The dentist appointment went well, though I have to go back on my birthday. Turns out it’s a two-part procedure. Today they just drilled the sides of the neighboring teeth where they’re going to anchor the bridge. They gave me the Novocain without the Epinephrine so I didn’t get jittery and need any Valium to combat the shakies. Instead, my heart raced for the first few minutes or so and my upper body felt warm.

While she may be ordinary-looking, Teresa is super, super nice. Her usual assistant, Shannon, wasn’t working today. Jackie assists her on Fridays. She was nice, too.

The subject of my entering and winning tons of sweeps came up and I explained the whole setup and things to do to make the process easier to enter more sweeps in less time. I explained about hot keying certain things to beat flash forms since Robo can’t beat them, and other things as well. I told them I stopped winning much when the economy went bad and haven’t been able to sweep much with our lousy connection, but said I’d print out a list of all my wins for them next time. Teresa was amazed that I’ve won trips and other big prizes. Still don’t know if I can do it again with all the competition I’ve got these days but man do I miss it. Gotta get a high-speed reliable connection first, though.

Anyway, the drilling seemed to take forever (and was deafening) but the whole appointment didn’t last as long as I thought it would. All they did was cement in a couple of temporary crowns today because the impressions they took need to go to the lab for the proper fitting of the bridge.

So on my birthday, I’ll have the bridge put in. Tom was reluctant to schedule me on my birthday at first while I was being drilled, but since the appointment shouldn’t last long anyway, he told Janet at the desk, “What the hell. I’ll take a whole day off that day and we can make a day of it and go places after.” I guess we’ll go out to eat and do some shopping.

I didn’t want to eat much until the numbness wore off because it’s hard to tell if you’re biting into your tongue or cheek. We went to a few stores in search of postcards, but sure enough, we couldn’t find any. Things always remain out of reach when you’re looking for them, but as soon as we finally find one I’m sure I’ll start seeing them everywhere. There are a few more places we’re going to check out. I never should’ve agreed to swap postcards in the first place. It’s not my thing any more than phone chats are. It just seems so pointless when it’s so much easier to keep in touch online. I guess to some people, though, postcards and letters are more “real.” This is the only one she’s getting, though.

I did, however, feed my nail polish addiction and I got 3 new colors. Every single one of my nails is long now but they usually are anyway. My hair and nails have always grown pretty fast.

Waking up was kind of hard but not as hard as I thought it would be. It could’ve been worse had I not been able to crash till 5am. But I slept for 6 hours or so, so I’m not overly tired and can function just fine.

In about 15 minutes they disconnect us for a couple of hours so I’m going to hurry up and get this posted.