Bad and good things...

In the world of orthodontics, I am now green powerchain on top and regular ligs on the bottom. I got too used to no rubber bands and now I have 2…a canine to canine up and down and a back bottom molar to upper canine which have together produced all kinds of pain. I keep bugging Dr.I about the debanding date but he’s not budging yet. Claims he’s still doing some tweaking. Enough tweaking, I want them off! When making my next appointment, the girl said something about it being a longer visit next time so that might mean something, maybe retainer talk? I can always hope!

Lila the rat has died. Her tumors had gotten out of control so we finally had her put to sleep. It sucked but I have to feel that she’s better off now. We buried her next to her sister, Sibella, who died of unknown causes. Too many animal deaths, no more rats for now.

Sky went back to school to start his exciting new year as a fifth grader for a whole 2 days before the schools closed due to the excessive heat and no air conditioning in most classrooms. I have never known the schools to close when it’s hot but it usually isn’t quite this hot here. While on the subject of weather, where the hell is the rain? We have had nearly none this whole summer and have been in a drought.

Mau’s friend, Larry, visited from Florida last weekend. He brought his 2 nephews for Sky to play with. He works for a television station and hooked us up with 4 free tickets to King’s Island. That was really awesome of him and we put them to good use Saturday with FunkyB. Surprisingly it was not terribly crowded or oppressively hot so we rode just about everything. We haven’t been there in 2 years so Sky was finally tall enough for the 54” and up rides so we took advantage by riding Face Off and Flight of Fear. Sky protested through the queue line but wanted to go again once the ride was over. Italian Job Stunt Track was closed all day which was disappointing but, after riding The Beast, we heard some people saying the line was open. We booked it over there and got in line. I know it’s kind of short and seems kind of stupid but that ride is so much fun! FunkyB stated he had never seen me so “giddy” on a ride before. I was cracking up the whole time, it was great! The first and last time we rode it was at Fearfest so it was dark and we rode it in the dark again so that was a huge plus. You go through this tunnel that is supposed to be the subway tunnel in the movie and it’s pitch dark. That was a great day and I’m so glad we got to go for free.