Today was the first quiet day in days. I’m so glad they finished paving the streets! We’ll see how long the peace lasts, though, before the next project. Had I been on nights for this one, I would have been totally screwed out of getting any sleep. It wasn’t the truck pouring the concrete that was outrageously thunderous, but the roller sure was.

My 2-hour appointment yesterday only lasted an hour. The doctor and Crystal were awesome! They totally put me at ease. Somebody was pretty pissed off at them, though. A woman in the waiting room in which the only words I could make out were, “Do you know how much havoc…”

Then the woman at the desk - I forgot her name - said she was going to go get someone but the woman cut her off saying she didn’t need their business.

“I’m sorry,” the lady at the desk said.

“No, you’re not,” said the woman before she stormed out of the office.

Anyway, Crystal came to get me and I told her I was hoping it would be her since she was so nice the last time I saw her and she said that made her day like a warm hug. She pressed a button on the wall to play some relaxing meditation music for me. A girl she was training named Lou who I also met before, observed the fillings and the tooth being pulled. I definitely felt safe and in good hands with the three of them in the room! It’s a good thing too, since I felt more aware this time, even though I took the Halcion an hour earlier. Maybe my body was more used to it or something.

I thought that being a molar and way in back would make it take several minutes for her to pull it but in less than a minute it was out. The only things I felt were the needle when she went to numb me and the pressure as she was pulling for the 20 seconds or so she was pulling steadily downward. Then she wiggled it back and forth for another 20 seconds or so and that was it. The tooth was out!

My mouth is healing nicely and the dentist was kind enough to call and ask how I was doing. I was hesitant to like her Facebook page and leave a review knowing that Norma may spot it and wonder why I was reviewing a dentist in Florida but I think I’m just gonna go ahead and block her and Michelle at some point. Yes, I feel a touch guilty where Norma’s concerned since she hasn’t done anything wrong to me but Michelle is a deadbeat. Andy noticed that with her as well. I don’t know why you would add people just to not interact with them but this is the second time she’s friended me only to ignore me. I also want to block them so that the termites can’t use them by going through them to get to me. I don’t doubt that with or without hearing from me, they’ll eventually try to reconnect with me. Not the girls but Tammy.

We hung some of the large flower posters in the living room today. Some of the frames are bent, though. One needs to be replaced for sure.

I’m totally sickened though not the least bit surprised that once again Texas won’t do the right thing and block the abortion ban until some cases are heard in court. Those will be a complete waste of time in addition to marching. Tom believes marches work but I think they’re pretty worthless most of the time. Didn’t work in Poland, won’t work here. It’s also pointless to go to court when the same people who are banning abortion are the ones to be listening to the cases and will simply side with the pro-lifers, so what’s the point? Once people make up their minds, that’s the way it stays. And what’s the point of writing constitutions and making laws if they’re only going to violate them at will?

Just like my prediction was right about Brian Laundrie not being found alive, I believe that abortion is going to remain illegal in Texas for many years to come and many states will follow in its twisted footsteps. It’s not about caring about women. It’s about control. The question is when will some twisted law come along that affects my husband and I directly? How and when will our constitutional rights be violated?

Society is full of such hypocrites, too. Friends, family, coworkers, and whoever will be quick to scold a woman these days for getting pregnant because it takes away from her working and making money, but then they’ll block her right to abortion.

I had a weird dream that my brother was still alive which I sent letters to periodically only he never wrote back and rarely called. I thought about sending him one final letter telling him I wasn’t going to write him anymore if I wasn’t going to hear from him but then I decided to just ghost him.

I also had a dream about living in a long house that sort of looked like the one we had in Maricopa. Some young woman was staying in a spare room and was a smoker too. I wanted her to smoke outside but because I planned to go to bed before she did, I was hesitant to give her the code to the door lock which was 2014. She asked for it, saying I could change it when she left, but then I woke up.