its been a long time......i'm still hurting from my visit to the oral surgeon. i could still feel the stitches in the back of my mouth and eating is the most painful experience at this point in my life. on the third day after my surgery, i decided to eat some spagetti, i just couldn't chew! it took me almost 3 hours to eat spaghetti.

this past weekend i went to kayenta because brian and i decided we needed to get the hell out of phoenix. i was still in pain from the surgery and i was drugged half the time while i was in kayenta. i did have a great time though. on saturday, we spent half day at brian's grandmother's house. we got there just in time because they were in the process of butchering a sheep. its been a long time since i last watched a butchering. it was quite an experience. at first i was disgusted and felt so bad for watching it, but then i started to think about it, and i was thinking to myself that i shouldn't be thinking that way because most of my ancestors hunted for food and this is the way people survived back in the days.

we brought brian's neices and nephews with us on that long journey to his grandmother's house. his grandmother lives about 30 miles off the highway. you have to have truck to get up to that place because the terrain is rough. there's rocks every where, winding roads, and there's even times when the road crosses throught small streams. you can run into a lot of wildlife while you are on that journey. it takes about an hour to get there, but it doesn't seem that long when there is so much to see. the view from the mountains can be so breath taking and the is well worth it.

on the way back to phoenix brian and i stopped at a food stand to get our fix. i had me some corn stew and fry bread. it's my favorite. brian had his usual mutton sandwich. we sat at that food stand for a long time, brian even striked up a conversation with the old lady that was cooking the food. brian speaks fluent navajo. i don't speak it at all. i just understand some of it. it's funny that i don't speak navajo because i grew up with my family speaking navajo/english. i should have picked up the language, but for some reason i just didn't. i don't know, maybe i just didn't want to learn. i regret it to this day though. someday though, i will learn to speak it fluently.

well, i have to get ready to go to my second job. hopefully, you understand what the heck i wrote because this took me 5 minutes to type.