crap soup

there is a hale and hearty soup shop in my building where i work. they hand out those little cards where you buy 10 soups get one soup free. i've been diligently visiting this soup shop throughout the winter, slowly but surely building up my soup count. last week, i finally reached my goal! ten soups! holy crap! that's awesome! i get free soup! free soup!! woohoo! i save up to six bucks! rock on! they just did a report on cbs news about soup places in new york with health code violations! my soup place was a featured unsanitary establishement! i've been eating crap soup for the last three months! it's a wonder i'm still alive!

somebody hold me.

i could bite through my bottom lip right now and not even feel it!

i went to the dentist this morning for a regular cleaning and check-up and walked out two hours later, unable to feel the left side of my face. the drool that was running down my cheek immediately froze, because, holy shit! it's fucking cold outside today!

i had one cavity and "what looks like the beginning of another cavity, so make sure you're brushing at a diagonal towards the back of your mouth, ok?" jeeze louise, i've had these teeth for twenty-something years, you think i know how to brush by now.

so the dentist shot me up with some novocaine and goddamn it hurt! i made an embarrassing moan/slash owwwwwwww! sound, because it fucking hurt and the dentist was all like "are you ok?! oh, maybe i should have warmed up the anesthetic because it's really cold." yeah, say that after you shot me up.

so the drilling was pleasant. really it was, after i got over my nausea of seeing and having pieces of my tooth spray all over my face, thank god i couldn't feel anything though. i began to feel a little paranoid after a while because the dentist and her technician were gossiping in mandarin and i couldn't help like feeling like they were talking about me and my stanky breath or something. i have the same problem when i go to get my nails done, although, then i know they're talking about me in mandarin because usually one lady will be brave enough to ask me in english, "why do you keep your nails so short deary?" for the record, my nails refuse to grow at all, but apparently, my teeth love to grow cavities.

i chose to have the white filling because i have enough metal fillings and seriously, i don't believe it's a good idea to have a mouth full of metal. i'd love to one day have the bucks to switch all my metal fillings, anyone got about 10 grand they can spare?

after it was all over, and i was signing my name to the receipt, i was chewing on my lip and realized, hey, i can really chew on my lip! and not even feel it or anything. ohhh that's sooo gross, its like my mouth is stuffed with cotton and lined with gummy worms. and then this strange part of me, deep, deep inside, wanted to just bite through my whole lip, just tear it off completely and see what happened. but then i realized that although i couldn't feel it right now, i would certainly feel it later and i don't think facial disfigurement is good in my line of work...

have a great weekend and stay warm! and if you live somewhere that is warm already? seriously, fuck you. :)

just poop already!

we had tons and tons of snow here in nyc this past weekend, as did most of the northeast. kpr and i had a fun weekend, stayed inside all bundled up on saturday, watched senseless movies and episodes of animal precinct on the animal planet. champ is being a big bitch about all this snow and won't go in the backyard anymore, so we have to walk him around and around the neighborhood till he takes his poop. i know we're spoiled because we have a backyard and don't have to deal with this every day, but why can't he learn the sooner he goes, the sooner we get to come in out of the cold? mariana doesn't have to walk her dog but two steps out the front door and he does his business and turns his butt around right back into the building. maybe in time champ will become this wise.

kpr and i had planned a big trip out to trader joes in new jersey on saturday. my mom sent us some gift certificates for the purpose of purchasing very cheap wine. needless to say we didn't make it on saturday because of the blizzard. i've been collecting lists of things people have been telling me to get from trader joes, as i've never been there myself. if you have any suggestions as to what to buy, please share in the comments.

tonight mariana and i are going to see sideways, in honor of the oscar nominations. i'd like to see all the best film nominations and hotel rwanda, before the event, but we'll see if i have the time and money.

hmmmm- this entry is a little blah... oh well.