A visit to the dentist.

[beccabear67]

I'm fighting getting dentures even though my mother had them from her late teens, I'll have a partial upper plate after all this present round though. My generation onward were lucky we had fluoride treatments. I remember before and after they started giving them. My mother's side had soft enamel teeth,...

[beccabear67]

Have been going through fillings, stitches and one dry socket lately. Thinking of how things have changed... no television on the ceilings back in the day!

Probably mostly bad memories, but you have to take the bitter with the sweet, and there are some things about it I like to remember....

[beccabear67]

The first music I heard that was called 'punk' was Stranded by Australia's The Saints. Before that it was something you read about, or would see a band name spray-paint stenciled on something, which is where I saw The Sex Pistols name first knowing nothing about them/it.

Australia with...

[beccabear67]

Now I'll really feel old. 29... and I was gearing up to quit smoking just after I turned 30, which I did and have never smoked since! I would've been working at a flowers/plants and produce shop.

[beccabear67]

I first 'logged on' via an external stand-alone modem you hung the telephone receiver onto. This was circa 1982-83 and both times some kind of Commodore PC... either Vic-20 or 64. One was at school, when they had just one for the whole school. This was in western Canada.

The internet was...