Stupid Spacers

The devil's work.



This is an re-enactment of my mouth not the real deal.



That is all.

Love - The Pained One

PS. I am not over dramatic at all. Not one bit :-) Lets just wait until next week shall we

Phone call Panic

I don't like talking on the phone and I stress about having to answer or make phone calls. I am a grown  up, I know and this fear is stupid but it is what it is.

There is one particular phone call I really don't want to make.

I have been putting it off for some months now.

I need to do it sooner or later though, The sooner the better.

The phone call will make me look like this:

Again...

Argh.

Bleh.

Vom.

I already cop it from all fields for being "young". These are not going to make anything better. Perhaps I should become a mute. Then I would not have to talk on the phone.

I know I am a vain bitch and there are worse things in the world apart from getting braces. But I have had them before. I have done my innings. Then after these come the fourteen (or more) crowns. And the $20,000 debt, to add to my other debts. And I don't even have a house, or a purpose in life. Woohoo me.

"Call Ortho" has just been entered into my diary for 10am tomorrow. I wonder if the call will get made.

- Holla atcha

"the letter F"

PS. Message from Mother re: braces. 

"I was talking to such and such and apparently it is hard to eat for the first few days after getting braces".

Thanks mum, do your remember that I have had them before? Or that I had to put up with years of you and Dad complaining about the cost of them.  My parents liked to do this - I will never live down the fact I went to private school, despite it being my parents choice all along .

Me - I hate school
Parents - You better like it! do you know how much we pay for your education!!


Me - Can I have some money to buy X"
My parents - No, isn't it enough we pay for you to go to a good school
Me - You chose to send me to this school
Parent - Well, do you want to go to Shitty Beach (local public high school)
Me - No.
Parents - Fine then. 
Me - [pout and sulk off into my room]

In Year 8, I had a discussion with the principal of my school (who was drunk at the time, after the school fete) who told me that our school fees were more than a third cheaper than other schools in the State because it was heavily funded my the Catholic Education Department. So for the next five years, I humoured my parents that they were making some HUGE sacrifice for my education. Ok that sounds snooty. They were making a sacrifice but not as big a one as they were making out.

... Anyway back on track, I will be sure to remember this sound advice from my mother when I get foreign metal objects glued to my teeth and then attached by wire that is tightened with pliers!! I didn't think it was going to hurt at all!!

PS. I made the call today. Braces will be applied at 9.30am on 11 November 2010. Then don't expect to see my half head smile until at least a year from then.

As much as a packet of Goji Berries

That is how much I lost. 100 grams. Or 0.1 kilos, which is the way I say it for some reason. The weight losing thing is getting pretty ridiculous. I drank at least 2 bottles of champagne, had cake four times, had copious amounts of Indian food on Thursday night, had wonderful cheesy Mexican goodness on Friday night, had nibbles and pasta boxes on Saturday night, had “huge” toasted sandwich goodness for lunch on Sunday (ok it wasn’t huge but granny can’t help but comment on what I eat and the size of it so it felt huge – although I was not commented on as much due to the odd American women who sat next to us, ordered about six meals, two sodas and two milkshakes between them, had about three mouthfuls worth and then pulled containers from their rucksacks (I say this for effect, we call them “backpacks” in Australia.... although that is a personal joke between me and someone who doesn’t even know about my blog so I am not sure why I felt the need to even state it).. gosh where was I???? ... rucksacks and packed the food to go, and left, followed up by a huge home made mummy pizzas on Sunday night. To top it all off, I only walked once and swam once and the swim was half arsed and I only did 30 laps because as usual I was running late to get to K’s house..... So how did I lose weight? God knows. I am all in astonishment. Maybe the weight will just all appear one day, maybe not. Maybe I subconsciously over exaggerating what I am eating......

Case in point. Nibbles. My friend K set up the games table with a small nibbles platter in each corner. I sat at the one with hummus and rice crackers. I picked all night but only at the olives, hummus, salsa, carrot sticks and apple slices. I may of had a little slice cheese but lets not count that. Before, I would have eaten a lot of cracker biscuits and cheese. I didn’t even feel like I was missing out though. So I guess it’s not that bad after all. I am glad my habits are changing, and it feels quite naturally, so maybe this is the key for me.

Any who, the Goji Berries. I got some today from IGA for about $13 for 300grams. You can get them in Coles for between $6 to $10 but they usually only have 150gram packets. House mate/best friend, who we will now refer to as L, is on a gluten free diet at the moment and she picked some of these up to snack on the other day. I tried them, researched them, read the Voguettes opinions and decided they were for me.

The benefits of Goji Berries aka Wolfberries are they contain lots of amino acids, protein, vitamin C, antioxidants. They also contain some anti-cancer trace mineral. So basically they are the super food of super food. As I am now old, I need all the help I can get.

Back to the berries, I like them, others don’t. I think the taste could be acquired. You can eat them as they are, put them in cereal or oats, make tea or add them to soups. I am sure there is a myriad of other things you can do with them too.

The packet say a serve is 100 grams (which is only 1.5 WW points) but I am just going to leave them on my desk and snack on them (and sneakily not count them as points) and see how they go.

I also went to the Orthodontist to get moulds and photos for my braces today. Wait, have I Fiona Moaner’d you about my braces yet? Don't think so. Long story short, I have the teeth of a 50 year old and have to get nearly all of them crowned. Not as easy as just crowning them though. Little jaw, little teeth, eroded enamel = crowns won’t stay on so I have had to have very painful blood inducing Prosthodontics (for my genetic gingivitis that went undetected for 24 years and costs $400 a pop), followed by braces on bottom teeth to fix my bite and create more room for. YAY for me. And yay for being a complete fat ugly loser with glasses and adult braces. Haha. Woe is me. I didn’t really mean that, I just like being dramatic. I am actor after all. Ok I was an actor but that’s not the point. More on that later.

So very soon, this will be me:

Wait a minute.... Haven't I looked like this before?