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my mouth hurts.  really bad.  i meant too, but never did sign up for a dental policy since my nulife-at-home.  crapamundo.  my tooth was bothering me a bit, but that has now been upgraded to a five alarm fire.  can't eat, can't bear touching it, i'm in trouble. yes, i'll figure something out stat, but it will be tricky.  is there an ER for dentistry?
tracfone is sending me a new simcard for my emergency trac fone.  i hate them right now.    i have over 1,000 minutes and 428 days of service left.......sorry, still can't believe those schmucks DEACTIVATED ME.  why?  is my cell phone a robot?  jerks.  big jerks.  after wasting a ton more of my minutes, they sent me to Pedro, the problem solver.  Pedro seemed to be a real live boy.  Gave me his actual number to call him back to set up my phone once I get the new sim card.  See when they tried to reactivate my cell phone, it would not reactivate with the numbers they provided.  The system kept saying invalid entry over and over.  sigh.  why should anything be simple?  so i am to limp along and then allot another half day to be on the phone with Pedro to reactivate my phone officially.  could i switch?  should i switch?  plausible questions certainly, but i paid for those minutes and those days of service, that came out of my BUDGET.  I don't have new budget $$$$ for an emergency phone unless I take it out of another pile of quarters already earmarked for something else. 
my son told me to call Clark Howard.  Clark Howard is our consumer go getter make things right guy around here.........i grinned, the last time trac phone messed with me, they ended up sending me a free phone, free charger, free ear buds, free minutes, and i didn't have to renew my service in any way for over two years.  sam ruffled my hair and called me Clarka Howard .....!  it's just that i get tired of fighting so hard for things that are just sooooooooooo dumb, don't ya'll?  still shaking my head that they turned off my phone because they say that i did not make one outbound call in 2012.  why don't they have to notify me?  jerks, mo-rons.  lol.  seriously.  stupid.  am i done yet.? 
i took my shredded wheat tire to wal-mart.  uh oh.  stupid people saga continues.  the lady who writes up the ticket did not listen, she sent me inside, the man inside sent me back out.......she was mad, he was mad.......nobody listens.  here's the deal.  we know i will be buying one tire for sure, but if i need more tires then i will do that while i am here too. 
this seemed to bamboozle the woman and frustrate the guy who couldn't understand why the woman didn't get this.  me, i was dizzy getting in and out of my car. what do i know?  it was hot and muggy.  there were no other customers...............they seemed to be very disorganized and confused.  with all the mechanical stuff they had it would have been a great place for a tire repair shop. 
well.....i did get my tire, nobody every addressed the other three, so i asked again.  seriously they said oh uh did you want 4 tires............really got to wonder about the level of intelligence in our country.  sometimes we just want to poke and jab at others, but maybe people really aren't very bright, maybe they really are well......underequipped intellectually to understand a basic problem like how to ascertain if they could or should sell me 1, 2, 3, or 4 tires in order for me to be safely navigating down the road.  Scary, but maybe that is part of the reality, that people are not as smart as we give them credit for.......see when I tease about people being dumb, I don't really mean it, I really think that they just aren't taking the time to see it through and process it correctly, but if they did , they would come to a better conclusion.................anyway, most people don't care.......I know, me in overthinkville again.....la la la.
my mouth really hurts hank.  youch.  i have to go get blood drawn tomorrow in order to keep my rheumy appt on Friday and then i have an appt with my general md early afternoon..............somehow i also have to figure out how to get in to see a dentist by tuesday or i think i will be in serious trouble.
i put some soup on top of some rice........soft right?  should be able to eat it right? no way jose. 
let's talk about some good stuff for a while.........ok? ok!
i left wal-mart and went to jcpenneys to return a catalog item.  a nice lady got it out of my trunk and brought it in the store for me.  so nice.......!!!!!!  it was too heavy for me to carry from the mall parking lot inside. 
on a whim i called Sam (my son) and invited him to cash in his raincheck birthday dinner from last month.  He said YES.........but he wasn't hungry.......me on the other hand?  I hadn't eaten all day.  Anyhoo, he drove to the mall and we looked at stuff.  Plus he showed me pics of his new bike.......bicycle, his third.  He bought it from a friend, it was made in the late 70's, in excellent shape, he took it to his bike shop, they oohed and ahed over it and handed it back, nothing needed, no charge, all good news for Sam! 
So we decided to get something to drink..........the mall IS HUGE.  I suggested that we check out movies (as I mentally salivate over movie CHAIRS), so he got a smoothie......a mangosteeno?something or other and i went crazy and got a WATER!  lol.  we decided to go see the newest Bourne Movie........it was starting in ten minutes.......just enough time for Sam to get brain freeze chugging that smoothie. 
Lots of added security, lots.  They check all bags, all purses........they had three officers standing at the front behind the kids taking tickets.  They had 2 teams of three patrolling down each of the two hallways.  I don't know if this is what they do everyday  or if this was because it was Friday? I haven't been to a movie in so long that I don't remember what I saw or when I went.
I gave up my thinking self and disappeared into the movie........it was action adventure......so many great movie stars, lots of heartpounding fun.......I put my hands over my face and semi peeked through my fingers....Sam finds this hilarious.  I hate heights.
I'm talking hate here, so when the star of the movie is about to jump from one mountain peak to another mountain peak I DID NOT LOOK, I DID NOT SNEAK A PEAK.  Intellectually I knew it was too soon into the movie to kill him, but my heart did not seem to understand, it was pounding like crazy.  My brain doesn't get that there is no danger sitting in the movie seat.........I am right there.  I suffer from EXCESSIVE IMAGINATION..........but it's FUN, so I am not complaining........!!!!!!!!  Most of the time I do peak.........lol.  After the movie, we went to dinner.  We went to Macaroni Grill.  We were gonna go to Ruby Tuesday's, but Sam said he wanted a steak.......and me and my big mouth, I said the Macaroni Grill makes a seriously mean steak and it's my treat!  So we went.....he drove my big land yacht and sat in a lovely padded booth.  Our waitress had the greatest accent.  I thought she was from Italy, from no, she is from Paraguay.  She is very engaging, personable.....smiles and laughs easily.  I wish she were just a wee bit younger, I might be devious enough to play matchmaker, she is very lovely......poor Sam, the things a Mom thinks about (planning and plotting in order to get grandbabies.......LOL) but no I was a good human and did not embarrass anyone, self included.
We ordered some dewpauper peppers, no thats not right......some mewdapper peepers?  heck I don't know, they look like little orange tomatoes stuffed with goat cheese with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar.  I liked the stuffing the best, the peppers were tart........made my little nose run.  Fun to try, don't think I would try them again, but who knows.........!
We got steaks with bbq sauce, it tasted nothing like bbq to me...........it was a very sophisticated sauce, very tasty.  It came with grilled veggies (eggplant, tomato, onion) and mac and cheese......made with proscuitto, pasta, peas and creamy cheese.....spelling. sorry really tired now, too tired to figure out how to fix the wrong words today.  i ate their super delicious home baked rosemary and thyme bread dipped in evoo and didn't have much room for dinner.........i brought home two take out containers.  i get full so fast.  it was fun though.........Sam is such good company.............i got home around 11:30........whoa. 
upside, big fun.  downside, i was in trouble walking about ten minutes inside the mall, the bottoms of my feet were killing me. fibro is so mean when it attacks the feet.  i have been staying in bed/on the couch.......got to go to the doc tomorrow come hell or highwater.............got to and i have to find a dentist asap.  close to my abode.  stat.  wish me luck. 
yes i'm glad i went, it is still hard.........they need to have rentable electric carts in the mall.  first time i've gone to a mall in ?  more than two years......more than three?  I would guess that i walked the equivalent of 2 long blocks.........the payback is huge.  time with my son?  priceless.