A bit strained still, but you can kinda see my new smile. Kinda. But it still hurts!

We've got the tree up and some lights but no ornaments yet. Saving that fun for tomorrow.

A.J. and I went out to dinner tonight; he had lobster (flown in from the East Coast, still quite fresh and sweet) and I had some shrimp with linguini. Mostly we went out for a mother-and-son dinner and a bit of shopping at a bookstore afterwards. It was really a nice, quiet evening and I'm lucky I have a teenager who actually will go to dinner with me of his own accord, sometimes!

Tomorrow I"m letting him loose shopping at the neighborhood called Uptown, a hip part of south Minneapolis, while I get my hair done. He'll have a blast, I am sure. Hope he doesn't emerge tattooed or pierced (there's a fabulous place in that neighborhood called Saint Sabrina's Purgatory Parlor which is THE place to get pierced, ahem).

Hope everyone had a good day. I'm going to post two photos of A.J. and Polly next, they looked so cute playing on the floor a while ago I snapped a bunch of photos of them.