicken, whole cooked garlic cloves, garlic mashed potatos, even garlic ice cream. The ice cream was suprisingly good. All in all, it was a great afternoon and evening and I was so happy for a break in my week. And I can say with certainty that there will be no vampires at our house tonight.

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Here are some pictures from my recent visit to Pennsylvania. It was so great to see Erin and Rod and the kids and experience an actual winter again. You can see the ice floating in the river in some of the pictures. The kids are hilarious - whenever I turned on the video camera they wanted to sing “Holy, Holy, Holy”. No other songs, just “Holy, Holy, Holy”. Adelaide is learning how to read and working on basic math. While I was there she did a lesson on counting change and did a great job. She really knows how to count those dimes. Henry is two and learning how to pee-pee in the potty. Actually, he’s learning how to stay dry between trips to the bathroom, a task that became much easier last Friday when Erin decided that she was tired of washing three pairs of little boys jeans a day, and sprung for some snazzy vinyl underwear for him. Henry wasn’t too happy about that, and it took a great deal of coaxing to get him excited about wearing an elasticized poncho. Adelaide took the rubber undies out of the package and smelled them and said, “They smell like my swimming pool.” While I was there we went to this iron works place called John Wright Company. They had tons of great things, especially in the bargain room upstairs, but unfortunately, I had to think about how I would get items made of iron into my suitcase and home. I did get some great baking dishes, but had to leave the five foot coat rack behind.

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Here is a video Ash took of Henry and Adelaide during her trip to PA. This seemed to be the only song they wanted to sing.

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Ashley’s back from The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She was there for a few days to visit her sister and family. We’ll have some pictures from the trip up here soon!

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Here are more pictures of us:

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Ash and I got a new camera for my birthday. Here is a picture of us:

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I was in an accident tonight. I was leaving to get Nate from the train, and I stopped at this stop sign and looked and I saw a car but it was a long way away, so I proceeded into the intersection. Somehow the car was instantly upon me and crashed into the front left corner of our car. Poor little Silver. I was shaken up but totally fine and thankfully the people that crashed into me were nice. We exchanged info while Nate’s dad picked him up from the train and drove him to ‘the scene’ where our car was still crashed in the road. After we cleared the cars out of the road a cop showed up (a half hour after Nate called 911 and was put on hold) and took down our info and stated to me, “Well, it was clearly your fault. Failure to yield.” Just the words you want to hear from a cop at the scene of an auto accident. So now we’re facing the task of insurance, towing, the fun of getting to work with no car etc… I’m still a bit shaken but trying to not stress out know that God has absolute control over all situations and so thankful to Him that there were no injuries to people, just cars. Like Nate’s dad kept reminding me, it could have been a lot worse and the worst thing we’re having to deal with right now is paperwork, some money and logistics of getting from here to there. Not that bad.

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Magic mountain has a new promotion (cnn) this year at Fright-Fest: Anyone who eats a live 4-inch cockroach gets a pass for 4 to cut in line for the rest of the day. My wife apparently thinks this is a good idea and tells me that she would eat the cockroach and “it would be totally worth it.”

“i’ve eaten bugs before on a dare,” she told me. Uh-huh. I’m sure that’s true, but a 4-inch roach? I told her I didn’t think she would do it and she says: “let the record show - that I, who know myself the best, know that I would totally do it.”

So I’ve decided to ask the crowd. I’m asking those of you who know Ash to vote and/or post a comment below on if you think Ashley would eat a live cockroach to cut in line for a day at Magic Mountain. (Maybe if we can get enough people to vote we could get her to eat one anyway.) My vote is that she wouldn’t do it. What do you think?

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