Aarrgghh!!! Just lost a chunk of a back tooth. That'll teach me to snack while A2King (even if it was fat free Good and Plenty). The tooth already has a pin -- bet that means it'll be painful and expensive to fix <sigh>.
No. Just a pin drilled in to the tooth to hold a larger than average filling in place. A crown might be in my future though. Gotta call the dentist tomorrow.
interesting - the pin idea is a new one to me.
Could be it's an old-fashioned remedy. I'll bet I've had it 15 years at least.
sad to think that 15 years ago is olden-time.
Well, I guess I was thinking in terms of the advancements in dentistry. Seems like a lot of people my age and older are talking crowns these days. I never hear of anybody getting a pin to hold an oversize filling in place. But come to think of it, the dentist who did this work trained in Australia. Maybe the alternative to a more costly crown is more common there? Or maybe at some point there is simply more filling than tooth and so a crown is the only option. I guess I'll be finding out.
Lesson in vanity
I hardly ever splurge on clothes. When I do get new ones, it's usually H&M or Target. I have shopped in Anthropologie exactly twice. The first time I only got one t-shirt that was on sale. This time, it was an end-of-the-summer treat. Jina spent the whole summer in Boston and we were together much of the time. She was leaving that day and we decided to treat ourselves. I spent more than I should have, but then, it will last me a long time. Right? Wrong.
My new expensive anthropologie clothes were turned into rags overnight. I put them in the washer yesterday in the evening. Went to check some half hour later if they're done and can be moved to the dryer. They were still washing. Then HM#3 (the good new one) came home and we were chatting. Then it was bedtime. I thought eh, too late to put them in the dryer now, i'll do it in the morning. My new expensive anthroplogie clothes (and lingerie from Victoria Secret that is also newish) spent 14 hours in the washer stuck on the "agitation" mode - being slapped back and forth. All buttons, applications, anything that even remotely stuck out on anything was removed.... wires swam away from the bra.... one pair of tights disintegrated into powder and lined everything. it's a steaming heap of mess of a diaper color. That's how I don't like to start my week.
three hours and half a jar of nutella later: clothes are detangled (you'd be amazed how many complicated knots clothes can make without human intervention!), some were bleached and look better, i found all the buttons and assessed holes - much will be salvageable, but everything looks generally old. especailly because of the fine brown film caused by the disintegrated tights. no idea how to get rid of that, guess i'll try the pick-up sticky roll or the clothes brush.... it will be a few more hours of fun. meanwhile half a work day is gone. will be working late tonight. grrrrr
eh? explains what, the email?
I'm still trying to figure out how the nutella plays into it...
One of these days aged patina on clothes and accessories will be IN again...
picture this:
you're a woman (try!). you just splurged big time on clothing. you go down to retrieve your prized bounty from the washing machine. you find it ruined. you walk back upstairs, reminding yourself that material possessions are only of this world and you cannot take them with you to the grave. that's not helping, because now you're thinking of death, too. what can soothe you in such a state of affairs?
nutella. the one and only.
There are a probably hundreds of edibles, potables, and smokables I'd think of before nutella. Perhaps thousands.
But, to each her own.
I thought it might be some crafty European clothes-cleaning trick.
dagmaraka wrote:Lesson in vanity
I hardly ever splurge on clothes. When I do get new ones, it's usually H&M or Target. I have shopped in Anthropologie exactly twice. The first time I only got one t-shirt that was on sale. This time, it was an end-of-the-summer treat. Jina spent the whole summer in Boston and we were together much of the time. She was leaving that day and we decided to treat ourselves. I spent more than I should have, but then, it will last me a long time. Right? Wrong.
My new expensive anthropologie clothes were turned into rags overnight. I put them in the washer yesterday in the evening. Went to check some half hour later if they're done and can be moved to the dryer. They were still washing. Then HM#3 (the good new one) came home and we were chatting. Then it was bedtime. I thought eh, too late to put them in the dryer now, i'll do it in the morning. My new expensive anthroplogie clothes (and lingerie from Victoria Secret that is also newish) spent 14 hours in the washer stuck on the "agitation" mode - being slapped back and forth. All buttons, applications, anything that even remotely stuck out on anything was removed.... wires swam away from the bra.... one pair of tights disintegrated into powder and lined everything. it's a steaming heap of mess of a diaper color. That's how I don't like to start my week.
You poor DARLING!!!!!
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DON'T THE FERKING WASHING MACHINES STOP AUTOMATICALLY IN THE USA???????!!!!!!!!!
dagmaraka wrote:three hours and half a jar of nutella later: clothes are detangled (you'd be amazed how many complicated knots clothes can make without human intervention!), some were bleached and look better, i found all the buttons and assessed holes - much will be salvageable, but everything looks generally old. especailly because of the fine brown film caused by the disintegrated tights. no idea how to get rid of that, guess i'll try the pick-up sticky roll or the clothes brush.... it will be a few more hours of fun. meanwhile half a work day is gone. will be working late tonight. grrrrr
Oh...that's a bit better...phew.
The sticky roller things?
A pet hair remover velcroey thingy brush thingy?
yes yes, those are precisely the two tools i had in mind.
though i think some of the clothes will just have to be washed a few times to get rid of everything. others will never see a washing machine again.
i think machines should be built with conscience and should be punishable by law.
