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For the past month I've been using one of my parent's car(s) to get around as my car's front passenger tire had exploded on me. I had just been too busy with work and school to give a shit about the crappy car. It just wasn't one tire that needed to be replaced either--the other three were essentially bald and a huge hazard when driving (especially when it rained--I would hydroplane the entire time!)

So today I finally caved in and threw a spare on, and went up to Discount Tire to get a new set of tires for the Escort. The quote they gave me over the phone was for $317 including lifetime warrant on the tires as well as rotations and repairs. When I got there I was given a price for $440 and nearly shit myself. Turns out he was going to put on 185/60-15 tires, rather than 190/60-15 (those numbers are just the tire sizes my car has.) Talk about a huge difference! The other sad part is that if the tires were 14" rather than 15", I'd have paid almost $139 less!

I'm just happy that my car can finally ride smooth again; Hopefully this will also help with the gas mileage. I've gotten a chance to take out my mom's 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid, and let me tell you that I am horribly jealous that she can get over 500 miles to a tank of gas. I think the last decent mileage I got was about 320'ish miles to the tank. Hopefully I'll be able to part with that sometime next year.

I've been debating with myself (and discussing with my dad) the prospect of getting a new car. I need to get rid of my car since I'm at 108,000 miles and I've put way too much money into it to fix it up (and it's still not that great.) I'm probably going to aim towards getting a Scion XA. I'm not too set on it right now, but I definitely want to get a small car, and either brand new or slightly used (as in no more then 20,000 miles.)

I'm still months ahead of myself right now, as I want to wait until at least May or June of next year. My priority right now is pretty much for moving into the townhouse myself and some friends have been looking around for awhile right now.

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Well, the outcome of my appointment was a new tooth to put under my pillow for zee Tooth Fairy. I joked about how maybe instead of a ragged ass dollar bill, perhaps I'd receive a new car. One can dream!

I do know that I am not looking forward to having my other teeth removed. The pain from this has been unbearable and I really just want to knock myself out so I don't have to deal with the throbbing pain that is the right side of my jaw.

Originally the appointment was just to check out the problem, and then get my teeth cleaned. Well, after looking at the xrays the pain I originally had wasn't going to go away. The tooth was slightly impacted, and needed to be removed asap. She ended up doing it right then and there. And it sucked.

First she gave me some local numbing, then Novocaine, then some more Novocaine. I really can't tell you much of what was going on because I had my eyes closed shut, and my hands were gripping the arms of the chair as if I was going to die if I fell out of it.

The tooth was only partially erupted so she had to cut away the gums to expose the tooth (painful) and then for about 30 minutes there was a lot of scraping, yanking, pulling, suctioning, and god knows what else. At one point I finally felt a really painful tear, but didn't think it had been the tooth. I thought maybe she made it more loose, but apparently that was when she got it. After that she basically cut the membrane (much like an umbilical cord, thanks to the person assisting her) and I was all done.

I ended up getting a prescription for vicodin, some gauze pads, and my tooth. Needless to say I ended up going to bed around 8:30pm in absolute fucking pain. The vicodin I took didn't do shit for me, so that pissed me off even more. I was scared to even consider taking more aspirin because I didn't want to overload my body with drugs to the point where I foam at the mouth and die from choking on my own vomit.

Woke up this morning with uhh, blood around my mouth. Wasn't pleasant at all, when you also consider that I still had the taste of iron in my mouth. Yuuuck. Anyway, my jaw is still horribly sore, and it's swollen. Feels like there's a jawbreaker (hardy har har) embedded in my gums on the right side. My cheek is pretty puffy on that side too.

I'm still going to go into work--I just have way too much work on my plate right now to take today off. School might be out of the picture for today too, but I may just go in for a little bit, and then leave. We'll see how I'm feeling later on tonight. Hopefully a lot better :(

Oh, the tooth she pulled was huge. It was about the length of a nickel.

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I still have the massive pain on the right side of my mouth. I've been popping aspirin and extra strength Tylenol like it's nobodies business. My mom finally got in contact with my old dentist, and scheduled me an appointment for tomorrow at 2:30pm. I'm not looking forward to it because she mentioned that included in the appointment is teeth cleaning.

Let me tell you how that is the one thing I never looked forward to. Actually, the only part I hate with such passion is the flossing. I do not like flossing my own teeth, let along someone else flossing my teeth. Thinking about it right now, I am already cringing in pain. The last time I was there I received an ear full about how I really need to floss. The dentist then proceeded to pound floss between each tooth as if though she was sawing away for the Lumberjack contest. I probably could've donated that blood to a hospital instead of letting it drool down onto the napkin on my chest, or into the spit bowl.

Aside from the god awful cleaning, I'll be getting a x-rays of my mouth done, to see what the issue is. Since they don't do any oral surgery there, it'll just be a referral if it comes down to it. I'm also getting a 20% discount for the services since I don't have any insurance. The xrays will be $34 and the cleaning is going to be $75. So you do the math on that one! I seriously am scared to find out exactly what's wrong with the tooth, for the soul fact that I know surgery will not be cheap.

I refuse to be awake during any procedure. Knock me the fuck out so I don't have to hear you sanding away my teeth, or hammering an ice pick into it.

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