Starting as of yesterday, I now have to endure 20 months of wearing....braces :cry:

This all started about a month or so ago, or closer to the beginning of summer, I can't really recall when exactly. My grandmother came over to our house and asked if I was wanting to have braces put on to help my teeth adjust so I don't have an overbite. I've always had an overbite and I've always had this one tooth on the bottom part of my mouth that was out of place (due to overcrowding) but my dentist never really suggested braces, since he didn't see it as that big of a deal. I told her, "meh" and shrugged my shoulders, well she took it as I wanted to do it ( :? ) So we started going through the whole process of finding out what to do. I figured that I might as well see what the orthadontist had to say and see if it really was worth doing or not. We went to the same orthadontist who did my uncle's braces when he was a kid and I had almost the exact same problem he did (my who life my uncle and I have been said to be extremly alike. And this borderlined on creepy though :lol: )

The big reason he brought up for me doing this, was that the tooth that was out of place on my bottom row of teeth could eventually get infected due to brushing at the gums of it, and that the gum would wear down and it would probably get infected. This was a few years down the road, but it would need surgery and I would most likely be onmy own when it happened and I now I wouldn't want to deal with it then. So, I decided to go through this now, which I'm still kind of unsure if I really should've done it now.

Besides the general feeling of weirdness in having little pieces of metal constantly in my mouth, its also very hard to eat. Eating has become more of a chore then something I can enjoy, biting hurts, chewing hurts, simply touching my teeth together hurts. I know the pain is only suppose to be for a couple days, but once the pain goes away, eating will still be annoying more than enjoyable.

I don't think I've ever wanted time to go by so fast before, either that or get these things off. Because, right now, I don't think I can handle this for 20 months, I know my grandmother and, of course, the orthadontist will say, "Hang in there, it'll pay off in the end." And dammit it had better, because this is just plain annoying/torturous. But, I think its probably too late to say, I don't want to do this anymore......

• After nearly a month in delays and excuses from Dell, my shiny, media juggernaut, of a laptop has finally arrived!!! :D Of course, it arrived the weekend I was out of town :( So, I didn't actually get to do anything with it till late Sunday, but it was well worth the wait :D

The whole story goes, for my classes starting in the fall my grandparents decided to buy me a laptop to use for school and whatnot. So, about a month ago, on June 24th to be exact, my grandmother came over to our house and we built a computer online from Dell. After about 45 minutes to an hour of messing around with the builds we finally decided on one that would be just right. So, we then proceeded to checkout and got it ordered, HAZAAHH!! It was suppose to ship on the 26th of June.

A week later, we get an e-mail from Dell saying there has been a delay in production and they need a reply e-mail to continue with construction of it. So, my mom replied and they e-mail us back saying her consent wasn't good enough, even though that is what they told us to do..... So, she then called Dell and gave them permission to continue with the production. So, a couple weeks later we get another notice its been delayed again...this time for the monitor, at least they gave usa reason this time. And it would ship out by the 16th of July. Well, it finally arrived at my house on the 20th, but as I said, I was out of town so I didn't get to set it up or anything till Sunday.

From what time I've spent with it, I love it!!! :D The 17'' monitor is crystal clear and makes games and such (I've already got Civ4, Call of Duty 1/2, and Fable installed) look gorgeous. Note: I've actually had Fable for over a year now, but our desktop doesn't have the correct shaders or something in the graphics card, so I haven't been able to play it :( , until now!!!! These are the specs for it, the main ones that is.

• Intel Core Duo Processor 1.86 Ghz X2
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• 2GB of RAM
• 256mb ATI Radeon XPRESS 1400 graphics card
• 17" monitor=gorgeous :P

Vista is strange though.....I wanted to play COD online, but I kept getting kicked by Punkbuster (a system used for catching hackers and such) for PB updates, until I chose to go in the game as an Administrator. Then it gave me noproblems :? Its definitely something new to get used to after using XP for years. The media center is nice, watch movies, videos, edit photos, watch TV, its a nice edition to the total package.

Overall, I am happy with it, now my parents really won't see me at all. With it, my PS2, and Wii in my room, I probably won't leave it :lol: :|

On a completely unrelated note, my grandmother finished the last Harry Potter book in the matter of a day and a half....she is crazy :lol:

Name:  Kris Protzman

Gender:  Male

DOB:  November 25, 1988

Race:  Caucasian(I don't know if I spelled it right :P)

Hair/Eyes:  Blonde/Hazel

Height/Weight:  5' 11"/135lbs.

Pets my family has:  3 dogs(border-collie mix, sheltie, and we don't know exactly what the 3rd one is :lol:  2 cats.

Interests:  Playing video games, drawing, writing, traveling, soccer, basketball, hockey, learning Japanese, and anime.

Favorite Sports Teams:  Football-Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys.  Hockey-Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets. 

Favorite Anime All Time(Top 10)

1. Neon Genesis:  Evangelion
2. Inuyasha
3. Fullmetal Alchemist
4. Fullmetal Panic!/Fumoffu
5. Tenchi Muyo
6. The Slayers
7. Rurouni Kenshin
8. Yu Yu Hakusho
9. Dragon Ball
10. Fooly Cooly

Favorite Game Genres:  RPG, Strategy, Action/Adventure

Favorite Games Currently Playing:  FFXII, Call of Duty, Zelda Twighlight Princess

Favorite Games All Time(Top 10, mostly RPGs :P): 

1. Final Fantasy VII
2. Final Fantasy IX
3. Final Fantasy Tactics
4. Xenogears
5. Chrono Trigger
6. Okami
7. Chrono Cross
8. Call of Duty
9. Kingdom Hearts
10. Shadow of the Colossus

Places I want to go someday: 

1. Japan
2. Europe
3. Hawaii(again)
4. Tropics
5. Across the U.S

My plans for the Future:  This coming fall I plan on attending Miami University Hamilton, majoring in Journalism and Minoring in Graphic Arts.  I want to go into a gaming journalist career so I can be on top of all the latest gaming news and to write reviews on games.  Or I would like to be a character designer for games or do the storyboards in the creation of a game.  I don't know what the future will hold for me, but I will have fun along the way!