I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
This seems to be the only place I can totally let it all out!
The last 2 years have totally drained me!!
Lost my Dad, my dog, my good friend to an asthma attack of all things, my brother to suicide and my precious Uncle.
I have unexpectedly become responsible for my Aunt and now my mother .
Diagnosed with colon cancer 3 weeks ago. Screw up with my colonoscopy. Site of malignancy wasn't tattooed so Surgeon has no marker to go by. So I'm "prepping " again tonight for a flex sig tomorrow. I have no answers!!
My Mom is playing the quilt card because I have only gone 3 times to talk to her thru the window at her ALF while she is suffering thru quarantine. I call her twice a day every day!
My Aunts dementia is spiraling down fast and there's nothing I can do to help. She's wanting to call movers to take her and her belongings home! The saving grace is that she forgets the thought moments after it pops into her head.
To top it off, my hubby cracked "a joke" about the lack of sex!! Maybe TMI, but come on!! Really??
I know that some of you have things so much worse!!
Do you ever just want to get in your car and drive away??
My apologies for my little pity party!! But it does feel better to write it out and Hopefully let it go!!
God bless you all!!
"Mild grinding does not often require treatment; however, moderate to severe bruxism can cause damage to the teeth, jaw pain, and other problems."
"People who grind their teeth at night can often benefit from wearing a dental night guard. Night guards are made out of a laminate or acrylic material that is flexible. Once in place, the night guard acts as a cushion, distributing the pressure from grinding and clenching away from the biting surface. It also reduces friction. These benefits can help to minimize the risk of the teeth becoming damaged due to grinding and may ease symptoms of bruxism. Your dentist can help you determine if a dental night guard is right for you".
But these dental guards can be purchased over the counter.
First, gargle with warm salt water. See if a piece of meat or a nut is caught back there. It may resolve itself in 2-3 days.
Wash your hands, and lightly massage your gum while you feel around for something.
statements in "quotes" is info from the internet.
Last night I had an earache, for only about an hour.
Next time, run to hubs, grab him by the clean white shirt, scream, "Help Me!". Then barely clean the shirt, hang it up.
That ought to do it?
Sounds like a blood bath Gershun!
Anyone else experiencing strange accidents, or discombobulation, or just feeling s t r a n g e. I mean, like, we wouldn't feel it if we are bleeding? That sort of thing...a delayed discovery, or something?
I think it is not unusual Gershun, in this stressful time. imo.
BTW, cooking brownies took an extra 90 minutes...hubs turned down the heat....again. Imagine, he does this with boiling spaghetti water too. I am not such a good cook that I can always monitor him-he is sneaky like that. Dinner is going to be late....again.
Not the same thing but a few weeks ago I was having a tizzy fit cause my DH always dumps plate scraps in the kitchen sink and then I have to dig around and scrape it all up. I was doing this and noticed that there was red all over the sink and no matter how much I rinsed it wouldn't go away. I thought it was jam from the toast we had had but soon realized I had cut myself on the sink stopper and it was my own blood that was all over the sink. It was a small cut but it bled a lot. It looked like carnage in the kitchen. The more I tried to clean it the more it spread everywhere.
Not quite the same as your nail story I guess but in retrospect it was pretty funny. We came back from our bandage run at the drugstore and it looked like there had been a knife fight in our kitchen sink.
My whine this afternoon is that my fingers are covered in nail glue. One gel nail came off so I attempted (and succeeded actually) a repair using a glue-on nail. I found the right size, applied glue to the nail and tried to glue it to my bare nail. It stuck to everything but my nail. I got glue of most of my fingers, but it wouldn't stick in place so I laid it on the counter. Then I got some acetone and tried to clean the glue off my fingers, gave up, washed my hands and dried them and picked up the offending nail and checked again that it was the right size, and like magic it stuck!!! Go figure. I have filed it into shape and will polish it to match the others later this evening. The excess glue will wear off pretty quickly. I am leaving well enough alone. Definitely first world problems, but little successes lift the morale.🤞
The "output" from salons will be interesting to say the least. Will people get done i.e. cut, colour, highlights etc and walk out towel dried??? Is this only for hand driers? What about the driers on a stand? I will do my hair at home for a while yet. It's so long that more length won't hurt.
ETA
For AB - "Blow drying hair is not recommended unless both the stylist and client wear masks. "
I was planning on wearing one anyway unless I have been vaccinated, assuming a successful vaccine has been developed.
Hmmm, my hair could grow quite long in that time...
I do own two very nice hats Cwillie.
I was wearing a pink/black patterned bandanna as a mask, originally purchased for my dog, folded cowboy style.
Then designer mirrored sunglasses with tiny rhinestones, and a pale pink Easter hat with curled up rims. Sports socks has turquoise and pink, tennis shoes were white with pink trim.
Got a little carried away when adding the kitchen cleaning gloves
to this purposefully bizarre outfit, longer rubber gloves, hot pink.
Even though I did not get out of the car, I was ready! And it is not even halloween! Thinking that after a certain age, we can even wear purple, and dress however suits us at the time. I do not plan on dressing this bizarre again, but these are bizarre times and I believe in dressing appropriately for the times.
We are talking about hairdressers. I thought this was unusual.
An acquaintance had great hair color, in her forties. I had asked where she gets her hair done. She would not answer. So I asked, one more time awhile later. She explained that her hairdresser made her promise never to tell where she got her hair done. Because she wore bows in her hair, in a 1960's look for teenagers.
My hair is getting a bit shaggy, I've trimmed the bangs and around the ears but for now I won't try to go any farther than that. I'm way too cheap to spend big money on my hair, I resent the $25 haircut so there is no way I'd fork over more bucks to have it coloured at a salon when I can pick up a dye kit for under $10. I've helped my sister do her own hair too and I honestly think the Nice & Easy looks better than what her stylist does, but she can't seem to manage doing it by herself.
PS Send - that's what hats are for 🤣
Tried the htp also, but had strange, unidentifiable and unexplainable reactions for my hubs. I stopped after one dose, and also have forgotten why.
There is another supplement approved for use in Europe, and many were trying it that I knew about here in the U.S. The side effects were scary as the non-drug was leaving your body. Acute irritability. Worse than the original symptoms of any anxiety.
Going to try to order some good scissors online.
As for having to wear a mask I wouldn't mind that cause I usually hate sitting in front of a mirror for two hours anyway as I'm kind of hard on myself. Although I am claustrophobic so that could be an issue.
Feeling immense relief that you can at last see your hairdresser - pretty much universal, or getting that way anyway.
Taking the cost of colour treatment into account - would be universal, in a well-ordered world.
Worrying that your hairdresser might think you're cheap because you're opting for cut only instead of cut and colour to save money, when it's actually because you can't face up to three hours with a mask on your face while your highlights are done...
I think this is about as firmly in the territory of first world problems as could be.
Mind you - If you can sit out the colour treatment in a separate, well-ventilated room you can always take your mask off in the interim, can't you?
Sometimes with anxiety, we can choke on things more easily.
This has happened to me, when a few episodes occur, mostly because I am breathing and my breath even catches.
That pill could get stuck down there, and will dissolve. Drink lots of something warm?
And feel better soon.
My hubs drinks gulps of water b e f o r e taking his supplements. And no water after. Sheesh, this man needs supervision. He has increased his 'doing everything bass ackwards' activities. In turn, my anxiety has increased. I'm just not ready to take a pill, just because he is being a pill.
Everything is going to be okay....
Risks. Contaminated 5-HTP supplements led to dangerous side effects in the past. Some people have developed a life-threatening neurological condition after taking 5-HTP supplements. These supplements may have been contaminated. Children and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should not take these supplements.
Interactions. Don't use 5-HTP supplements if you take antidepressants. It could cause a serious interaction. Check with a doctor first if you take any other drugs, especially cough medicines, painkillers, or treatments for Parkinson's disease.
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Put a couple of MOTH BALLS inside the mail box. Perhaps the smell will keep them away.