… Wow. Just wow.
I’ve decided what my next job is going to be. I’m going to start a consulting service to teach people how to interview. I’ve got the perfect person to work for me too - my husband has been known to make people whimper in interviews just by asking them to demonstrate capabilities they have claimed in their resume.
In the interest of health, go to a sporting goods store and get one of the better mouth guards. Get one that you put into boiling water and then mold to your teeth. They also have vent holes in the front that to breath through.
Not as good or as comfortable as the one you get from the dentist, but better than the alternative.
37 weeks and 1 day pregnant. Yesterday evening I started to feel awful… just tired and draggy and off. Didn’t sleep well; had some contractions and back ache. Feel even worse this morning as a consequence of not sleeping. Also, feeling a strong desire to mop and dust the whole house.
Nesting, check.
Feeling “off”, check.
Doesn’t mean jackshit, and I’ll be pregnant for five more weeks then have to be induced… highly probable.
We need more people like your husband. It would be very amusing to have him interview politicians before the elections, too. Og knows that we get enough bullshit.
Sadly I have nobody else to blame this on but myself. I have no cats - I do live with a dog but my roommate went out of town this week and took the dog with him, so it’s just me here right now.
This is good advice, and I thought about doing it, but I tried a couple of these things back before I got the first mouth guard from the dentist, and they always triggered the old gag reflex. I called the dentist this morning and made an appointment, but I’m freaking out about how much it will cost. I didn’t think to ask when I called (I was busy being quietly embarrassed about having to admit such a thing to the receptionist), but looking on the web right now it seems like prices are all over the map and can go up over $1000 :eek:. I paid about $400 for the last one 5 years ago, but it was a different dentist. And now my dentist is closed until Monday. Sigh.
If you are about to be 49 years old, you are way too old to break up with someone by Facebook. Grow the fuck up.
No, no, the chicken entrails are how airlines set their pricing, with some Magic 8 ball thrown in. Can I get the flight for $186.00 like it said this morning. “Outlook not so good” Yeah, now its $279.00!
As for this stupid fucking cold/infection whatever. Having the runny nose, sore throat, cough hat-trick isn’t good enough. Lets throw in conjunctivitis and a middle ear infection. With the bronchial thing, lying flat is out of the question, I can hardly breathe. But the throbbing ear wants me to lie on my side with a heat pack, while my burning eyeballs just want a cold compress. I cannot get fucking comfortable!
Oh and PS it looks like the antibiotics I got this morning are giving me the trots. Yay.
I wonder if part of the cost is the office visit, taking molds, stuff like that? I’d call my old dentist and ask if they still have your specs and see if a new one can be made without having to come in to see him? IOW, is it a grand because you have to start from scratch with the new dentist and could that cost be avoided by asking old dentist to make you a duplicate?
I have no idea how this works.
That’s a good point. Maybe Meyer6 should post about it in General Questions – surely we have a dentist or tech or something who could inform us.
I know when TheKid had her braces removed, her orthodontist said they would keep her mold ‘on file’ for a year just in case she lost one of her retainers (the bottom one is molded like a mouth guard). If she loses a retainer before the mold is tossed, it’s $200 for a new one. Once the mold is gone, it’s $500.
Mom, how can you remember with clear detail something that occurred 65 years ago, but not something I said to you three days ago? And trying to explain that not every subcontractor is a shyster is a pain in the butt. I love you, but damn are you frustrating.
This is not a bad idea - I didn’t even think to call the old dentist since it’s been a long time since I last saw him. I’ll call him on Monday. I fear it’s been too long for him to still have the molds, but it’s worth a shot anyways.
I imagine how long the molds are kept depends on the specific dental practice, so I’ll hold off on making a GQ thread about it right now, but thanks for the advice. Definitely a good thought.
Gah five sets of eyedrops and two days worth of antibiotics into me, I should be feeling somewhat better or at least not worse. I’m terrified of calling in sick Monday, my first day back after two weeks of holidays. I have so much to do.
At least my boss told me not to work the weekend clinic, like I volunteered to. I cannot imagine having to work today. (and there would have been no way to book off if I had been scheduled.) I think i have to go out and buy some tylenol #1s because the stupid Aleve/ Tylenol combo is barely keeping my fever down much less stopping the ear pain.
you can cut the back ends of the moldable mouth guard until it is more comfortable, I had to do this when I needed one for sports. as long as it covers enough of your theeth to prvent contact you should be good.
Well, shit, now I’m with Guns. Wow, just … wow. Friggin’ Facebook?
Like OMFG! Did it happen by change of status, or was it posted on the wall?
Wow, no kidding grow up. My former co worker was 24 when she got dumped via text message, and we all thought that was dorky behavior from a 26 year old.
Breakup by facebook is definitely worse.
I don’t want to hijack the thread, but I saw he had changed his status to single, which was news to me. We had an actual breakup conversation yesterday morning. He said he didn’t change his status with the intention of breaking up, and when he went to change it back in the morning, he thought about it and decided to end things. Two days before my birthday. His girlfriend broke up with him on his birthday two years ago, and I asked him if he remembered how much that hurt. He actually asked me what my “day of birth” had to do with anything. That weird distancing language tells me he knows it’s a dick move, even if he won’t admit it. God forbid he ever show any consideration for my feelings.
I’ll be 31 tomorrow, and I wouldn’t expect someone my own age to act the way he did. But his immaturity has always been one of my biggest issues with him. I could go on, but I won’t, because this isn’t my LiveJournal account.
Wow. Crappy. Feel free to post more if you want. Or start a “worst dump” thread, those are kind of fun in a pity party way. The first time the man who became my ex husband dumped me it was because we were “having too much fun!”
yeah.
But so sorry about that. What a turd. He has no class, so hold your head up high and tell yourself good things about yourself. Starting with the fact you are obviously too mature and classy for him.
belated as this happened a few months ago, but what the hell.
Dear NFL and ESPN. I want to watch a football game. I do not care about Tom Brady’s hair. I especially do not care if Tom Brady’s hair is better than Justin Bieber’s. I am not an 11-year-old girl, so I’d appreciate if you’d keep that annoying fake little puppet in front of his fans and not sully my football game again.
I have conjured quite the image from that post. :eek: