I was lucky to never have braces. My teeth may not be *perfectly* straight, but good enough. Fun fact: I still have my upper baby canines. The adult canines are up in my jaw. Sideways. They press down on my upper incisors, so I have a bit of an overbite.

I love xylitol, but I don't love poor dogs getting into it. :(

I feel for you on the chickeny pinfeathers. We always seem to have one or more parrots molting at any given time.

Boo sickness. :(

All of our shopping is done, though we still need to ship out a few things. WHEE.