tuesday was not my favourite day at work. it's easy in the moment of high stress to get frustrated and discouraged. then i have to think that in the end every thing is always okay. and, that the nice thing about my job is that, even though it's high stress in the moment, there's no way that i can bring work home, and that the stress is completely over when i leave.

some praises are that monin prayed for me after work on tuesday and we were able to pray for one of our patients. even though our patient wasn't there to hear it and be encouraged by prayer, i was thinking that God is the One who works in people's hearts anyway.

patient's story is that every time i've seen her (about 3-4 times now), she NEVER responds to "how are you?" with "fine" or "good", like we've been programmed to answer. she always says, "noooot goooood. :( "
her most recent story is that she discovered some half siblings recently (she calls her daddy a player, but she doesn't really know him), and one of them facebooked her, then shortly after meeting, her sister completely ripped her apart (verbally) and it was kinda traumatizing.

i was thinking of taking counselling classes to better help these peeps. but there are many times a day when i think, "hmm... maybe i should get counselling first." haha. ehhhhh.

i need a vacay!

was scooping out some decay from a patient's tooth this morning and it reminded me of my grape nuts + yogurt breakfast.

something cool at liberti east - a local church plant from the acts 29 network is starting in an adjacent neighbourhood. so our church is sending off two families to be a part of this new church plant, i'm guessing because they live in that neighbourhood. pastor steve talked about 'sharing resources, training and even people' - out of concern for the universal body of christ.

don't want to become a hipster or a yuppie. but i think i still like the church and neighbourhood culture. psalm 39 talks about being an alien. spoke to me the other day.

rocky is crazy but a good evangelism tool

jennie and john dropped puppy rocky off on thursday night because they are travelling out of state for a wedding. i thought it would be really chill like einstein and bisquit. but then all these memories of children's tv shows where there's a boring man narrating in a voice like cleveland from family guy "puppies need lots love and attention."

rocky's been pretty annoying, crying and whining all night.

on the plus side, people love him. like, everyone says hi to him while walking and he gives them puppy kisses. i took him to the trenton avenue arts festival in fishtown yesterday. rocky enjoyed meeting lots of dog friends and a new creature ("rocky, this is called a CAT!") he was prolly the most popular dog at the festival. fishtown reminds me of one of my coworkers... mostly white hipsters and lots of tattoos and skinny jeans.

my plan to was to exhaust him so he would finally sleep. two and half hyperactive hours later, he finally toned down.

anyway, i'm glad his parents are coming back today to pick him up.

instead of a sink we have a cuspador with suction. cute 5 year old chubby faced marsha got her face sucked in today. aaaaaahhhh so cute! thankfully she didn't cry.

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yesterday jaden had a crazy fit. he was so good. and then instantly bad. and then calmed down and yelled 'yo! i'm ready now!' and then instantly bad again. we gave him a sticker. but mom was def not going to reward him with mcdonald's. such is the heart of man.

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marcel was so brave today. i'm so proud of him. we called him 'strongman' and asked him to show us his muscles. so he flexed his 7 yr old biceps. yay!
he's learning his times tables in 2nd grade, which is sort of impressive. he forgot his 4's and got tired after i kept asking him more and more multiplication questions. math nerd to the core, i'm glad i drilled the 1x's in his head. so now he knows that a hundred billion times one is a hundred billion.

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worked on mom and 3 year old sahara sat on the stool in the corner with her hands folded on her lap for an entire 30+ minutes, which was totally amazing. it's good. but then it also looked like a timebomb. mom says that she's got uncontrolled anger that bursts spontaneously and cannot be contained. very interesting - the toddler creature.

i always ask if there are any health changes before starting dental procedures. some people need a more explicit question. so i say, "any new medications or allergies?"
this morning my pt said he was allergic to women. but at the end he said, he's looking for "the one" after telling stories about his ex-wife.
in my future practice i would like to do meet and greets. so that patients can mingle and stuff.

sat behind some major PDA on the subway today. and the first thought that came to mind was the list of bacteria involved w/ perio disease.