Random observations 2 weeks in...

So today is 2 weeks to the day since I got braced and 3 weeks to the day since I said bye bye bicuspids and hard food... Apart from the crazy pain of the first day of braces, the creepy cracking noise one of my teeth made as it tried to avoid being extracted, the annoyance of the self inflicted hillbilly gaps and potato chip/cookie withdrawal symptoms... so far so good. I don't really notice the braces that much, haven't used wax since day 4 and can already see changes!

Here are my random observations:

• Yawning often results in a bizarre sense of tooth movement, yet fortunately my teeth do not wobble... Thank goodness! 
• I now spend more time on my obsessive teeth cleaning routine than I do on my hair and make up combined...
• Kissing with braces, really hurts at first! Why do we not get warned about this?!?
• Lip gloss makes my teeth stick to the brackets of my over bite
• Colored lip gloss gets on my clear brackets and has to be brushed off... Ugh... no more lip color till my over bite is gone...
• Sugar lip treatment is amazing... It makes my lips shine and doesn't make them stick to the braces!
• The molar bands I acquired last week gave me a lisp... It's getting better except those darn S's! 
• I keep looking in the mirror to see if the extraction gaps look smaller... I think they do a teeny bit sometimes but they also still seem huge!
• Eating is now ok with semi-solid foods... Have no clue when I will be able to eat hard foods or eat food with front teeth... I blame the extractions especially as they took different teeth from top (1st bicuspids) than on the bottom (2nd bicuspids) which I think made it even harder...
• Today at lunch I saw a guy missing multiple teeth on both sides top and bottom of his mouth buy a sub... I am confused as to how he can eat it given my current trouble eating with 24 teeth!
• I have no clue how people take those cool pics of their top and bottom teeth on arch wired and get the angles the same each time... My photos even with hubby's help are bizarre looking and make my teeth look grotesque like a horror movie! 

Here's the pic comparison: Front of the mouth: 2 weeks in:

Compared to day 1:

Here's the top teeth at week 2:... Please note the first molars are not filled with cavities/fillings but surrounded by humungous molar bands complete with what looks like space rockets on the front!

And at Day 1:

Here is a shot of my bottom teeth at week 2, I never got a pic of them on day 1:

Hmmm these pics are not really good for comparisons...  But my bottom teeth have straightened a little and my top tooth that was sitting back is still back but not as much... I still have a longs way to go...