Braces, Fair, etc.

Yesterday I got my braces on (purple). I would like them if they didn't hurt so much. I woke up last night in excruciating pain when I had to take Mia out and was forced to toddle off to bed knowing that despite the fact it would hurt less if I was coordinated and awake enough to ingest ibuprofin, unfortunately, I was not coordinated and awake enough to ingest ibuprofin.

I got them on yesterday morning at 7:45(!) and we promptly left to go to the fair. We looked at all of the animals, went on rides, etc, and had a Bloomin' Onion, which would have been SO much more enjoyable, not that it wasn't already-- if I had remembered that I was almost certainly going to be in pain and needed to bring something for it. Why do you hear kids whining about how much they hate the way their braces look? They never mention how much they hurt!

I listened to Obama's speech last night-- I don't agree with everything he says, but I like him, which has to count for something. It's not that I like what he does or how he speaks... I guess I like the way he acts in old photographs of him, the things that logically couldn't be staged. He also has a powerful way of speaking and modulates his tone perfectly, so its not as much his speech that was good, but his intonation. The fact that he held it in a stadium was interesting, and the fireworks were kind of funny. His youngest daughter is cute.

In other news, Writers' Journal is having a contest for my favorite genre with a deadline of November 30th. They pay well and it's a new contest, so will probably have less applicants than it might have otherwise. I just have to figure out what I would want to submit!