My First Dental Visit In A VERY Long Time

Last Sunday while I was eating I suddenly became aware that something was wrong in my mouth. My very back molar on the bottom left side of my mouth had a piece of tooth missing! This would be traumatic for most people but you need to understand that in my 29 years of life I've NEVER had a cavity filled. That's not to say that I didn't figure that I had a few since it's been at least eleven years *cough*probablythirteen*cough* since my butt has sat in a dentist's chair. I won't deny a few panicked tears when I realized the inevitable trip to the dentist.

After a week of dread, this morning found me sitting in an exam chair. It was interesting to see how far dental technology has progressed since the last time I went. They took x-rays of most of my teeth that appeared on the computer screen instantly! The panoramic x-ray was the same as before but it was still kinda fun to once again see the healed crack in my jaw: my only bone that has ever broken. (It was broken during my birth but nobody knew until I was 13. The dentist was interested in seeing it, too. He said it's not something that you see every day.)

After looking at the x-rays, the dentist said that my teeth actually look pretty good. Yes, there's the one big cavity but nothing else that is big. Then he did the real exam and looked at my teeth and gums. While I do have a total of six cavities- yep, five more small ones- my gums are healthy, I have minimal plaque and tarter and no big concerns. :) After the cavities are filled- two separate visits for that- I'll be looking at quite the healthy mouth! It's crazy to think that I've gone this long without seeing a dentist and was dreading hearing that my mouth was simply rotting only to find out that I only have six cavities.

Yes, you could say, "Wow! Six is a lot of cavities for one dental visit!" But when you look at it from the perspective of six cavities in my entire 29 years- or even six cavities in more than a decade with no professional dental care- well, that's really not bad!

Branden has an appointment for tomorrow. He already has a mouth full of silver and he knows he's getting more fillings. This is an old game to him. He's been telling me that there's nothing to worry about this whole week but I didn't really believe him. Sure, there's still a lot of pain to come for both of us but we'll probably both survive.

"Woo-ee-oo, I Look Just Like Buddy Holly"

Branden needs corrective lenses. Without them, he can't tell that I'm me from across the room. A couple of weeks ago he decided that it had been too long since he'd had glasses. He hasn't had a pair since we got together and he needed to pick some up for those times that his allergies were bothering his eyes or he just didn't want to wear contacts.

He went to Pearl Vision, got an exam and picked a few pairs then took me back to help him choose. Every time he put on a particular pair I started laughing. It's not that he looked BAD in them but... They were such typical nerd glasses! As it turns out, my laughing mattered little as he already had his heart set. We purchased the glasses and he went back about a week later to pick them up. And here he is:

What a handsome nerd I've married!

(To be accurate, these are NOT the same type of glasses that Buddy Holly wore, nor are they the same as Rivers Cuomo's glasses but, you know, close enough. Also, I like the song!)

Maybe Only Funny to Me

Just a quick story that makes me giggle before I head off for work today. First, a few things you should know:

1) Wednesday night is bacon night. Yes, every Wednesday BACON is part of our meal. Be it on potatoes, in a casserole, in biscuits or standing alone, bacon is on our dinner table.

2) Branden has a very nice friend who raises chickens and has given me free eggs! If you've read my blog for a while you may know that I LOVE eggs and always have more than a dozen in the house. I have never met this man but I would believe that he is the type who would pull a puppy out of a river simply because he gave me FREE eggs. :)

3)Our new fridge has been dripping water into the bottom and, consequently, onto the kitchen floor so Branden called the management company. They sent a guy to fix it yesterday.

4)Most of our life has been moved to our new apartment but there's still stuff over at the old-- mostly stuff we don't need... Oh, and the animal members of our household which Branden considers to be part of the stuff we need and I, well, we'll just say I'm loving leaving every door open and walking through an apartment that is almost completely devoid of drifting fur. Among those things still at the old place are all the condiments that go in a refrigerator door and most of the random things you have in your fridge but never think about. I brought over butter, eggs, cheese, bacon and a package of bratwurst as those seemed to be the only things in there that I cared about moving in the small cooler I had at that time.

Branden's friend sent him home with two dozen MORE eggs on Wed. :) Since it was bacon night and we had little to eat in the house, we had bacon and eggs and finished off a different dozen of eggs. I left the carton on the counter so Branden could return it to his friend. Our fridge now contains three cartons of eggs. When we came home yesterday there was a note saying that the fridge was fixed. I opened the fridge and saw for a brief instant what the maintenance guy must have seen: empty shelves except for a block of cheese, a couple bottles of water, a pack of brats and three dozen eggs with another empty egg carton sitting next to the fridge. Kinda makes you wonder what's up with these people, doesn't it?

It may not be funny to you, but I had a good giggle.

June So Far

Kids are out of school, the cicadas are buzzing like mad and the heat index put us at about 100 degrees today... It's summertime in St. Louis! (If you've never lived in a humid state and don't know about heat index, here's a little reading for you! Also, if you, like Branden, haven't lived in a state with cicadas and don't know what I'm talking about, Wikipedia has an article about them, too.)

We signed our new lease Tuesday evening and have started moving in. I'm really excited for this new place, if you didn't guess from my previous post. I know that I mentioned that it has two bathrooms and this current apartment only has one so you know what that means: We need to buy new things! :) I have never been in a position to really buy nice, matching bathroom items but we still had some wedding gift cards... So when Branden suggested that we run to the Mart that is Wal I immediately decided it was time to spend them. I was so excited about our new towels and bath curtain that I declared we must go and hang them up without delay. (And now I'm writing a blog about them so I MUST be extraordinarily excited about ordinary things.) We chose a green and brown color scheme and I put the towels on the bar exactly as Martha Stewart would have. It's not completely finished but we have a decent guest bathroom!

I know that paragraph was a little rambling and not well thought-out but it is after midnight and I've got to work in the morning and I'm forcing myself to not read it over and over to come up with better wording. If I let myself, I can write a blog in ten minutes and then spend the next hour editing... Must resist editing urges! So here's a fairly un-edited blog to let you know that I'm alive, things are moving forward and, most of all, I have nice brown and green towels in a bathroom that all my guests will see.