Canker Cover....

My Canker sore got really really bad this time and I was in pain teaching students on Thurs. Billy called when he was coming back home and asked me if I wanted some coconut juice to make the sore feel better....So I had a big coconut with sweet and icy juice Thurs night. It probably helped...very little....

I started researching on line to see what are the reasons to cause canker sores cuz I was getting very irritated by it. Apparently there are no definite causes, but there are enough speculations....According to stuff I read, stress, lack of sleep, eating hot spicy food, bad immune system, wheat intake (yeah....this is very interesting...), menstrual issues, genetics, etc, can all be the cause of canker sores...

Right....like that was really helping my pain...so I started searching for medications that may be a fast heal since the stuff we got for cold sore last time didn't work much. After serious searching, I happened to bump into this thing called "Canker Cover" from the CVS site. It is a small pill size disc which is able to stay on the canker sore for 8-12 hours if applied correctly. The stuff contained in the disc can help speeding up the healing process and the gel-like cover, which forms after you put in your mouth, can totally protect the sore from being irritated by food and all sorts of frictions.

Here is the link for the Canker Cover. It is not cheap....(more than 10 bucks after tax just for 6 discs)....but usually one disc is enough to cure one canker sore. (Sounds way too good to be true to me.....but it really worked !!!!!!!) I used two cuz mine was already getting too big, but I can't hide my excitement to find out some of the off counter medication is really as good as the description on the box. I was so thrilled to finally find something that works for me.... (cuz my canker sores can bother me for up to two weeks usually). I would really recommend everyone who may have the same problem. Gee...I feel like I am trying to sell the product on shopping channel or e-bay....lol...

Headache....

I have been wondering what causes my headaches...and I came to some diff. reasons listed below....

1. Waking up after dreams or nightmares....If I wake up early in the morning and falls back to sleep again, I would usually get a dream or some sort of night mare. The result of that...bad headache....

2. Waking up cold....If it's cold in the room, I would usually develop a headache as the night goes cuz my head is the only part that cannot go under the blanket when I sleeo...

3. Lack of Caffeine....Sometimes my headache would go away after one cup of coffee. I guess people who have caffeine addiction know about this...

4. Getting old....I think this may be a good reason....A lot of stuff that I never felt before would slowly come to me I think....since I am getting old...LOL.....

5. I think I am missing one reason....I get headache when I get angry. It happens when I teach most of the time. I wonder if that is good for my health. I guess anger kills....oh well...

6. another one that just came to me....any sort of long lasting wound or pain causes my headache. I got headache when I was dealing with my messed up teeth for the past few months. I think I also got headache whenever my cold sore gets really bad...

So I guess the headache I am having may be caused by a combination of # 1, 2, 4, 6 for today....Maybe that can be used to get lotto? lol....

Excuse?

"We miss the past as an excuse to escape from the current life"......that is a line which I got from the detective drama that I watch at noon. Isn't that profound...but can we really live without any memory from the past? It gets a bit tough I guess....especially when nothing much is worth mentioning in the current life, isn't it?

My cold sore is getting bigger and bigger....on top of that it hurts more each day. I wonder why I get that every two weeks or so. It almost feels like I am going back to my childhood when I constantly had cold sores...I thought this stopped after I came to the states, but I guess childhood is coming back to me for some reason...memories..

Mom was telling me how dad got an extra pair of keys for home cuz he thought he lost the original ones. Dad said the new ones would come in handy when Billy and I go back to TW...even though nobody knows when that is gonna be. I don't think I would be able to recognize the neighborhood when I go back since it's been more than three years now. I grew up in the neighborhood and never really left the area for all my years in TW....memories...

So is "missing the past" really an escape from the current life? Perhaps....

Everyone getting it at the same time...

My digestion function quited on my once again.....usually I would get it back on Mon but then it's Tue already and it's still not working. Whatever I ate just piled in my stomach and never comes out....result of that....I gained around 3 lbs compared to my normal weight....I think Billy was right....I am starting to miss my inner fire which helps me to lose weight...

Billy has been semi-sick for several days, and I think I am getting a little sick myself. Woke up with a bad headache both yesterday morning and this morning. Hades threw up this morning too...I wonder if he is also feeling sick? It's annoying when everyone gets sick at the same time, but I guess that way you get over it at the same time too...oh well....

Went to get some veggies this morning also. I was paying attention to some prices since we went to Japanese market last week and I wanted to know which market has better price. I think I am totally turning into "yellow face" wife now. Can't believe I shop for food nowadays and pay attention to what is on sale. It's kinda sad....anyway...never realized 空心菜 is really expensive considering you don't eat every part that is included in the bag...and the price is close to 5 dollars per bag!!!! It also takes forever to clean up and get it ready to cook. It took me at least 30 mins to just get it all picked and cleaned....that is like FOREVER......

I think the reason why I am having problem digesting is partly due to not having enough veggie eating out compared to what I cook at home. I am also having a cold sore which gets bigger each day....hum...I think I am gonna take a pain killer for the headache now...

over-eating weekend once again....

It was an over-eating weekend once again....and here is how it went....

We were invited to go to Eva's house for dinner by Hui-Ling jie. She just wanted to eat with us cuz she misses me....(or maybe she was just too bored for Fri since they don't have fellowships on Fri now...lol) I don't know how Eva turned out to be the one cooking....but she did....I didn't take a picture of the food cuz they didn't look all that impressive, but they tasted alright. She is really the god housewife type of girl who should get married ASAP.....

Here is a photo of the cake Billy and I brought....just because it looked kinda nice....

On Sat Billy wanted to try out the pot we got last week, so we went shopping for our 1st Shabu Shabu at home. Amazingly the Japanese market was having a sale on Kobe beef. We ended up getting the best kinda beef for a cheaper price. We also used our food processor for the 1st time to make those 蘿蔔泥. Oh...and we also went to get "Jeff" (chairs from Ikea) so our dining room looks quite nice now...

SO as you see that is our Shabu set up....and Hades insisted eating with us at the table with his own box seat...lol...He didn't drink the sake with us though....or it would be too funny..

On Sun we went to Ikea again for lunch. We were trying to see if they have the Prime Ribs meal available to try, but it was not served for weekends. We ended up eating Chicken Marsala and bought some extra stuff. I think this would be our last trip to Ikea recently. Hopefully we don't need anything else to fill our apartment. I just feel that I have never had so much furnitures in my whole life living in the states...:p

Here are photos for the glass hanger we got. Billy put them right above our sink at the kitchen. 2nd photo is an overview of our living room from the kitchen...looks like a lot of stuff everywhere...:p

Sun night we had more food eating at Billy's house. One of those family gatherings in a smaller size. Our weekend is all about eating you see? too much burden on my stomach I think. To conclude this "all about eating" blog....here is a funny picture of Hades with the cape of favor Billy made for him with Billy's Jeans.....Cat from outer space he looks like....:) The last photo is our nice dining area with all colors matched with our table...

TGIF !!!!!!!!

It turned out that Billy's car only had a dying battery, and it was fixed right away last night. Even though I spent too much time driving back and forth because of the car repair, it was still good the problem was smaller than we expected....

Jacob kept on asking me if I want to meet this and that person from TW as if I know who they are. I guess he is trying to get me hooked with whatever resources he has before he leaves LA. Even though I appreciate his effort but I am not sure how much of that is actually gonna help me. 1st of all....I am not all that interested getting to know all the Christian ministry people cuz I am not in the industry and don't really want to be in the industry anyway....2nd of all...some of them actually have bad integrity and Jacob may just does not know....(or maybe he does...but Christians tend to cover each other's butts cuz of God's love anyway....oh well...very sarcastic....)

What I really care about for now is when we can have a definite date to go to Santa Monica...Jacob kept on asking if we can go, but no definite time can be agreed on....kinda want to just get that out of the way cuz it's gets annoying to have something hanging in the air for weeks. I think I should just forget about counting on people to keep schedules as promised cuz nowadays nobody really keeps promised dates.....very sad....(and again in my opinion that is bad 家教....but then people don't really learn much from their parents nowadays either...sad..sad..)

Ok...just nagging on meaningless things cuz it's Friday and I am so looking fwd to finish teaching this week. Hui-Ling jie called and wanted to eat together. People like Hui-Ling jie who keeps in touch with ex-co-workers are very rare nowadays....Eva is gonna cook tonight. We will see how everything goes...

By the way...Billy was telling me that if a guy wants to look for qualities in a girl, then they need to look for 1. integrity 2. flexibility 3. giving nature...Eva and Katty would both be the top of the list with those components installed in them...I have no idea what is wrong with guys' brains nowadays....

Nothing happens on Thurs

Billy just called to tell me his old car broke....(the starter is not working)....I guess when a car is as old as that, then it's only normal things break. I wonder how he is gonna go to work tomorrow with this old one kinda broken and the s 2000 without wheels...It is also one of the many things that broke recently...one more thing to get fixed...oh well....

My student came for lesson this morning. I have no idea why kids who learn violin for years would not be able to tell if stuff they are playing is in tune or not. Apparently ears are trainable but only to certain extend....sighs...I don't know why untalented people attempt things they cannot do....but again I guess talent is all relative...depending on who you are comparing to....

Ok....I am out of stuff to write....gonna go find some food since it's 1:30 already.