Speaking as someone who has learned a bit about dentistry as an industry recently, if your dentist is a good dentist and knows what s/he is doing then teeth whitening should be fine.

What you don't want to do is go to a place offering teeth whitening where there is no dentist or hygienist on staff. I'm sure the Buffistas are aware of this, but really if you know someone who says they are thinking about getting their teeth whitened at the mall/Sam's/Costco/(and possibly day spa) tell the to stay away.

If the stuff they are hawking is "just like over the counter" it's cheaper to buy over the conter and if it's "just like the dentist office" then it needs to be in the dentist office. Not only is there very little training that goes on but they usually don't have ways to properly sanitize anything.

yay for good eyes, good grades, good dad health.

mammogram ma~~~~ for Jilli ( I will get an appointment set up next week)

and you people talked way to much about the dentist today

Yay for good grades and eyes and health reports!

I jumped out of the rice pasta convo to see clients, but if I had been here, I'd have said that my local health food store will stock pretty much whatever I ask for.

In the meanwhile, you might try thefind.com. It didn't identify my local store, but it did give me about 30 online options, including amazon.

I also like glutenfree.com for options, options, option.

Despite initially feeling daunted by the prospect of living without gluten (and, in my case, corn), I'm now pretty optimistic. I'm getting ideas everywhere...even the Daily Mail UK!

Great news Pix! The power of the ~ma comes thru!!!

Ion, work called while I was eating dinner, apparently my keyboard reprogram this morning had a bad side effect (fixed what they wanted, somehow unfixed something else). They call in a panic, with 2 minutes to curtain!! Why wasn't this checked earlier? Also, I am not a keyboard programmer, I can't fix this over the phone. Lastly, spending 30 sec describing every character on the screen does not help. When I say "towards the top, does it read..." I don't need you reading the very top line and ignoring the 2nd line that says what I asked for! Grrr. Stupidstagemanager. Grrr. t /rant

Sorry. The timing of mid dinner, and call me with no time to fix struck a nerve.

Good luck with the follow-up mammogram, Jilli. I had to have one after my first mammogram, too. It was all ultrasound, basically painless, and they figured out the oddness was just some harmless cysts. I hope yours goes just as well. (Well, I hope your parking experience goes more smoothly, but of all the things that could have been problematic that day, parking was probably the best one to go.)

Whuh. Posted, then had a DH arrive home in desperate need of a guacamole burger.

That is great news, Kristin.

Am willing to bet that this could be practiced in six or seven virtual environments

Just Los Angeles...the original VW. Honestly? If I was in this wedding in Second Life, it wouldn't be news.

I had my second molars out so my wisdom teeth could come in and take their places. The molars themselves hadn't erupted, so there was a lot of digging around; even with the novocain it was a bit rough. However, it wasn't painful, per se.

I did take a day off from school to give myself time to quit drooling blood down my shirt and let my face return to something like normal size. No vicodin, just tylenol.

Good luck with the mammogram, Jilli.

Yay for good news for Kristin's dad!

Lord, what a day. I sent my agent a severance letter today. No anger or anything bad, just thinking I needed to take a step back and figure out what I want to do.

I kind of want to find the joy in writing again, you know?

Wow, this feels so weird-- I'm essentially unpublished and unrepresented again. Just like starting over.

You are at least half a step forward, Barb. You have been published and recognized. You have some stuff to show. Good Luck.

Thanks, beth-- I'm oddly far less stressed about it this time than I was last year at this time when I was also going through the agent search.

I think it's because last year the first inklings that something was wonky with the Carmen contract were showing up and I still had other material out on submission. Right now, I've got nothing on submission at all so it's as clean a slate as I could possibly hope for.