Be careful, or you may get a stern letter!
Session #3 of Early Morning Cardio Death Camp today, and I feel awesome! I mean - tired and achy, but still awesome. We lost two more students, those whom I would have said were respectively the most and least capable. Again, I hope they return. None of the others from the first session did. We're down five ladies since the start already!
I have another health concern, however. For three days now, my jaw, teeth, and gums have all ached like crazy! The sensation changes over time, so I include all these descriptions. My jaw has ached as if I ground my teeth in my sleep (which I do). My gums ache like I'm having sinus troubles, or like there's food stuck in my teeth. My teeth just feel like alien invaders that need to be yanked out! I looked up TMJ online and that might be it, but if so, they say it really takes care of itself and there's nothing to be done for it. I bought some Listerine last night, hoping that might help if it's something bacterial or whatever. The whole affair does seem a bit better today, but I can't tell if that's because of the mouthwash or time. Either way, this is annoying. Teeth, you're getting a stern letter!
Speaking of stern letters, the apartment complex just got another one. Every month they send my water bill on like the 28th and expect a one week turn-around time, long after I've already paid rent. They send notices to Ian and me both on our door and through email if it's not paid on time. One time they even sent an email to Ian's mother, our emergency contact! You can imagine the complete nuclear holocaust that was our reaction to that. This month they've started pestering us with this treatment even before the due date for the bill. Meanwhile, the Trash Police have decided to selectively take our trash bags. Trash has to be "bagged and tied." Now they're only taking kitchen bags, but leaving the grocery store bags (tied) which we use in small trash cans. And our trash can lid is missing. Stern letter! They picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
In other news of grocery store bags, I bought five of the Whole Foods nice reusable sturdy plastic bags with handles for $.99 each last night. Once I realized that both Whole Foods and Kroger give you a discount if you don't use bags, it suddenly dawned on me that there really is an alternative. We have one of those plastic bag holder can thingees, and we reuse them as trash bags -- but not nearly at the rate at which we acquire them. If we never brought home another plastic bag (and the odds strongly favor that we will), we'd probably still have a surplus of these things when we move!
I've been thinking lately that I'd really like us to live just a little greener. We don't recycle. Other than this grocery bag change and that we use cloth napkins at meals, we don't make any effort toward consuming less. We are so totally part of the problem! Ian and I have talked a little bit recently also about making regular contributions to charity once we're both working again. We have very different ideas about this, however. I was disappointed that we couldn't immediately both jump on the same band wagon and pick a charity together to which we can donate as a family. We also couldn't even agree that we both like this idea and want to give at all. He did mention one charity he believes in, however, so that's a place to start. Meanwhile I wish I knew of a way to make anonymous donations to my favorite charities in a way that isn't totally inconvenient! Mailing a check is certainly easy, and if it's not easy, and not automated, it won't happen. I just hate being absolutely bombarded by junk mail, pleas for further donations, and the worst -- having my contact information sold to every possibly like-minded charity on the planet. I feel like 100% of my donation goes to pay for these mailings back to me alone. That's not why I wish to give, and certainly not what I wish to receive!
Oh yeah, and I went back to Personal Finance last night. I am on the verge of loathing this class. The instructor didn't return to any inappropriate remarks -- he's just a... well. I won't say it. I feel like this class and its projected lesson plan are a waste of my time, however. I'm already considering dropping for the W or letting my 4.0 slip since I'm the only one keeping score anyhow. He teaches this class only to get on his own soapbox about whatever issue strikes his fancy. Last night it was 50 minutes of how the world is gonna end, and our children will be speaking Mandarin Chinese, and there will be no public schools and no reliable bridges in America, the third-world nation, 15 years from now. Alas, if only I were exaggerating that point even in the slightest.
Traceroo
I have another health concern, however. For three days now, my jaw, teeth, and gums have all ached like crazy! The sensation changes over time, so I include all these descriptions. My jaw has ached as if I ground my teeth in my sleep (which I do). My gums ache like I'm having sinus troubles, or like there's food stuck in my teeth. My teeth just feel like alien invaders that need to be yanked out! I looked up TMJ online and that might be it, but if so, they say it really takes care of itself and there's nothing to be done for it. I bought some Listerine last night, hoping that might help if it's something bacterial or whatever. The whole affair does seem a bit better today, but I can't tell if that's because of the mouthwash or time. Either way, this is annoying. Teeth, you're getting a stern letter!
Speaking of stern letters, the apartment complex just got another one. Every month they send my water bill on like the 28th and expect a one week turn-around time, long after I've already paid rent. They send notices to Ian and me both on our door and through email if it's not paid on time. One time they even sent an email to Ian's mother, our emergency contact! You can imagine the complete nuclear holocaust that was our reaction to that. This month they've started pestering us with this treatment even before the due date for the bill. Meanwhile, the Trash Police have decided to selectively take our trash bags. Trash has to be "bagged and tied." Now they're only taking kitchen bags, but leaving the grocery store bags (tied) which we use in small trash cans. And our trash can lid is missing. Stern letter! They picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
In other news of grocery store bags, I bought five of the Whole Foods nice reusable sturdy plastic bags with handles for $.99 each last night. Once I realized that both Whole Foods and Kroger give you a discount if you don't use bags, it suddenly dawned on me that there really is an alternative. We have one of those plastic bag holder can thingees, and we reuse them as trash bags -- but not nearly at the rate at which we acquire them. If we never brought home another plastic bag (and the odds strongly favor that we will), we'd probably still have a surplus of these things when we move!
I've been thinking lately that I'd really like us to live just a little greener. We don't recycle. Other than this grocery bag change and that we use cloth napkins at meals, we don't make any effort toward consuming less. We are so totally part of the problem! Ian and I have talked a little bit recently also about making regular contributions to charity once we're both working again. We have very different ideas about this, however. I was disappointed that we couldn't immediately both jump on the same band wagon and pick a charity together to which we can donate as a family. We also couldn't even agree that we both like this idea and want to give at all. He did mention one charity he believes in, however, so that's a place to start. Meanwhile I wish I knew of a way to make anonymous donations to my favorite charities in a way that isn't totally inconvenient! Mailing a check is certainly easy, and if it's not easy, and not automated, it won't happen. I just hate being absolutely bombarded by junk mail, pleas for further donations, and the worst -- having my contact information sold to every possibly like-minded charity on the planet. I feel like 100% of my donation goes to pay for these mailings back to me alone. That's not why I wish to give, and certainly not what I wish to receive!
Oh yeah, and I went back to Personal Finance last night. I am on the verge of loathing this class. The instructor didn't return to any inappropriate remarks -- he's just a... well. I won't say it. I feel like this class and its projected lesson plan are a waste of my time, however. I'm already considering dropping for the W or letting my 4.0 slip since I'm the only one keeping score anyhow. He teaches this class only to get on his own soapbox about whatever issue strikes his fancy. Last night it was 50 minutes of how the world is gonna end, and our children will be speaking Mandarin Chinese, and there will be no public schools and no reliable bridges in America, the third-world nation, 15 years from now. Alas, if only I were exaggerating that point even in the slightest.
Traceroo