Saturday, September 19

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Oddly overcast (we're getting smoke from forest fires to the West), but otherwise a nice day.

My sweetie doing chores for me so I could get to town on time for my dental appointment.

I got the "good" hygienist, the one who doesn't carve up my gums with the pick. She was very gentle, so I wasn't all tight with nervousness. She said that I didn't have that much plaque, in spite of it being well over a year since my last cleaning. That's likely in part due to giving up sugar this year.

I had one small filling, and it didn't take long. I was really relieved, because I thought that one molar would be a lot worse. I'm glad we have coverage, and our co-pay was low (Canada doesn't have socialized dental, but I think it should).

I'm so nervous about anything medical/dental that I kind of dissociate, and it can take me a long time to feel like I'm "back in my body" properly. I'm glad that today was not painful, and though I still dissociated, I wasn't completely freaking out inside, so that was okay.

Getting some used motor oil to the recycling depot.

Going to the thrift store and buying some more installments on my "uniform" for home of yoga/sweatpants/tights and some t-shirts. I would never buy new ones for just working in the yard, unless they were the dirt cheap ones from Wal-mart. Mostly I buy things at the thrift shops. I also found some good art books. I've been surprised at how many good quality instruction books I've found there.

Seeing an employee at the thrift store that I like. She's worked there for years now, and she always makes me laugh and/or converses with me. It's nice.

Picking up milk, the one thing I forgot on yesterday's grocery run.

I'm grateful for being able to get to a dentist, to not have to worry about paying for the care, that we live in a place where the care is good, that I have the ability/mobility to get to my appointment and run errands, that the people at the clinic and the thrift store were very kind to me and everyone I saw was being careful about wearing masks and sanitizing etc., and I got to come home to my sweet animals and just chill.