cause of all my tears...

So, if you read my previous post, you’ll know that I went home last weekend to pick up a retainer to straighten up my little chompers… well, I’ve got it! It hasn’t been too bad, but it has cause more tears than it’s allowed to… the little guy puts so much pressure on my teeth in a solid effort to move them, but when I take it off to eat (ahh Relief!) my teeth are sore and it hurts to bite down on my food! ☹ I definitely smile even more crooked than before and am still talking funny (like a baby discovering his/her tongue) and I have more saliva in my mouth than ever before but I’m hoping it will eventually be worth it.

Here are some pictures as promised:

how can something sooo small hurt sooo much?? :/ oh well. no pain, no gain right?
aren't boys or school or movies supposed to be the cause of tears?? not teeth... hmm... oh well. can't win 'em all.

little chompers

does anyone know who this is????

YES. it's chomper from the land before time... (not one of the earlier movies--definitely from numbers 50-100). Well, that was mainly just to get you thinking of the word chomper. Because today, my little chompers aren't working at full capacity... Actually, they've been messed up for a while. ready for this?
STORY: ages 0-12 lost various teeth, got some cavities, one silver cap (ghetto i know) finally got all my permanent teeth in around age 12. SO... on go the braces. braces, tears and rubberbands from age 12-14(ish). got them off-love my life. got my retainers-hate my life. bottom teeth still shifted, got a permanent retainer on the bottom, lost the top one (oops)... so, after taking 4 wisdom teeth out at age 18, and 7 years after the braces were taken off, my teeth are SO BOGUS. this results in a few orthodontist visits (periodically between ages 18-21) and the eventual decision to take my permanent retainer off the bottom and get a new one that they can adjust to fix my teeth. (appt. Nov 24, '09) in the meantime, i FINALLY start seeing the big kid dentist at age 21 (in utah) and he tells me i have 3 cavities on 4 teeth. (no bueno) (Dec 10, '09) then i go home, get molded for my retainer (Dec 22, '09), come back and get my cavities filled (Today! Jan 12, '10) and this weekend i'm flying home to get my retainer... (Jan 18, '10) SO BOGUS. do you know what that means?? as of JANUARY 18th i will have been to the chomper doctors FIVE TIMES in TWO MONTHS!!!! SO CRAZY! just so you guys can see how much discomfort i'm in, i've provided the following picture.
I want you too put your hand up to the screen and cover the left side of my face... normal right?? hahaha if only. now cover the right side... so pitiful. that's my, "why is this guy talking to me, when i have to go pee" face.. :) so yeah. talking is kinda hard, so is eating, drinking and blinking... if you cant tell even my left eye didn't get skinny at the edge.. that means i'm numb from about my eyebrow to my chin... and about 65% of my tongue feels like a dead fish inside my mouth. (GROSS)

but whatev. no big deal. i'm just supposed to go out to eat with some friends in a 2 hours.. and this is supposed to be gone in 3-4 hours... really now? i hope my little chompers can catch up to speed before dinner. otherwise, i should probably take it to-go instead of letting it fall all over my face and lap. (although, that would be hilarious for my friends)

(on the upside... the THREE shots i got to numb me up didn't hurt hardly at all!)

That's all. i'll take a picture with my precious retainer when i get it this weekend :) (christmas and snowboarding pictures are on the way)

guess who?!

Who do i look like in my ugly sweater???

YES... NEIL!!!!! from the Santa Clause! :) love it. shout out to halie who figured out that i looked more like neil than bill cosby. love ya sis.

i look like Neil the psychiatrist and I'm proud of it. :)

hope you have a....

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Love, ME and my FHE Group! :)

Ugly Sweater Party

Yes. i went to one.

Story behind finding the PERFECT ugly sweater:
G-Pa: "Where are you going?"
Me: "oh, i'm going to go to DI with my friend to look for an ugly sweater."
G-Pa: "Oh, Wait. Don't Bother! I've got an ugly sweater you can use!"
Me: "uh...... ok?!"
This is what he gave me:

This is the party:

Jess and I just chillin.

Tricia and Alejo in his ugly sweater that he borrowed from me. (yes, i own that)

Tricia and IBen and I

Me, Jess, tricia and Alejo in all our ugly sweater glory. :)

Celeste (the girl who threw the party) and I being excited about my matching flipflops! :)

Long live bill cosby and the sweater he let me borrow :)
Shout out to grandpa for letting me use his sweater. Best grandpa I know!

Pick a lane... any lane.

So this is how i feel this week: Pick a lane, any lane. (mainly the sleep deprived one... AND THE STRESSED out One... never mind. i'm all 3.) Weekends and holidays are keeping me going this week. In 5 days i'll be on my way to california, and i'm so excited. I just need to finish this week, and i'll be home free (literally)!
This is also something i currently live by. Last night i had a huge bowl of ice cream to "celebrate a few hours early" haha! that's not even true. it was just my excuse.
Well, here's to a better tomorrow. May they be good and always sunny. (well, in my mind at least, the snow here kinda causes problems when it comes to that). Anyway, thank you to my friends and family that have been such a support this past little while. I love you guys! and to my family-SEE YOU IN 5 DAYS!!!!
p.s. i did something fun to my hair, so i'll post a picture maybe soon.

so i figured out where my money goes...

So I’ve figured out where my money goes……….

FOOD.I’m pretty sure I have been out to eat so much in the last little bit. Now here’s the thing. It’s not necessarily a money problem.. it’s a problem with the fact that that now when I go out to eat, I am never satisfied because everything at each restaurant tastes the same… Applebees-ALL the SAME. Costa vida- (delicious) but still the same. Iggy’s-same. Brick oven (delicious) but same.
So ANYWAY… last week I went to brick oven for lunch with my friend Mary, came home and ate dinner with my gpa, then went to Iggy’s and got a little snack and smoothie for my friend’s birthday, and THEN went to applebee’s an hour later and had spin-dip and chips.. THREE times in ONE AFTERNOON!! (/evening) wow. Kinda sick right??? Yes. so now not only am I a fat kid, but when I go out to eat it takes me a year and a half to order because I’m trying to find something different that is going to taste good. So here are some pictures from after the birthday party (dinner at iggys) and then the following Sunday when we gave our friend his present. ☺

Benson and Gunther the Gopher (his present)

Jess and I after dinner..

Dieter F. Utchdorf spoke at a CES fireside and jess and i had like 6th row seats... it was awesome!!! (this is a picture of him talking to his wife before the song i think..)

straggler photo: This is what i look like after i clean my room... precious eh?

anyway... fun week. thanks friends. =]