Conventional is history, hello myo

I have been wearing conventional braces since june of 2008. I have a class III bite ever since a child so when I entered PMA, I was advised to wear one. For the first two months, I only wore braces on my upper denture but my dentist gave me an appliance that is to be worn on my lower denture. She calls it “platform” . she says that  have to bit it so that my upper teeth will be pulled out and at the same time push the lower denture in. 

Here’s how my bite looked like during the first months I started wearing braces.

My visits to the dentist weren’t regular so instead of wearing the braces for only two years, I wore my iron gates for three and a half years. i was always busy. i didn't fail in any pft. i was just busy. no reactions allowed.:)

The slow transition because of infrequent visits to my dentist

It came to a point when i considered looking for a new dentist since traveling from Mindoro to Baguio has been causing me too much hassle and a good fortune. My dentist said that if I am to transfer then I would start from scratch. Scratch to include the check up, Xray and of course, the dreaded 40k payment. I had my mind set on the expenses but it’s still a big amount and is not a joke considering how unstable our finances has become. My husband and I actually had a shopping free holidays. How bad that was for our first holiday together as a couple. In short, we were broke. 

With that my dentist offered that she could remove my conventional braces and replace it with MYOBRACES. Myobraces looks the same as what pacquiao wears in his boxing bouts.hahahahaha it’s made of silicon and I have to wear it at least two hours in the morning and then overnight. The myobraces is very convenient on my part since I don’t have to traverse the four express ways of Luzon just to have my elastics replaced.

Meet myo

Here’s what I looked like when I first wore the myobraces. Gross.

On January 4, 2012, I went to visit my dentist at Session Road. She made baklas of my braces and at first, I felt like my teeth would fall off my gums. Having titanium brackets for quite some time have already made me feel used to having something to keep my gums and bones from their natural growth.

 Weeeee! I feel so free! To all my friends and cousins who are not so vain, if you are interested on wearinjg braces, feel free to contact me so I can give you my brackets. Each bracket costs php500.00 and I have twenty pieces so using mine would really cut your budget short. :)

How Short is Short

According to the head of the Non Academic Department (NAD) of CSS, i can keep my hair long for us long as i will use a hairnet. Ok. There you go. Ok na sana kasi pumayag na ang kapitan. But then again, I can't please everybody and unfortunately not everybody is fond of seeing lady officers with her hair tied in a bun.

The bun actually makes our faces neater but just like anything else, it has its down sides. 

1. As I initially said, most of the male officers are not members of my beauty fans club. They'd rather want to see female officers looking like lifeless lesbians than female officers looking like ladies. There are some things they can't get over with. hohum

2. Admittedly, having long hair tied to a bun practically consumes quite some time fixing it. I spend almost 30mins of my entire day fixing it. It's ok to have it if I am managing my own time but not during training. The bad thing is, i have to tie it up even if it's still dripping wet from the shower so as not to be late for formations and first calls.

despite of #2, i was fine and dandy having a long hair. cutting it short is also fine with me but first, i just wanted to clarify if i can keep it or not during my basic course. i am willing to oblige naman with the regulations but to be fair with myself, i approached the NAD.

I got a go signal from the head of the NAD but the assistant commandant of our school is not cool with it. He asked me about the provisions of our hair. I answered him with that i know and he said that i have to provide him with a printed copy of what I have told him. If I can't produce it then i'll have to have my hair cut short. Darn, he's making a big deal out of it. 

Complicating things is not my cup of coffee because i know that every thing I say or do, they will just roll it into a big ball of endorsement. so, this morning, i went to the nearest salon i could get and complied with the old man's tantrums.

not that bad after all.:)

wife-ness

while waiting for my reporting date, i got the chance of staying in my husband's house (it's actually his parents' house). i have our room all to myself and that would automatically mean i have to attend to everything from the fixing of the bed, how the dresser would look like, alignment of our clothes inside the cabinet and of course the whole crap of Mt. Dirty Laundry.


janet, the house help. is around but i looked at it as if it was my first time to manage our own place. it was tiring and frustrating but i enjoyed every bit of it. i was challenged with the whole laundry thing but i realized that i was only washing my own clothes. gian's not included and that would be waaaaayyyyy toooooooo different. gian's plus the kids'. do the math and that would equate to me bugdowner and windowner late in the afternoon.

i washed my backpack so all these mess came out of it

chin

yes dear, ausin q to

long gray line

when i finally finished tucking everything out of gian's sight, this is what the room looks like.

pwd na to. rally e.

dresser. look at how the bottles are aligned. the pile of clothes you can see are gian's change of clothes.

our cabinet

unpolished shoes

kelangan pa rin mag coat and coat

 this is the pair of combat boots which i will be using for the next couple of months.

alsa balutan mode: EOBC edition

this is just i peep into what's in a domesticated wife's life is. maybe i'll get through the same in the future when i finally leave the uniformed service. just maybe.

hay... it's so nice to have a place you can call your own. wala kasi akong ganito sa mindoro. i can't wait to change to my "sleeping uniform" and get all comfy. early taps. night night fellas!:)