I have a dentist appointment this morning.  This fills me with dread.  I tell you, the first company that comes up with an affordable and attractive alternative to teeth will have a gold mine on their hands.  If I could spend $2000 and get a mouth full of implants that would last the rest of my life, I think I would do it.  Stupid teeth.

Along those same lines, I am going to break my addiction to Diet (caffeine free) Mountain Dew.  I know it is rotting my teeth away to little black nubs.  Yesterday, I drank the last can in the house. I consulted a friend who has experience with addiction issues and she told me I need to let people know I am done with it and ask for their support.

I DECLARE THAT I AM IN MOUNTAIN DEW REHAB.   Never again will I buy a case of Mountain Dew!*  If anyone sees me with a case of Diet Mountain Dew in my car at the grocery store, you are instructed to tackle me and wrestle it out of my grubby, soda-deprived hands.

I admit, the idea of no more of the tasty fluorescent yellow beverage leaves me feeling a little hollow and afraid.

I am wondering what I will drink instead.  I have been 100% off caffeine for a year or two now, so nothing with even the slightest hint of caffeine will do.  Caffeine free sodas all have the same (though maybe not quite as extreme) problem with teeth-rotting citric acid as Mountain Dew and they don’t taste very good.

This winter, I experimented with mint tea and eventually decided I liked it ok.   But other teas don’t really interest me.  I am particularly uninterested in iced teas so I am staring down a long summer of water.  I wonder how much acid is in lemon water?  Probably enough to continue rotting my teeth, eh?

Maybe I will have to start drinking more beer?

*Though I do reserve the right to occasionally drink a can that someone else purchased at their house.  Maybe.