I hate my mouth a little less now....

One of the nice thing about having your friends for the most part having professional careers are that their specialties can help you out. Break some toes, good thing I know a podiatrist. Computer issues? I call my man G-ride. Under medical restrictions where I can't leave the house? My hair stylist comes to the house. Develop sleep issues? Boom, I'm friends with a Stanford trained sleep specialist. Bust out your sister's teeth with a surfboard? Call up my orthodontic surgery friend who went to Harvard. You get the idea.

The old adage being it's not what you know, but who you know. Kinda like you don't have to know the information, you just have to know where to find it.

Well I know perfectly I hate my teeth. Their shape, their crowding, their color, their seeming fragility. If I was offered an extra two inches (take that both ways cheeky monkeys) or perfect teeth requiring nothing but brushing and flossing for the rest of my life........... Man, that'd be a hard decision. I'm pretty sure I would take the perfect teeth.

I'm already used to my other shortcomings.

If you know me in real life, you know I'm often very chatty. So at a gathering of guys and pizza last month Mr Harvard said, "You know, I could get you straight teeth in just 6 months if you let me do your orthodontic work." Wow, really? So I ask, "Well I also really hate how yellow they are, my dentist right now wants $400 to whiten them. What do you think?"

Dismissively waving his hands he says, "Just come with me to my office as soon as we're done with dinner and I'll give you a professional whitening kit. You can have it and it will be perfect." Oh heck yeah I am all over it man!

I used the kits this past week and my teeth are now white and with none of the side effects you hear about from whitening. Not like TV star white, but easily 70% whiter than they were before. A visible improvement.

And I hate my mouth just a little bit less now...................