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"She's a nut! Not too sure how else to describe an "at-first-glance" seemingly quiet girl who dances like a chicken when she thinks no one else is looking, who likes to pass off her "made up" answer for fact, until you look at her and see her hopelessly trying not to crack a smile, who WITHOUT FAIL remembers to put a line of dental floss in her purse before she goes out (and isn't afraid to use it after dinner, thankfully NOT at the table!!). I can always count on her to know the hottest hollywood gossip, and to dance till all hours of the morning with me." "My co-worker just told me that there was a premiere for Bridget Jones 2 last night, just blocks from my work, and we missed it! Hugh Grant, my beloved and the framework upon which my future husband is based, was just blocks away, breathing the same oxygen, and I missed it! If I had a friend here who was as savvy with E-news as you are, this catastrophe would never have occurred!" Guess what I heard... Oh my god!! This donut is so good! - Ras about a Krispy Kreme donut "I want to do! But what is paintball? There is no such word in dictionary." - Suwa, Japanese teacher "I am now skipping church to see if I am going to win my bids!!!" "YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA.....I won the felt tip pens!!!!!!!! Yippeee...."who let the dogs out...arf, arf, arf, arf"...."let me hear you say Y..M..C..A"....oh yah, who's your daddy!!!" - Renee Other favorite quotes:
A gift is an offering. A selfless act that adds something to someone's life. Something that they need. Have you ever walked by something and you just had this feeling that someone you knew would absolutely love it? Faith is believing when there is no rational reason to believe. Homer: "We Americans are England's children... I know we don't call as much as we should, or aren't as well behaved as our goody two shoes brother, Canada... who I should mention has never had a girlfriend... I'm just sayin'..." Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life, and love should not be one of them. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. When your heart speaks, take good notes. Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Sometimes to see the light, you have to risk the dark. |
A trip to the dentist - ouch!
2/12/2004
Yesterday I went to the dentist to have a check up and cleaning. Maybe I should have been a little weary when the destist finished with her patient and then washed her gloved hands, intead of getting a new pair, before heading to me. I guess on the bright side, she DID wash it thoroughly, and her hands were never actually in my mouth. Still... it's the are-they-doing-it-correctly-in-Korea? factor. My dentist at home would throw away his gloves even when he wrote in my chart with a pen, or touched an x-ray. The dentist came to me, and asked, "Where does it hurt". I told her it doesn't hurt anywhere, but I wanted her to check if I had cavities. All she did to "check" was to use the air blowing instrument in between my teeth. How are you supposed to tell anything by that? I'm no dentist, but if there was a VIP card for people who went to the dentist enough times, I would be an official card holding member. If you want to know about root canals or crowns, ask Dr. lao_ocean, D.D.S. Anyway, what she should have done, was to individually check my teeth with the metal probey-thing and take x-rays of my whole mouth. There's a lot that can go on under the surface. A few more shots from the air machine, and it was determined that I had no cavities. Hard to believe... I know I eat lots of sugary foods and snacks. (I'm still working on the Halloween candy Renee sent me.) I'm not looking for th dentist to tell me I have a cavity, I just didn't think she was doing a thorough job... especially since she didn't even check my upper teeth. While there I had her remove two old fillings and replaced them with resin (tooth-colored fillings). I was surprised how cheap it was! Only 50,000 won ($42 USD), while it was $150 when I did it at a small dentist clinic in California. So, I was pretty happy with that. Afterwards, the dental assistant came over and gave me a cleaning. While the fillings were good, the cleaning was the most painful I've ever had in my life!!! She used some kind of sharp metal intrument, that upon contact with my teeth, sounded like screaching metal on metal. She also didn't take any caution in jamming that thing into my tender gums. At times, I wanted to sream out, but instead clenched my fingers and curled my toes from the agonizing pain. Luckily it ended pretty soon, and I didn't die. Still, after all that, I didn't even get a fluoride treatment or even a free toothbrush or dental floss (to add to my collection). I guess the only real positive thing I can say about that experience, is that it was cheap. I'll let you know where it is, if one day you're feeling masochistic.
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