Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006 - 8:21 p.m.

Sorry about yesterday's post, but work was pretty awful.

I got a piggy bank for Christmas from my friend Sofy in Montpellier (the one in France, not Vermont). It arrived today with the note that if I start saving now, perhaps I can be in France this summer. :) The funny thing is, I was just sitting at work today thinking the very same thing. And also that maybe I can sell enough jewelry to put me there, which would be nice. :)

So, I've been having teeth grinding issues, which I think I mentioned. (Or I deleted that entry, which is entirely possible...) So I went shortly before Christmas to buy this, (sexy, no?) which did not want to stay put and sort of aggravated the misalignment in my bite. So I traded it for this version, which frankly, was like a medieval torture device. Seriously. Even on the smallest setting, it was too big, and frankly, if there's one way to ensure pain and a poor night's sleep, it's to cram copious amounts of plastic into a mouth too small to accomodate it, and then lie down for 8 hours and let all that rigid material fit itself into whatever nook or cranny it prefers...which will most likely be at the base of your gums. It was fairly excruciating and had to go.

So I traded it in for this. Which comes in 3 sizes, but the size actually long enough for my mouth was nothing short of huge, so I tried the medium, which according to my height, should have fit, but that too was too large, though at least I could close my mouth around it...mostly. So then I went for the small, which was at least a decent fit and allowed me to close my mouth fairly easily. I actually rather liked it. Except that I molded it a little too aggressively to my teeth, which caused it to exert too much pressure on my incisors and again caused pain. Of the all day variety. So last night, I had to cut a piece out of it so that I could sleep (no easy task, I assure you), and that kinda mucked it up a little, thus encouraging more misalignment.

So on the way home tonight, I returned the rather expensive torture device, and then, on the boyfriend's advice, went to Big 5 and bought a mouthpiece of the sort sports players use. This one, in fact.

For $1.49.

I bought 3.

And it works like a champ. From $75 to $30 to $1.49, and the cheap rubbery football thingie is the best of the bunch. And of the two you have to mold, the easier fit to execute. (albeit not as precise)

Have I mentioned it was $1.49?

Happy.

Peace out,
Katie

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