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Tuesday is the new Monday.

We can start with last night, when random gum pain that I'd been having for a week started radiating into my lower jaw.  I took advil & benadryl and tried to sleep it off (sans bite guard, in case that was a contributing factor).  It felt better this morning but now is increasing again.  I foresee a trip to the dentist for me, yay?

But on to the Monday-ness of this Tuesday.  I slept like a rock.  At one point when it was starting to get light out I thought I heard TRex waking up but then she didn't and I went back to sleep.  The next time I woke up, I looked at the clock and it said 7:20.

Keep in mind that M had a lab to teach at 8:30 and we needed to all be out of the house by 7:30 to get to school and work.  Yeah, that didn't happen.  Instead we threw about 10 curveballs at the kid - M got dressed & shaved quickly, I threw on gym clothes.  Dragged her out of bed and chucked her in the car in her pajamas; each of them ate a piece of toast in the car.  Dropped M off at the train station, came home and fed the two of us breakfast (she declared that the toast had been a snack), got her dressed, threw gym stuff in my bag, drove to the further-away park-n-ride lot.  (Side note: I'm sure Buffalo isn't the only place where this exists, but how smart is it to have a big daycare center that shares a parking lot with the park-n-ride?  So smart!)  Hopped on a train, read a Pooh book.

Lost my 30-day train pass, freshly purchased yesterday.  Either on the train or on the escalator going up, though I'm beginning to suspect the former rather than the latter, because there was someone on the escalator behind us and she didn't see it fall.  Thankfully they weren't checking tickets at any point on the trip, but I did pay an exorbitant amount of money for the privilege of five train rides.  Note to self: do not store train pass and phone in same bag pocket.

Didn't make it to preschool/gym in time to go to spinning class - attempted to run off my crabby on the elliptical and then lifted a bit and did some crunches.  Bought a one-way train ticket to come home just in case the pass had fallen out at home, but it's not here that I can see.

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Flylady stuff...

A couple of times recently folks have asked me if I'm still following the flylady plan.  The short answer is, "Not really."*  But MAN I'm surprised we're not in hell thanks to all my good intentions.  See, my PLAN was to use this summer to get the three of us (yes, including TRex - she has chores that she's expected to help out with and she gets paid for doing so) to a point where doing basic home cleaning maintenance was on autopilot so that when the semester started, it wouldn't be an issue.

Yeah, right.  You can guess how well THAT worked.  (As an aside, I am befuddled as to where exactly the summer went.  Wasn't I at preschool family breakfast, I don't know, yesterday?)
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So there you have it. Where I'm at, flylady-wise.

*It BAFFLES me that you people are interested in me blathering about my attempts to keep us from descending into complete slovenliness.

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A Cautionary Tale...

Dear my friends on the Internets, allow me to save you lots of physical pain along with the hassle and cost of a short-notice dental visit.  Here are the things I learned today:

1. Due to what I'm sure is a sick sense of humor on the part of some higher power, popcorn hulls are just the right shape to suction themselves to one's teeth.  They can do this below or above the gumline.
2. Regular flossing often only serves to drive said suction-cupped popcorn hull deeper.
3. Popcorn hulls do not show up on dental x-rays.
4. The way to get it out by yourself, without shelling out fifty bucks or more to the dentist:  tie a knot in a piece of dental floss, get it in the affected space and pull it out laterally (let go of one end and pull it through the gap and out the other side).  The knot should grab whatever's stuck in there and drag it out with it.
   

I can eat again!  I will not have to drug myself to go to sleep at night!  (I only had to do that last night, really.)  The blood spatter from my mouth went REALLY FAR!

The best part, though, is that neither the hygienist nor the dentist made me feel like an ass about the situation, and afterwards the dentist, office girl, and I were swapping sinus lavage stories.  My dental clinic is awesome.

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