Seriously. Was it a laser thing?

Not a laser. It was Brite Smile. Basically, a bleaching gel that is accelerated by blue light. It wasn't uncomfortable at all for the hour in the dentist's office, but it did hurt quite a bit throughout that first day (that pain you get when you eat something too cold--but lasting much longer).

I'm tempted by the idea of whiter teeth, but I fear the chiclet look, and really, how terribly El-Aye is that anyway?

My Monday could sure have been worse, but this is the first of my reduced-action Mondays, so I'm sad because I know there are a bunch of people I'd normally be having fun with right now...having fun without me.

Tossers.

I hate them all.

Picked up a shitload of meds today. It's fucking laughable. Nasonex, Astelin, Percocet, Depakote, Cymbalta, injectable Imitrex. And that's not like it's all of my meds.

I'm tempted by the idea of whiter teeth, but I fear the chiclet look, and really, how terribly El-Aye is that anyway?

I think I would have had to go twice to get that super-white look. Really, I had just noticed the last year or so that my teeth were getting a bit dingy and thought it would be nice to do something about it. It's more of a fresh start. I'm not sure I would do it again in a few years to maintain it at the same level.

that pain you get when you eat something too cold--but lasting much longer

Oh. Hmm, I get that a teeny bit with the strips, but it's dealable. As long as it goes away...

Is the injectable Imitrex new, ita? I mean, the injection part? If so, I hope it's faster, or more effective, or what have you. I have to go look up a couple of those others.

hey, you guys, guess what i'm doing now?!? I'm staying up late updating last night's document the edits of mine that were approved and what we changed in a 3-hour meeting this afternoon! I hope I'm done before 3ish tonight but I don't see how that would happen. (I am only just starting because I had to go pick my friends up at the airport.)

I thought I was used to my new schedule but, dag, I'm dead tired now.

Wish me coherence!

I had just noticed the last year or so that my teeth were getting a bit dingy and thought it would be nice to do something about it. It's more of a fresh start. I'm not sure I would do it again in a few years to maintain it at the same level.

My problem is my hair. My teeth are too close to it in colour. Otherwise I don't think it'd bother me.

I'm spending a gazillion and a half dollars on pain relief for my head, though. Until I get a handle on that I'm not going to think about whitening. I've tried some of the supermarket stuff and it just made my teeth look more transparent.

I mean, the injection part?

Yup. The hope is that it will make the medication more bio-available.

The other stuff is allergy meds (I have no idea if the allergy to dust mites contributes to headaches, but it's kinda cool not to be stuffed up. Not that I'd noticed before taking them), narcotics, an anti-epileptic and an anti-depressant.

I'm up from my seat in front of the TV because I think I should put a lidocaine patch on my shoulder.

And I need to gather up my new meds and enter them all on my tracking calendar.

It's a glamourous life, I tell you.

AND I wore clothes in to work that didn't fit, so I looked all disheveled and stuff.

AND AND AND my mother comes back into town tomorrow, so I must cherish this (fun-free) evening of solitude.

I have to be fair and say that my mother and sister were very gentle in their handling of me and heeded all my migraine-driven requirements. But I don't know if they were comfortable seeing me that way, and I wasn't comfortable being that way. I never am, except around just the one friend. And that's more that the ship of regret has already long sailed. I don't even bother to hide when I've been crying from him these days.

Poor sod.

On the upside, he should be receiving Dexter in the mail any time now. Nothing like some light sociopathic fun.

Lisah, I am wishing you all the coherence in the world. Also, caffeine as required.

Very true. (I will always love billytea for coining "Connecticutie." First abbreviation for Connecticut natives I'd ever heard that didn't sound ridiculous.)

As long as you're not a guy...

I continually get into an argument with a friend about how the Brits have bizarre pronunciation. I don't know why he bothers. I stop him dead in his tracks with "Arkansas" every time.

Wasn't that due to French speaking settlers?

Magdalene, St. John and that name pronounce "Fanshaw," on the other hand, just seem like the English are messing with us.

Yes, and yet we say "Thames" with the "th" sound when we talk about our New London river. Sometimes old school and sometimes not, I guess.

Supposedly that's even older school... the story I heard that the British said it with the "th" as well until whatever originally-german-speaking monarch kept butchering it. The Connecticuties never got the memo.

butbutbutbut... the Thames (the one in England) was spelled Temes or Temese for a good 800 years before it ever got a TH

Man, my sister is going to be ticked! That was one of her favorite factoids.

How were people's Mondays?

I've been taking Mixed Martial Arts classes. Today I did a hard round kick without turning out my opposite foot and pulled the shit out of my hip flexor. YEOW.

But I sort of like it. Like "yeah, feel that man"

It's like Valley of the Dolls at ita's house.

I'm eating a Hershey Bar with almonds. It's okish.

Woman killed by pet camel

eta: In less sad news, a cat wearing a bunny suit: [link]

Chicken diapers: [link]

Which is cooler, the knitted chicken diapers, or the camouflage chicken diapers?