Tiffany Michelle Casto

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are many reasons why I will be voting for McCain:

 

1. He's pro-life! I will never support anyone who feels murdering babies is ok!

2. Experience and Love for his coountry - He has served our country since the age of 17!

 

3. He holds many of the same Christian values that are important for this Country to continue to receive God's blessing..."One nation under God"

 

Why I will never vote for Obama:

1. He's for killing babies

2. He's untrust-worthy

 

 

3. The person he calls his mentor - someone who is racist and damns America:

 

4. Very little to No experience even stated by his own Vice president running mate and the democratic party:

It's been a while, as usual since I've had a chance to get on here. I've decided it would be easier to write a list below of everything that has happened since the end of July then to go into full detail of everything:

 

~ Helped pack and move my Sister and her hubby to North Carolina.

~ Packed and moved myself and now live alone with my kitten

~ Finally received my diploma in the mail and hung it on the wall.

~ Helped my Mom paint my old room.

~ Was a brides maid and sang in a friends wedding

~ Joined the choir

~ Went to my cousin's baby shower for the triplets (all healthy and doing great!!!)

~ Visited my Sister in NC

~ Worked on a few songs

~ Tried to keep up with friends and family

~ and of course worked on building my company

 

Some random thoughts I've been having:

 

~ How is it possible to feel like time is moving so slow and yet look back at the past year and think "where has the time gone?"

~ I'm gonna be 27 in Jan.! Hugely Scary!

~ I don't want to declaw my kitten but I think my furniture would thank me

~ I still have to clean all the bugs off my car from my trip to my sisters.  I must have hit some big yellow jackets cause there are some huge yellow splats of guts on the front. yuck!

~ I'm sooooo excited for this weekend! My sister is coming home for a visit and we will be going to the annual fright fest out at our church camp! It's way better then any haunted house!

~ It appears I will be trying out for the praise team at church. I'm more nervous then normal for 2 reasons. One being, I have no clue what to expect for the try out process and two, every one on the team can sing really well. That's of course a huge plus but it also makes me feel a little inadequate. I don't have as much experience as them so they intimidate me.

~ I wish it was a bit warmer here! burr!

~ My kitten is so cute and friendly! I couldn't have asked for better!

 

 

 

So last Saturday was the big day. They surgically removed all 4 wisdom teeth and let's just say it could have went better.

 

 They kept me awake through the whole thing which seemed odd, but I didn't mind at first. They put 8 shots of local anesthesia (2 near each tooth) so I wouldn't feel anything. It was pain full but the oral surgeon assured me that the worst part was over. I believed him.

 

He came back 5 mins. later, grabbed what looked like a decent size chisel and began working on the top two teeth. The sight of the chisel was scary and the sound put it over the top. Fortunately, I'm good at zoning out, so at that point I decided to go into my own little world to stay calm.

 

When he started working on the lower right tooth I was snapped back into reality as the the numbing hadn't worked. I tried to tell him through a mouthful of gauze, blood and utensils that I was in pain. He finally got the message and stopped. He put a few more shots near the tooth and waited 2 mins. before starting again. Unfortunately it still didn't work so he tried it one more time. At that point the pain was close to unbearable and he had given me all the anesthesia he was legally allowed. He told me that we would just have to forge ahead as there was nothing else he could do. Joy to my world.

 

Before he began again, the nurse told me to raise my left hand if I needed a break and he would stop. I held out as long as I could and then raised my hand. I think they missed the holding out as long as possible because when I raised my hand he said he was almost done and kept going. At this point the piece of paper I was holding with the price quote was completely rung into a tight rope as my now white fingers and knuckles clung to it. I wasn't a very happy camper as the whole hand raising agreement was disrespected.

 

The last tooth was painful but not as bad as the one before it. I'm not really sure if that was because the numbing had worked better or because my body had gone into shock.

 

Before I left, the surgeon told me to bight gently down on the gauze and the blood would clot in an hour. If I hadn't , he told me to repeat the process one more time and it should be done. Again, I believed him, although looking back I'm not really sure why.

 

I waited 2 hrs. just to make sure it had a good chance to clot. My Mom went to get a waist can so I could take the gauze out and I slowly sat up so I could remove them (keep in mind that my lips, cheeks and tongue are completely numb). I had an ice pack in my hand and started to feel something wet. I thought it might have been the ice melting so I looked down to find blood pouring out of my mouth. It was everywhere, on my hands, the ice pack, my jeans, the couch, etc. My Mom came in and ran right back out to get some paper towels. I was pretty freaked out.

 

I went on to bleed continually for another 3 days. I was really worried that I was going to lose to much blood as Aunt flow had come to visit that weekend as well. My Dad assured me that you can lose at least a pint but I wasn't so sure I hadn't already lost 2. My Dad then found out through some friends that tea bags instead of gauze would stop the bleeding. That's all well and good if you like tea but I hate the taste. So there I was eating tea/blood flavored eggs, jello and applesauce. yum.

 

The good news is, the tea bags worked and I lost some weight. I'm still a little swollen but today for the first time I was able to chew some soft foods with little pain. All I can say is bring on the pizza!

 

 

I finally graduated last week. I don't have my diploma but I'm not walking, so to me it's official. I told my parents to just take a picture of me going to the mail box. hehe

 

Even though I'm not walking I did plan a special day with my parents to celebrate the event. We're going to drive up to school, pick out my tassels, then go home and enjoy some pizza, home made choc. chip cookies and a movie.

 

I'm really enjoying my college free life, even if it's only been 2 days so far. I feel like I have so much more time to do the things, that I love, that I had to put on hold. One thing I'm looking forward to is songwriting. Hopefully I'll be able to improve even faster and come up with some great material for WAJ 2008! I've started on a song that will take a lot of work, but if done right, should turn out really well. It's a fun rock/pop song that is in the same category as the song I wrote last year called "I Dream."

 

Another thing that I am looking forward to is rejoining the church choir and getting ready for the Christmas concert. It is one of my fav. events of the year!

 

The down side to being out of school would be having more time for things that I've been avoiding. For instance I'll be getting all 4 wisdom teeth out this Saturday. I'm a little nervous but I'll be staying with my parents that day after the surgery so if anything should happen they'll be there.  It will be interesting. Especially since I am co-hosting a bridal shower for my friend the next day. Hopefully I won't be to swollen.  We shall see.

 

It also affords me more time to work which will be nice. Especially when I get my large bill from the oral surgeon and start paying off my school loans. Fun stuff.

 

 

It bothers me when I hear people say they don't know why we went to war. It's sad how quickly some forget.

 

A reminder: September 11, 2001