Headphones

So before I begin this post I just have to warn you all about something. Despite the seemingly-innocent title this post is actually going to be a bit of a rant. Yeah, so if you do not want to read a rant about headphones then stop reading now because you are most likely not going to enjoy this. Wow, I really know how to sell a post. Anyway, moving on to the actual post. There are so many things that are annoying about headphones. Sometimes this can be painful in the figurative sense while at other times it needs to be taken more literally. I think I speak for everyone when I say that headphones can be really annoying. So yeah, the rest of this post is just going to be a bit of a rant as to why headphones are so annoying.

Source: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/07/headphones-tangled-apple-has-a.html

The first thing, which you should have seen from the picture, is how tangled headphones get. I would seriously not be surprised if the manufacturer made them such that they automatically tangled. It is just really annoying when you put them down for two seconds untangled and then come back and they are a complete mess. Seriously, I put it under my pillow in a neat line and then when I go to use them they are completely mixed up. In the dark frantically trying to use them before the video stops buffering and makes a loud noise. It is like trying to tie up a lolly-snake with your tongue and your mouth closed. Have you ever actually tried that? Do you know how hard it actually is? Anyway, getting back on the subject of headphones. Headphones can also be very painful, especially when a certain someone who shall remain nameless (Dad) rips them out of your ears to tell you something. I mean, I do not have it on loud enough that I can not hear anything outside of the ear-buds. Sometimes you just need to think before you act. Then there are the times when you forget that they are plugged in to your laptop and you move away. From here either the laptop moves with you and you ending up breaking it (or nearly smashing it to pieces) or your ears just really begin to hurt. Is it just me or has this happened to any of you as well. Headphones are just very annoying at times and I really want to destroy them all and banish them from the face of the earth.

Headphones are just incredibly infuriating sometimes, see you tomorrow!

These Damn Braces

So if you didn't realise it already, I wear braces (as in on the teeth, the person below is obviously not me). Most of the time they are not bad but when they are bad, they are REALLY bad. These bad times are mostly after Dentist checkups where they tighten it and your teeth hurt because they are moving around. Sometimes having braces is something you don't even notice and other times you just want to rip them out of your mouth, literally (and I mean literally).

My braces were actually supposed to come off yesterday but for some reason instead of the front two teeth becoming even closer together in the last month, something pulled them apart and I was left with a gap in my two front teeth. This gap had being growing for the past few days and so when I got to the Dentist the main dentist (who owns the place and does a lot of the work, though there are a lot of people there) who was preparing for the final check-up before de-banding (the process of removing the braces) decided straight away to cancel the de-banding because of it and instead tightened the braces on my top teeth (he left the bottom teeth untightened because they were perfect [of course they were, they're my teeth]) and then I went home. It wasn't until later that night when I was trying to sleep that my top teeth started hurting really badly (I know, great English) and I could not get to sleep at all until 5am in the morning when the pain finally eased. The worst part was we were out of Panadol so I had to just wait it out which meant a lot of tossing and turning. In the end I would have only being lucky to get 2 hours sleep all night and so throughout the day I really felt like doing this.

I don't want to scare people with braces or who are going to get braces because 95% of the time you don't realise the braces are there. It's only when you do notice them that you wish you hadn't because they can hurt. Thankfully the pain has eased off though it is still hard to eat anything hard because it still hurts to bite down with my top teeth. So braces are great most of the time but can hurt a lot when they want to.

May the odds be ever in your favour, see you tomorrow!