For those that are having a hard time with sleep, the Calm app has been especially lovely. I like it for work so I can have ambient noise instead of music, which can feel distracting. And for sleep.
Do you really think those of us who have sleep problems haven't tried everything? No the sleep app doesn't work just like the other 15 things don't work.
It's like saying to someone with depression have you tried smiling today. It's insulting at best.
This seems a bit of an overreaction! She's just stating something that has helped her.
Ok douche, go ahead and call it mud. My husband DID have halitosis. We addressed it after I talked to you girls on here and guess what? Years later, no problem. Mofongo, you're a cunt. Eat shit. ~anonnamus
And because I don’t like starting a new thread for random questions - how do you clean retainers/night guards? I brush it, soak in cleaner daily, and occasionally soak in H2O2. But, I just feel it needs something more.
Ultrasonic dental cleaner. Wish I'd known about these when I had my first mouth guard that I eventually had to throw away due to grossness!
This is what I use for my Inivisalign trays. Works like a charm! I use it on them in the morning and night while I brush. Super easy and effective - even more effective if you add the denture cleaner tab in there.
For those that are having a hard time with sleep, the Calm app has been especially lovely. I like it for work so I can have ambient noise instead of music, which can feel distracting. And for sleep.
Do you really think those of us who have sleep problems haven't tried everything? No the sleep app doesn't work just like the other 15 things don't work.
It's like saying to someone with depression have you tried smiling today. It's insulting at best.
Oh FFS. Offering suggestions is standard around here. I assume good intent.
For those that are having a hard time with sleep, the Calm app has been especially lovely. I like it for work so I can have ambient noise instead of music, which can feel distracting. And for sleep.
Do you really think those of us who have sleep problems haven't tried everything? No the sleep app doesn't work just like the other 15 things don't work.
It's like saying to someone with depression have you tried smiling today. It's insulting at best.
Okay? I was just saying what worked for me. Take it or leave it.
I have some stupid anxiety about DS's practice tonight. The anxiety is solely because I have only been to this park/baseball field one time and I don't remember the layout or where the parking is. I'm worried about dumb things like will there be enough parking (because multiple practices are going on), and I'm also in H's car today which is much bigger so I hope the spots are not tight, lol. Anyone else get like this before driving new places? Once I do this once and I know the lay of the land, I'll be fine. God I'm such a weirdo.
I look everywhere up on Google Maps before I go so I can find the field and the parking lots. Is that an option for you?
I have some stupid anxiety about DS's practice tonight. The anxiety is solely because I have only been to this park/baseball field one time and I don't remember the layout or where the parking is. I'm worried about dumb things like will there be enough parking (because multiple practices are going on), and I'm also in H's car today which is much bigger so I hope the spots are not tight, lol. Anyone else get like this before driving new places? Once I do this once and I know the lay of the land, I'll be fine. God I'm such a weirdo.
I look everywhere up on Google Maps before I go so I can find the field and the parking lots. Is that an option for you?
Good call, I don't know why I didn't think to change the view to Google Earth. I can see the parking lot now, and the gazebo that the coach told us to meet at. Thanks, lol.
I usually do Google street view for most things but that was not available for this area.
I have some stupid anxiety about DS's practice tonight. The anxiety is solely because I have only been to this park/baseball field one time and I don't remember the layout or where the parking is. I'm worried about dumb things like will there be enough parking (because multiple practices are going on), and I'm also in H's car today which is much bigger so I hope the spots are not tight, lol. Anyone else get like this before driving new places? Once I do this once and I know the lay of the land, I'll be fine. God I'm such a weirdo.
Yes, all the time. I had a meeting at a customer site this afternoon and according to Waze it was going to be a 14 minute drive. I left my house 45 minutes before the meeting started to make sure I had time to find parking (downtown) and get into the building. It all worked out since there was a parking lot just for visitors with plenty of spaces. I just chilled in my car and responded to some text messages and scrolled social media.
I have some stupid anxiety about DS's practice tonight. The anxiety is solely because I have only been to this park/baseball field one time and I don't remember the layout or where the parking is. I'm worried about dumb things like will there be enough parking (because multiple practices are going on), and I'm also in H's car today which is much bigger so I hope the spots are not tight, lol. Anyone else get like this before driving new places? Once I do this once and I know the lay of the land, I'll be fine. God I'm such a weirdo.
I have this a few times a year. For example, I went to a festival and was having anxiety dreams about it. But usually with travel soccer we are never going to know all the fields so the parking doesn't bother me.
I have been yelled at by the coach for being late before but I think she has gotten better about that because it never happened again, and we have been late again. We try to do a heads up text. But now if she calls me when I am in the parking lot I do not answer because I don't want to be yelled at lol.
Hilariously, our school district is retiring the word "tobacco" from our discipline policy as an outdated term (no kidding, lol). We had one- ONE- actual tobacco based cigerette incident in our pretty large district last year.
And yes, this is kind of an Abbott Elementary episode.
I haven't read all of the responses yet so forgive me if this is a dup. AE actually did a recent episode recently, so as I'm reading this I'm like "oh maybe that's where they got the idea", lol.
I have some stupid anxiety about DS's practice tonight. The anxiety is solely because I have only been to this park/baseball field one time and I don't remember the layout or where the parking is. I'm worried about dumb things like will there be enough parking (because multiple practices are going on), and I'm also in H's car today which is much bigger so I hope the spots are not tight, lol. Anyone else get like this before driving new places? Once I do this once and I know the lay of the land, I'll be fine. God I'm such a weirdo.
Yes, all the time. I had a meeting at a customer site this afternoon and according to Waze it was going to be a 14 minute drive. I left my house 45 minutes before the meeting started to make sure I had time to find parking (downtown) and get into the building. It all worked out since there was a parking lot just for visitors with plenty of spaces. I just chilled in my car and responded to some text messages and scrolled social media.
I've definitely shown up to job interviews ridiculously early just to make sure I am at the building, and then sat inside the car like a creeper lol. Solidarity.
Sorry DST haters. I have been feeling amazing all week. The extra daylight at the end of the day is giving me so much energy.
As a night owl and morning hater no matter what, I totally agree! I'd much rather have more daylight at the end of the day than at the beginning. It's much easier for me to make use of the daylight hours when they come after the workday than before it. (I do understand the safety reasons why having more daylight earlier might be better, but it's not what I personally prefer!)
Post by pinkdutchtulips on Mar 13, 2024 14:44:09 GMT -5
We are all moved into the new place .... down to the final boxes and purged stuff headed to the thrift store. The smartest thing I did for my sanity was hire movers. They did it all - pack the old place and unpack in the new one in 7h!
Miss R had another mini breakthrough in her therapy session. Baby steps towards hopefully something better. She helped during the move and after doing what she does best - organizing and decorating. Her only rule was that she CANNOT touch my room.
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Mar 13, 2024 14:45:22 GMT -5
This is stupid, but are there any kindle/goodreads users who can help me with an issue? I usually only read 1 book at a time, and I have my kindle set to automatically update goodreads with what I'm currently reading/when I'm finished. But I also read outloud with my kids, and lately I've been getting kindle books to read with them instead of physical books too. When I am early on in 'my' book, book A, and I click out of it to go back to my library to open book B, even if I'm only like 10% into book A, goodreads marks me finished with book A and send me the email that I completed it and asks if I want to review it. And then, when I click out of book B and back to the library, it does the same thing, marks book B as completed.
I know it doesn't really matter as I will eventually finish book A and B and can even update the dates I finish them when I go back and write reviews of them, but it annoys me that it sends the email the 1st time I close out of the book prompting me to write the review instead of when I actually finish the book. I like to write a review as soon as I finish when it's fresh in my memory, because that is my whole reason for using goodreads...I almost immediately forget everything about the books I read except for what I write down about them!
I went for a walk this morning. A nice, hour long walk in beautiful weather during basically the middle of my work day. Because work made me angry yesterday and this morning someone busted open a giant ass can of worms and I just needed to literally walk away.
It helped. I should really make it a habit.
In other randoms, I woke up with pelvic pain. It's not constant, but it's sharp enough to make me wince/gasp and it's localized to the lower left area of the groin. I can't decide if it's a weird UTI (no other symptoms though) or something muscle related (except movement and stretching doesn't increase or relieve the pain). It makes no sense, and I want it to stop.
Kidney stones?
well, the thought did cross my mind, but doesn't that pain start in the back around the kidneys? This pain feels like it's around the lower left part of my bladder and is random and sharp but I wouldn't put it at kidney stone level pain. But then I've never had kidney stones so I don't know what it feels like.
We are all moved into the new place .... down to the final boxes and purged stuff headed to the thrift store. The smartest thing I did for my sanity was hire movers. They did it all - pack the old place and unpack in the new one in 7h!
Miss R had another mini breakthrough in her therapy session. Baby steps towards hopefully something better. She helped during the move and after doing what she does best - organizing and decorating. Her only rule was that she CANNOT touch my room.
This post makes me so happy! We’re seeing a ton of improvement lately and I’m hoping you are too!
OMG I hate the time change so much. I went to bed at my "normal" time, but I didn't fall asleep for 2 hours. I took melatonin after the first hour and I still couldn't fall asleep. Then DD2 came in our room at 4 AM because she woke up, then the alarm went off extra early because the kids are taking forever to get ready for school because they don't want to get up on time either. THIS ALL SUCKS. Why do we do this? I think I got 4 hours of sleep last night and I feel like shit.
I despise the time change. This time I'm not trying to go to bed early. I always do that and them I end up not falling asleep and then being wake in the middle of the night too. I decided that if I'm only getting 6-6:30 hours that I'd rather do it in one stretch. I've been feeling in bed between 11:30 and midnight. When I go to the bathroom I take a melatonin gummy and then my alarm goes off at 6:30. I'm actually sleeping nearly the whole time. I still hate it though and this morning I was sound asleep when the alarm went of because I guess my brain has realized it should still be 5:30. Just stop this already!!
I'm on the DST is kicking my ass unusually hard this time train. Sleeping like shit at night and exhausted all day.o I'm leaving tomorrow AM for a road trip and normally I have my shit together. Not this time. The to do list is long today, yet here I sit fucking around on the internet. go figure
I have a job interview for today. I’m not sold on the position. I’m going to go in without any feelings one way or another. I have another interview set up on my birthday in 1.5 weeks. I applied at both places prior to my departure from my job last week. It’s a weird feeling not having something lined up.
Tonight we are attending SEC March madness. H scored nearly free tickets. We have never attended a basketball game. The kids are excited.
Update- reframing my mindset on interviewing today worked in my favor. I was more relaxed and enjoyed the conversation. They asked if I could stay for round two. I felt like both rounds went well. I should hear back midweek if I go to round three. They do four round interview process. The pay is excellent. The hours are not great for my family but we will make It work. Fingers crossed this works out
We are all moved into the new place .... down to the final boxes and purged stuff headed to the thrift store. The smartest thing I did for my sanity was hire movers. They did it all - pack the old place and unpack in the new one in 7h!
Miss R had another mini breakthrough in her therapy session. Baby steps towards hopefully something better. She helped during the move and after doing what she does best - organizing and decorating. Her only rule was that she CANNOT touch my room.
I am excited for the new adventure for you and R! I hope the new place works better than the previous apartment.
Advice my previous therapist gave me “one day at a time can be long term. Take it one minute, if that gets you through.” I reflect on this during hard time or wins with DS. We made it one min. One hour. Etc each step is a win this way. So proud of R!
We are all moved into the new place .... down to the final boxes and purged stuff headed to the thrift store. The smartest thing I did for my sanity was hire movers. They did it all - pack the old place and unpack in the new one in 7h!
Miss R had another mini breakthrough in her therapy session. Baby steps towards hopefully something better. She helped during the move and after doing what she does best - organizing and decorating. Her only rule was that she CANNOT touch my room.
This post makes me so happy! We’re seeing a ton of improvement lately and I’m hoping you are too!
To a degree yes .... the latest breakthrough came on the heels of an incredibly rough afternoon and evening. She's doing great at her uncle's house and he's enjoying to get to know her better
This post makes me so happy! We’re seeing a ton of improvement lately and I’m hoping you are too!
To a degree yes .... the latest breakthrough came on the heels of an incredibly rough afternoon and evening. She's doing great at her uncle's house and he's enjoying to get to know her better
It sounds like that’s working well for all of you! Your brother is an amazing brother and uncle!!!
Hilariously, our school district is retiring the word "tobacco" from our discipline policy as an outdated term (no kidding, lol). We had one- ONE- actual tobacco based cigerette incident in our pretty large district last year.
And yes, this is kind of an Abbott Elementary episode.
I haven't read all of the responses yet so forgive me if this is a dup. AE actually did a recent episode recently, so as I'm reading this I'm like "oh maybe that's where they got the idea", lol.
Let's just say, I would not be shocked if there was some inspiration there, ha!