Sometimes, silence is indeed golden.  When it comes to the fyr and this blog, golden is not even remotely apt. In this case, the fyr being silent is a very bad thing.

Or so some of you may think.

The fact is, the fyr has been silent for a number of different reasons. The main one being her new job that she landed that keeps her surfing the web all day long, being paid for much of the surfing that she does.  I have been busy. The job brings many new horizons closer for me, yet introduces a curve to my routine that I am still trying to work out. It’s interfered with my yoga classes, my home routines, my food and cooking routines … it’s put a spoke in everything simple because I haven’t yet found the best groove in which to slide it in and have it work in concert with everything else.

Throw into the loop the fact of my very minor surgery last Thursday and I have a mess of tasks that just don’t have their place in my daily routine. A literal mess. I need a way to organize, focus and channel.

What’s that? What minor surgery? Not to worry, I am fine. I was in and out before you might have noticed (had I been blogging regularly, of course) and I am recovering nicely – albeit slower than I had expected. There is much pain and a lot of the tasks I took for granted before are next to impossible – things such as bending, sitting for long periods of time, standing for long periods of time – and by a long period of time I mean in excess of a few minutes.

I have a couple of friends who I know might be offended that I had this major drama situation today, where I needed someone to talk to BADLY but I didn’t call them. Instead, I called on my army family.

I was incoherent in my distress, blabbing about the chain of command and orders and family members and mandatory training… yet I was rational enough to think that unless I called someone who could understand my blathering, I would just work myself into a bigger snit. This was one time I needed answers and avenues for redress. An ear wasn’t going to help me this time.

The situation was uniquely military in nature. An appointment made just over 2 weeks ago was going to have to be cancelled because the chain of command said so. At least, this is how it was worded when the message first came to me. I will say that I have no idea whether the message came to me quoted directly or modified with the emotion that I know was there. And I frankly don’t care at this point. The fact is that it should not be an issue NOW… today.

The situation is thus: hubby is away in the field this week, and instead of being able to focus on his training, he is having to scramble out there to deal with a situation that should have been squared away at best 2 weeks ago, at worst last week. Not only can he and I not discuss the sudden drama as a family, but he is going to be unable to focus out there with the drama unfolding as it is.

IMG_5947, originally uploaded by ~fyrfli~.

I had a productive day today. I felt so good about myself that I decided to actually unplug for a while and go do something other than stare at this screen. So I set up the little collapsible lawn chair outside and sat out with my Kindle reading. It was such a pretty day though that by the time I had read about 10 Kindle pages, I couldn’t ignore the day anymore. It was windy out, but such a blue, blue sky and nice and cool – not cold. I sat there with my face turned up to the sky for about 5 minutes, just enjoying the smell, the wind, the sun and then I got up, put the precious Kindle to sit on the dining table and grabbed the camera. Somehow, it seems that the only thing worth taking was the sky, though. The sky through the trees … and my usual lens flare to accompany this particular gem. I’d forgotten what joy I get just …. snapping pictures of random Mother Nature finds. /sigh

It took me almost 2 years to visit the dentist. While the reasons for this were not all unavoidable, I have to admit to some delinquency on my part. While the move/migration was traumatic and the few months thereafter, it just seems ridiculous that it would take that long for me to finally get to a dentist.

I can offer up all sorts of excuses and reasonings, but none of it matters now. 2 years later, the dentist explained to me how badly off my teeth were. Mostly because of my unfortunate tendency to lapse in my dental habits /blush

Anywho … when I finally got there, the experience – as with just about every other one I’ve had since moving here – was unique and notable.

They took full x-rays (I think I’ve had more x-rays done in this country since I got here than I’ve had in my entire life before now) and put me sit in a chair while the “doctor” evaluated my condition fully. And that included “measuring” the depth down the side of my teeth into my gums.

In any case, the news was not good and I have a dozen or so visits stretching ahead of (not to mention a large co-pay bill) to get things better. For one thing, it seems as if I haven’t lost the habit of grinding my teeth while I sleep. Hubby goes “I knew that” when I tell him and I am like “well geez, you coulda told ME about this”. I thought that was a direct result of the levels of stress I had while working at Digicel. Clearly not. OR … the habit stuck.

I’ve been unhappy with my theme for a long LONG time. I’ve always wanted to make my OWN theme. My friend Yolospat is my inspiration – her theme is her own design. I’ve been wanting to play around in the theme garden and I just have never had the time, or the motivation to do so before now.

Cue a sleepless night with tech on the brain and here I am, awake at almost 6am, awake since about midnight, and I decide I am going to build my theme today. I have NO idea what is going to happen to me when 3pm trundles along and I am sleep-deprived. I guess I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

In any case, there are areas of this theme that are still under construction, so while I will debut it right here on the fyr-light, I will ask that you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE comment on THIS post if you find issues.

Or, alternatively, you can try adding a new issue at the google code homepage for the theme – yes. After “building” the theme, I went and made a google code page for it so I can share it if necessary.

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Mostly, I made it so I can version it.

Want to try it for yourself? Download it here.

I WILL be continuing to work on this theme – so stay tuned for changes.