In which Xmas day was super plus fun!

Xmas 2007Christmas Day totally rocked.

It’s been years since I’ve celebrated this holiday with my blood family, and it was really great to be at Gramma’s house with a whole passel of aunts and uncles and cousins and their spouses and parents. We ate dinner mid-afternoon, then Dave went to get his kids and we opened gifts around three in the afternoon.

Yes, I said three. Three! In the afternoon! It took forever to get to the present-opening; I thought I was gonna die. (I got cute red jammies from Gramma, two gift certificates, earrings, coffee, mugs, candy, and lots of other fun stuff. It was awesome.)

My band wanted to record a demo that afternoon, but I didn’t go. While their enthusiasm is awesome, as far as I know we don’t have even three songs worked out yet. The idea is that we need to slap together a demo and start booking gigs so that we will have a reason to practice… we’re all people who write papers the night before they’re due, I guess.

In completely unrelated news, I have a dental appointment on January 2nd. Yay! I need to get my teeth cleaned so bad it’s disgusting, but this particular office didn’t let me make an appointment for a cleaning – I have to got through their evaluation and intake crap first, and get x-rays. They’d better get me back in the next fucking day, though, because I think my teeth are so plaque-ridden that I’m running a low-level infection in my gums. Which is totally gross, and which makes my mouth taste like tin foil, and which makes my tongue all white and gross when I wake up every morning. I’ll probably need another planing and scaling, which is expensive and takes four visits, but which keeps one’s gums from receding and leaves one’s mouth pristine.

First the uterus. Then the teeth. Next, the eyes. Eventually I’ll be practically normal!

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2 Responses to Aunts and Uncles and Cousins, Oh My!

  1. naomi says:

    the best investment in dental care that i ever made was buying a $10 battery powered crest spin brush pro. it does a fabulous job cleaning teeth. my dentist commented on how good my teeth were in that way. she thought that i’d last seen a dentist a year ago and it’s closer to a decade.

    really, those brushes rock!

    I know, right?! -m

  2. katana says:

    Dentistry has come a long way even in the past couple of years, no reason they shouldn’t be able to get you back to pristine in one visit, even if you have a full blown coral reef growing on your pearly whites. All sorts of new toys out there for the modern dentist.

    Oh and btw, I hate you – sending out holiday cards like a normal person. In, what, almost 18 years NLW & I have yet to send out a single holiday card!! We are truly pathetic when it comes to the traditional ways of life…sigh. So, thank you…I’ll get over the resulting guilt it generated by this time next year… 😉

    It sounds like the move back west this year was just what you needed on a lot of levels – hope 08 is even better!

    1. OMG, you commented.
    1a. OMG, you commented.
    C. I love clean teeth. I actually enjoy the dentist. And YES I HAVE A CORAL REEF. (It’s so gross.)
    IV. Guilt? Xmas card? *bwahahahahahaha!!!* Now you’re scarred for life! -m