onlyemma's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brace yourself. So it looks like I'm getting a brace. I'd allow you to gaze and gawp into my mouth to see why, but you're not here. I was given four months to think over and decide for definite if I want my brace, as at my last appointment I spent most of the time holding back tears, so the orthodontist was, let's say, a little weary of me going through with it all. Anyway, I put off making the decision for about three and a half months, until I got my letter of confirmation for my hospital appointment on Monday. Then, much to my dismay and shove-it-under-the-carpet attitude, I was forced to think it through. So I decided first off, to take the easiest and prettiest (in the short-term) route and not go through with it. I decided my teeth aren�t that bad, and train-track braces are, let�s face it, pretty ugly. So I took the coward�s option. However, after spending so many years wanting to fix my teeth and being disappointed when I thought I couldn�t, after seeing the outcome of Kate�s braces, I couldn�t happily accept my decision. I felt I�d kind of sold myself short. And then I found this website, created for adults with braces, and it definitely changed my mind. I must�ve spent three hours on it; I couldn�t believe it, some people have had braces at fifty! So I suppose 22 isn't ancient after all. And all of these adults were saying how worth it braces were and they wish they�d got them sooner. So who says I couldn�t pull off a metal mouth? Kate did it. I�ll have to make some life changes though I think. Mainly, I have to accept that for two years I will most probably be continually romantically over-looked and exiled to a loveless wasteland. So I�m already starting to resign myself to this prospect and, as I told my friend Harry, I have started preparing a list of things to get me through: Tonnes of chocolate [x] Though I do need to do some shopping and a bit of lifestyle re-work for the real spinster existence, as I haven't quite got round to these yet: Cats (for company in place of a man) [ ] I'm sure I'll keep myself occupied with many a sad thing during this time. And who knows? I may even find myself an internet boyfriend with a brace fetish. That way I can wile away a few hours on a cold Friday night; talking on msn and webcamming my glorious gnashers while he says things like, "yeah, baby. Bite like that, bite together again. Yeah! YEAH!" "Show me the goods baby... orthodontic work is soooooo HOTT". 3:02 p.m. - 2007-04-14 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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