Bzzzz….Thanks Shane for waking me up! My hand and arm are still throbbing. You crack me up!

Today flew by! I had two very nice people today. This morning I saw my first 1A. I don’t know why kids scare me so much—but they do. Some people say-“I love working on kids—they’re so easy!”—but I haven’t quite figured this out yet. I guess there really isn’t to much to scale—but kids kind of scare me for some reason. They wiggle and are impatient and don’t listen to a thing that I say. What am I going to do when I am a mother!? Yikes!

This afternoon I saw a class 2 patient. She was really nice—but had some mean calculus. She was telling me all about how she flosses 4 times a day and brushes 2 times a day, blah, blah, blah. I don’t really think that any of this is true after looking in her mouth! She had some tough calculus. It was really hard to get off! I think that my fulcrum finger is still numb. I finally finished and she was happy. I’m just glad that it is over.

I guess the biggest lesson that I learned today is to keep my mouth closed. I sit there all day telling people to open their mouths, but in real life—people should keep their mouths shut! What I mean by this is that clinic is like the game telephone. You know how it goes—you tell someone one thing—then it totally gets turned around and passed on. Everyone looses even though they think that they knew the right thing that was said.

Some of the things that I really admire in others is honesty. Nothing drives me more crazy than people who are not honest. I don’t care how much the dishonest person thinks that they are telling the truth—they are still dishonest. Believing your own lies doesn’t make you an honest person!

So, have a nice day—unless you already have other plans.