Three and half months of Braces pain and Other news

     I am sorry for not updating my blog, I am bad at staying on a schedule. Google hates me and they make it so hard for me to remember the passwords to get into my blogs. Maybe I should move over to WordPress for my blog.

   The 23 of December it will be 4 months with braces. The last time I went in to get my braces adjusted I got yelled at because one of the brackets had popped off of my bridge. If they put my bridges in, wouldn't they have put them in right place in the first place instead of putting braces on them to get them to move. My friends on Facebook always wonder why I am always in pain. Is it really my fault that my brackets pop off either my bridges or crowns? I brush they way they tell me to and it still happens. Talking about pain, my teeth hurts even when I eat soft bread or cheese. Have I been forced into a diet, since I can't eat all the things I love to eat.

   In other news I am still unemployed and still looking for a job. My Paracord business slowed down to no sales. Guess everyone have found some other trend to follow. I still have my Paracord Ojuzu in stock if anyone still wants one, I also have ones with metal skull counter beads for $40.00 as shown below.

The corded ones are the most sold they are still $35.00 plus $5.95 for shipping and I have to start charging tax, because they GOVT. wants their share of my sales. I didn't think that I made enough to even charge tax. Can any of my Self-Employed friends out there help me get a business license? Also does anyone know if I need a license if I take surveys online for money, because I don't know how to report it in my taxes. Still surviving day after day.

   This year is also our 11 year wedding anniversary. I survived another year married. And no we are not having kids or planning on having any, so stop asking. We can barely take care of ourselves, why throw a kid into that suffering? I also have stopped writing my poetry for the time being. I wanted to self publish a chapbook of my poetry but still trying to figure out how. Would anyone like to fund one of my books to help me get my poetry into people's hands? Other than the above nothing new is happening with me.

Month one with braces

      I survived, o'k not really surviving. Been in a lot of pain from getting used to these new things in my mouth. To my jaw hurting, whenever I try to eat, because the molars with the metal band around them start hurting. Seem's like a forced diet because I can't eat the things that I use to eat. Like big hamburgers and fried chicken. Everyone is telling me to buy a blender and blend my food into baby food, but that sounds kind of disgusting to me. I guess I will just suffer the next two years.

      My wife and I go back to the orthodontist on Sept 17th to get the wires changed, and all the pain starts over again. I don't know why they wanted the both of us to suffer all this pain together. I really need to find other ways to ease the pain without resorting to pain pills all the time. Any idea's for us?
I will end this here, Till the next time. In Gassho, Namu Amida Butsu..

We got braces and forced into a diet.

      Wow, noticed that I haven't written here in a long time. As my last post said it was diet time, but that didn't really go any where. Recently I was forced into a diet. More like my wife and I was forced into one. We are getting braces. So far I got the Bottom put in and my wife got the top ones. We have to go back on August 6th to get the rest put in.
      So far I have been in a lot of pain because when they put on my bottom braces, they also put metal brackets around my top molars, and put two cement balls on the bottom molars to open up my bite. So it's been so hard to chew and with the metal hooks on the brackets digging into my cheeks has been so painful, it even hurts to swallow too. The thought of having braces for the next two years, is a grave one for me. Since I love to eat, I won't be able to eat what I love anymore. It's mostly oatmeal and soft foods now. Hopefully my wife and I will lose a lot of weight because of this.