I had my bi-annual dental cleaning appointment this morning. All was well except I chipped a tooth at some point over the summer and recently it became sensitive to cold. I had a pretty good idea what that meant, but the dentist confirmed it this morning–I’m going to need another crown. Coincidentally, it’s the same tooth I had crowned this year, but on the other side. Ugh. Anyway, it doesn’t need to happen right away as it’s not bothering me that much. The previous tooth bothered me for a couple of years before I got it fixed, so we’ll see how this one goes. At least I know that expense is coming, so I’ll be able to put away some money for it before it happens.
dining room
As I previously mentioned, I’m doing some painting at the house this winter. I painted the dining room Elephant Skin on Sunday. I really like how it turned out, though it does make the room a lot darker, but I’m ok with that. I still have to paint the window trim (white)–maybe this weekend. I was hoping to get the living room done before Christmas, but that’s not looking good as I relized I will have Christmas decorations out all December and I’m not going to want to move all of that stuff in order to paint. So, January, maybe?
the descent
I’m rewatching some films from the past that I really liked and this was one of them. As if getting stuck in a cave isn’t scary enough, throw in some cave-dwelling monsters and you have yourself a great horror film.
My rating: 4/5
who’s counting?
This year we had around 40 trick or treaters. This was down a little from last year. It’s so hard to guess how much candy to buy. I had enough for 60-70 and had some bags of chips as backup. The office shall reap the rewards.
Jake and I did some killer pumpkins last night. See my Instagram feed for photographic evidence.
dracula (1931)
One of my coworkers told me aboug Dracula Daily, which is a newsletter that goes out each day that something happens to the characters in the book. It runs May through November. It has been interesting to see the story unfold over that timeline. I’ve been planning on watching the 1992 version of the story after it’s done, but a local theater was playing the 1931 version, so I thought it would be fun to go there and see it, too (even though the story isn’t over yet). They were playing Halloweed-themed movies all month. The theater was pretty cool. It’s in need of refurbishing, but if they accomplish their goal, it’s going to be a really nice place.
Anyway, I find old movies to be pretty cheesy and this one was no different. Also, they took a lot of liberties with the plot. But, it was still fun to get out for the evening.