Boring stuff
Jan. 29th, 2007 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksI seem to have a lot of random information to share today, so this is going to be an entry that I add to as I think of stuff. Not that it'll be full of important stuff, you understand.
First, doctors and dentists: why schedule 20 people for the same half hour time slot? We all showed up today and had to wait.
Second, related to dentists: my InvisAlign brace/tray things arrived and were given to me today. There are 14 for the uppers, because they need to move less, and 22 -- 22! -- for the lowers. Wear for two weeks, switch. Take out to eat and to drink anything hot, sugary or colored. I think I'm probably going to be drinking a lot more water and a lot less diet coke.
Third: Must take a second toothbrush, tube of toothpaste and roll of floss to the office to keep in the Desk Drawer of Emergency Remedies. They'll fit right in with the benadryl, tylenol, tide stain pen, safety pins, and static guard in that drawer.
Fourth: the trays make a difference in my pronunciation. Sibilants and sounds that require the tip of the tongue to be pressed to the back of the teeth are coming out different. I noticed because I was listening to my language CDs and practicing vocab and dialogs in the car on the way home from the orthodontist's office.
Fourth: Just because you can talk on your cellphone in the middle of a crowded office doesn't mean that you should. The girl sitting next to me (chauffering her sister) in the waiting room apparently got falling down drunk last night. She started out by drinking half a bottle of Grey Goose, then went to her favorite bar, where she's hooked up, able to drink all night for less than $10. Except she got into a fight and called all sorts of people. She doesn't actually remember this, but she discovered the calls on her cell phone and had someone else call her and tell her about the fight. She and her boyfriend (who does repairs on the Bay Bridge) are going to buy some beer and start drinking at noon -- one must have standards, no morning alcohol! They'll be drunk by 5pm, take a nap, then go barhopping at around 9pm. Uh, okay. Did you really mean to share all that with 10 total strangers?
Heh. Me giving cooking tips? Dinner was the BBQ pork loin from Let's Dish, along with broccoli and half a baked sweet potato. Note to self: wrap sweet potatoes in aluminum foil. Otherwise, as it bakes, sugars leak out and drip onto the oven floor, smelling horrendously.
And on the InvisAlign front: The orthodontist warned that my teeth might ache. They don't...yet. But the lip on the bottom tray and the edge on the upper at the back mollar are irritating me. Only the fact that I'm paying a nice chunk of change for them, even after the insurance payment, is keeping them in my mouth.
Chris Owen has written a sequel to Bareback. I'm trying to decide if I care enough about the characters to invest in a second book.
First, doctors and dentists: why schedule 20 people for the same half hour time slot? We all showed up today and had to wait.
Second, related to dentists: my InvisAlign brace/tray things arrived and were given to me today. There are 14 for the uppers, because they need to move less, and 22 -- 22! -- for the lowers. Wear for two weeks, switch. Take out to eat and to drink anything hot, sugary or colored. I think I'm probably going to be drinking a lot more water and a lot less diet coke.
Third: Must take a second toothbrush, tube of toothpaste and roll of floss to the office to keep in the Desk Drawer of Emergency Remedies. They'll fit right in with the benadryl, tylenol, tide stain pen, safety pins, and static guard in that drawer.
Fourth: the trays make a difference in my pronunciation. Sibilants and sounds that require the tip of the tongue to be pressed to the back of the teeth are coming out different. I noticed because I was listening to my language CDs and practicing vocab and dialogs in the car on the way home from the orthodontist's office.
Fourth: Just because you can talk on your cellphone in the middle of a crowded office doesn't mean that you should. The girl sitting next to me (chauffering her sister) in the waiting room apparently got falling down drunk last night. She started out by drinking half a bottle of Grey Goose, then went to her favorite bar, where she's hooked up, able to drink all night for less than $10. Except she got into a fight and called all sorts of people. She doesn't actually remember this, but she discovered the calls on her cell phone and had someone else call her and tell her about the fight. She and her boyfriend (who does repairs on the Bay Bridge) are going to buy some beer and start drinking at noon -- one must have standards, no morning alcohol! They'll be drunk by 5pm, take a nap, then go barhopping at around 9pm. Uh, okay. Did you really mean to share all that with 10 total strangers?
Heh. Me giving cooking tips? Dinner was the BBQ pork loin from Let's Dish, along with broccoli and half a baked sweet potato. Note to self: wrap sweet potatoes in aluminum foil. Otherwise, as it bakes, sugars leak out and drip onto the oven floor, smelling horrendously.
And on the InvisAlign front: The orthodontist warned that my teeth might ache. They don't...yet. But the lip on the bottom tray and the edge on the upper at the back mollar are irritating me. Only the fact that I'm paying a nice chunk of change for them, even after the insurance payment, is keeping them in my mouth.
Chris Owen has written a sequel to Bareback. I'm trying to decide if I care enough about the characters to invest in a second book.
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Date: 2007-01-29 04:53 pm (UTC)*sigh* I'm going to have to retreat into a Regency, just so I can read about a time when a lady wouldn't be caught dead tying her garter in public.
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Date: 2007-01-30 11:16 am (UTC)*sigh* I wish I could cook like you.
CindyS
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Date: 2007-01-30 11:17 am (UTC)*sigh* I wish I could cook like you.
CindyS
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Date: 2007-01-30 01:09 pm (UTC)My cooking is all preplanned. I go to Let's Dish and use their recipes to prepare meals in advance, then freeze everything. Then thaw and bake/boil/saute as instructed on the label. Otherwise, I would eat grilled cheese and bagged salads everynight...or go out to eat.
Cell phones can be good things, but they erode the idea of privacy, imo. Last year, The Biochemist arrived for a visit after being forced to listen to a passenger's conversation with his wife about his recent visit to the urologist. Too. Much. Information.
Help!
Date: 2007-02-01 12:27 pm (UTC)CindyS
Re: Help!
Date: 2007-02-01 01:12 pm (UTC)I haven't found anything like it located in Canada, but I'm sure it must exist. People everywhere want easily prepared meals.
Similar sites/businesses in Minnesota: http://www.simplytothetable.com/ and http://www.socialegourmet.com/