I'm hyper, dammit!
So, yeah, I'm hyper. It's the coffee, dammit! Haven't I talked about the coffee issue here? If I haven't I'm surprised, because I have a trauma and snce all my traumas end up in LJ this most definetly should be here...
It all happened last semester. My mother and my grandma decided - actually, it was my grandma who convinced my mother - that my teeth were yellow. I must say yeah, they weren't white... maybe a little bit pearl-ish, due to so many years of coffee drinking and sometimes forgetting to brush my teeth before going to bed, but NOT YELLOW! So these evil women decided that I seriously needed a whitening and they made me go to an aesthete. The guy has designed the smiles of the TV personalities and he's very famous here in Colombia so my mother and my grandma trusted in him like he was the tooth fairy.
Before I got to the treatment part they made me some questions like "are you happy with your current smile?", I think the problem was that I didn't say "yes", but "meh", which was the truth. I didn't really care about my smile. Then the doctor said I'm gonna do this and that and you won't be ashamed of smiling anymore. Again I didn't say "I don't give a shit about my smile", and I didn't say "ok", I said "hmm", which is very ambiguous. Now, the "this and that" I mentioned before was something like "you don't need just a whitening, you need it, of course, but in order for your smile to be perfect we should do a gum lift, then do the whitening, although it may cause a little bit of sensitivity, then make your teeth larger and then you'll smile like a star." Again I didn't say "NO WAY!", which I should have. So they made the socalled gum lift with laser, which consists in burning a little bit of your gums... meanwhile it doesn't hurt because you're under the effects of the anaesthesic, so the only thing you feel is the smell of human burnt flesh, but later it hurts like a bitch and, of course, you still have to brush your teeth, painful procedure, I must say. My mother told me the oral tissue heals faster than other tissues, but in the meantime, when you brush your teeth removing the burnt flesh and making the gum bleed, it feels like Hell. I don't have pictures of my recovery, though I should have taken some in order to show the world how awful is that, because there's just one picture in google and it doesn't look as gross as it really it. So, even before the torture of the gums had finished the whitening started. The whitening consists protecting the gum with some paste that is fixed with heat (owie) and then fixing hydrogen peroxide with ultra violet light to the teeth. Everything's ok until the part of spontaneous pain. You have your mouth closed because you've been told that the whitening may cause sensitivity, so your preventing the air to get to your teeth directly, then suddenly it comes. A horrible pain that causes you to see the Milky Way in a fraction of a second, and the worst part of the painful part is that you can't do anything against it.
Now, this long-ass explanation in order to get to the point of the day. The first whitening session was finished and then the doctor said "you have to have special care of the whitening, for example you can't use mouthwash, you have to brush your teeth three times a day, you can't smoke, you must avoid the consumption of any colouring substance like wine, tee, coke, coffee..." Then my world collapsed. COFFEE... I COULDN'T DRINK COFFEE... Then I started suffering for real. The gum lift pain was nothing compared to this. I've stated several times I'm addicted to coffee and I wasn't kidding, I had a caffeine dependence. And suddenly I couldn't have my caffeine anymore thanks to the oral whitening. I was even counting the days without my precious substance!
Then, one day, my mother woke me up at 5 am and I went to the dining room without opening my eyes (that happens when you have a routine and you know your house). I took my mug into my hands and felt the warmth of my supposedly milk - yeah, I replaced my daily coffee with milk, so I guess that's why I haven't been able to wake up early this semester - and you already know where this story is going. The whole house smelled like coffee because the fact that I was abstemious didn't mean that my mother and my grandmother were abstemious too. So I took my mug to my lips and the elixir came in. I couldn't complain, of course, but I asked my mother why was I drinking coffee instead of milk. She answered she had forgotten but that it didn't matter as long as I brushed my teeth immediately after my breakfast. I did so and now every Sunday I'm drinking coffee with my breakfast ^^.
I said I was counting the days without coffee, I made it through 160 days! So by the 160th day I was already detoxified and the caffeine in my blood was gone. Maybe I was a little bit more insane than before but I was ok, in general terms. Then, in the 161th day I tasted the flavour of Heaven once more. The bitterness and the texture of the liquid enraptured my senses, going right through my lips and my tongue, sending pleasure shocks down my spine. Damn it felt so good... Then the caffeine reached my bloodstream and my unprepared body felt the effects of it. I was feeling unusually happy and hyper, just with a cup of latte... so degrading after I could drink several cups of coffee (black coffee) a day -.-U. Right now, after having my breakfast two hours ago, I'm hyper again... all happy and talkative and bouncy and out of character XD. Dammit, I have to get used to coffee again!
It all happened last semester. My mother and my grandma decided - actually, it was my grandma who convinced my mother - that my teeth were yellow. I must say yeah, they weren't white... maybe a little bit pearl-ish, due to so many years of coffee drinking and sometimes forgetting to brush my teeth before going to bed, but NOT YELLOW! So these evil women decided that I seriously needed a whitening and they made me go to an aesthete. The guy has designed the smiles of the TV personalities and he's very famous here in Colombia so my mother and my grandma trusted in him like he was the tooth fairy.
Before I got to the treatment part they made me some questions like "are you happy with your current smile?", I think the problem was that I didn't say "yes", but "meh", which was the truth. I didn't really care about my smile. Then the doctor said I'm gonna do this and that and you won't be ashamed of smiling anymore. Again I didn't say "I don't give a shit about my smile", and I didn't say "ok", I said "hmm", which is very ambiguous. Now, the "this and that" I mentioned before was something like "you don't need just a whitening, you need it, of course, but in order for your smile to be perfect we should do a gum lift, then do the whitening, although it may cause a little bit of sensitivity, then make your teeth larger and then you'll smile like a star." Again I didn't say "NO WAY!", which I should have. So they made the socalled gum lift with laser, which consists in burning a little bit of your gums... meanwhile it doesn't hurt because you're under the effects of the anaesthesic, so the only thing you feel is the smell of human burnt flesh, but later it hurts like a bitch and, of course, you still have to brush your teeth, painful procedure, I must say. My mother told me the oral tissue heals faster than other tissues, but in the meantime, when you brush your teeth removing the burnt flesh and making the gum bleed, it feels like Hell. I don't have pictures of my recovery, though I should have taken some in order to show the world how awful is that, because there's just one picture in google and it doesn't look as gross as it really it. So, even before the torture of the gums had finished the whitening started. The whitening consists protecting the gum with some paste that is fixed with heat (owie) and then fixing hydrogen peroxide with ultra violet light to the teeth. Everything's ok until the part of spontaneous pain. You have your mouth closed because you've been told that the whitening may cause sensitivity, so your preventing the air to get to your teeth directly, then suddenly it comes. A horrible pain that causes you to see the Milky Way in a fraction of a second, and the worst part of the painful part is that you can't do anything against it.
Now, this long-ass explanation in order to get to the point of the day. The first whitening session was finished and then the doctor said "you have to have special care of the whitening, for example you can't use mouthwash, you have to brush your teeth three times a day, you can't smoke, you must avoid the consumption of any colouring substance like wine, tee, coke, coffee..." Then my world collapsed. COFFEE... I COULDN'T DRINK COFFEE... Then I started suffering for real. The gum lift pain was nothing compared to this. I've stated several times I'm addicted to coffee and I wasn't kidding, I had a caffeine dependence. And suddenly I couldn't have my caffeine anymore thanks to the oral whitening. I was even counting the days without my precious substance!
Then, one day, my mother woke me up at 5 am and I went to the dining room without opening my eyes (that happens when you have a routine and you know your house). I took my mug into my hands and felt the warmth of my supposedly milk - yeah, I replaced my daily coffee with milk, so I guess that's why I haven't been able to wake up early this semester - and you already know where this story is going. The whole house smelled like coffee because the fact that I was abstemious didn't mean that my mother and my grandmother were abstemious too. So I took my mug to my lips and the elixir came in. I couldn't complain, of course, but I asked my mother why was I drinking coffee instead of milk. She answered she had forgotten but that it didn't matter as long as I brushed my teeth immediately after my breakfast. I did so and now every Sunday I'm drinking coffee with my breakfast ^^.
I said I was counting the days without coffee, I made it through 160 days! So by the 160th day I was already detoxified and the caffeine in my blood was gone. Maybe I was a little bit more insane than before but I was ok, in general terms. Then, in the 161th day I tasted the flavour of Heaven once more. The bitterness and the texture of the liquid enraptured my senses, going right through my lips and my tongue, sending pleasure shocks down my spine. Damn it felt so good... Then the caffeine reached my bloodstream and my unprepared body felt the effects of it. I was feeling unusually happy and hyper, just with a cup of latte... so degrading after I could drink several cups of coffee (black coffee) a day -.-U. Right now, after having my breakfast two hours ago, I'm hyper again... all happy and talkative and bouncy and out of character XD. Dammit, I have to get used to coffee again!