Dental Schmental

As I was cleaning my place, I found a little tooth-shaped container. I reminisced as I opened it and gazed lovingly at my two adorable upper wisdom teeth - out of my mouth. Well, these teeth have been out for about 4 years now, but darn, they just get cuter each year!

Back in my day, in dental school, I gave these puppies (puppies=teeth) reverse root canals - meaning that I went from the roots/bottom up! Fun!

For your own viewing pleasure, I did a mini photo shoot with my teeth, and I even post-processed the pictures! Fun and kind of strange! Something only a dental person will do. :)

 

3-Day-Long Muffins

I am a creature of the night. This I know to be true. Late nights prove to be a very interesting and useful time for me, and I never quite know what I'll get up to. While mere mortals are getting "sleepy" (puh-leaze!), I'm just getting started!

I partake in many late-night activities (all within the safety of my place, fear not) including, but not limited to:

-solo dance parties

-baking

-washing dishes

-much-needed cleaning - I just can't bring myself to do it during the day.

-painting

I'm really not sure what makes me stay up so late, I just can't help it. As the night wears on, I become more alert and not-sleepy...until about 3:30am. I know, it's shocking.

Well, to get to the point of this blog...

For the past 3 days, I have had a dream. A dream of muffins, but not just any muffins - blueberry muffins! I knew I could count on Martha, so I searched her site and found the perfect recipe: Healthy Banana-Blueberry Muffins.

This recipe solved a few of my problems. For starters, I was craving blueberry muffins - check! Secondly, I had bananas at a stage that were too ripe for me to ingest in fruit-form - check!

So, I baked 'em up in the wee hours of the morning, and I am quite impressed with the recipe. It tastes as the title suggests, the muffins taste "healthy" - but not in a food-that-is-healthy-but-actually-tastes-dry-and-cardboardy way. These muffins are light, delicious, fruity, and taste like you aren't eating 500 calories per serving. It's a very easy recipe to follow, and I so beat her "20 minute" prep time - HA!

Try 'em out!

 

wicked...

...cool!

My sister did a photo shoot for me while I was out visiting her in Winnipeg over the holidays. It was a bit unconventional, but I'm happy with the result. Next time, I'll ditch the squirrel, though - he was such a limelight hog! ;)

no, I'm not naked

I had a photoshoot with my father the other day. We were trying to recreate the whole Marilyn Monroe "ballerina" picture feeling, and I wanted to get another use out of my bridesmaid's dress from my sister's wedding. The same sister did the post-processing on the image. What do you think? I'm tempted to blow it up, poster-size, and hang it on my wall... just joking! ;)

25 Pieces You May (or May Not) Need to Know About Me.

1. 1. I hate diamond Shreddies with a passion, and I pray to the sweet Kellogg's gods that they stop this ridiculousness SOON! However, I love square Shreddies.
   2. I hate it when teachers make you stand up and introduce yourself to the class. At this time of my life, I refuse to do this anymore, and have said more than once "For the people who know me - hello. For those who don't, too bad".
   3. I love Disney with every ounce of my soul and would sell my soul to Disney for its love in return.
   4. I love that I'm 5'7", and a bit taller than most girls, but I still feel sad that I'm ONLY 5'7".
   5. I love meat and am a carnivore in the worst way. You couldn't even pay me enough money to not eat meat.
   6. I love dinosaurs and the Jurassic Park movies, and I really feel I would make an awesome raptor...
   7. Sometimes when I'm working on a patient, I have a moment of pure terror when I realize how close I am to the patient, and that my hands/fingers/etc are in their mouths...
   8. I spend most of my days at work lip-synching under my mask.
   9. I haaate people who disrespect the English language by using poor grammar and spelling improperly.
   10. I am working on developing a task force that will be known as the "Grammar Police". Violators will be prosecuted - or beaten - or both! :)
   11. Some days, I wake up and I am truly convinced I can speak fluent Spanish. I'm always disappointed when I call my Mom to test it out... it never works.
   12. I wish that my parents had forced me to do many things as a child: learn Spanish, play team sports, learn to play the piano - properly. *sigh*
   13. I love environmentalism and being green. I get warm, fuzzy feelings when I recycle.
   14. I've always had a talent for doing harmony - my sisters used this to their advantage when we sang, as a result, I was almost always the back-up singer.
   15. I strongly dislike being told what to do. If you tell me what to do, I will try my hardest not to. 16. I apologize way too often when it's unnecessary, and don't apologize enough when it's actually needed.
   17. When I look at pictures of spiders ( I don't know why I do it, but whatever!), I get full-on-heeby-jeeby-shiver-me-timbers-shakes...
   18. I play with my earrings when I'm uncomfortable with a situation/person.
   19. I'd love to be a successful artist one day, but I don't paint often enough to accomplish my dream.
   20. I'm terrified of birds.
   21. I love nutella too much that I don't buy it, so it isn't in my house, tempting and taunting me.
   22. If I'm in my bathroom in front of my mirror, or in front of a doorway, I close the door because I'm afraid of seeing something go by...
   23. At some point in my life, I want to go see great white sharks up close, hopefully in a shark cage - or just on a boat!
   24. I still have my Christmas decorations up. :o
   25. I love sparkles something fierce!

Africa

I wish my life was a musical. I really do.

How fun would it be walking down the street, singing and dancing with fellow citizens? I think it would be AWESOME!

Thus far, my life has not turned into a musical - no matter how hard I try.

However, there is one small, amazing exception to this rule: My sisters and I have a theme song.

This wasn't always so:

One fateful day in September 2008, my older and younger sister and myself drove down to our local video store to rent a movie. During this drive, the song "Africa" by Toto came on the radio and we pumped it UP!

Ever since then, I now associate this song with my sisters and the good times that are had when we're together, and, if I can, I turn up the volume and have a mini dance party.

...Well, I'll have a mini dance party just about anywhere. :)

I dedicate this to my sisters.

"Its 'gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
'Gonna take some time to do the things we never had."

happy birthday to me, I'm now twenty...three

Well, it happened. I'm officially old. As of today my knees started aching, and my back has a definite crick in it (where is my walker?).