What's wrong with this picture??? If you say "curly hair" or "Allison, your necklace is messed up." or "You really look like you need to shower!", YOU'RE WRONG!! I am missing a tooth! Remember back in high school when I went through a very tedious process of surgery after surgery in order to have metal bolts attached to my jaw bone so I could receive teeth implants? Well, today one of those implants decided it would like to leave my mouth and experience Valencia for itself, so it popped itself out while we were walking to the university and landed on the street. For a few seconds, we could not find my precious bit of porcelain, and I temporarily forgot about the titanium bolt that was jutting out of my jaw as we searched for it. We found it on the edge of the sidewalk, inches away from a hole that leads to the sewer.. Oh, how thankful I am that it stopped where it did! I shoved it back into my mouth without thinking about how unsanitary that is and started to cry. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING NOW? These babies are NOT supposed to come out! Emily made me feel better, though, and we started laughing about it.. at least it gave me something interesting to blog about, right?
We continued on our walk to UPV because we both knew there was nothing we could do about it then, and we were able to access UPV's wireless. I told my parents about the problem, and my dad tried to make me laugh by reminding me that now I look more like I'm from Arkansas than Emily does... sad day! The current plan of action is to find a dentist in Valencia (hopefully one that speaks English..) and see what can be done about it. Until then, I'm just going to have to beat off all the boys that desperately want to make out with the toothless girl with the titanium bolt sticking out of her mouth...
The good news is that our walk to UPV took us around 5 minutes. Seriously, we are 5 minutes from our school and 2 minutes from the beach!! Is that not awesome? Clearly, all that worrying we did over apartments was silly because God seems to have picked us out the perfect little apartment!
On tonight's agenda we have Spanish tortilla making and eating (potato omelet -- mm!) and hopefully unpacking. Maybe the tooth fairy will visit me tonight, too! Everything's going to be okay. If people from Arkansas don't need teeth, perhaps I don't either. :)
...I'd do anything.
6 comments:
Allibug:
Well, dad says "now maybe the kooks and creepy old men won't be chasing you down now!" HA! Hang in there...Maybe Monday things will look better.
Glad your apartment is working out, enjoy your weekend before school starts...hope you won't be "toothless in Valencia" too much longer. Thank goodness you didn't lose it! Hang on to it! Love,Mom
P.S. Dad wants to know if you have a t.v. and do you get ESPN?!!
That sucks! But at least you can rub it into Em's face about being more Arkansan! I hope you find that dentist.
PS - I still love you even if you have one less tooth. I'd love you with no teeth. That's probably how it's gonna be when we're 90!
Alli... you are keeping me in stitches .. especially today's entry! :o) Your Mom and I were having a FUN conversation about your adventures just a few nights ago. Keep them coming .. I am having the time of my life reading them and I so look forward to getting them. Oh, and those little porcelain implants .. they do pop off .. mine did a few months back! Glad you found it! Guess it's a good thing you kissed the red-headed "leprechaun" before you lost the tooth. Hey Alli, enjoy starting classes on Monday and keep enjoying your adventures, be alert and stay safe!
Love ya, Susanne
Ok...just to make you feel better about your mouth...I'm about to make fun of myself. Boy...aren't i a good friend? (one more reason why you can't hate me.)
Did you know that the toothbrush was invented in arkansas?
Yeah...because if it had been invented any other place, it would have been called a teethbrush. :)
Here's to hoping you have a full set of teeth soon to eat some more of our amazing omelets and cookies.
Allison, you need to do as Churchill advised and keep a stiff upper lip- this hides the gap. Just kidding!
You know, Devon had all those $$$ procedures done and had to have an "implant". Yes, I was teased by several of my co-workers for allowing my freshman daughter to get an "implant". Wish I had thought to give Brad a hard time about the same!
I saw your Dad at an assembly we had at PHS last Thursday. He told me the late-breaking news of the missed flight from London, how it wasn't your fault...
You seem to be handling things so well. I am impressed! Now, if you just apply the same diligence to your classwork as you do to your whiskey. Still just kidding! :) Speaking of still joking, Pam and I agreed that now you truly look like a yellow-dog Hillary supporter...
hmmm...does a teasing tone translate well over a blog?
btw, thanks for the Hard Rock photo, brought back some good memories.
Take care.........Cash
I was just about to say what your dad said...now you hopefully won't have to worry about creepy men! I'm praying it will be fixed soon and everything will work out financially. Love you, even without a tooth!!
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