  I know this is totally dorky, but I'm mega-excited about the appointment&nbsp;I made with a dentist here in Lansing. He's actually accross the parking lot from my work. He specializes in jaw and grinding type problems, so maybe I'll actually get some help so my jaw will stop popping and I'll stop clenching and grinding my teeth. And I think I'm going to ask him about dental bonding - my teeth are so dingy-looking because the enamel on my teeth is so thin. I want gorgeous, shiny white teeth, damnitt! But only if my insurance will pay part of it =) I don't know what I'm going to do when I can't be on my dad's insurance anymore.
They are awesome sauce. They paid for my whole frigging lap-band surgery, every last cent. Even people whose surgeries were covered often have to pay for their fill visits and such, but I don't even have to pay for those. I am one lucky little sheila. When I first got the band I kinda regretted it, because it wasn't working. But then when my most recent fill kicked in it was like BAM! Restriction! I mean, I ordered carry-out from P.F. Chang's yesterday because I was really craving it, and I even got the lunch portion, and there's still about 3/4 of it left in my fridge, even though I ate some of it for lunch, dinner, and a snack. How crazy is that? Before, I would've eaten the dinner-sized portion and probably still have gone in search of something else to eat. I had all these bags of chips in my freezer from the 4th of July party and I threw them all out the other day. There had to have been at least 5 or 6 different bags in there. We're talking the tasty stuff, too.
My 2 favourite kinds of Doritos, 3 favourite kinds of Lay's, and some tortilla chips. I just knew that I'd never be able to eat more than like 3 chips at a time so they'd be taking up freezer space forever. Bye-bye chippies! My band is my new best friend. It's still kinda hard for me to just throw out the food or put it in the fridge when I obviously can't finish it, but it's getting a little bit easier every day.
And I never feel deprived. I have ice cream probably 2 or 3 times per week but I'm still losing weight because I can't eat a whole sloppy bowl of it at a time. Ok, on a less happy note - tonight is puppy class and...well...Snickers and I didn't exactly do our homework this week...I just know the trainer lady is going to know it too. I'm totally in trouble... 
