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My new PSP came in today!!! One of the reasons that I bought it was that I am about to depart on a long journey. I will be gone for a while(more than three weeks). And my Mom will not be going with me. SO I wanted to make sure I could email. As the PSP has the ability to access internet and as I just got a Gmail account I should be able to send emails to Mom. However, it doesn’t have a key board… So typing could get interesting. It’s a rather slow process to select the letter that you want in typing.

So that is why, before I leave, I am writing a code. so “a” might mean “Hi Mommy!” and “l” might mean, “I ate a really delicious desert”. That way I can quickly compose messages without sitting and pressing buttons for a long time. Admittingly, what I do could quite often be described as pushing buttons for a long time but some button pushing is definitely more interesting than others…

So I am very happy to have my new silver PSP!!!

In other, less pleasant news, I had my very first cavity/filling today. The cavity was discovered on Tuesday when I went for my regular dental cleaning/checkup and it was discovered that I had a small problem on one of my upper right molars.

I was really nervous this morning as I went to the dentist to get my very first filling. I mentioned to the dental hygeniest who prepared me for the process that I was nervous, having never done this before, and she was very nice and reassuring. So was the dentist when he came in. I had a local anesthetic in my mouth and the stuff they put in tasted weird and my mouth felt very funny for a while. The actual filling process didn’t take too long though. I just kept very still with my mouth wide open with the thoughts that if I moved suddenly it could possibly cause some drastic problem… I was really nervous through the whole proceeding however I felt quite certain the dentist and his assistant knew exactly what they were doing having done it many times before. It was my first time though. I am a little proud of myself for going almost twenty years without getting a cavity, albeit some of that time I didn’t have teeth! I am also sad that I no longer can say I’ve never had a cavity and I am now going to try to brush my teeth a lot more than I used to. Despite the fact that it wasn’t so bad getting the tooth filled, it’s not my favorite way to spend the day!!! Therefore I will try to keep those visits as infrequent as possible.