random thoughts – Day 1,920 – (Thursday) –day off and dentist

It was hot and the day would have been perfect for a trek to the beach, but I, of course, had a mid-afternoon dental appointment, booked six or seven months ago and definitely without considering it was a holiday. The day kicked off with getting the house ready for a showing requested last night for 11:00 this morning. Vacuuming happened, and the opening of curtains, activation of the A/C knowing it would be very hot out, lights on, laundry basket with cat things into the car. 

Beautiful new street surface,
done in a day.

I left early to head to Fitchburg to meet Mom and my sister, and that’s when I received the text that the showing was off for today and would be rescheduled for the weekend. The delay of today’s showing was definitely for the best, because it turned out that today was the day the city did some surfacing work on the street, which, according to the flyer left at the house a couple weeks ago, was going to happen on June 9. Yeah, ten days ago. But it’s done now and when I returned home the length of the street had been refreshed in a lovely, dark, even color.

Mom, Sis, and I went to Kohl’s for nothing in particular, then Olive Garden for salad and soup, then Target because I needed dental floss to deal with the kale in my teeth from lunch before I headed off to the dentist. I had bought a new toothbrush and toothpaste at Ocean State Job Lot before I met Mom and Sis because I forgot mine in my haste to leave the house and I knew we would be having lunch, but there were only the floss picks at Ocean State and those always get stuck between my teeth. A couple times I’ve had to hunt for scissors to cut the floss and get the apparatus out of my mouth. Not super fun. 

The dentist was just a routine cleaning and there were x-rays and also a panoramic image to try and figure out why I keep getting a random, weird pain in my jaw when I'm putting on makeup or brushing my teeth, but nothing unusual showed in it. The hygienist and I were joking about adding spa services to maximize time and income per square foot. It couldn’t be that hard to add paraffin wax hand treatments and cucumber or teabag eye treatments. Botox is already a service in dental offices, so why not other beauty treatments? There was the usual dental cleaning goodie bag with appointment card for the next visit in January, a new toothbrush, small toothpaste, and small dental floss after my appointment so now the medicine cabinet is stocked with fresh dental supplies.