I've spent the better part of the last 45 years avoiding sleep. Ask my mother...I hardly ever slept as a child. I'm pretty sure I took naps as an infant, but she's right about the rest of the years since. I remember when I was three and being sent to my room for a nap. Ha! She could send me to my room, but she couldn't make me sleep!

September 6 – September 29 is a Mercury Retrograde, which means we’re smack, dab in the middle of it. If you haven’t a clue what a Mercury Retrograde is, read about it here, explained beautifully by my friend, Lisa. If you’d like to know when these periods will occur over the next couple of years – you know…so you can PLAN...

So, I went to see said denturist on Friday. No surprise, he sang the "Keep Your Teeth as Long as You Can" song to me. Ugh. However, his wife/assistant/receptionist was much more supportive and gave me a lot of information and answered all my questions - from the obvious to the ridiculous. LOVE her. Dr. Denturist referred me to an oral surgeon for a consult and warned me that I'd have a hard sell trying to get him to yank all my teeth. Ok, I'm warned. And, as we all know, forewarned is forearmed. I shall go loaded for bear.

I give up. I'm raising the white flag where my teeth are concerned. I did it. I made an appointment. Tomorrow - 1pm. I'm seeing a dentist about getting dentures.

One morning this past week, I was wading through my email and came across a piece of SPAM that actually caught my eye. It was from an online sports retailer offering commemorative items from the Steelers' 6th Super Bowl win. So, yeah - I clicked through to their site. Lookey what I found waiting for me!