The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

[amberlemegan]

Originally Posted by Silver Springs

Haha. Of course. I'm Veggie so I stay clear of animal products.

On e of my best friends is a vegetarian.
I just hate milk. Never liked it. I haven't had milk by itself in like 6 years.

[CreepingDeath]

Originally Posted by amberlemegan

Does anyone else suck a cooking as much as I do?

I just tried to make grilled cheese and it was a pretty much fail. I flipped it because I thought it was burning but it was just sizzling from the butter and like half my cheese fell out and it's all smushed. It still tastes good but seriously at 18 I should be able to make grilled cheese.

I need to take cooking lessons from my grandmother.

This probably sounds strange, but I usually don't even try to cook because I hate the smell of cooking in the house. Baking or something sweet isn't too bad, though. I'd rather my house smell like certain cleaning products or good quality candles.

[amberlemegan]

Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

This probably sounds strange, but I usually don't even try to cook because I hate the smell of cooking in the house. Baking or something sweet isn't too bad, though. I'd rather my house smell like certain cleaning products or good quality candles.

I've never heard that before. I love it when I come home and it smells like something good is cooking. My grandma's house smells the best when she's making homemade sauce and meatballs with my great-grandma.
But I totally understand the other smells too cause I like when the house smells like those too.

[ButterCookie]

GPOY

[Zombie]

So that's me and the Best Boyfriend in the World at the Grinderman show in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, which ended up being one of the best nights of my life. I just found that pic on the Grinderman site last night, which made me squee.

So, why is he the Best Boyfriend in the World? Lemme tell you - as many of you know, I've been having some major financial trauma and landlord issues and madness, which is slowly starting to be resolved now, but a couple of weeks ago, was really a bad, bad mess. And as many of you may also remember, I bought tickets to see Nick Cave & Company when they went on sale several months ago, and I was so. damn. excited about that. Because I love Nick Cave, and Warren Ellis is basically my hero. I've been a huge, HUGE fan since I was about 14, and have only managed to see the Bad Seeds in concert once in all that time, and I was not able to catch Grinderman when they came 'round for their first album a couple of years ago.

But when all that other junk started happening, I knew there was no way I was going to get to go, because all of the money I had was being poured into getting the hell out of my old house and into a safe place for the kids.

Cue Best Boyfriend in the World, who somehow managed to scrape together the gas money to take me to Chicago to see Grinderman. But not only did he get the gas money, but he braved the 6-ish hour drive and the ridiculous rush hour traffic on Lake Shore to get me there early enough to be first in line, so I could then be in the front row. And he also scraped together enough cash to get me a t-shirt & a copy of the new CD at the show because I had been previously too broke to buy the album myself. So there's me & Mike in the front row, right between Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Nick is Mr. Stripey Shirt and Warren is Mr. Spotty Shirt.

During the show, Nick came over and grabbed my hand and held it for a bit, which made me blurt out "Thank you!" at him, for some reason, to which he replied, "No, thank you, thank you," and later on, he came back to sing the "But I waaaaant you" bits from "Kitchenette" at me, which made me squee. I mean, I know he doesn't actually want me, but WHATEVER, I HAD A MOMENT. Nick interacts a lot with his audience, so there were other miscellaneous bits, and he also sang at Mike a few times, and used my shoulder as a support when he would step off the stage to balance and dance and sing on the security rail (seriously, one of the top fun things I've experienced at a show is now Nick Cave singing the "tippy-toe! tippy-toe!" bits in "Kitchenette" while actually doing an exaggerated cartoon-like tippy-toe walk on a one-inch wide metal railing. I've seen video of him falling off stages and such before, and now I know first-hand why that happens - he has no regard for personal safety in his pursuit of being awesome.)

So all of that would definitely qualify for Best Night Ever, BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE.

After the show, Best Boyfriend Ever waited patiently with me in the cold for an hour and a half out behind the club, and I actually got to MEET NICK CAVE. And before Nick came out, when it was discovered that I had forgotten my pen in the car because I am a doof, he ran all the way back to the car (a couple blocks) to get it for me.

The actual meeting was really brief, because it was so late and so cold, but I don't care. He signed something for me and I got to say hello, and that's enough for me. So I'm going to print out the picture above and frame it along with the picture Nick signed and put it on my damn wall, because...yeah. Brilliant.

JTIS.

[daniellaaarisen]

Annie. Your life is awesome.

[DefDumbandBlond]

Originally Posted by ButterCookie

GPOY

Georgie what the hell am I looking at?

[Nikolaj]

Re: dental details, above.
Has anyone here ever had a procedure called an Apical? It is a root canal inside of a root canal, and involved the dentist going deep up in the gum and is not a common procedure, from what I was told. I needed one on a front tooth about 11 years ago, it was intense, intense...intense.
The tooth was saved, though. Call me picky, I want teeth in the front Thousands of dollars on that one tooth. Close to $3500, I think.
I do have a 'composite'-- fake tooth, built up with some sort of dentist magic tooth-like substance he attached to broken root canals, on a tooth in the back, actually two teeth. Much less expensive than a crown, but they do sometimes need to be replaced (every 3 years or so).
December has usually been a busy month of dentistry for me, most years, but so far, this year, I'm fine.

[Artemis]

Dentists are one of the few things I have an intense phobia of (along with pigeons and needles) now I'm 18 I refuse to go now, I just don't like them at all.

When I was about 10, I had a spare tooth - a tooth growing in the middle of my two front teeth and it had to be removed - it was a normal tooth, but the root of it was gigantic, looked just like a giant fang. I still have it at home, along with all my other baby teeth.

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Dentists are one of the few things I have an intense phobia of (along with pigeons and needles) now I'm 18 I refuse to go now, I just don't like them at all.

Girl (boy?), go to the dentist. Otherwise you may end up 40 and in serious trouble. Dentists are actually quite friendly and if you find the right one, he or she will keep you out of pain. I can't tell you how sorry I am for not taking better care of my teeth. Part of it stems from poor dental care in childhood, part of it (periodontal disease) is genetic, and then the rest is ignoring my teeth all through my twenties and thirties.

Originally Posted by Nikolaj

I do have a 'composite'-- fake tooth, built up with some sort of dentist magic tooth-like substance he attached to broken root canals, on a tooth in the back, actually two teeth. Much less expensive than a crown, but they do sometimes need to be replaced (every 3 years or so).

My husband had this done on his front few teeth this past week and he looks wonderful. All this dental work has been spurred on by a client of his. He is a dentist and is working with us on getting all this work done. He can't really cut us major financial deals, but at least we know he is honest with us and cares about the outcome.

I still can't believe I need braces. I had them for FIVE YEARS as a kid, but my parents never took me to get the retainer, so it's like I never had them at all. I'm too vain to get traditional metal ones, so I think I'm going to go with ceramic. I really wanted to get Invisalign, but my dentist said he doesn't think they work as well. *SIGH* I wish I could describe what my dentist said would happen if I decided not to get braces, but it's too long and complicated. Think buck, splayed, unable to close my mouth.....I think all of the color drained from my face while he was talking to me. I need a crown (had the root canal done last year), an implant, and special periodontal cleanings every 3 months, plus 2 cavities to be filled. Yea!

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by jannieC

and then the rest is ignoring my teeth all through my twenties and thirties.



My husband had this done on his front few teeth this past week and he looks wonderful. All this dental work has been spurred on by a client of his. He is a dentist and is working with us on getting all this work done. He can't really cut us major financial deals, but at least we know he is honest with us and cares about the outcome.

I still can't believe I need braces.

Yep...once Mom quit paying for my dental care, I pretty much went through my 20's, with none. And, believe it or not, I've not been for the past year or so(except to have my crown reglued). Last winter was really tight, financially, and I canceled my scheduled cleaning, and have never rescheduled.

I WISH I could find a dentist who cut deals. I'd LOVE to get the two implants I need, but with a $1400 mortgage payment, by myself, I just can't cough up 6-7K, without it being a major strain....

There's always "trumpet braces". I lost my front two baby teeth, very young, after a fall. So I was without, for at least a couple of years. Well(the dentist said), from pushing my tongue through that space, for so long....by the time my adult teeth came in, I had pretty bad buck teeth. Mom couldn't afford braces, after my Dad left us, so I just did without. Funny thing? 9 years of playing trumpet, pretty much fixed them. Really. It just gradually forced them back, to where my teeth are pretty straight. Nine years of trumpet=buck to straight.
JTIS!

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Dentists are one of the few things I have an intense phobia of (along with pigeons and needles) now I'm 18 I refuse to go now, I just don't like them at all.

It seems everyone I know has a fear of dentists! Not me. I enjoy going to the dentist. But I have a strange fear of getting my hair cut for some reason.

[ButterCookie]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

It seems everyone I know has a fear of dentists! Not me. I enjoy going to the dentist. But I have a strange fear of getting my hair cut for some reason.

I don't mind going to the dentist either. I hate getting my hair cut because it's NEVER how I want it. Last time, I got scalped and I haven't been since.

[RickRobert]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

But I have a strange fear of getting my hair cut for some reason.

Mine got straightened and emo-fied last time

[Silver Springs]

Originally Posted by RickRobert

Mine got straightened and emo-fied last time

Hairdressers seem to have a fetish for straightening people's hair, thus why I give my own hair a wee trim when in dire need. I have really long hair so obviously I don't resort to it often, but it saves on money and generic hairstyles.