The Mundane and Quotidian

I forgot to post a picture of Lucy yesterday. Oops.

I had to go to the dentist today. I got my teeth cleaned a couple of weeks ago and I had two fillings that were hanging on by a thread and needed to be replaced. My teeth are a disaster on a number of levels. I had cavities galore, even though I had the same dental routine as my sister and saw a dentist just as often. The good news? These were just cavities that had to be replaced - no decay, very little drilling. The less good news is because that's just because I HAVE no unfilled teeth. My bite is also 'atrocious', according to one dentist. I'm supposed to wear a night guard. I do not wear a night guard. I go to bed wearing a CPAP mask and carpal tunnel splints, and a night guard is an appliance too far. 

My jaw is also tiny - this is responsible in large part for the sleep apnea (tiny airways), and means dental work is always painful afterwards as well as during, because my mouth has to be jacked open so far, and today was the very back teeth on the right. It also seriously aggravates my neck pain, of course. 

Anyway, I got through it. A lot of yoga breathing. Dentist was really nice. I was a little shaky after, but I wanted to go to Walmart for a couple of things.

I almost never go to Walmart. It stresses me out in the same way Costco or Canadian Tire do. I hadn't been there for years, but I went in the summer because Eve had expressed an urgent need for Nerds Gummy Clusters and I couldn't find them anywhere but it looked like Walmart had them. They did. She was right about them being the best thing in candy since, I don't know, candy. It probably would have been better if I had never been introduced to them. I picked up a bunch of other stuff for camping while I was there. Eve and I went back on her fall break to look for air-drying clay. While we were there I looked at sheets because I got a white comforter cover and now my white sheets were the wrong white. All the other sheets I've looked at were really expensive and online, and I remembered getting two really nice sets of flannel sheets at Walmart years ago. I found some gray ones that were a really great price and have turned out to be perfect, and I wanted to grab another set. I also wanted to get a couple of laundry baskets because our current laundry system is not working and I'm trying to change it up.

I found everything I needed, AND I walked up to a check-out counter just as the person ahead of me was leaving. Best Walmart trip ever. Because of this, I felt like I should go to Shoppers to pick up my prescriptions and Matt's, even though I hate going to Shoppers for prescriptions almost as much as going to the dentist, and I have to do it so much more often.

I walked into Shoppers and it must have been Stocking Day, because there were boxes and pallets everywhere on my path to the pharmacy at the back of the store. But when I got there, there was NO line. 

This is all very dull, but I was just thinking the other day when I thought my keys were lost AGAIN, but then I found them, about those days when things are normal, and then you think things have gone in a really sucky direction and things are going to be terrible, and then they DON'T go in that direction, and suddenly your day is so much better simply because it's not going to suck in that particular way it was about to suck in (feel free to consult me for more sage philsophical aphorisms). 

Also, I got a Kindle! And it's green! Isn't it pretty? My friend Kerry (HI KERRY) said "wait, you've never had a Kindle? YOU'VE never had a Kindle? You've never had a KINDLE?". Matt got it for me because I can't hold a book in my hands anymore and this can go in my purse and I can read when I'm out and about again. I'm very excited.

Yes, I am babbling partly to distract myself from the Big Thing going on in the U.S. today. Big hugs and supportive thoughts going out to all my American friends. I feel sick to my stomach if I let myself think about it, and a big part of my heart now resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, so I think I get it. 

More pics of Lucy, from when I got back from my errands today.