last Friday

Last Friday I had to go to Montana to get implants.

No, not those kinds of implants (unfortunately), but a tooth implant.

The drive to Billings is about 6 1/2 - 7 hours round-trip.  That's quite a drive!

I had to do it alone too...total bummer.  Newbies at law firms = no time off.

So, I loaded the car with some good music (i.e. Joshua Radin, Taylor Swift, and even some Goo Goo Dolls) and I hit the road bright and early so I could arrive at the dentist office in time.

No funny dentist stories this time. :-)  However, I think my dentist just keeps his toolbox in his office for procedures like this (tooth implants).  I won't go into details, but I'm pretty sure he used the following tools: screwdriver, drill and torque wrench.  I know for a fact a screwdriver was used because I saw it AND I saw the screw that was removed from my jaw (it was holding my bone graft in place).  Yuck, I know...T.M.I.

2000 bucks later, I left the office with a numb tongue, swollen cheek and a mouth full of gauze.

Feeling sorry myself, I decided some shopping might cheer me up (as if I hadn't just spent enough money).

I bought a pair of sunglasses from Kohls.  In the mirror at Kohls, I thought the sunglasses looked pretty good on me...considering that I can never find sunglasses I like.  I thought, "cool, finally a pair of glasses I like AND I actually look okay in them."  I wore the glasses all around Billings and on the long drive home. 

It wasn't until I got home and looked at myself in the mirror wearing my new glasses that I realized just how awful I looked in them.  Holy bug face!!  Imagine the biggest pair of sunglasses you can...now multiply them in size by two.  Now, imagine me wearing those glasses.  I looked like a tiny little bug with ginormous bug eyes!  All of the drilling at the dentist office must have clouded up my ability to think clearly....or to see clearly.  That, or the mirrors at Kohls were tweaked.  Remember that Seinfeld episode where Elaine bought a dress because it looked good on her in the store, but once she brought it home and tried it on, it looked awful on her?  That is how I feel about these glasses.

Anyway, I couldn't fuss too much about the glasses because 1) they were only $6 and 2) I had a rodeo to get to.

  

What a day!