When I was young I didn’t pay much attention to skin care.  I wish I had.  I hate to admit that I loved going to tanning beds.  It just felt good, and so every spring I would go to a tanning bed to get a good tan before beach trips.  I would also spend time lying on the beach and soaking up the sun.  I knew it was bad for my skin, but I loved the way a tan looked, and I loved the feel of the sun on my skin.  I was even heard to say more than once that a mild sunburn actually felt good.  YIKES!  What was I thinking?  Fortunately, I didn’t take tanning too seriously, and so I only did it for a few weeks each year.  So the damage to my skin was not as bad as it could have been.

Sometime in my thirties I started being a little more careful about my skin, but it really wasn’t until my early fifties that I realized that my naturally good skin was no longer so naturally good.  I had to do something.  I started trying various skin care products.  I tried just about everything - from expensive department store brands to products that could only be ordered online to inexpensive discount store products.  One system required about 30 minutes in front of the mirror every evening doing all the cleansing, toning, masking and moisturizing.  It was crazy.  Some worked well and some did absolutely nothing for me.

Now there’s Borba which has excellent skin care products.  There’s a Borba blog, too.  I enjoyed surfing around the Borba blog and reading all the skin care information available there.  BORBA nourishes your skin - both from the inside and from the outside, and all BORBA products are dermatologist tested and recommended.

Right now, BORBA is offering a special promotion for website visitors who spend $100 or more.  The promotion changes each month.  So click the link to find out what is offered for this month’s promotion.  Oh yes, Borba has skin care products for men, too. 

What an utterly stupid day!  First, I went to bed last night with a “scratchy” throat which went from scratchy to downright painful during the night.  I was awakened at 6:00 a.m. by the phone ringing.  It was the school system’s automated calling system letting us know that school would start two hours late this morning because of icy roads.  Late starts just screw up the whole day.  Starting late serves no purpose other than screwing up people’s schedules.  Either call school off for the day or have a regular schedule.  

But, hey two free hours are two free hours.  So RT and I had breakfast and enjoyed our coffee, chitchated awhile and watched the news on TV.  Then RT headed off on a one-day business trip, and I headed to the shower.  Just as I was about to step in, the phone rang again.  By now it was 8:30 a.m.  It was the school system again.  They had decided to cancel school after all.  Mind you, at my house there had been no precipitation at all - frozen or otherwise.  However, it’s a big school system, and the schools in the western part of the county tend to get worse weather.  So that was okay.  Except, after the 6:00 a.m. phone call, I hadn’t been able to go back to sleep.  So it’s a snow day, and yet I got up earlier than I normally do.

I already had a dentist appointment for this afternoon, but with my scratchy throat, I decided to call my dentist to see if they still wanted to see me.  No, they wanted to reschedule.  No sense in taking a chance at catching something from me.  That was fine.  I would have done the same.  Who wants to take a chance on getting strep throat or whatever.  I rescheduled the dentist appointment for the middle of March (the first available appointment), and then I decided to take advantage of the free day by getting a massage.  My neck has been hurting a lot lately, and getting a massage always helps.

So, I got an appointment for a massage.  It was wonderful.  I headed home - almost stopping for lunch at a restaurant along the way, but finally choosing to fix myself lunch after I got home.  At home, I decided to make a bagel and scrambled egg for lunch.  Don’t ask me why, but that sounded really good to me.  Mid-way through my bagel, I bit into something very hard.  What the . . . ?  A tooth had broken.  Not a crown, but a tooth.  A bagel and scrambled egg had broken a tooth?  The bagel was chewy, but not THAT chewy.

So now I NEEDED a dentist appointment for this afternoon, even though I had just called a few hours ago to cancel the appointment I already had.   Of course when I called I found that the dentist office is closed for lunch from 1:00 - 2:00.  I called at 1:05.  So I have to wait almost an hour before I can even call and start begging for an appointment today.  Wish me luck.

Update:  It’s 2:04 - and they can see me as soon as I can get there.  So I’m on my way.  Gotta brush my teeth first, though.  I WILL not think of drilling and filling and  the sound  and smell of that drill.  Just give me nitrous oxide - the more the better. 

Later Update: A new crown is now in my mouth.  Fun, fun.  It feels too big.  I wonder why they made the temporary crown so big?  Surely the permanent one I’ll get in a few weeks will be a more normal size. Lord, I hate going to the dentist.  My daughter has to have some dental work done on Monday, and her dentist gave her a valium (a prescription for ONE valium) to take before going in for the work.  The dentist assured her it would make her not care much better than the nitrous oxide.  Of course she has to have someone take her to the dentist and then home later.