Liberation Day

Nothing to do with politics, that title, although it is also Election Day.

Nope, the liberation is immediate and physical.

I just got home from my orthodontist’s office. Where they took my braces off.

Woot!!

They had to numb my entire mouth to do it (my poor mouth is sensitive to all the air and cold water involved in grinding off the glue on each tooth that had anchored the metalworks), and my lips still aren’t working right. 

But my teeth? Look pretty good if I say so myself. Need another good cleaning at my dentist’s (scheduled for Monday), and we’ll also be discussing and I hope doing some whitening. But even without that I’m happy with the outcome. All told it’s been 23 months: starting with Invisalign and then ending up since February in metal braces. Soon to be followed by wearing upper and lower plastic retainers. They took the impressions this morning and I’ll go back next week to get the retainers.

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Dr. Wicked’s Writing Lab

Thanks to a post on the forum at the Official NaNoWriMo site, I discovered “Write or Die” at Dr. Wicked’s Writing Lab.

W-or-D is an ingenious – and maybe devious – little web application that just may help you blast through a writer’s block.

It works like this. You choose your time goal, your word goal and the mode: Gentle, Normal, Kamikaze or Electric Shock. Then you hit “start” and get a screen with big empty white space to write in, and a countdown timer and a word counter at the bottom. I didn’t set a challenging goal, just 100 words and 10 minutes. Got another 100 words or so plopped down, then cut and pasted it into my NaNo Novel. After writing yesterday and last night, and that little bit this morning, my new word count: 8,548.

Dr. Wicked, you devious genius, you ROCK.

And, Suzanne, Darla, Brenda, M. H. Pixie, Miss Kitty and all the others in my cheering section: you do too. Thank you so much!

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