👁 Miceál writer, historian, urban explorer, ghost enthusiast, Archivist. fucking around, finding out, never learning my lesson. talk to me about creepy things. (innocent reasons I swear.)
This hack will save your teeth: there are no “right” and “wrong” times to brush your teeth.
It gets in your head that you brush after eating when you wake up and when you go to sleep. Yeah that’s all well and good, but those are times that don’t have a lot of motivation and control…So just…brush your teeth at a different time.
You go to the bathroom in the middle of the day and are like “I should brush my teeth” DO IT!!!! Don’t listen to the other half of that sentence that says “shit but it’s not the right time”
I don’t care if you’re about to eat, or get coffee, or whatever.
If you are there and you want to…do it.
Honestly this hack will solve most of problems. Just stop assigning meaningless “right” and “wrong” to tasks and start saying “I can pretty much do whatever I want whenever I want and society and its expectations don’t really matter to me”.
If there’s no barrier in the first place you don’t have to get over it.
huge ADHD hack. if you can get over the “all or nothing”, moralizing, judging aspect of every action you “should” take, you’ll discover you can get more done than you expect.
I’m a big fan of the 2 PM shower. spend a whole morning feeling lazy and guilty, then just decide to start the day over again, even if it is lunchtime.
you can always begin again. any hour, any moment can be the beginning. you can choose that. the clock doesn’t run you, you run the clock
you can always begin again. any hour, any moment can be the beginning. you can choose that
while brushing your teeth at any time is still better than not doing it at all, please try to brush your teeth before you go to bed! dentists agree that not brushing your teeth right before bed allows the plaque to harden in your mouth, and will eventually become impossible to remove via brush alone. your gums treat plaque as they would an infection, so as you sleep, your immune system immediately begins to attack the plaque and will eventually damage your gums in the process, leading to a receding gumline and more exposure of your teeth.
generally brushing twice in a 24-hour period, no matter when, will reduce this as it takes about that amount of time for this process to start. however, when you’re asleep, your mouth tends to be drier, and this lack of saliva means that your mouth becomes dirtier (this is why your breath tends to stink in the morning, and why it’s recommended to brush when you wake up). also, when you’re awake, you tend to be drinking and running your tongue absently over your teeth, which helps to keep the plaque from settling. you can’t do this while you’re asleep, and the absence of both of these things will speed up all of the above nasty stuff.
it’s totally fine to occasionally forget or not be bothered. but please don’t make a habit of it! even if you just quickly run a brush over your teeth and rinse with some mouthwash, it would still be better than going to bed with unbrushed teeth. doing this long-term could lead to tooth decay and gum disease.
you need to remember that I was 9 years old and the series hadn’t even finished yet, and my friends and I were absolutely obsessed with all the books’ mysteries. there was so much that hadn’t been answered, mainly the nature of VFD and what the letters even stood for, and pretty much all of our hypotheses were based on trying to work out what VFD stood for and what it did. we were also, to some extent or another, convinced that maybe VFD was totally real, and of course we all wanted to be associates.
so my journal at the time was a kind of commonplace book, like what Klaus kept in the series, and as well as stuff about my day I would write down theories I had about VFD, things I’d decoded (or thought I had), notes about potential VFD members trying to approach me, Olaf sightings, that kind of thing. so you can see why this journal of mine was password protected with a hex. top secret theorising in there.
