sarahmichelef

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.

Annoyance #1:  Textbook publishers whose only interest is making a buck. 
I ordered my textbooks a couple of weeks ago - I had checked to see if there was a new edition available, and there's one scheduled to be available in 2009.  So I put in my order for the "current" edition.  Except... no, only the 2009 edition is available.  The previous edition was published in 2007.  SOCIOLOGY DOESN'T CHANGE THAT FAST, PEOPLE!  I am convinced that this two-year life cycle for textbooks is purely to cut out on the used book market.  And it pisses me off.

Annoyance #2: The office staff at TRex's pedi office.
Love the doctors.  Good thing, too, because the office staff PISS ME OFF.  We were in there yesterday because her reflux has come back.  Dr. S said he'd write a script for some Prevacid for her - which pharmacy should the fax go to?  We told him and went on our merry way.  Stopped to pick up the meds on the way home from dinner last night and lo and behold - the script never ended up there.  I call them this morning, what happened?  "Oh, there's no pharmacy listed in her record, that's why.  What pharmacy is it?"  I tell them, giving them the intersection it's at.  I offer the fax number, which I made sure to get from them last night.  "Oh, we send it electronically, it's not a real fax.  Do you know the address?"  No, I don't.  I'll call them back when I get home with the address.  So I do.  3 hours pass, and I call the pharmacy to check that they have received the script.  No dice.  Call the pedi office back, they apparently have no idea what's going on.  Sit on hold for nearly 10 minutes... one time someone picks up and says "can you hold please" and hangs up before I can answer.  Second time someone (I THINK the guy who I was talking to in the first place) picks up and says "[...] Pediatrics, can I help you?"  I say, "I've been on hold - you were checking on my daughter's prescription."  "Oh, we just re-sent it."  My outside voice says, "OK, thanks!"  My inside voice says, "Gee, thanks for wasting my time sitting on hold rather than just telling me what you were going to do."
Unfortunately, this sort of thing is par for the course with them.  When she had to go to optho when we first moved here they failed to submit the referral SEVERAL times.  Another time, they mis-entered an appointment for one of her Synagis shots and blamed me when I showed up at the "wrong" time.  It's not every time, but whenever something's a little bit out of the ordinary, things seem to fall through the cracks.  Very frustrating.  But, like I said, we all adore the doctors so we put up with the office incompetence.

ETA:  No, RiteAid still doesn't have it.  Calling an alternate RiteAid to see what the hell is up.