Current mood:

missing Maureen

Let me see your grill. You wanna see my WHAT?
I really wrote this on Monday night, but accidentially made it private instead of friends-only so now it's showing up on July 12 instead of July 7.

My car hit 111111 miles today. I took a picture of the odometer with my cell phone. Ah, the little things in life that please me.

I went in for the yearly physical/pap today. It always seems like my doctor is more uncomfortable with the pap smear process than me. He makes this big deal about helping me stay completely covered (the gown is pretty short, so they put a blanket over my tummy/legs). Last year the blanket fell down a bit, exposing my stomach, and he apologized like 5 times. I thought, “You’re going to be looking at my vagina in a few minutes, why the hell would I care if you see my stomach?” Maybe I should say something like that out loud to try and lighten the mood a bit.

I also went to the dentist. If I had a choice between the dentist and a pap smear, I’d drop my pants with no hesitation. I have to get a crown on a cracked tooth--this will involve approximately 90 minutes of having my jaw hinged open (much worse than 10 minutes of having my snatch hinged apart). I have a few weeks to decide if I want to go with gold or porcelain for my crown. Both cost about the same, so money won’t influence the decision. Here’s a breakdown of the pros/cons: 

Gold	Porcelain
Durability superior to porcelain	Will have to replace sooner than gold
Less tooth is shaved off to make room for the crown	More tooth is shaved off, and that tooth is already pretty fucked up...if I’m going to lose it someday, it would be nice to have as much of it in my mouth as long as possible...unless they would let me take the shavings home in a baby food jar to treasure forever (I still have all my baby teeth in a little wooden box cause I’m cool like that)
I will have a gold tooth, but it is far in the back so I don’t know how much it will really show	No one will ever know it is there (unless they’ve read this journal entry)
One step closer to getting a grill	Does not look good w/diamonds embedded in it

Maybe I’ll get some of that putty people use to make missing teeth when dressing as hobos for Halloween, slap it on the cracked tooth, and use it as a judge on how much the crown will actually show. I welcome any feedback from those who have crowns.

On a non-health-related note, Maureen has been out of town almost two weeks now to help her mom recover from surgery. It sucks.