worse than vets
so i’ve been to the dentist approximately 700 times this month. my last appointment i had a cavity filled and a week later i still have a gaping hole between my molars where they filled the cavity. it’s so big i have to floss after everything i eat because otherwise i’ll end up with a whole meal in there by the end of the day! it’s ridiculous! usually my molars are so tight and close together i can barely get floss in there. now i could hide a 12 foot sub in there!
which leads me to this point. dentists are almost as bad (if not worse) than vets. i know whenever i go to the vet i feel majorly riped off. they tell you your pet needs this and that and who are you to argue? you’re not a vet so maybe they do need a $100 blood panel to see if they maybe perhaps have some weird underlying condition to cause this mystery ailment they seem to have. it just seems like they are constantly upselling you on xrays, blood work, etc. in the name of keeping your pet healthy when you don’t know if it’s really necessary (and of course they tell you it is).
i feel the same way about the dentist! i don’t know anything about dentistry so if the dentist is like we need to do xrays and fill this and drill that you have to be like sure! luckily i have insurance and everything is 100% covered but STILL. it’s the principal of the matter!!! for example i went for a cleaning at the beginning of the month. since i don’t floss the water laser blaster scraper thing is always hell on earth and my gums bleed like crazy and i leave a sweaty nervous mess. i had a new hygenist and she suggested that since my gums were so bad that i go home and floss and use some special mouth wash for a week then i’ll come back and she’ll re-water laser my teeth so that when the dentist looks at my mouth it won’t be as bad. sounds good to me but really worth it? worth it for them since they charged me $300+ for each visit! so on the second visit i was actually seen by the dentist and i had a cavity that needed to be filled. i was okay with this considering i was supposed to have it filled a year ago and just never did. she also pointed out that there was another cavity on the adjacent tooth that she would “evaluate” once she did the other filling. so at the next appointment (which was also another $300+) after she filled my tooth she evaluated the other one and said that it’s only 50% a cavity (whatever the hell that means!) and that she didn’t need to fill it but maybe in a year or so we could take more xrays and decide then. i’m thinking, i’m all frozen and you’re in there already just fill that bitch! but nooooooooooo i couldn’t say anything because my mouth was wide open and covered in latex! UGH. why fill that cavity now when you can wait a year and charge me for another exam and more xrays?
SO ANYWAYS. this is just my long winded explanation for why dentists are a rip off and why i don’t trust them. same with vets.
my tattoo is FINALLY finished. done done. since steve is the king of lining (seriously we lined in every session… EVERY SESSION!!!!!!!!!!) for the touchups he basically just relined a bunch of shit. and then brought out my shoulders a bit to make it more faded and not such a hard line. i can’t wait to see what it looks like when it’s healed. at one point during my appointment i was laying facing the window and fucking wasp flew in the window! i of course freaked out and was like OMG A WASP FLEW IN TO THE STUDIO! and steve is all whatever because he’s all hippy vegan one with the universe and then he is like, oh ya!! you hate bees right? and i’m like yes!!!!!!!! and he’s like okay…. so he gets up and of course won’t kill it so he’s chasing a wasp around the store with a paper cup for like 10 minutes trying to catch him and meanwhile i’m curled up in the fetal position screaming and trying to hide whenever it gets close to me. hahaha.
boot camp is over… which is sad. i really enjoyed it! so much so i signed up for the august session and the fall session (sept - oct). i’m stoked! i feel like all the hard work i did during the july session was all undone in a matter of 3 days being a fat fucking pig in vancouver. but that meal at vij’s was well worth it. i am still dreaming of the lamb popsicles. we also had goat… my first time trying it. it was okay but it was a little slimy for my taste. we made it to the restaurant 5 minutes after opening and there was still a 1.5 hour wait!!! it’s not that bad though because you can sit in the lounge and they feed you free appetizers. you seriously have to get there 30 minutes before opening to start waiting in line to get a table. it’s worth it though. man.
i’m going to go to the bank and buy some american for vegas since the dollar is doing so well. i hope there are MAD SALES on fall clothing in vegas… i doubt it but i can dream……….
speaking of fall clothes, holt got in a whole shit load of m by mj stuff last week and i went in and nearly shit a brick. the girl who works there grabbed pretty much every article of clothing and put it in a change room for me. then i spent the next half an hour trying everything on and trying not to cry because everything was so beautiful!!! a couple of items really stood out to me and are definite must haves. for example the most comfortable pair of pants that have ever existed on the planet. they’re like a cotton spandex kinda deal but they look like skinny jeans… with the back pockets, zipper, etc. and are SO STRETCHY and comfy it feels like you are wearing NO PANTS. they come in black and grey. don’t think i could pull off the grey as it would show off to much lumpage but black is a must must must!!!! come on ebay!!! or at least 40% sale at nordstroms!!!
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