Friday, February 3, 2006

   Owwww...the braces are on.
Auuuughh...
Hey everybody. How's it going?

Guess who has a brand-spankin'-new set of braces on their teeth. That's right, me. X_x
Man, these things are PAINFUL! I am loaded up on Advil right now, so it's FINALLY starting to dull a little bit.
*sigh*, one day down, 14 months to go. -_-'

Though there was a lucky break for me today: My mom let me stay home from school. ^_^
It's a damn-good thing to, because I was in absolute searing pain this morning! Just like the spacers last week, these things hurt like Hell the morning after they go on.
If I had had to go to school today, it would have been even worse, because I would have had a test today in Civics and Sci. Vis.! (Sci. Vis. tests aren't fun, but they're easy. It was those monster tests Mr. Dickerson makes for Civics that I was worried about!)
It would have been tough to cram last night with my teeth hurting after having the braces go on, and I would have had a large Algebra assignment on top of that!
But, my Mommy-O let me stay home, and I'm really thankful for that. ^_^ It's a good thing to, because I didn't get the first 2 pages of notes I need for that Civics test.
(Unless you're interested in me explaining that last sentence, go ahead and skip the following paragraph in-between the parenthesis. I understand my need to elaborate can get a little boring, so feel free to skip-down 'till you see a line-break.)
(Usually, Mr. Dickerson makes us write notes in class as he puts them on the over-head and then posts what we didn't have time to write on his website for us to print-out. But just recently, he started a new note system where we just read the notes in class and then get ALL the notes from that day off his website. The problem is, Mr. Dickerson only leaves his notes on the web for 2 or 3 days before he removes them, meaning I missed my chance to get some of the notes I needed! >_< But a classmate who got the notes says she'll e-mail them to me (unfortunately, it's the same classmate who I worked with on the Civics Exam study-guide with... XE).)

Whoa, about a quarter-way through that last paragraph I stopped and took a break, which led me to spend 4 hours getting homework done. It was about 5:30 when I started this post, and now it's 8:45. ^_^' Aren't I the multi-tasker? That means I only typed until "If I had had to go to school today, it would have been even worse," before going on that little homework jaunt.

Anyway, as for what I did on my day off, I woke-up at about 10:30. I then spent most of the afternoon mulling around various art-sites I like and watching Strong Bad E-mails in an attempt to get my mind off my teeth's searing pain. Naturally, I wasn't quite in the mood to do anything else but sit on my bum, so the house didn't get cleaned-up much today. ^_^'
I had a lunch today of...3 bowels of Applesauce. I tried to eat a few of the delicious French-cream tarts my mom brought home as left-overs from an office party, but even those soft, cold little things hurt like Hell! X_x My braces won't let me eat anything!

Anywho, here's how yesterday went down for those interested in my holy induction into brace-dom:
I was let out of school early at 1:45, which means I missed the last 30 minutes of Chemistry. I then had to go that check-up at the doctor's (with my brother >_<).
We then high-tailed it home and dropped my brother off and let him nerd-out on the internet while my mom and I went to the dentists.
At 3:30, my appointment started with my spacers being taken out (ahhhh, that was a relief!).
First, they used that tiny little brush with the spinning head and the gritty stuff that tastes like sand for a quick, general cleaning.
Then, they started pressing on the anchors on my 4 2nd-to-backmost teeth. I don't like those things, 'cause now I got these 4 metal "wings" sticking off my teeth and into my tongue. Worst of all, for some reason they have these little rounded hooks that go off the tooth and press into my gum. They gave me some "Orthodontic Wax" to put on em' for the first couple days, but it's almost not worth using since it's more for keeping the anchors from poking your cheeks.
Anyway, after that they put the brackets on each tooth, which took a good 30 minutes or so. They put paste on the back of each tiny little square, stuck it to my tooth, and permanently sealed it there by exposing it to this blue, radio-active light thingy. It was weird, because it often made my mouth feel all warm and smokey like a micro-wave. For all I know, they gave me mouth cancer with that thing or something!
After all those brackets were on, they finished up by threading and tightening the wires in them.
All in all, the actual process of getting the braces on was less painful then I thought it would be. It's the actual straightening that hurts like hell.
X_x Aughhh...it feels like every tooth in my head is slowly being twisted out! >_<

Anyway, I found out my monthly breakfast with my grandparents is tomorrow. Naturally, my mom's making me go. -_-'
Usually, I love it. We have this quaint little restaurant we go to once a month on a Saturday for breakfast where we meet my grandparents.
The problem is, my teeth hurt like a mother f*#@$r!!!! I don't want to get up early to go try to get something past my teeth and into my stomach.
Of course, my mom protests "you can have some nice, soft eggs or some oatmeal", both of which I hate. >_<

Sorry for the long, whiny post today.
Oh, and I promise I'll get to your sites ASAP! My mom was doing maintenance on the computer last night, so I couldn't get on.
But, please know that I will comment soon, and I HAVE read your posts for the most part!
I'll hopefully see you guys tomorrow!
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