Last week I went to the dentist to have my teeth cleaned… regular routine stuff, nothing to worry about.

The hygienist is looking my moth over when she says "lift up your tongue for me" then she leans in with a probing tool. "can you feel that?" she asks. "Nope, are you even touching me?" I reply. "I need the dentist to look at this" as she left the room. Im thinking "great here we go, something amazing is about to happen". The dentist, who was obviously working on someone else and was stopped to come look at me pulls up a chair and says "lets see whats going on here, lift up your tongue for me… OH!.. can you feel this?" I gave him the same response, "are you even touching me? whats going on?". "yeah, we need you to get that removed right away". "whats going on, remove what from under my tongue?" I asked. The dentist went on to say that I have a think white patch developing on the underside of my tongue, and that its not always a bad sign, but commonly it is a symptom of TONGUE CANCER!"

TONGUE CANCER! WHAT THE HELL!

The dentist asked me how much I smoke of chew tobacco on a daily basis. I told him that Ive never smoked or chewed in my life. Hell, Ive been straight edge for over 10 years now.

Yesterday I went to the Oral surgeon for him to check it out. He was a nice guy, but his reaction was the same "how much do you smoke/chew?". Simply amazing. When I told him that I dont touch the stuff, he asked me if I have a family history of cancer. If you count my mom, 3 of my grandparents, my great grandpa, my aunt, my uncle, and myself all having cancer, tumors or something biopsied, then yeah I guess there is a bit of history (In 2000, I had my right breast removed at 19, because the drs thought I had breast cancer, im glad it was just a benign tumor).

So yeah, the doctor wants to do a biopsy on the "Leukoplakia" I have under my tongue right away. By right away he means today. He said that Im going to need a few stitches to close it up. Stitches un my tongue� suck. It doesnt make me feel good when I go to a doctor about something that could be cancer growing under my tongue, and he wants to remove it and analysis it 24 hours later.

I bought a roomba. If you dont know what a roomba is, its a small disc shaped robot that will vacuum your house for you!

I just installed wood floors in my house. If you have wood floors you know that they get dusty pretty fast. The roomba seemed like the perfect solution to my house cleaning situation.

I let the roomba charge up for a few hours then I let it do its thing. The roomba started to spin in a circle about 5 times before it took off in a straight line. Roomba is not the smartest, it goes until it bumps something, then it turns, repeat several hundred times until the floor is clean. It sounds lame but its actually amazing and works well.

I was bummed that my dogs wernt more scared of it though. They could care less about the thing. I was hoping that samson, my littlest tea cup chihuahuas would at least ride on it. no such luck.

I got the roomba discovery edition. It comes with a remote control so you can drive the roomba. The dogs arnt scared of it, so chasing them isnt half as fun as I thought it would be. The roomba discovery also come with a charging unit that the robot is aware of. When roombas batteries run low, he goes back to his charging station and docks until he is needed again.

All in all, I love my roomba. its a freaking robot that cleans my house! I just wish my dogs wanted to fight it.

Another thing that I love about roomba is that its hackable! So its a robot that cleans my house and I can program from my computer… pure gold! why havent I gotten one of these earlier? Why haven�t I haved it yet!

Last week, I placed the finishing touches on my house, finally! I installed the pergo laminate flooring that I bought over a year ago for my living room.

I originally thought that it was only going to take about a month to finish everything. WRONG. It has been 1 year and 8 months that I have had keys to my house.

Quick run down of all the things that I have done to my house:

• Removed a cabinate in kitchen, making the dining room and kitchen connect now
• Replaced all florescent lights with recessed lights in the kitchen
• Added pendent lights to the kitchen
• Added over head lighting to the dining room, master bed room, and office
• Added recessed lighting to the living doom (dimmable)
• Primed and painted every interior wall in the house
• Ran coax cable to every room through the walls
• Replaced every light switch and wall socket
• Replaced all the plumbing fixtures (toilets, sinks, faucets, shower heads, garbage disposal)
• Replaced the kitchen window with a huge 72 x 48 x 18 garden window
• Replaced all the crappy pink and green tile in my house with high quality, stylish ceramic tile
• Replaced the kitchen counter tops and wet bar with black granite
• Replaced the fireplace tile with black granite
• Added a black granite back splash to the kitchen
• Replaced every single door knob and door hinge with brushed nickel equivalents
• Replaced every door in the house with new 6
• panel molded doors
• New thresh hold on the front door
• New refrigerator, stove, dishwasher (all stainless steel)
• Refaced all of my cabinets in cherry wood.
• Installed about 1000 sq feet of laminate wood flooring in my living room, office and master bedroom
• Removed the acoustic popcorn ceiling in the master bedroom, living room, and dining room
• Painted all the stair railing and banisters
• New door jambs downstairs
• Replaces sliding closet doors in the bedrooms
• Replaced shower and tub doors
• New custom vanities in all 3 bathrooms
• Replaced the door bell
• Replaced the thermostat
• New baseboards through out the house
• Replaced the water heater

Im sure that I am missing more things that I have done/replaced. Basically what it boils down to is the fact that I took my house down to the studs and rebuilt it from the inside out. I dont think there is anything that I havent replaced/updated/fixed in the entire house since I bought it.

Its my first house, and I feel really attached to it. Its cost me a lot of money and time to get it to this point, but I have had a great time doing it. I think that its increased the value of the place a lot. I know that it looks worlds better then it did when I moved into it. Ive also gotten a lot of sweet power tools along the way.