So I just don't feel like getting into the heavy stuff right now, so I'll tell you about the small thing that happened last night/this morning.
I sleep with a night guard. A mouth guard. A whatever you call it. It's supposed to help my teeth resist the grinding/clenching I apparently do. I've had a variation of one for a long number of years. I kind of can't sleep without it, although some nights I have to put a softer one (that I "made" at home) in instead.
I went to bed last night, and as usual, wrote in my journal, read some of my book and then reached over to get my mouth guard and turn out the light.
But... the mouth guard wasn't there. Hmmm.
Sometimes when I'm half awake (like whatever stage of sleep it is) I'll remove an earplug and put it under my pillow. I don't always remember doing this but somehow I'm wise enough in that not awake moment to put the earplug somewhere I'll find it.
So that's the first place I checked for the missing night guard. Under my pillows. But it wasn't there. I wondered if it had slipped down the side of my mattress or something but I didn't want to get up and lift up the mattress so I used my back up mouth guard and eventually got to sleep.
Because I had taken something to try to help me sleep the night before (the bad news night) and so I knew I was maybe not all that together that night or yesterday, so when I woke up this morning I ripped my bed apart, flipped my mattress (to check along the sides), swept/dusted under my bed and even pulled my dressers away from the wall in case I had like thrown it weirdly or something? (And then I had to vacuum/dust behind there too.)
But no. The mouth guard didn't seem to be anywhere near my bed. (I even checked in drawers.) Where on EARTH could it have gone???? This didn't make sense.
I started thinking I might have to call my dentist to make a new one, out of pocket (since my coverage is only for a new one every few years) and that I would just have to wear the back up one until I could make that happen.
But I thought I would try checking one last place before I declared this a total mystery.
About once a week, usually on a Saturday, I put all of my mouth/teeth related things (my mouth guards, my tooth brushes, my tooth brush head) into a glass mug that lives in my bathroom and I soak them with denture cleaner. Maybe, just maybe, I had put it in that mug? Probably not, but worth a look I figured.
And lo and behold, there it was.
It seems that "in shock" and "on a sedative" me is still rather responsible and I had taken the night guard out, somehow realized it was a Saturday and so plopped it into the mug in the bathroom and then completely forgotten about it (I most likely went straight to my phone to see if Jason was ok) and not noticed it when I was in the bathroom at any point yesterday as it is clear and, well, cleaning my dental appliances was very much not on my mind.
So I guess my brain still had some desire for routine yesterday morning. And I'm honestly very glad I found it as I was completely mystified why it was not in my bedroom. I guess I was half smart, but not completely smart but I'm glad some part of my brain at least put it somewhere, even if I have no recollection of doing so.
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