I was about to brush my teeth this morning...

I was about to brush my teeth this morning so I could go and tutor when my clumsy fat sleepy arthritis hands dropped my toothbrush in the sink. Without any other thought aside from "Eww!" I threw the now irreparably-soiled toothbrush in the trash. IN. THE. TRASH. This toothbrush was now so soiled that it wasn't even allowed to join my stash of "Now used for Housework" toothbrushes. THAT. SOILED. I mean - everyone knows that the bathroom sink is just the mouth toilet, right?

Then I went to grab one of the other toothbrushes from my stash of emergency backup toothbrushes. (When you know you are crazy you keep a stash of toothbrushes, right? Because at any moment you could decide "That's not going back in my mouth." so you need to be prepared.) Only, I was out of emergency backup toothbrushes. 🙁 Also, I was out of money. 🙁🙁 (Yes, I was paid Friday and it's only Monday, but this is my life right now. The mortgage was hungry.)

So... I swished some Listerine and decided to deal with this later. Got on with my day. Ended up scrounging up $12.50 so I'm gonna be toothbrush shopping tonight! I will not only buy a toothbrush that I love (#treatyoself), but also a pack of cheapies in case any other mouth toilet accidents occur. Phew! Crisis averted.

The End.

I have been pretty quiet on here...

I have been pretty quiet on here, but I guess it's just because I feel about socialized out lately.  I'm not sure what it is, but I have a feeling that it's because I'm going everywhere and doing everything all the time.  This is my schedule right now, for realz.  This is me trying to make my ends meet.

Monday - Tutoring from 10 - 5 (SCM is closed on Monday for now, which is the norm in the summer)

Tuesday - Class from 10 - 2, work at SCM after

Wednesday - side job doing website until 12:30, then work at SCM

Thursday - side job doing website until 12:30, then work at SCM

Friday - SCM all day

At some point during all of that I have my kid and my ani-pals to take care of, chores, an online class, etc., to deal with.  Granted I'm not as stressed as last semester (yet!), but I just feel really anti-social.  In what little free time I have I've been watching nail art tutorials and nail art tool reviews on YouTube and lamenting my lack of time and money.  🙁

What I did for fun this weekend was stay holed up in my bedroom working on my Access database for Polish All the Things.  I learned a few things and it was cool.  Then I accidentally deleted part of it, but opened an older version and fixed my idiotic mistake and now I have a backup because I nearly had a heart attack when that happened and it was just super dumb to not have a backup.  Lesson learned.

Just finished my ethics homework for the week.  I think it's time to take a shower and then either work on my database some more... or possibly even paint my nails.  Nails is probably a safer bet because that ends.  I could sit here endlessly tinkering in Access.  😂

I hope you had a nice weekend.  I have no complaints.  🙂❤

I know that I'm probably preaching to the choir here...

I know that I'm probably preaching to the choir here because most of my friends that pay any attention to me know the truth of the matter, but in case you don't:

"The ugly truth of the animal shelter isn’t the workers pulling up the syringe of pentobarbital... It's you."

https://www.facebook.com/DrAndyRoark/posts/1044669735610567

I didn't get a chance to update about Shadow's braces situation...

I didn't get a chance to update about Shadow's braces situation yesterday. Poor kid.  He has a mouth full of gear now.  He will probably think I'm making fun of him if he sees this, but I'm not.  His Herbst appliance (which looks kind of like pistons on each side of his mouth) makes mechanical sounds when he opens and shuts it.  LOL  He sounds like a robot to me - so that's weird.

Since his bottom jaw is a little small and he has an overbite they have his Herbst set to where it is holding his bottom jaw so forward that his bottom teeth are sticking out farther than his top now.  He kind of looks like a little bulldog.  That seems like overkill to me, but I'm just gonna trust that Dr. Benton has a good reason for it.  Also, they have a big thick wire along the inside of his bottom teeth and I think it's meant to apply pressure in a way that will encourage his jaw to grow.

Needless to say - he's in some pain.  And on top of that, he's throwing up today.  Maybe he picked up a virus when he was back there with his mouth wide open for hours while getting his teeth done.  😕  I don't know.  But I hate it when he feels so bad.

Anyway.  I'm ridiculously tired and super ready for the weekend.  I hope y'all are hanging by more than a thread!  ❤

Been here for 2 hours...

Been here for 2 hours. Herbst today, for realz. Wondering what all they are doing to my little boy back there...

Making good use of my time, at least. Did all of the reading and video-watching for my ethics class. Yay for WiFi and technology!

So clever.

So clever.  I wish more brands would do helpful things when advertising.  How awesome would it be if it became the norm for companies to compete for business by doing good deeds?

Tried something new this weekend.

Tried something new this weekend.  Instead of water marbling and dipping each finger I made one design, let it dry on the water, carefully took it out, and then cut it up and used them like decals.  I don't know if I would always be able to make that work, but my nails are so short and nubby right now that it went just fine.  I liked doing it that way because you *USUALLY waste less polish, and it's *USUALLY much less messy.

However, this time it was a huge mess.  I spilled not only hot water on myself, but 3 open bottles of nail polish.  EPIC FAIL.  I was sitting there saying to Shadow (in an attempt to elicit help from him) "HOT WATER!  NAIL POLISH!"  Those are about all the words I could manage for a minute because I could not believe what I'd just done.  He just looked at me like I was crazy until I screamed for him to get a towel.  LOL

I'm usually much more calm and prepared when doing my nails, but I had a "dying vole on my porch" type of situation to handle, so I found myself suddenly chatting with Wild Mammal Care in the middle of my nail-doing.  They asked me if she'd moved and when I got up to check I spilled everything everywhere because I am awesome.  Also, my little porch vole didn't make it.  🙁  I'm not super surprised, though, because you don't see them out usually unless something is wrong.

So yeah.  Nubs for now.  That is what happens when I go a month without polish.  My new nail / cuticle oil is doing a great job on keeping my nails from peeling, but having some layers of polish on is really what protects mine from breaking.

Also, pardon all the bubbles in my topcoat.  It was getting too thick, but I gave my polish thinner to a friend, so I just had to deal with it.  LOL  I gotta put thinner on my list of things to buy ASAP.  Those bubbles drive me crazy!