AND!

I can't see my freaking pet penguin I got!! I just get a white box!

Still Waiting...

Today is day 9 of the 7-10 business days that it was to take for my night guard to be made and sent. I haven't gotten too bad of headaches in the past week. I did wake up one morning with my neck and upper back killing me though. I'm guessing the back pain was caused by the same thing....it just spread below my neck this time. My neck usually hurts anyway though. Tomorrow is day 10! I don't really want to call and bug since it's still within the window of time they gave. But what if it's there and they just haven't gotten around to calling yet?? That has happened with other places. I've never waited for anything from this place, so I don't know...but it's happened where I'm waiting for something to come in and I'm not getting a call, so I call them and they say oh yeah, we have it, it's been in since yesterday, we just haven't been able to call you yet. Uh yeah. Sure. Sigh....I'm so ready to have it!!

Bastards!

It snowed all of about half an inch....if that...last night. Well, more in certain areas of the city. But where I live, we didn't even get that. So this morning I'm starting to get ready for work and my husband texts and says that the schools are on a 2 hour delay. So I told the kid. Then I turned on the tv to check on things. Of course the City isn't listed. So I called 311 to check. Nope, no delays. Pretty much Everything else was delayed today at Least! The university, schools, businesses, my freaking bank has a delayed day! So I turned off the tv and was thinking about getting ready for work. Then my husband texts again...the schools just announced they are cancelled for the day!!! WTF??? Idiots! Today is even supposed to be over 40! There is no reason for an entire school day to be cancelled for patchy, icy roads! It still pisses me off though that the City apparently doesn't care about hazardous road conditions and the welfare of their employees still trying to get to work at 730 and 8!!!

Out of the frying pan....

...and into the fire! And it was by choice! So I'm not complaining about that. Just about teenagers in general I suppose. I don't suppose it's any easier raising a teenager when you've been raising them since birth. But I sometimes think that having done that gives you an advantage as far as knowing your kid and being able to know what the heck to do with them I guess. But then again, there are plenty of parents who have been there the whole time and it's still like dealing with an entirely new person when their kid reaches the "terrible teens"! To quote Bill Cosby, children are brain damaged!! I don't know when they stop being brain damaged, but man, I hope it's soon! Seriously, this kid is bright...but holy crap, she is dumb as a rock sometimes and you think, is this the same kid?? What happened to my honor roll student??? Who is this brain damaged child?

Headaches....

Don't know if I've posted about this before, but I get some awful terrible, migraine-like headaches. I never knew what they were from. So last summer, I changed dentists and went to my first checkup at the new one. One of the first things the dental hygeinist asked me was if I wake up with neck pain and do I get a lot of headaches. I said 'yeeaahhh....why??' She said, 'Because you have a lot of wear on your teeth. You clench and grind your teeth at night.' Really?? So, she said that I can get a night guard from them that will keep my teeth apart so I can't clench my teeth and that my teeth will slide on when they do meet. It was Very expensive so I didn't do it. I got an inexpensive night guard from Walgreens and started wearing it. My headaches went away. For a while. Then they started coming back. So at my next appointment I told them about it. They said, 'Yeah, we used to recommend those ones until we discovered what they do.' The thing that goes in between your teeth that keeps them apart that you bite down on is somewhat soft. It's made out of silicone or something and it has some give. So at FIRST your jaw isn't used to it and it helps and the headaches go away for a while. THEN your jaw gets used to it and it's essentially exercising itself on the squishy bite pads and getting STRONGER! So then your headaches can be Worse than they were before! So great. So I stopped wearing it and I am breaking down and getting the expensive dentist one. I have an appointment at 230 tomorrow afternoon to get the molds done. I don't know how long it takes to come in, but I can't wait! I've been getting headaches every other day or every few days now. Its terrible!! So yay!! I can't wait to not have headaches!

Not Another Teen!

OMG! My stepdaughter is officially a TEEN today!! AAKKK!!! What more can I say?? Just O! M! G!

Maybe it's a tumor...

It's not a tumor. I've been getting these terrible migraine-like headaches that are sensitive to light and sound. Turns out they are tension headaches from clenching and grinding my teeth at night. Last summer my dental hygienist identified the wear on my teeth and ask if I wake up with neck pain and headaches. I was like yeeeaahhhh..... So she told me it's from grinding. She suggested I get a night guard from them that will prevent it. I opted not to at that point since they are SO expensive and for some dumb reason the dental insurance doesnt' cover them! So I got one from Walgreens that has a little thing that goes between your teeth. It worked, the headaches practically stopped. I'd still get little ones, but those were probably just normal run of the mill ones. Nothing like I'd had before. So all was well. Then they started coming again. Just one every now and then. Now I'm back to having a couple or few a week. So at my dentist appt in December I found out that what I'd been doing has made my jaw worse. The little thing between the teeth is slightly squishy. So at first it worked and the headaches went away. But as time went on, my jaw muscles strengthened because they were squeezing the little thing. And they came back. So I stopped wearing it and I'm now thinking I'm just going to break down, bring my credit card out of retirement, and get the damn thing so I don't have to deal with this crap anymore!

And Back Again....

It's been quite some time....again! Being a wife and mom is pretty time consuming! Who knew? HAHA!

Things have been going great. We've gotten some work done on the house and yard that are improvements. The only major problem right now is the roof. It's leaking...sigh...and we need the money to fix it. That's always an issue...money money money. Sheesh. What a pain.