Erika's Journal

I hate Fridays. Mega-Cleaning-Day Fridays. Friday is the day I can't simple sweep everything to under the carpet and be done with it. The day that simply dusting won't do the trick. It's when the dirt is as far as it can be and the carpet doesn't have any more room under it to push more. The worse part is that I can't do everything in one day. I'm weak. A couple of hours house keeping is enough to make me plead for some water. I started at 9am and now it's 10am. Of the worst part only the kitchen is left. I'm now thinking if I can postpone the cleaning of it one more day. Thankfully I did the dusting yesterday. And my mother came by by at eight and helped some. I suppose I should feel bad for taking advantage of her like this, but in my defense she only washed the bathroom because she wanted. I didn't ask her. I simply didn't tell her not to do it. She had that mom atitude saying what a bad housekeeper I am and, after six months hearing it, I decided to stop being annoyed by it. Now I simply do the "Yes, mother", the shrug and then smile at her. It seems to work as she usually do something for me before leaving and it's usually the bathroom. She must guess that I hate doing it. She's so right. So, thak you mom. Why do I have such a nice mom? She complains and lectures me, but she accepts the facts and moves on with it. I think every mom must be this way.

Just to add to my mother's nicety, she bought me my first MP3 Player this week. Yes, I know I'm a bit late, but if it was up to me having money to buy one, I would never have it. She just decided to buy me a present for no reason whatsoever. She saw the price and bought three. Three. Can you believe it? One for me, one for my sister and one for my brother. So, even though my bro is unemployed, and I don't make enough money to pay for my bills, she went there and bought them. And besides everything, she still pays for my rent (thank God) and is paying for my dentist chair and everything else inside my office for still another year. Oh, yes, she also washes my clothes because I don't have a washing machine and she takes pity of this miserable dentist washing clothes by hand. So, even though I'm not living with her anymore, everything is still the same, except that I sleep in another house and I cook for myself. It's a little frustrating. Gosh, I even still use her credid card and we share the same bank account.

So, I think the point of this rambling is to say that I really, really, really love my mother.

On another note, I had one patient this week that came by and asked for a filling. I did it and she payed. Woohoo! Of couse the money was already spent solving a ton of problems. But it helped with some professional satisfaction. The boy I am treating has only one more appoitment left and I installed his orthodontic device today. I'm happy. The boy was ecstactic with his shiny toy, putting it in and out and looking the two gaps formed by the extractions being filled with fake teeth. He's gonna need to wear it for a couple of years until his new teeth grows into their places. I feel I should buy him a present. He's so sweet.

After a crappy couple of weeks I finally had a good day. An excellent day.


So happy!!!