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This is week forty-seven in my personal “If… Project” in which I answer questions from the book “If… (Questions for the Game of Life)”

There are 125 pages of this book, each with four questions. I plan to take one page each week and answer the questions as thoroughly and honestly as I am able. In addition, I invite you to answer the questions along with me, whether it be in the comments section, your own personal blog, or just within your own thoughts.

Perhaps in doing so, we will get to know each other better, but even more importantly, get to know ourselves better.

This week’s questions:

If you could have a telegram from one famous person now alive, who would it be from, and what would it say?

It would be from Ellen DeGeneres. And it would say “I hope you’re ready. Your life is about to change!”

If you could have a telegram from one person from history, who would it be from and what would it say?

Walt Disney. Duh. And it would say “You’re always welcome…”

If one part of your body was to become a religious relic, which part would you like it to be?

I think my eyes would be the body part I chose. I like them. I like the color. The only thing I don’t like about them is the lack of 20/20 vision.

If you were to be successful in another profession, what would you want to do?

I’d love to be a personality that was able to dabble in various forms of entertainment. A little tv, a little radio, a little music, a little of everything.

Those are my answers to this week’s questions. What are yours?

I realized that I hadn’t written about my Invisalign experience in MONTHS, and thought it was high time I wrote a little something.

When I last wrote about it, I was pretty miserable. But thankfully, and as I had expected it to at the time, that passed after about a week. Once my tongue adapted to the new brackets that had been attached to the inside edges of my teeth, the pain and discomfort went away. As did all of the canker sores. I am pleased to announce that it’s been quite some time since the treatment has caused any of those nasties.

And as the treatment has progressed, removing the aligners has also gotten easier and easier. The less crowded the teeth get, the easier everything gets.

And, I never thought I would say it, but I actually like the look of my teeth with the aligners on more than when they are off. The plastic makes them look smoother and shinier. Even so, I’m excited for the day (which isn’t all THAT far off already!) where I can take them off and get the brackets removed and show off a brand new smile.

I had a check-up with the orthodontist earlier this week, and he was blown away by how well the treatment has gone so far. He confessed to me that he had never honestly thought my teeth would respond to the treatment all that well. It might have been nice to know that before I signed up and signed contracts agreeing to pay several thousand dollars.

However, had he expressed his doubts, I might never have gone through with it, and then I’d still be back at square one. So, I forgive him.

I was shocked to see him get so excited about my teeth, because while I do see some change in them, I didn’t think they had changed enough to warrant as strong a response as he gave. But I see my teeth every single day, so the changes are harder for me to notice.

I spent the past few days searching through old pictures trying to find a good shot of my teeth from before treatment so I could compare them. I didn’t get my act together to take really good ones before I started treatment, and couldn’t find any from my own candid libraries of photos. Apparently I was really good at doing half-smiles and closed-lip smiles in order to hide them.

But I finally found one, and WOW! The changes are astounding. Now I see why he got so excited.

Here is a picture of my teeth from before I began Invisalign treatment.

Quite the difference, no? What you can’t see in the first picture is that I also had an underbite. Currently, my top teeth have moved to be even with the bottom ones, and within two months, will be in front of them and I will have a proper overbite.

And that’s after only eight months of treatment. I have just under four months left. It’s possible I’ll need some refinements that could extend my treatment by a few months, but I’m completely and totally happy with the results so far.

No more closed-smiles for me! I’m showing these pearly whites everywhere I go from now on!

This is week forty-six in my personal “If… Project” in which I answer questions from the book “If… (Questions for the Game of Life)”

There are 125 pages of this book, each with four questions. I plan to take one page each week and answer the questions as thoroughly and honestly as I am able. In addition, I invite you to answer the questions along with me, whether it be in the comments section, your own personal blog, or just within your own thoughts.

Perhaps in doing so, we will get to know each other better, but even more importantly, get to know ourselves better.

This week’s questions:

If you could eliminate one day from your past so that you had never had to live through it, which day would you erase?

I would probably eliminate the day that started with my having to turn down an incredible job opportunity and continued with me getting mugged on my way to the crappy job I had at the time.

If you could go back in time, as yourself, to live for one year at any point in history, what year would you choose, and where would you go?

For starters I would go back as my childhood self, not my current-aged self. I would go back to 1955 and somehow finagle my way into the opening day of Disneyland. And just to be a nice guy (and possibly creepy guy), I would somehow find a way to take my mother with me. She would be six years old at the time, and I get the feeling she never got the opportunity to do fun things like that as a child.

If you could have had one composer from history write a symphony for you, who would it be?

For some reason, I’m picking George Gershwin right now, for no reason other than I really like Rhapsody in Blue and think that a symphony for me would be a bit like that song. Both melodic and rhythmic. As wikipedia says, “The music ranges from intensely rhythmic piano solos to slow, broad, and richly orchestrated sections.” I like to think that my life has extremes like that as well, so something along those lines would be a good match for me.

Plus, in Fantasia 2000, that song was used in a segment that dealt with life in New York City, so that’s a positive.

If you were to receive a letter today from anyone you have known during your lifetime, who would it be from and what would it say?

It actually kind of shocks me to answer this question the way I am about to, but the only person I can think of receiving a letter from would be one from my father. And I guess I would want him to explain himself in it. Now that I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize that (even though I don’t think my mother vilified him at all) my opinion of him is somewhat based on what I she may have said as I was growing up. Yes, I have plenty of personal experiences with him myself to make my own opinion of him, but I would just like to hear in his own words what he has to say. Perhaps it will give me a new, and better understanding of who he is and why things happened the way they did. Not that I think it would correct any of the problems that have happened, but just bring a new perspective to them.

Those are my answers to this week’s questions. What are yours?

This is week forty-five in my personal “If… Project” in which I answer questions from the book “If… (Questions for the Game of Life)”

There are 125 pages of this book, each with four questions. I plan to take one page each week and answer the questions as thoroughly and honestly as I am able. In addition, I invite you to answer the questions along with me, whether it be in the comments section, your own personal blog, or just within your own thoughts.

Perhaps in doing so, we will get to know each other better, but even more importantly, get to know ourselves better.

This week’s questions:

If you had to have sex with someone that you know personally who is not of your sexually preferred gender, who would you select?

Ewwwwww. Vagina’s are terrifying. I would pick Erin though. I think she’d go easy on me. And she has so many tattoos I could distract myself with looking at those so I wouldn’t have to focus on the fact that she’s not a dude. And Vegans taste better.

If you could arrange a rock concert with any three musicians or groups to play on the same bill, who would you invite?

Jewel, Christina, and Pink

If you could relive one single day from your past exactly as it was the first time, what day would you choose to experience all over again?

I think I would pick the day I received my college acceptance letter in the mail and learned that I got accepted to school in New York City. I was still young enough and naive enough to think of it as an instant ticket to success and to the life I had envisioned I would have for so many years up to that point. I thought I was unstoppable, and that acceptance letter was nothing more than validation on paper. In black in white.

If you could wake up tomorrow to learn that the major newspaper headlines were about you, what would you want them to say?

I would want them to say that I had somehow taken the entertainment world by storm without anyone even realizing I was doing it.

Those are my answer’s to this week’s questions. What are yours?

Time for another Field Trip! I hope you have your permission slips signed!

Episode Five-Day Five features Kevin and Nick as they head back to Epcot to ride Segways galore and sample the luscious libations of the World Showcase. It’s alcoholism at its finest!! Drinking around the world…Disney Style!

While in Florida, Michael and Justin were determined to show me that there is more to Orlando than just Disney.

Yeah, right.

They took me off Disney property to a bunch of places and gave me a thorough tour of the area. One of the places they took me was a touristy sort of place called Wonder Works, which is apparently an “amusement park for the mind.”

Whatever that means.

Join us for a fun little afternoon and let your mind be amused.

This is week forty-four in my personal “If… Project” in which I answer questions from the book “If… (Questions for the Game of Life)”

There are 125 pages of this book, each with four questions. I plan to take one page each week and answer the questions as thoroughly and honestly as I am able. In addition, I invite you to answer the questions along with me, whether it be in the comments section, your own personal blog, or just within your own thoughts.

Perhaps in doing so, we will get to know each other better, but even more importantly, get to know ourselves better.

This week’s questions:

If you could host a dinner party in any room in the world (without having to clean up), where would you want to have it?

I would have it in Palo, the fine dining restaurant aboard the Disney Cruise Line. And once dinner was finished, we would head outside to watch some fireworks at sea and enjoy a nice concert by a band that could play classical, jazz, and 80’s Pop/Rock.

If you could host a dinner party inviting any four people from history, who would you invite and where would the party take place?

Oy. I hate these ‘do things with dead people’ question. They just never interest me. I guess Walt Disney would definitely be one of my choices, for obvious reasons. Marilyn Monroe, because I’d want my party to have some cleavage. Elvis, but only if it would be young, cute Elvis. And my fourth guest would be… John Lennon. And they would all have to eat a Vegan dinner, because it’s my party and I make the rules.

What a stupid answer that I don’t even have a bit of attachment to.

If you were to be married to someone who is famous now, who would you pick to be your spouse?

Zac Efron is old enough to get married, right?

If you had to be married to someone famous from the past who is no longer alive, who would you like it to be?

Walt Disney again. Free access to all of the theme parks and even things within them named after me. That’s pretty sweet.

Those are my answers to this week’s questions. What are yours?