An Update on the Life of Eric's Favorite Dentist to Be

Last week was an exciting week in dental school. I did my first amalgam filling-in a tooth! I also did my first sealance in a tooth. Now granted the teeth aren't in a person's mouth, they are mounted in casting material in a little cup but its better than doing a filling in a plastic thing that doesn't even resemble a tooth. I also did my first prep for a compostie filling- in a tooth, which I will fill this Friday in my totally awesome biomaterials class. This week in prosthodontics we are taking impressions and making a stone cast of a set of teeth, that has teeth missing so we can make our first removable partial denture. So exciting.

Josh and I finally got the office room tidied up this weekend. We've only been living here a month... but it looks good. I can't wait until we get our couch and chair, hopefully it will be soon, but the way things go we won't get it until its been 90 days. Oh well at least (according to Eric) we don't have to pay for it until we actually recieve it. We are enjoying our dining room table though.

This weekend Josh and I will celebrate our one year anniversary. Who would have thought we could actually do it??? We want to do something fun this weekend, so if you have any suggestions... we are also looking for a nice restaurant to go to. We thought about getting a last minute deal to Vegas, but the deals just aren't as good as I thought they would be. I'm going to keep looking, so if we don't answer our phones we are probably on the plane...

Supposedly we have plans for Friday or Saturday night with Emily and Eric to look at pictures. I even bribed emily with beef stoganauf but it looks like we might get stood up anyways. Well maybe we will be the ones to stand them up if we go on a weekend trip.

This week looks to be a pretty quiet week. but next week the tests start. I think we have 6 different tests next week. Excellent. I think I'll stay in Vegas.

Man! I feel like a Dentist

On Friday I had my first biomaterials class. The first hour is a lecture where we learn about the different materials used to make crowns, take impressions, make casts, fill cavities etc. Friday was learn all about amalgam day. After the hour lecture we have a three hour lab where we get to play with all the materials. Friday was play with amalgam day! So here we were, 97 students playing with mercury. It was so cool. An amalgam filling isn't all mercury, its a mix of a silver copper compound mixed with mercury. So after playing with this amalgam, learning the consistancy we got to fill our first cavity. It was in a plastic cylinder, nothing that resembled a tooth but it was still very exciting. I think semester is going to be a blast! Well at least Fridays will be.

Our Anniversary

Its not even our anniversary and we have already bought all of our anniversary gifts for each other. We decided to buy new furniture, since we moved and we needed something to fill up all the space we now have. We bought a new dining room table with four chairs and a new couch chair and ottoman, in a colored called fawn. But basically it is white. I figure that this might be the only time in my life that I can have white furniture and have it stay white. I can only say this because I know Josh won't be using it since he is always upstairs.

As of tonight we bought our second anniversary gift. Airplane tickets to DC!! Now this wouldn't have to be an anniversary gift but on all those little lists that say what to get/give for anniversaries, paper or a clock is the gift to give for the first year. So I think etickets count as paper! (So matt and laura be ready... you might have some house guests. I think we will be able to confirm our tour of the whitehouse for the 13th (of May) so write this on your calendar so you don't miss out.)

So here I am searching for plane tickets and writing blogs instead of studying. This semester is of to a great start. I have ten different classes to keep track of this time. I think just staying organized will be a challenge and then all of the studying on top of that... It will be a crazy semester. Which is why I was so adamant about taking a break to DC- I'll need sometime to just have fun before jumping into a very busy summer schedule.

Older and wiser??

Another year older...

Well break is almost over. I suppose its about time since I'm getting a little bored. I'm not sure if I really want to go back to all that school work though. The longest semester is over so I think I can handle this one. Plus we get a nice spring break right in the middle of it.

We're all moved in to our apartment. I love it here so much. Now we need some new furniture to fill up the place. Maybe for a birthday gift...