If We Were Having Coffee – Busy Week!

If we were having coffee I would tell you about the crazy week its been!  Last week’s coffee share was quite short, because the busy-craziness of this week had begun — and it’s just continued.
For Halloween I went to see 42nd Street — all dressed up in my Halloween costume. The show was fun, not quite to my musical tastes, but the dancing was spectacular! It was a downpouring day, and there was some serious flooding going on so I ended up having to reroute myself a bit to make it home (especially since I take public transit and the trains weren’t running downtown due to the flooding). By the time I got home I was soaked through,  but honestly there was something fairly nostalgic for me about arriving at my front door on Halloween night, all costumed up, absolutely drenched. I trick-or-treated at my door and then ran across the street to the neighbor who has lived there my entire life and trick-or-treated there. It was fun to climb the steps to his house and ring the doorbell, cry out “Trick-Or-Treat!” and then visit with him for a bit.

Saturday night I went continued the walk-down-memory-lane in a way. The local National Novel Writing Month midnight-kick-off was being held at the 24-hour diner down the street from me — the same one that I used to go to with friends back in High School. It was strange to be there at late hours, not something I’d done in years. I got a pretty good word-count at that, some good start on my story, but I haven’t been able to do much more writing since then.  I have had some good conversations and ideas about the story though, so I’m feeling pretty good about it anyhow.

The reason I haven’t gotten any other writing done is a mix of things. First there was the dental issues.  I had a tooth (towards the front of my mouth) break on Sunday night, so got into the dentist for an emergency visit Monday at the end of the day. They put a temporary crown on and started the process for a permanent crown. However, on Tuesday the temporary crown fell off, taking what remained of the tooth with it. I was able to get back into the dentist on Wednesday, and we decided the best bet was to get an implant. So Friday I had to go back to get fitted with a “flipper” — a temporary tooth that fits in my mouth kind of like a retainer, which is what I’ll use to not have a gaping hole a the front of my mouth until the implant process can happen.

I also have been dealing with some uncomfortable pain in one of my legs, that I went to the doctors Friday morning about — apparently, we think, it is a pinched nerve in my hip, so I am working on figuring out just how to handle that.
Meanwhile, my awesome friend who just finished up the season working as a ranger up on Mount Saint Helens is crashing at my place for a little.  Which means most of my time after getting off work has been filled with visiting, as well as most of my weekend. It’s been great visiting time – we were in college together, and this is the first extended visit time we’ve had since then, really.  Since I ended up taking all of Friday off due to the doctor-appointment-bookends, we went out for a sushi lunch and then to Powells for a bit.

Conveyor-belt sushi is the BEST!

Saturday we met up with my Dad and went to the Rice Northwest Rock and Mineral Museum.

A meteorite!! One of the cool things about the Rice museum is that lots of it was hands-on.

It was very cool, with lots of pretty rocks and fossils and petrified wood — I even got to pick some rocks from a rock pile which I’ll clean up and be doing some crafts with this fall!

Searching through the rock pile, in the rain, in heels and a skirt...

Busy busy time! Today I seem to be fighting a cold (lots of sneezing) so am planning to spend a lot of the day curled up reading and writing, maybe playing some games, and doing some cleaning and food prep for the week. 
How has your week been?

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Today’s post is a part of the Weekend Coffee Share, graciously hosted by Part Time Monster every weekend. A time for us to come together, share a cup of coffee (or our beverage of choice) to share some of what is going on in our lives.  It’s a lovely check-in!