IEBGreen Challenge: Today's Triumph

October 31/08 — Began eating according to the Canada Food Guide. This will reduce my meat intake and increase my vegetable intake. This should help reduce the carbon dioxide contribution to the world by livestock. And, the best thing is that this new approach to eating will reduce my intake overall and help me lose weight. I have a new reason to be environmentally-friendly! Check my complete list of "Green things done to date" in the right-hand column.

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
— Michelangelo

Tuesday Tooth Report

My bottom front teeth are beginning to pull together. They're tightening and making my bottom jaw feel too small for my tongue again. I hope that this is simply a part of the process and that the final result at the end of the 2 years will be a more comfortable space for my tongue.

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
— Pablo Picasso

Tuesday Tooth Report

I spent the week with my 2-1/2 year old niece. Every few hours she'd ask "they popped"? If they had, she'd supervise the application of new elastics. So cute.

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

When love twists into hate, there's nothing you won't do."
— said by Detective Elliot Stabler in Season 7 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Tuesday Tooth Report

This week my teeth feel like they are being yanked out of their sockets by the elastics. A small price to pay for straight teeth!

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb."
— Constantin Brancusi

Tuesday Tooth Report

Yikes! Those new elastics, spanning over 5 teeth, are super-tight. No pain, no gain.

Canned Heat

As indicated in a previous posting, I'm collecting pop cans. 240 cans, to be exact. All in the name of building a solar heater.

A few people are wondering what this solar heater will look like. Well, I haven't selected a prototype for the final product yet but I can give you a good idea of what it will look like...

--Cansolair: Newfoundland inventor uses recycled aluminum cans to create solar heating panels
--Cansolair video on YouTube
--Ezine Articles.com: How to Build a Solar Heater

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

I had reservations about making art a business, but I got over it."
— Mary Boone

Tuesday Tooth Report

Yesterday I had another Orthodontist appointment. I'm told that my back teeth have made remarkable progress so that I only have to wear the back elastics at night! To start helping my teeth have a closer fit when they are in the grind position, they've added new hooks near my eye teeth. Those hooks will hold elastics which I will have to change about 5 times a day over the next 8 weeks until my next appointment.

IEBGreen Challenge: Today's Triumph

September 30/08 — Began collecting pop cans to build a convection solar heating unit. Check my complete list of "Green things done to date" in the right-hand column.

IEBGreen Challenge: Today's Triumph

September 28/08 — Re-used old wine bottles for wine-making. Check my complete list of "Green things done to date" in the right-hand column.

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
— Frank Lloyd Wright

Tuesday Tooth Report

The process has definitely sped up! Those back teeth are connecting a lot and I suspect they'll be close to aligned by my next appointment in just a few days. So exciting!

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with the beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature..."
— Thomas Kinkade

"So why can't we identify with keeping that environment clean and healthy?"
— Me

Tuesday Tooth Report

I'm now at the point where my back teeth (top and bottom rows on the left) have moved so much that they are touching and often crunching on my elastics. I'm going through elastics 50% more than I used to but that's okay with me because it means that full-strength elastics are on my teeth more often! Perhaps that will speed the whole process up.

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity."
— Damien Hirst

Tuesday Tooth Report

I'm so used to the elastics now that I can often eat a meal with them still in! The Orthodontist says that the more I wear them, the quicker they can do their job so I'm keeping them in for as many of the 24 hours a day as possible. The only down-time is when I'm brushing my teeth, switching to new elastics, and eating a meal that I know will break the elastics.