I could see a lemon flavored toothpaste leaving things feeling clean. I've never found one, though.

Just had this conversation with my mother:

"Barbara, Southwest has $59 fares across the country!"

"Ma, I don't think they fly into Seattle."

"But they fly into Oregon!"

::headdesk::

ETA: Okay, they do fly into Seattle, but definitely not for $59 each way. Which I wouldn't have expected. And the cheapie flights are for after the holidays. Now she's mad because of false advertising.

LOL. I live in Portland and my mom keeps pointing out cheaper flights out of Seattle. She just doesn't get that it's not next door...

We also bought the pumpkin ice cream lately, which was delicious!

I got that, because of my weakness for all things pumpkin. I liked it, but I swear it tasted like there was booze in it. Not that that's a bad thing, but it was unexpected.

The fire always blazes, he makes blueberry cobbler in a hole in the ground, you never, ever get lost, if it rains, you have awesome cover in like, 5 minutes, and twice, he's hauled in a homemade sauna, and we end the day saunaing with eucalyptus and plunging into spring-fed rivers, then back to the sauna. Heaven!

I'm so pathetic. I read this with a growing sense of, "You did what? Then what? And you enjoyed it?"

Right there with you. Although I'm intrigued by the cobbler-in-a-hole.

I want to blow up and frame a couple of photos for my sister for her Christmas gift from her visit here last month.

I agree -- the first two are fantastic.

First, they by no means suck, Barb. The first two are going to make much better enlarged and framed photos, because each has a single dominant image.

Question(s): does anyone have TMJ syndrome? What the SHIT do you do for it? CAN you do anything for it? And does it make your teeth hurt?

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I have it (maybe -- various medical and dental people have had different opinions on what exactly I have), and I had a biteplate when I was a teenager, and that helped a lot. (I stopped using it after the third time I accidentally threw it out with my lunch garbage at school.)

Steph, a mouth guard, made by the dentist, can really help.

smonster, if you move closer, you totally can! Or visit someone in KC, or even NOLA.

On the camping front, to be fair, I haven't gone in a couple of years. You guys have heard about my girly parties and mixed gender cabin getaways in the Ozarks, though, which I frankly prefer, being all old and lazy now. They involve beautiful scenery, a lazy hike during the day, and a hot tub or L's sauna (and a metric fuckton of booze and good food) at night.

Plus...beds. And the cabin is a vaca house.

I have a biteguard from the drugstore, which my dentist recommended I try first, and if it doesn't help, then she can make me a more rigid one, I guess. When she first recommended it, I only had random tooth pain that multiple X-rays turned up no cause for, and she said it looked like I was grinding my teeth -- but at that time, I didn't have the awful constant jaw ache. Now I have the tooth pain (sometimes every single goddamn tooth hurts at the same time) AND this jaw ache that makes me want to stab my jaw.

I've used the drugstore biteguard for about a week, I think, and I can't really tell any improvement. I still want to stab my jaw.

Steph, I clench (though not grind) my teeth--I don't know when it started but a couple years ago one day I woke up almost unable to open my jaw! Shocked the hell out of me. I got a night guard from my dentist...but I swear, while it may protect my teeth, it makes me MORE likely to wake up in the morning with an aching jaw! So I haven't been using it, but at the same time I fear that means my teeth are all going to crack in half.