It's Not THAT Bad

Well, it's done. I have braces.

Actually getting my braces put on was not that hard. It only took about an hour. But boy does it hurt afterwards! My teeth hurt, my gums hurt, my mouth hurt... and still do!

I went to the work event immediately after I got my braces put on. One of my co-workers said "It's not that bad" and my boss just laughed at me. Great!

I had a tennis match on Saturday and got to play doubles with Jeritta again. We won! It was a lot of fun. That is my 3rd 4.5 match and I've won all of them so I may be getting bumped back up. Later that afternoon my parents came by the house and saw my braces for the first time. Mom said she loves them but she has to say that because she's my mom. While they were there, I loaded all of the pictures onto a digital photo frame that we got for my granny. After spending about an hour and a half learning how to operate the frame and loading all of the pictures onto it, it started shutting off randomly. Bad news! My parents were traveling to Birmingham the next morning to give her the present. So Lucas and I went to Best Buy while my parents went to Sams to get a few things before they closed. I exchanged the frame for the exact model which happened to be the last one they had in stock. I then sat in the floor of Best Buy and loaded all of our pictures again so that my parents could take it with them. Wow! That wasn't fun and somewhat stressful but it all worked out!

To "celebrate" my braces, Lucas and I went to La Alameda where I had a taco salad and washed it down with a nice, refreshing margarita! Then, we went to the movies with Chris and Aida and saw Maid of Honor. It was a really good movie. We were the only people in the theater so we could talk to each other through the movie so it was pretty fun. When we got out the sirens were going off so Chris and Aida came over to our house to check on the weather but it was fine. Oh, and Aida also said "It's not that bad" about my braces.

Sunday I did laundry all day then we went over to my grandparents' house for Mothers Day. We had a good dinner (burgers, baked beans, potatoes, great dessert) it just took me 30 minutes longer than everyone else to eat because of my braces.

Well, now what you all have been waiting for.... the pictures. Okay, here goes nothin'.

Here I am with braces:
And here is how I feel about it:

Okay, I'm ready for it .......... "It's not THAT bad!"