Weekly Update (for once)
Man, so, I had quite the week last week. It's been a while since I had a week with so many ups and downs. XD Here, I'll catalog them:
Last Weekend: (+) Went to the beach! Sand! Sun! The sound of the ocean as I read!♥
Monday: (-) Spent an hour worrying out of my skull when my dad burst in and said "Your brother crashed his bike, we'll either be back in fifteen minutes or we're at the hospital". Thankfully not as serious as that hour of working had me thinking it would be!
Tuesday: (+) NEW LAPTOP ARRIVED! My first new computer in seven years! Wooo, it can play 700p files without a hiccup instead of crashing when asked to load a page with a gif on it! XD
Wednesday: (-) Ordinary trip to the orthodontist suddenly becomes "So, you have a choice to make: you should get four teeth pulled or all of this will be for nothing and revert after we take the braces off! Call you in two days for your answer, see ya!" D: D: D:
Thursday: (+) Boku no Miteiru Fukei arrives! I promptly fall in love. ♥
Friday: (-) I spend all day in a state of stress, worrying about what to say when my orthodontist calls… he never does. XD BUT ALSO, (+) ARASHI ON MS! Troublemaker never fails to make me feel all is right with the world. ♥
A little further explanation, partially cribbed from my conversations with people. Probably not of much interest to my lovely lj friends except if you have had teeth issues, I would love for other people to chime in!
Last Weekend: Wooo, Jersey Shore (ugh, the associations there pain me XD)! Good times, there was lots of happily reading on the beach with cans of pineapple juice on hand and only a mild sunburn on my chest. Though I think I've become more skittish about swimming in the ocean with age! Ever since I got thoroughly trounced one of the last times I went, it seems like what I rate as "rough" are what other people call "small". But they were breaking so far out! I'm used to getting past the breakers and just bobbing there! :D
Monday My dad and brother went on one of their usual bike rides but with an unusual result. About fifteen minutes after leaving, my dad bursts through the door calling my name and says only "Greg crashed his bike, we'll either be home in fifteen minutes or we'll be at the hospital." and then leaves again with the car. So naturally I spent the next hour trying to stay calm and telling myself "He said "might", if it was serious there would be no "might"!"... but still kind of freaking out! You hear 'hospital' and your mind goes terrible places! Thankfully, an hour later they both arrive home and while my brother has a nasty looking gash on his forehead and a bit of a tear (!!) in his ear, he was otherwise okay! You see a head wound and think the worst, but it was more of a sliding hit than a decelerating hit. But, of course, since no one in my family likes hospitals (not even my mom who kind of works in one XD), he wound up declining treatment even though he did make it over to see an admitting nurse. Though even that wasn't really by choice, as a police officer kind of conned him into it. Anyway, he was already back biking again the next day but I've been spending a little extra time hanging out with him in appreciation of it really not being anything big.
Tuesday NEW LAPTOP, NEW LAPTOP! :D I seriously have barely left it's side since it arrived. The laptop I've been using is one I received as a going-away-to-college present in senior year of high school. That was March 2003, if anyone is counting. XD Please excuse my self-indulgence as I list the main struggles: 1) I could barely connect to the internet, my connection would flicker in and out. If I was lucky, it would reach 100 KB/sec. I wasn't very lucky. 2) Gifs seriously would crash my browser, forget about YouTube. 3) Everything in Photoshop took a while to process soI kind of gave up on using it. 4) I couldn't play videos of over about 704x396 (which started becoming pretty LQ recently!) and even then they often had little hiccups. 5) My speakers no longer worked and my audio out was really finicky, I had to carefully arrange the wire at certain angles to get both sides of sound. I sometimes took a while, though I grew to be quite skilled at it. :)
I really have not yet got a handle on the fact that I can do do anything and watch anything at any time! We're having our little problems (dammit, Apple, stop using metal cases when it impacts your wireless reception!) but I'm so in love. *____*
Meet Kai-kun! The full name for my lovely new device is technically 'Kagayaku' but I shortened it (shh, I know there's no "i") to Kai-kun. Named in honor of both Ohno and his stocking clad calves and Yuuki Kai, as I'm currently rewatching Orange Days and remembering how much I love him. :)
Wednesday: I don't know if I have the mental fortitude to go through this again right now, so here's my first reaction (edited slightly for clarity), as sent to phrenk:
me: Noooooooooo. Vaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!
You are not here to hold me!
Okay, so, I paused HnA and went to my orthodontist for my usual appointment.
I was just expecting to get the elastics changed.
And they told me such NEWS. In my opinion, TERRIBLE NEWS.
They want to pull out four of my teeth!
Four!
From my head!
Perfectly good, healthy teeth!
Teeth that have done nothing to deserve this!
Okay, maybe I am overstating.
My mouth is far too crowded which I have always known. My upper and lower teeth right now are straight but pushing out too far in the front. It means instead of meeting at a supportive angle (130º), they are meeting at too extreme an angle. That puts pressure on my lower teeth and pushes them to be angled further out. According to my orthodontist, that means when the braces are removed, my mouth would revert and go all back to hell.
I understand this but fun fact: I AM TERRIBLE ABOUT ALL THINGS SURGERY RELATED. ;_;
They were so cavalier about this too.
He just walked in and was like "You have a decision to make! I really think you need to have four teeth out, take a few days to think about it and I'll call you on Friday." and I was like WAIT, WHAT, YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN ME ANYTHING TO THINK ABOUT and only got more information by pressing him with like six more questions.
But then got too upset and was trying no to cry and couldn't ask the rest of my questions.
I want a second opinion! Or just, an outside perspective!
Ugh, I'm such a whiner. I guess they were so casual about it since most people just accept.
Maybe I'll make an lj post of WOE and just accept my I'm terribly dramatic about this.
CRIES
21 minutes later:
me: ahahaha, Nino laughing at Sho's evaluation during M5 is THE BEST. <3
OH, MANNEQUIN FIVE, YOU ARE ALWAYS THERE TO COMFORT ME!
So, this is my lj post of woe! If anyone had any experience getting teeth pulled due to orthodontics, give me a poke. I still have to make a decision that's going to distress me either way. I'm hoping to at least talk to my dentist, to get confirmation that this is more than just cosmetic and see what they think from a perspective of tooth health, and to poke around for patient experiences on the adult braces forum I've been frequenting.
Thursday: I can't form coherent thoughts about the new album yet except to say I LOVE it and I particularly love ALL OF THE SOLOS. I just find them so exciting and I'm going to DIE when I see them performed and YES! They'll be a lot more listening happening in the near future, I feel like I'm just getting used to this much new material at once.
Sometimes I like to destroy the subtle coloring of things and add more RAINBOW. Especially when the 60s glasses put me in the mood of pop art. Like the man himself, yellow was particularly tricky to work with. XD
Friday:
I DIDN'T THINK I COULD LOVE TROUBLEMAKER OR IT'S PERFORMANCES ANY MORE THAN I ALREADY DID. I WAS SO VERY WRONG. JUMP JUMP JUMP JUMP!
I don't think my life has ever been better than when I first saw Matsujun jumping up and down with that stupid, lovely grin on his face. ♥
Okay, now back to my very important plans for this week: inhaling as much girl pop as possible. XD
Last Weekend: (+) Went to the beach! Sand! Sun! The sound of the ocean as I read!♥
Monday: (-) Spent an hour worrying out of my skull when my dad burst in and said "Your brother crashed his bike, we'll either be back in fifteen minutes or we're at the hospital". Thankfully not as serious as that hour of working had me thinking it would be!
Tuesday: (+) NEW LAPTOP ARRIVED! My first new computer in seven years! Wooo, it can play 700p files without a hiccup instead of crashing when asked to load a page with a gif on it! XD
Wednesday: (-) Ordinary trip to the orthodontist suddenly becomes "So, you have a choice to make: you should get four teeth pulled or all of this will be for nothing and revert after we take the braces off! Call you in two days for your answer, see ya!" D: D: D:
Thursday: (+) Boku no Miteiru Fukei arrives! I promptly fall in love. ♥
Friday: (-) I spend all day in a state of stress, worrying about what to say when my orthodontist calls… he never does. XD BUT ALSO, (+) ARASHI ON MS! Troublemaker never fails to make me feel all is right with the world. ♥
A little further explanation, partially cribbed from my conversations with people. Probably not of much interest to my lovely lj friends except if you have had teeth issues, I would love for other people to chime in!
Last Weekend: Wooo, Jersey Shore (ugh, the associations there pain me XD)! Good times, there was lots of happily reading on the beach with cans of pineapple juice on hand and only a mild sunburn on my chest. Though I think I've become more skittish about swimming in the ocean with age! Ever since I got thoroughly trounced one of the last times I went, it seems like what I rate as "rough" are what other people call "small". But they were breaking so far out! I'm used to getting past the breakers and just bobbing there! :D
Monday My dad and brother went on one of their usual bike rides but with an unusual result. About fifteen minutes after leaving, my dad bursts through the door calling my name and says only "Greg crashed his bike, we'll either be home in fifteen minutes or we'll be at the hospital." and then leaves again with the car. So naturally I spent the next hour trying to stay calm and telling myself "He said "might", if it was serious there would be no "might"!"... but still kind of freaking out! You hear 'hospital' and your mind goes terrible places! Thankfully, an hour later they both arrive home and while my brother has a nasty looking gash on his forehead and a bit of a tear (!!) in his ear, he was otherwise okay! You see a head wound and think the worst, but it was more of a sliding hit than a decelerating hit. But, of course, since no one in my family likes hospitals (not even my mom who kind of works in one XD), he wound up declining treatment even though he did make it over to see an admitting nurse. Though even that wasn't really by choice, as a police officer kind of conned him into it. Anyway, he was already back biking again the next day but I've been spending a little extra time hanging out with him in appreciation of it really not being anything big.
Tuesday NEW LAPTOP, NEW LAPTOP! :D I seriously have barely left it's side since it arrived. The laptop I've been using is one I received as a going-away-to-college present in senior year of high school. That was March 2003, if anyone is counting. XD Please excuse my self-indulgence as I list the main struggles: 1) I could barely connect to the internet, my connection would flicker in and out. If I was lucky, it would reach 100 KB/sec. I wasn't very lucky. 2) Gifs seriously would crash my browser, forget about YouTube. 3) Everything in Photoshop took a while to process soI kind of gave up on using it. 4) I couldn't play videos of over about 704x396 (which started becoming pretty LQ recently!) and even then they often had little hiccups. 5) My speakers no longer worked and my audio out was really finicky, I had to carefully arrange the wire at certain angles to get both sides of sound. I sometimes took a while, though I grew to be quite skilled at it. :)
I really have not yet got a handle on the fact that I can do do anything and watch anything at any time! We're having our little problems (dammit, Apple, stop using metal cases when it impacts your wireless reception!) but I'm so in love. *____*
Meet Kai-kun! The full name for my lovely new device is technically 'Kagayaku' but I shortened it (shh, I know there's no "i") to Kai-kun. Named in honor of both Ohno and his stocking clad calves and Yuuki Kai, as I'm currently rewatching Orange Days and remembering how much I love him. :)
Wednesday: I don't know if I have the mental fortitude to go through this again right now, so here's my first reaction (edited slightly for clarity), as sent to phrenk:
me: Noooooooooo. Vaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!
You are not here to hold me!
Okay, so, I paused HnA and went to my orthodontist for my usual appointment.
I was just expecting to get the elastics changed.
And they told me such NEWS. In my opinion, TERRIBLE NEWS.
They want to pull out four of my teeth!
Four!
From my head!
Perfectly good, healthy teeth!
Teeth that have done nothing to deserve this!
Okay, maybe I am overstating.
My mouth is far too crowded which I have always known. My upper and lower teeth right now are straight but pushing out too far in the front. It means instead of meeting at a supportive angle (130º), they are meeting at too extreme an angle. That puts pressure on my lower teeth and pushes them to be angled further out. According to my orthodontist, that means when the braces are removed, my mouth would revert and go all back to hell.
I understand this but fun fact: I AM TERRIBLE ABOUT ALL THINGS SURGERY RELATED. ;_;
They were so cavalier about this too.
He just walked in and was like "You have a decision to make! I really think you need to have four teeth out, take a few days to think about it and I'll call you on Friday." and I was like WAIT, WHAT, YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN ME ANYTHING TO THINK ABOUT and only got more information by pressing him with like six more questions.
But then got too upset and was trying no to cry and couldn't ask the rest of my questions.
I want a second opinion! Or just, an outside perspective!
Ugh, I'm such a whiner. I guess they were so casual about it since most people just accept.
Maybe I'll make an lj post of WOE and just accept my I'm terribly dramatic about this.
CRIES
21 minutes later:
me: ahahaha, Nino laughing at Sho's evaluation during M5 is THE BEST. <3
OH, MANNEQUIN FIVE, YOU ARE ALWAYS THERE TO COMFORT ME!
So, this is my lj post of woe! If anyone had any experience getting teeth pulled due to orthodontics, give me a poke. I still have to make a decision that's going to distress me either way. I'm hoping to at least talk to my dentist, to get confirmation that this is more than just cosmetic and see what they think from a perspective of tooth health, and to poke around for patient experiences on the adult braces forum I've been frequenting.
Thursday: I can't form coherent thoughts about the new album yet except to say I LOVE it and I particularly love ALL OF THE SOLOS. I just find them so exciting and I'm going to DIE when I see them performed and YES! They'll be a lot more listening happening in the near future, I feel like I'm just getting used to this much new material at once.
Sometimes I like to destroy the subtle coloring of things and add more RAINBOW. Especially when the 60s glasses put me in the mood of pop art. Like the man himself, yellow was particularly tricky to work with. XD
Friday:
I DIDN'T THINK I COULD LOVE TROUBLEMAKER OR IT'S PERFORMANCES ANY MORE THAN I ALREADY DID. I WAS SO VERY WRONG. JUMP JUMP JUMP JUMP!
I don't think my life has ever been better than when I first saw Matsujun jumping up and down with that stupid, lovely grin on his face. ♥
Okay, now back to my very important plans for this week: inhaling as much girl pop as possible. XD