It's been three years

To the left you will see my college graduation picture.  Well let it be official that I graduated college three years ago!  I know it's hard to believe, I look so young right?  HA!  If only that were the case.  Let's just say that I never thought that graduating from college would be such a mixed emotion.  I mean don't get me wrong I loved the experience, the friendships and that opportunities given to me, but I however, do not miss the late nights, frantic studying or the long days in the clinic cleaning teeth and seeing things you only figured you'd see in a text book.  

Becoming a hygienist was not a hard decision, though at times I did feel like I was a crazy woman.  I mean working in a clinic?!  You try it.  I mean is it that hard to say brush you teeth?  That's all I would ask for in school.  Brush, yes brush.  It's not asking for too much I mean I wasn't asking anyone to floss! Please just take a look in the mirror - and brush for the love of pete and all the other people in the world.  *sigh* Ok so some may think that I'm vain for having said that, but once you've walked in my shoes for a day, then we'll talk.  I do have to clarify now, that since I have moved out of a clinic and into private practice, that things have definitely changed.  I don't know if people are more vain in the bay area opposed to Stockton, or if it is private practice vs clinic, but people surely do take care of their teeth.  I do get the occasional "please brush your teeth" patient, especially kids with braces, but mostly I love my job because I don't typically feel like it's "work."  I have the best office in the world.  I love my "boss" though she is more of a mentor than a boss and does fantastic dentistry.  My patients are the greatest - I love being able to build relationships with them, watch kids grow up and just laugh and have a good time with them.  Making patients not feel like they're in a dental office is our goal, and we're good at it!  I mean does your dentist have massage chairs?

So- I think this is how it's all supposed to work.  Share a little about me- sign out and do it all over again?!  Hmm... whenever you start a new journal you never know where to start.  I mean, do you recap? and if you do recap, how far back do you go?  Then, by the time you've caught up to where you are in life now, are you just OVER it?  I know that's how I get, then the cycle begins again.  You wait forever to update that journal, recap and yet you find yourself in the same boat, eh...  So here I am, I've graduated from college and now I work.  Gosh, this blog could have been that one sentence. Hahaha, I laugh and yet feel sorry for anyone who just read through all that!  All in all, here I am - welcome to my life.