2013. In the morning, I went over to Cougar Dental for my root canal. They numbed my mouth up, and they asked if I wanted laughing gas. I asked what they recommended and asked if the operation would be painful. They said the operation wasn't painful; the laughing gas would just be to calm me, and I would have to pay extra, but they could let me try it and see if I liked it. They also let me watch a movie on the screen above me, so I selected Hugo. I realized that I didn't like the laughing gas, so I asked them to turn it off. They drilled a hole into the back of my dead tooth and were doing their thing, but I was numb so it really wasn't a big deal to me. At one point, the dentist looked up and asked what I was watching; but since I was numb and had equipment in my mouth, all I could say was "Ew-oh." He said "What?" and I was worried how I was going to explain, but then he realized what I said. Then I went home, but I don't remember what I did that day. That evening, though, my roommate Scott wanted to host a dance party at our apartment, and I wanted to get some homework done, so I planned to go to campus to study so I wouldn't be distracted. Our friend Michelle came over, and she saw my St. Patrick's Day decorations. She also noticed I was wearing a St. Patrick's Day shirt and asked if I was going to wear a St. Patrick's Day shirt for the next month. I explained no, and I told her I had bleached the shirt; then I turned around so she could see the bleach.
2014. My mom was down in the family room with her broken leg. At one point, we got a delivery of crutches, and Buddy the dog went out and barked at the delivery man. When I came in and told my family that, Susanne said, "He's a jerk." The crutches weren't normal crutches, so we didn't know what was going on. I remembered there was an Irish-themed episode of The Flying Nun that originally aired in March, so I wanted to watch it and get feedback from my mom and sister to see if they thought it was a St. Patrick's Day episode. When Sister Bertrille took off flying in the episode, Allie said, "What the heck?!" When the episode was over, I said, "The show is weirder than I remembered it," and Allie said, "Yeah!" Susanne didn't think it was a St. Patrick's Day episode because that wasn't what it was about. My mom agreed, but she was sure they included all the Irish stuff for St. Patrick's Day. I said that was enough for me to know it was suitable for the holiday. The DVD menu was on the TV screen, and my mom said, "Was that 'May the Wind Be Always at Your Back'?" I said yes, and I wondered why she needed to ask that, since it couldn't be any other episode. Then I asked my folks if it was OK if I listened to a YouTube video for class. They said it was. It was about whether Amazon was good or bad (for the book industry), and Susanne said, "I love Amazon!" I told her she was paying more attention to the video than I was, because I couldn't bear the thought of watching an hour-long video of a seminar, so I was just looking at pictures of weird-looking bats. I might have also showed them a GIF of a peacock spider.
Then it was late enough that I needed to go back to Provo. I think someone had brought dinner, and my family was watching the Olympics.
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