UDA Convention

Hey girls! I was just wondering if anyone is planning on attending the UDA Convention in February. It is on a Thursday and Friday (I think the 19 and 20th) I think it would be fun if we could meet for lunch or something! Just leave a post if you are planning on going and maybe we could meet or even go to a class together!

Kristin
(Yes, I am planning on going, and yes I am bored so I thought I would change up our blog!)

The Showers!

I was just curious who is going to make it to the showers? I hope to see you all soon and miss the good times talking to you all! Hope all is well and that I get to see or talk to all of you soon:)
Marie

Jobs?

Hey all! I'm coming back to Provo at the beginning of January. I've got my Utah license in my hot-lil-hands. Now I just need to find a job. I'll only be there till April though. If anyone knows of any openings available, put in a good word for me? Thanks. Love ya bunches.

Lacey

TWILIGHT
Hey Girls! Kim M and I (S) were thinking it would be fun to have a girls' night and go see the Twilight movie with whoever wants to. It might be too late to go opening weekend but maybe the next weekend or whenever everyone can. Leave a comment on here or give either one of us a call to let us know if you want to come. We think it would be a fun way to get together because we miss you all so so much! Hope everyone is doing well and that we will see each other soon.

Peanut Butter Bars!

Wow!! I almost don't dare to post on the blog after the ridiculous intrusion on the last one! However, I promised Kristin and I think a couple other people I would post the recipe of these delightful...

Peanut Butter Bars!
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups quick oats
2 cups flour

Cream butter and sugars, blend in eggs, peanut butter and then dry ingredients. (will be sticky).
Press into a greased jelly-roll pan and bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Than sprinkle with chocolate chips and let them melt the nspread. After they cool a little put on the frosting.

FROSTING:
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
4-8 T. evaporated milk.
Mix well then drizzle over the chocolate chips!
Then you have heaven!

Fluoride = Poison?

Kim Swain here and I have an experience to share.
I am always amazed at the astounding ignorance of Utah County citizens when it comes to the subject of water fluoridation. So I was at church this morning and one of the ladies in my ward told me that she can no longer fill her prescription for fluoride supplement tablets for her children at the pharmacy. Why?? Because almost every other area of the country except Utah County has fluoridated water and the extra supplements are no longer being produced.
I just find it ironic that the place with the highest concentration of Mormons in the entire world, the nucleus of super-moms is so ignorant and backwards on the subject of oral health. We are supposed to take care of childrens' physical well-being, right? And we have more kids here than almost anywhere. Yet, it's a government conspiracy and unsafe to add Fluoride to our public water sources. Even though it is the most cost effective cavity prevention and reaches the at risk population the best out of any method available. It is toxic and unnatural and they don't want it.
We all hear stories all the time about moms taking their kids to the dentist and finding out his teeth are rotting out of his head and the traumatic dental experiences that follow. Of course, putting fluoride in the water isn't a cure all but we all know many of those horrible experiences could be avoided if people here would just realize what the rest of the country has already figured out.
Ok, obviously this is a sore subject for me and gets me very irate and I just wanted to rate to people who understand what I'm talking about.

Funny

So... I usually wind down by reading my friends' blogs on my Google Reader. After watching The Office tonight, I thought I would do just that. Then I got to thinking: I wonder if there are hygienists out there blogging about their calculus-filled lives. So I googled "dental hygiene blog."

Judging by the links I found, I think Weber must require their students to blog about EVERY clinic experience! Man, I would've thrown a fit. Talk about pointless. As if we didn't have to document enough on a mountain of paperwork. I'm glad they didn't make us write about our feelings on a public network. Man oh man.

Here is a link that supplies an inside look into Weber hygiene alumni. Mostly boring, but there are some interesting tid-bits. One girl had to retake the NBDHE because she and another girl had too similar of wrong answers. Talk about bad karma.

~Lacey