My tooth is going to cost me $230-300, so the road trip is postponed. I need to move farther towards the black before I go deeper into the red. I know, what a let down. I plan to re-evaluate in a couple weeks to see if I can go before the cold and rain start up north. But at least the dentist will be giving me an exam and x-rays, so I can see to what extent the corrosion that my mouth is in and what needs to happen to repair it. I am working on getting a temp job up north, and coupled with the tax return I usually get in Late February, I am determined that within the next 8 months Ramona gets to go to Costa Rica to meet her dad. And of course I will be armed with x-rays and the Spanish skills to locate an awesome dentist to make my mouth shine for 1/3 the price of American dentists. Besides repairs, I am also looking into slowly replacing all my metal fillings with composite ones. Metal makes me feel toxic. And amalgam fillings tend to have some of the more toxic metals in them.
Planning on taking a camping trip, just my daughter and I, to the American River next week to make ourselves feel better about no road trip. But I keep wondering if I should save the $50 in camping fees and $25 or so in gas and put it towards my road trip. Hmmmmm.
Well, none-the-less I will be doing some work to make my life less tempting to get away from. Like limiting myself to one (12 oz) beer a day maximum, drunk in my own home. I like drinking beer, but when I am not feeling great, I drink more, which makes me feel worse and more tired. I drink six or more beers a week in bars, the good kind. Six pints adds up to $30-36 dollars a week with tips. I could use that money to buy tools and wood to make garden beds, more art to make my house more comfortable, extra childcare to get more peace.
Another de-toxifying change I have made is to deactivate my facebook. It is too easy to distract myself on that thing. It was hard, but I just wrote a note on my calendar for two weeks from yesterday, saying that I can reactivate my account if I feel like it at that time. That way the decision doesn’t have to feel so big. Already, the first morning without, I was tempted by an awesome groupon deal to activate my facebook to share it. One of my favorite local cafes has a 61% off deal. I wanted all my friends to know…and of course if my friends sign on to groupon because of my suggestion, I get $10 towards other groupon deals, see how that can get insidious? Life on the internet is insidious. I was sort of disgusted with myself. What have I become? I do love groupon though.
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Yeah, the recent Groupon deal for Bovine Bakery was awesome :-) We wouldn't have splurged otherwise. Their pain d’amande was so good...
How are the Costa Rican rain forests (if you've visited them)? The Amazonian ones have been on my travel wishlist forever, but we may have to "settle" on Costa Rica instead.
How about brewing your own beer? :-)
The Bovine Bakery Groupon is what I am talking about. It's going on again.
I was in the cloud forest in Costa Rica. That is where R's dad lives, Monte Verde. It was nice. On the continental divide. Probably not as exotic and far away as the Amazonian ones. Lot's of beautiful monkeys and butterflies...
Brewing my own beer sounds like a great next projects. Maybe I can even start by growing my own hops?
Re: Bovine groupon -- I saw that after I posted on here! So yummy, but definitely a splurge for us.
Cool. The cloud forest in Costa Rica's probably more family-friendly too. I'll have to do more research on the country :-) What brought you there in the first place? Did you meet R's dad there, or elsewhere?
Re: Growing your own hops -- worth a try! It'll be a fun learning experience if nothing else.
I was just traveling through Central America and met him there where he was born and raised, so I stayed with him for a while. His family has a hotel in Santa Elena.
I know hops are easy to grow, in fact invasive.
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