time for a big fat juicy...

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Happy Fall folks!

I HATE that it's going to start cooling down but some of my favorite things about this time of year happen to involve...

everything in this pic

(literally everything in this pic causes extreme nostalgia within me

...which is weird, all things considered)

the good old basket mouse

and this ridiculous witch hanging from the light by the front door

...and that handmade thing on the wall back there, amongst other things.

Fridge Scrabble:

decorations for halloween and christmas include these little fridge magnets that spell out a cute holiday greeting. Nobody loves them more than my dad. And by love, I mean- totally abuses, misuses and misconstrues the intended message/purpose of the letters into cryptic, nonsensical messages for the rest of the family (or whomever views the message first and puts the letters back in they're intended spots...aka, me)...

the appropriate/intended message

(minus one "p"..a recent casualty..?)

:|

whaaa?

freakin' weird.

anywho. you get the point.

I guess I'm glad-ish fall is here...make sense?

We've had some crazy cold/rainy weather and awesome sunsets around vegas as of late (they're usually really cool), here are a couple I caught recently...

(Soccer is much more tolerable when it's gorgeous outside...by the way.)

This was taken with the camera on my phone for no other reason than to prove a point (that the sun was shining DIRECTLY in my eyes and that matt should close the blinds so I wouldn't go blind...which he didn't do. ..because he hates me.) and it turned out kinda cool..

I found some weird site that had m.a.s.h. (if you don't know what that is, you're old....or reallllly young) on it, and I decided spence was going to play with me. SO. here are the results of his game:

yeah. when I don't know how to spell something I use phonetics.

go big or go home, right?

Probably the best high-five I've ever received:

New edition:

Here's Ninja.

aka baby baby turtle,

aka Parkour! turtle (keep reading),

aka...the newest addition to the Tuttle household.

Stats:

-born: sometime late summer

-height: uh..maybe an inch? inch and a half?

-width: same as height

-length: shell is about 2 inches long

Story: He's the friggen cutest little guy! My friend found him crossing Bonanza (#soldier) and decided to pick him up on the way back down the street. He came home with me and spent the night in my room in a cardboard box. The next morning, Jess peaked her head in my room to catch a glimpse of him...but he had escaped the GIANT box! (it wasn't tipped over, there wasn't a hole chewed out of it, nothin'! Absolutely NO explanation as to how he got out!) She ran screaming (because he was going to attack her since he wasn't in the box..?), and I promptly got out of bed and frantically started searching for him. Luckily, he was in the first place I checked (stuck to a bug trap by my window) and mom handled the rest. We got him set up in his new 'digs and he's been pretty happy here (i think/hope!)!

adorable for a reptile, no?

here's Baby turtle

and here's babybaby turtle

(good comparison pic. baby turtle was the same size

as babybaby turtle when we first got him 11+yrs ago! :)

So, since we've had this turtle, EVERYTIME i check to see how he's doing, he's "extreme caging." this can best be described as follows: the dang turtle has turned his very bland, safe, ordinary turtle cage into an X-games park for turtles. He climbs on his crap and backflips off of whatever he can (not kidding). AND, he enjoys falling asleep mid-stunt. Watching him always reminds me of the Parkour! skit that was on The Office a few seasons back:

yeah. he's sleeping. (not stuck, I'll tap on the glass if ever I'm worried, and he'll easily get himself back on all fours....freakin' psycho)

how the...?

Onward.

On occasion, I get texted some pretty funny crap throughout the workday which TOTALLY helps the day pass much more pleasantly. Here are a couple of my most recent favs:

(Columbus Day)

SO. The other day, I totally took one for the team and went shopping (/looking for one specific item, of the luggage-nature) at one of my LEAST favorite places on earth (not walmart, the other one).

SWARE. If ever I HAVE to dress up for halloween....that place is a goldmine. I definitely didn't find what I was looking for, but I did find....

him.

whom I love.

....ridiculous

I honestly don't think anyone could love google more than myself. In addition to checking my daily horoscope on yahoo, i also check the google homepage religiously, looking for some of the amazing things they come up with ie...

also...

I also heard this guy on Ellen the other day and was sooooo impressed. I've literally listened to him 50+ times. Check it out and lemme know...

***Hygiene dork moment***

(skip if you are bored by cleanliness/dental hygiene)

So i've been inundated with info from the lovely ladies at Compliance Alliance LLC, the CDC, Infection Control Inc and the newest ICG report. One of the MOST disturbing things I learned was about the phenomenon of BACKFLOW (and the slowspeed suction):

"Patients should not close their lips entirely around the suction because it creates a reverse vacuum affect, aka backflow, emptying contents within the vacuum line back into their mouth while their lips are closed, only to be re-evacuated as the lips open and allow the vacuum to suction and flow properly."

WHAAAAAAAAAT!!!???

I dunno about you but...do you see what you suction??? and THAT goes back into their mouths????!!!!

I. Will. PUKE.

ok. so now that I've been armed with this (incredibly disturbing) bit of information, I've been asking every patient to kindly NOT close down on the suction....but patients don't like this. It's more effective to close down. So...how do you remedy this?

TAH-DAAAAAH!!!

I went to work at my Anthem office last friday and they had these little disposable blue-filter-things that you attach to the slowspeed, and then stick the saliva ejector into. AWESOME!!! no?!!

(it has a little film/filter thing)

Text me if you want more info on the what/where of ordering these things (no I didn't invent them, no I don't have stock in the company...I'm just trying to spread a good word when I get one)

Also. While watching my favorite show ever the other night, I received the following pic/text:

"...someone was not shown the proper way to floss...."

(thanks lele. happy belated 1yr!)

I still love him.

so much.

While still on the topic of dental hygiene, here are my current fav things:

(seriously. use/recommend them all

(well..obviously not ALL of the listerine flavors. pick one. ...)

and you'll be golden)

~TTFN peeps!