No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth
-Thus preserving the face from congealing.
~Anthony Euwer

God Bless the “Red White and Blue!”

God Bless the “Red White and Blue!”
Red White and Blue Orthodontic Aligners, that is!

Woo-hoo! No Braces! Save your rude comments for someone else: “Metal mouth,” “Brace face,” I’ve heard em’ all before!

The Red White and Blue system is a lot like the more popular Invisilign, but since I do not need quite such a dramatic result, this system is perfection! And if I hadn’t told ya, you heffas, heffos, and heffarettes would not have even noticed my clear plastic teeth beautifier……..ahhhhhahahahaha. The world is a loverly place, and soon my mouth will be as well.
Peace out and pucker up! MUAH!

If I could write a letter to me at 17

Ok, I totally jacked that phrase from a new Brad Paisley song, but really…..If I could write a letter to me at 17, I would say: “Wear your retainer you beautiful heffa!! Otherwise, four years from now, you will wish your teeth were still straight and want to kick your self in the rear……”

Yes. This is where I am at now. I have been to the orthodontist twice in the past month trying to figure out my options of how to get straight teeth again and not pay a fortune the second time around. Not to toot my own horn ::::toot toot:::: but my teeth were pretty dern perfect, after four years of braces, one would hope so. But- I graduated high school with that knock out smile, dropped that retainer, and went about my happy little life. Proud to report my top teeth are well trained and have stayed put. But those rebel bottom teeth are making me look hella British.
Now in a state of smile self-consciousness, I have decided to be a grown up and take whatever metal mouth fixer-uppers my fabby orthodontist decides to thrown my way……

My only FEAR: If I have to get braces again, it would be just my luck I would get knocked up at the exact same time and then totally get mistaken for a Jamie Lynn Spears wanna-be. I would have to stop wearing shoes all together, just to create the whole “look.”

I’ll keep you updated, because after all what could be more exciting than the adventures of Rorie’s mouth!

A little more ACTION please

Elivs said it: “A little less conversation, a little more action please.” Now, he didn’t quite mean it in the same context I as am using it, but it concludes my thoughts all the same….

(Rorie steps up to soapbox) I am truly tired of people’s “ideas.” Ideas are useless unless they are backed up and followed through. My father-in-law once pointed out the ignorance of John Mayer’s song “Waiting on the World to Change.” And, even though the song is catchy and this is the attitude I have sometimes, it does seem like an ignorant way to live. “Be the change you want to see in the word,” shouldn't that be the attitude to take? Stop spouting off your ideas and continuing to sit on your ineffectual bum.

There are several proverbs from diverse cultures outlining equivalent thoughts, encouraging the same behavior:

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb
When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb
Talk doesn't cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb