Goodbye braces!

First, earlier this week I went to the art store and got some canvases (Mrs. Steiner, an art teacher and a friend of mine from middle school, has gotten me into painting) and a new calligraphy pen and new nibs. For those who don't know, I use the handle calligraphy pens that you insert the nib into and dip in ink. (Nibs are metal things that are what you dip into the ink and write with.) So, no, I do not use the type of calligraphy pens that already have replaceable ink tubes inside them. I don't like those; for some reason I find the less real. -shrugs-

The day finally has come (and gone!) I got my braces taken off yesterday (Monday the 14th), and boy does it feel really weird. I can actually feel-and see- my teeth and gums again.
I can't believe you can take the brackets off so easily. All they did was use some weird plier tool and they pulled each bracket off one by one, without even removing my wires. The only painful part was when the girl took my bands off (I had metal bands around two of my back teeth that had been used to support a mouse trap-thing I used to have). Apparently whoever had put my braces on had used a lot of the glue/cement stuff. I thought my tooth was going to get ripped out with the band. xD
But now I have straight, white teeth! Yaayy! The only thing I have to do now is wear my clear retainer-things. (They're the kind that are molded to fit around your teeth, like the fake vampire teeth that glow in the dark and you wear on Halloween. =D) I have to wear them all the time, with the exception of eating and brushing my teeth, for the next month. If all goes well, I'll only have to wear them at night. All should go well. These things are already driving me crazy with their smooth-fake teeth plasticyness. xD
Other than that, we had miracle weather today. It started out sunny, then went rain, then went sunny, then rain again, then hail, and sun with lots of humidity, then rain again, and finally the sun stayed out. xD Nevada's weather is bi-polar or something, I swear. It's completely normal to have all four seasons in one day here.
So, I got totally drenched when I walking Hoser (the dog I get paid to walk). Most of the time the rain drops were quarter-sized, and the came down fast! When the hail came, we had to hide under the pavilion at the park- dime sized pieces of ice hurt like hell. px But I'm glad we got a break from all the smoke. Even if the rain water was incredible dirty with all the soot it brought down from the air. I really hope that the rain made it to California and helped with the fires. That would be great.
An interesting fact for you readers. Did you know Nevada means Snow in Spanish?
The only other big thing that happened was that I had to go to Jeremy's (another one of my sister exes) after my orthodontist appointment. We went to the Petco and got a Snowflake eel- who is incredible aggressive, but beautiful- and took him back to Jeremy's apartment and put it in the tank. I then helped Jeremy put algae in his tank (salt water tanks need algae, while fresh water tanks generally shouldn't have it). That damn eel was hissing and snapping at me the whole freaking time. He's already territorial. Hopefully he'll get less shy and come out more when he gets older. I'm in charge of naming him, but I haven't decided on what would fit him yet. I'll tell you in a later post when I have decided.

That's all for now! I'm going to go play with my new calligraphy pens! xD

~Duani Y