I'm never eating candy again!!!

"Never" as in "not today", anyway. I've been to the dentist today, to finally fix that cavity I had. I was so nervous I almost felt calm, if you'll believe it. I asked how long it would take, and she said "Oh, about half an hour." Half an hour?? Do you know how long that is in DPY (Dentist Patient Years)?? It's forever, and then some! She said she'd only use the dental drill for about 10 minutes, so I decided to count calmly to sixty, ten times. She asked if I wanted local anesthesia, and I was like "Hahahahaha! Oh, you're not joking... Uh, yeah, I'd like that. Thanks." I mean, who does this without local anesthesia?? Seriously, I'd be fine with being put temporarily in a coma for this procedure! Afraid of the dentist? Moi? Yes. Once the drilling was done (and I had counted slowly to sixty several times) I started obsessively singing Santa Clara in my head. Anyway, it went fine, although I gripped the chair pretty tight there at the end.

On my way over to the shopping mall for my traditional cheer-up present for myself, a car nearly ran me over. I couldn't help but laugh and think "Well, at least I wouldn't have felt any pain on the left side of my upper jaw." It was kinda funny at the time, I thought. But then the local anesthesia went out, and I did feel pain on the left side of my upper jaw. Much pain. Go-to-the-drug-store-and-buy-painkillers-type pain.

Today's cheer-up present went from hmmm-maybe-an-ice-cream? to oooooh-a-hairdresser's-appointment! So I cut my hair, and it almost looks normal now. Still a boring red-ish brown, and still curly, but at least it doesn't look like big nests of eagles are hiding in it. Yay!

And then I bought ice cream.

But apart from that I don't actually feel like eating anything sweet for a while. Funny how your mind comes up with that after a scary, painful (I still have a head ache, and my jaw is sort of pulsating, 13 hours after the fact!), not to mention a shit expensive dentist appointment...