u smell dat? o_O

before this past week, i would've been the first person to ask about ANY foreign smell.. people who know me well KNOW that i can smell people cookin' oatmeal in Siberia.

and yet.. i've burnt things this week.

dude.. all that brown is CHEESE. o_O

you know how people say frozen pizzas taste like cardboard..? well, they're wrong. they taste fine until you burn them.. then they taste like BURNT cardboard.

don't worry, i'm not proud of that. 

seriously.

i'm tellin' you.. & this may sound craZy, but literally, when things are "done" i could smell the "doneness" before what happened two weeks ago..

and NOW. my sense of smell is BROKE. BUSTED. JACKED UP.

ha.

this isn't funny. i'm disturbed.

j-boy #1 says it's probably got sumthin to do with that good 'ol dentist maxillofacial surgeon visit i made not too long ago.. you can read about it here..

and yea.. i know what you're probably thinkin'

"here we go again!  girl, get over it!!"

but, you'd be bugged out too if all of a sudden part of you is not workin' right.. wouldn't you??

and you KNOW they say the ear, nose & throat are ALL connected.

  o___O

we 'gone be eatin' sum burnt EVERYthing 'til i get this worked out.

God help me. & my nose.

maybe i'm overreacting, right..?

okay.. to be fair.

either it's the surgery OR me just getting too distracted writing to you about all of my drama..

hmm..  ;)

another *thankful* thursday!! yay!! ^.^

TOMORROW....

dunh dunh dunhhhhh...

i get the stitches removed from my *ahem* pit of despair where my good 'ol wisdom toof used to be.

i'm thankful!

u know why?  cuz since i had the wisdom tooth extracted last week, the stitches have left me with a weird discomfort.

u know why?  cuz my CHEEK is stitched to my GUM where my TOOF used to be. (read last week's thankful thursday post for THAT story)

heh.

sweetest half grand ever spent. lol..

just kidding.  O______o

anyway, i googled it.. & apparently, this is a NORMAL fail procedure.. LOTS of people complain of it..

O_o

honestly, i don't know.. maybe it REALLY is standard procedure.  everyone has guesses of the reasons WHY their moufes iz jacked up, yet from what I can tell, no one bothered to ask their dear ol' maxillofacial surgeon. lol...  those are fancy words for *the person who jacked up my mouf*

sOoo.. u know what MY *first* question will be tomorrow to the person who jacked up MY mouf at NYU?

WHY is my cheek stuck to my tooth pit??

*somebody* better have a GOOD reason. O_o or i'll probably start crying. 

& guess what?  i'll post the response, cuz i've had a few days of terror when i look at that area in the mirror since the swelling went down.

can't wait to see if i have *permanent* cheek in my toof pit.
this is eXciTingg!!  ^.^

just kidding.. 

well, at least my mouf doesn't look like this, right?  O_o right?

honestly, i've learned a VERY valuable lesson of forgiveness thru all of this..

FORGIVE.

forgive your momma, forgive yO daddy, & forgive yO maxillofacial surgeon for jackin' up yO mouf.

it's in the Bible..

i'm thankful..  <3

photo credit here.. 

thank-full!!

as u may already realize, i failed big time with my *EVERYDAY* posts 'til thanksgiving thing.

i'm not that great at this stuff, but i enjoy it, sO.. i keep goin'!!

;-)

the truth is i have a LOT to be grateful for. and although i may not be that great at keepin' up with commitments, i know someone who is. & that's Jesus!

NOooo, i'm not trying to turn this blog into some big, huge religious zone... but i AM a Christian!

& anyone who's in love with ANYthing/one tends to talk about that thing/one who has captivated their hearts... no?

of COURSE!

sO, yea.. i talk about HIM. Jesus is His name. He taught me a valuable lesson about friendship and forgiveness this week.

(imagine that.. THANKSGIVING week..)

i have a friend whose mom just went to heaven. she shared with me the week before her mother's death that she was sick. with cancer. that stuff is evil.

we prayed. i cried at the thought. it was only about a week later if not even a week that she called me again to let me know her mom was gone.

that quick.

a good friend would make sure to reach out to one whose dearest family member has passed away, right?

you'd think so. but i was sO self-consumed to even remember what being a good friend looked like.

i'm embarrassed by this. but grateful. God taught me a LOT in that week.

how to FORGIVE myself - for failing my friend

how to BE forgiving - through my sweet friend

& what a true GOOD friendship looks like. - she exemplified that to me in her reaction.

i may not do well next week in displaying EVERY sweet quality of a good friend.. but i'm learning.

and for that, i'm grateful. :)

(photo credit)