Yipeee!!

South Beach

Well, I'm doing the South Beach Diet thing. Can't believe it... two weeks ago I can't believe all the people doing it, and now I'm one of them. I was in Sam's Club and saw the book there on the shelf... and BAM! I'm doing the diet. I've been way under-active and eating too much junk... this is sort of a nice jump-start to eating better. Plus it's not un-healthy like Atkins... you still eat carbs and you don't eat bad fats.

Life is good! Things are going well at church, Julie and I have more time at home now, i'm done with the thesis, and the German class is easy. I'm going to a small-groups conference at Willow Creek church later this month. Should be fun... it's a huge church doing lots of cool stuff. I'm hoping I get to drive the Matrix out there... haven't talked to Julie about it yet.

I'm looking forward to seeing Agent Zero soon... right up my alley... looks cool.

Speech Impediment

On monday my father-in-law (Julie's dad) put a new "device" in the roof of my mouth... it's connected to the braces on my upper teeth and is designed to spread my upper jaw apart. Apparently the arch of the roof of my mouth is too narrow, and is preventing proper placement of my lower jaw.

Well, this device is a convoluted piece of steel wire that hangs about 3/4 inch below the roof of my mouth, from side to side. Problem is, I can no longer touch the roof of my mouth with my tongue, so it's pretty much near impossible to make a "y" sound, "eeee", "r" is hard (or any of the "velars" for you linguists).

Plus, I just started a new German class at WCC, so i'm trying to say German words and can't even speak English right now... ugh! So I'm trying to tough it out until Monday... apparently it takes about a week for your tongue to adapt, so patience....