Teeth, double Fridays, and Hot Tubs!

Well, another delightful week of work over. Yay!  (Um, thank you - yet frickin' again - furloughs). I know I overuse the word delightful, but what other word would you use to describe a three-day workweek? We had Cesar Chavez day (March 31st) off so Tuesday was my first "Friday" of the week. Then today was like a Monday/Friday/Thursday all mixed into one. My poor brain doesn't know what day is up. I guess I should have been like plenty of my other coworkers and just taken the entire week (Spring break, by the way) off. But no, I'd rather accumulate vast amounts of vacation time.

So the week saw some personal firsts for me. First (heh), I had my first ever teeth cleaning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, shame on me blah, blah, blah. What can I say? My parents just didn't send us in for regular cleanings when I was a kid and Dr. Searl only ever hurt me when I went to him in middle school/high school in Havre (dude never waited for the Novocaine to set in!). So I only ever learned avoidance behavior with what little dental contact I did have. I've had dental insurance for 10 years now but I was never enticed by the lure of "free" dental care. It was other pain issues finally made me go recently where I'd say my dentist guilted me into dragging myself in for a cleaning. Bwhahahaha! The dental hygienist couldn't believe I'd never had my teeth cleaned. She tried not to be too enthusiastic about the shape of my teeth (not bad!) since I could tell she wanted me to not go 34 years before my next cleaning. Anyway, my teeth were TOTALLY not bad considering I'd never had them cleaned before and I was out of there in less than 45 minutes with a fairly minimal amount of cleaning. (To all of you who obsess incessantly over the health of your teeth and floss relentlesslly [ok, nobody who reads my LJ, but people I know] - I arrogantly smirk at you. I may  not have the whitest teeth, but apparently I've finally found one bodily area where I wasn't genetically shortchanged!!) Heh, now the question is, will I go back for more in six months? Hmmmm....

My other first was much more pleasant - I went to the early bird showing of Hot Tub Time Machine. Heh, in case you were wondering, it was the lure of French toast at the Tower cafe (soooooo yummy!) that got me out of bed early, NOT the thought of paying $5.50 to see a movie. But since I was getting up for a kick-ass breakfast, I thought why not get up early enough to catch the cheapest possible movie of the day (without having to go the second-run theater)? The movie was a solid three-star comedy that I recommend for anybody who lived (suffered) through the 80s.

And now I guess I've procrastinated packing for Wondercon long enough. Yep, it's yet another nerd-filled weekend for me! I'll see if I can find any maximum nerd postcards for anybody who wants one ^__^