A note to younger kids: If it looks like you might need braces in the future, beg your parents to get them for you AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, because they are a pain in the ass if you get them when your older.

I just went to the Orthodontists today so they can put even more wires in my mouth then there was before, pull my teeth in 50 different directions, put chain looking metal things in my mouth, it’s like a torture device. I swear if I went into an airport metal detector I’d go off like mad hell!!

And I go to all these job interviews and can’t even smile normally because my lips will get caught in them, it’s horrible. If I would of gotten them done earlier things would still be painful for me, but a lot simpler, why? Because I wouldn’t have to worry about smiling at job interviews, the pain distracting me from work, senior pictures, etc. It just ruins everything, and its like this LONG, ONGOING, TORTUROUS PAIN that never goes away. Your gums are always swelling, you can’t chew on the food you used to love chewing on, you gotta carry a toothbrush around with you cause your teeth are like this magnet for stuck food and it just feels gross after you eat.

I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

And shouldn’t there be something wrong, that your going through the same things your YOUNGER cousin is going through at the same time. Shouldn’t of I had these things when I was his age? But I mean what’s done is done I guess, I’m just BITCHING right now cause I’m in so much pain, after my gums have stopped swelling and the pain goes down, I’ll look back at this journal entry and think, “Mahn, I was a whiny bitch!”

On This Day...

• Guardian Angel - 2001