A few things. Oh, and a protest.

First, a few work-related things (if this does not pertain to you/you are not interested, scroll until you see Willy Wonka).

Something I get asked about quite frequently (by people I work with, went to school with or otherwise know within the field of dentistry) are questions regarding patient premedication. I thought this clever (and most up to date) little sheet was a good idea to post in my operatories:

(copy and hang in yours/share! I think it is handy.)

Okay, this next bit is quite funny. Do you remember the health histories that we had to take in Hygiene school? How crazy and detailed they were? Well I had a (total type A) New Patient a few weeks ago that brought in a copy of THE MOST DETAILED health history (for us to keep on file). I told him I worked at the school and wanted to share with some of the students how great his health history was, so he okay-ed me to copy it and take it there...but mostly I want to share it with the WORLD!

(do not worry, this is HIPPA compliant)

Crazy, right?

I could not decide if I loved the old guy, or if he was completely off his rocker. Anyway, thought some of you might enjoy that.

Something I do not enjoy:

Working with a swollen/bruised left hand.

OUCH.

I also do NOT enjoy anything about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...except for the fact that JD played Wonka in the newer version and...

This.

Cracks me up.

I am pretty infamous for boldly taking pictures of crazies out and about (I am not shy about this. I figure if they did not want their picture taken, they would not parade about in such a state). Well, I have been fortunate enough to have had a few friends/family members join in on the action and share some of the beauties they have seen and (drum roll)...my newest contributor....

My DAD!

I do not know where he was, but he took a picture (with his cell phone! SO fancy.) and texted this be-gagued fellow. I was impressed.

My dad is sooo generation y2k...

(though...all of his text pictures come in that culinary-esque frame, an auto-setting I am sure he could remove but...does not know how to.) :P

People.com featured this pic:

Were Johnny Depp and myself in the picture (and the other two women gone), I could die very, very happily.

So, it is no secret that my parents have THE MOST COMFORTABLE and GIANT green couch in the TV room. We can all fit on there, comfortably, and it is the most dangerous thing to get sucked in to (once you are down, you are down). Well...I found it odd that one Sunday evening my brothers decided that this was the most comfortable way to enjoy a basketball game on the GIANT green couch:

I do not even think it was a close game, so you can not blame anxiety or anticipation for the way that they are arranged here.... ? Weirdos.

What post is complete without him?

He looks like he had been eating...but he had not been (as far as I had seen/could tell). He perched atop his food like a mama bird over her eggs, and sat like this for well over two hours (I kept passing him and he had not moved over this time period. No clue how long he had been like that, nor how long he stayed like that). He is such a strange ranger...

MINI COOPER:

thinks he is a real human.

How cute is he? His little paw on my hand, sitting on his bottom like a person.

Cutest thing ever.

Jess sent me this in a text and I found it pretty hilarious:

Just imagining an individual with every single listed

attribute is what I am most amused by.

Oh, Hogwarts texted Jess:

I hope my acceptance text comes soon!

I like to share a good thing whenever possible, and this...

is DEFINITELY a good thing!

Favorite passages thus far:

1. "What else should I know? (1) There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it. (2) I would like to be friends with Beyonce Knowles."

2. "Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness." and

3. "When we graduated high school, she went to the Cooper Union in Manhattan to pursue her love of set design, and I went to Dartmouth to pursue my love of white people and North Face parkas."

Finally, I am going to take a quick minute to rant (because I can):

Those of you who noticed before now, cheers, those who have not, I will point out for you something that happens to be missing from this particular blog:

CONTRACTIONS.

Why, you might ask? Because. I am SO ENTIRELY SICK of the abbreviated speech epidemic! How do we cut this bullsh*t?! I initially thought people were joking....? No?

I heard a song by Nicki Minaj (ft. Kanye west) and thought that there might be the tiniest chance that people could be paying homage/mocking the song (both of which I happen to be good with):

(see minute 3:00-3:26)

Lyrics:

I’m blazin’ I’m flagrant, Im crazy I’m saying
too much for the World so they Abbreviate him
his past is a phase, his stats is amaze
her dress is just perf uhh
Prada colored babes
it obvi’ we the ishh and I’m rolling with my bricks
so real you so trill. baby everything legit
how you feel, they say we crazed cause our styles so diff’
they'll be jel when we in the mag looking magnif’

But now...well into a year of this ridiculousness...I find that it is just getting WORSE!

I found a blog that has a list of some of my LEAST favorite "abbreviations" you might enjoy: http://www.allnewyear.com/?p=76

I really do wish I were influential enough to start a movement, protesting this stupid dialect. But alas, ...I am not, and I can not. I can, however, voice my disgust for the practice here on my blog and pray that the trend discontinues soon.

~Hasta.

ps. I'm going to keep using contractions, omitting them from this blog was just me being dramatic. Crazy, I know.

pps. I'm not perfect and have probably used a ridiculous abbreviation at some point or another in my life, but I PROMISE, I'll be better.