I’m back but just to reply to FCM as it’s so nice out. Even though it’s 12*, there’s no wind and with how I am layered, I felt comfy so I’m going to go for a little walk. I haven’t taken a walk since Bella was picked up by our Daughter on Sunday.
{{{FCD}}} I hope he can work through his negative feelings asap. I hope he can realize that his parents lived a good long life.
When my Dad passed and maybe before that, I used to say ‘No one gets out of life alive’. There’s the expression that the only sure things are Death and Taxes.
I laughed at your spoilered thoughts. There are times I have similar dark, warped humor thoughts that I keep in my head while biting my tongue. I’m glad you didn’t bite your fingers and shared that with us.
Laundry in a moment, and then later, when the pharmacy opens, a trip to try to work out if I can take a new drug. My ophthalmologist has prescribed me a drug for dry eye, and the drug will cost me $187 per month after my prescription plan pays their share. This is more than I can pay, and I told the doctor so. He got a bit huffy says that generic should be covered. So today I go in and see if his staff was successful in pushing the generic prescription through. I’m not at all sure this will cost any less, but it’s worth a try. I’m happy to keep using preservative-free eye drops and nighttime gel drops, but the doc is pushing for the prescription stuff.
The prescription stuff (Restasis) is still less expensive than the drops he had me on for awhile (Xiidra). Xiidra made me produce so much tears that they were running down my face. But insurance decided not to cover Xiidra anymore and that stuff costs (checking) $689 a month. So I had to stop using it, much to my doctor’s annoyance.
Back from walk and it was so good to get out and get a little exercise. I only walked 8 blocks but it also was a nice mental health break.
I saw a neighbor wheeling his bin trash & recycling bins to the curb and stopped to chat. He related that he had lived in the U.P. for a year and a half and learned several things:
you have to go outside and do something every day during the winter so you don’t go crazy.
if you are going for a run, cross-country ski, etc, dress for the second mile. (because if you dress to be comfy right away, you’ll end up sweating like no tomorrow after a little exertion, then if you start unlayering, what are you going to do with those clothes?)
turn around and head for home while it is still fun.
The only thing that felt a little cool was the crook of my elbows. Face was fine since I wore my masks. However, I saw a gent walking a dog and he had on a balaclava and I thought to myself, I should have worn my balaclava so I could have taken off my masks for awhile. Forgot about my balaclavas. I actually have 2; bought a black one for when I was doing backpacking and cold weather hiking; Hubs bought a multi-colored jewel-toned one for me for Christmas a few years back.
ok, on to yesterday’s “supposed to be pinochle” outing. There are 8 women in the Pinochle Group; they’ve all been friends for about 40+ years. They started asking me to sub after I retired. One of the women was going to be at her second home on the shores of Lake Michigan so I was asked to sub. It was bracingly frigid yesterday; even though it was 17* (higher temp than today) but a cold strong wind was blowing. When I arrived, there were only 6 women there; I was the 7th. No one else came. It turned out that one of the women had called yesterday morning saying she was violently ill so couldn’t come. First thing was lunch which was pizza (all corners) and salad. Then, instead of playing pinochle, we first played a few rounds of ‘Catch Phrase’. My word/phrase was Top Notch. I was able to get them to guess Top but they couldn’t get my clue for Notch. Then we played Balderdash. Only one person guessed that what I had written was correct. Of course, I totally made it up. Lastly we play Right/Left/Center with dimes that the hostess provided. The lady sitting to my left won twice. We all gave the dimes back to the hostess and I told the winner that she had bragging rights. Then we all talked for another hour. I was the first to leave because I had to get back to the salt mine of WFH on the budget.
Today I need to get my Secret Santa gifts and some other gifts packaged and off to the Post Office. I’d also like to address some more Christmas cards and get them mailed. Then there’s the normal dish washing and other household chores. I’d also like to work out on the NuStep as it’s been about 4 days since last time. We’ll see how much I actually accomplish.
mine were my mum returning and asking my why i buried her when she wasn’t dead, that sort of thing, when i sold the house the dreams then moved to how dare i sell the house.
i remember being in the dream and trying to be logical about it. wondering how she survived embalming, that sort of thing.
working through what the issue at the base of the dream did stop them.
It’s 40F and cloudy outside. We’ll have rain showers in the morning starting around 9:00 a.m. Those showers will turn to steady rain for the afternoon with a high temperature of around 46F.
JtC, my thoughts are with you. I am sending best wishes for a smooth, speedy procedure.
red, you make beautiful cards.
shoe, I hope you’re feeling better. I hope all is well with your Dad, too.
The furnace is being serviced today, and I plan to bust out the steam cleaner, too. While vacuuming the great room the other day, I moved the dog bed in front of the couch and noted the vast difference in the carpet. Under the bed, it was markedly lighter. I mean, it really stood out, and I was shocked and kind of squicked out.
I guess I’ll drag the tree out tomorrow.
Okay, on with the day. I am waiting for the ibuprofen to kick in because I woke up with both a headache and a neck ache. Hopefully, it’ll kick in soon.
Not my favorite subject, that was for sure, I think I did manage to produce a couple of items but spent way to much time sanding things…
{{shoe}}
boo fae, may your travels be easy.
Hope you get feeling better soon, Cat Glove. And stay warm! And just see you went walkabout, so you must be feeling better; and wise words from your neighbor.
FCM, hope FCD can make it to the concert, smiling children are often a great cure for depression.
Indeed.
lucky, I hope that the generic is available to you (and cheaper). Will not get into health care costs and insurance as there are other threads for that and in that way lies madness. If you can get it, then I hope it is worth it.
Slept reasonably well and will shortly head over to the Kroger for the usual Firday shopping, the list is longer than usual but am trying to get set until 22 December when I’m due to head up to Brother’s. Nephew is doing well, still in hospital but they are due home by the 21st, so that should work out OK. Soccer will keep me occupied tomorrow so outside of getting my swimming in today not much on the agenda. It’s 38F right now and getting to 56F, so another mild December day in N. Ali-bama.
And it’s getting near 9am, the kiddos should all be in school so I need to dress more or less appropriately and do that shopping thing. Have a good Firday the 13th all.
I moved everything but the big dresser out of the (now) guest room and did a thorough roll-suck. Bearing in mind that carpet is over 15 years old, it’s pretty sad. There are stains that ex-SIL created when he and Daughter lived with us - he couldn’t be bothered to clean up after their cat. Plus it’s all walked down except where the bed sits. But it’ll get a good cleaning and I’m not going to worry about replacing it. All 3 bedrooms were done at the same time, so all 3 should be replaced, but the thought of moving all that furniture, including 3 big, full bookcases in FCD’s office/smallest bedroom - nope. Next owner can deal with it.
I left the box on the porch for the woman to pick up and I’ll be going with FCD. So yay!
First load is in the washer - I’ll deal with the rest after we get back. I’ll also clean the carpet after we get back. SIL will come over on Moanday to bring the mattress and foundation upstairs and I can finish putting the room back together.
I dug thru the two boxes that were in the corner of MIL’s room - most of what was in there were photos from late BIL - OMG, they sent so many pictures!! At first I thought to return them to TX SIL, but surely she has them all, so we may save one or two and toss the rest. That would still leave us with so many frames! Thrift store, here they come!!
Slowly but surely, things are getting done. I did clean the pellet stove this morning, so yay me!
I am feeling better today other than the parts of me involved in physical therapy. I have read along, but am low on retention.
I just sent a difficult email to my psychiatrist. I’m hoping it works out in my favor. Speaking of, JtC, I am, again, sorry for your struggles. But what you’ve said of your conversation has reminded me that I need to keep my family in the loop on what I’m feeling so that if a difficult situation arises then they won’t be taken by surprise.
Restasis generic is worth a try if you can get it, it’s a slightly different medication.
If your dr can’t get it down to a reasonable price, try GoodRx.com without using insurance coverage. In my area I can get generic Restasis 60 vials for $92.06 a month at several pharmacies, including CVS and Target. It’s not uncommon for the co-pay of an ‘insured’ prescription to still be more expensive than if you said “phooey !!” to the insurance hassle and shenanigans and just pay for it out of pocket using GoodRx.
GoodRx is free and your pharmacist will know how to use it once you say “I’m using GoodRx”. For some reason pharmacists don’t seem to be allowed to suggest GoodRx if you don’t initiate it. Maybe that’s just in my state but I’m sure it’s big pharma and the insurance companies at work. I look up the drug upon GoodRx, find the lowest price and take a screenshot of it on my phone to show the pharmacist.
So it went Ok for most of the sort, but then the last Air was late, so I ended up sailing Next Day Air packages into the drivers’ package cars as the were leaving. But that’s gin money for Spot. I stopped at Teeter, and got some snapper. It was 75% off, and I still had the last of my Fresh Catch rewards, so I got a pound o’ premium used fish for $4.06.
Me: < walks into apartment >
Spot: < begins biting hand >
Me: “OW! THIS IS A NO BITING ZONE DUMBASS!”
Spot: “HA! I HAVE PLAYED AN OPPOSITE TOKEN, SO EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE BITING ZONE IS THE BITING ZONE!”
Yay! But anyone who thinks public transportation is a bother probably never drove on the 405 at 11:00pm on a Wednesday night.
{{{{Cat_Glove and Hubs}}}}
Have you considered going Old School, and whacking him in the head with a cast iron frying pan? Because nightmares on top of waking trauma is not what he needs. {{{{FCD}}}}
I am so sorry. I hope that you find something within your abilities that you enjoy as much as the fine work. While I’ve never done it, I have some pieces that my grandmother and sister have done and they are displayed in my home.
Mooooooom, I had to laugh at your dark humor thoughts. Sometimes, having a dark, warped sense of humor is what allows us to begin healing.
Have you checked with your pharmacy to see if there’s a manufacturer’s subsidy or other program to mitigate the cost? I have a couple of meds that I get that way.
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, bed stripped, towels / sheets in the dryer, jeans in the wash and fixing to do KP / general houseirk.
Not a whole lot shaking other than the usual Firday stuff, so time to get off my butt and do it.
Only sorta. I keep feeling kinda better, and then suddenly … not, again. I finally gave up and put a trash can next to the bed so I wouldn’t hafta keep getting up and crossing the whole house. Very thirsty now, but if I do more than gently sip at the water, it all goes bye-bye.
I’ll bring some soup with me to work, hope it stays down, and see how the evening goes.
The wife has been having problems with one of her ears lately, and it started looking infected, so we got her in to see the doc this morning who prescribed an antibiotic cream. She also had some labs taken to see if there is some other issue, which is good. Three hours later, we’re still waiting for Walgreen’s to fill the damned thing.
Another day of bone-chilling weather, presently at 8F. But it’s supposed to get up to near 30F tomorrow, with some snow.
Sadie spent most of the night on the bed with us. Then she saw us this morning and bolted under the bed. Weirdo.
It’s a balmy 20 here in no. Illinois. Saw the chiro this morning. He did some very gentle movements on my ankle. Then I went to the grocery sto. I bought baking ingredients for white chocolate chip cookies, and chocolate crackle cookies. Guess I have to do some baking. But not today.
The 3-y/o class “concert” was adorable. Tobias stood in the front, hands in pockets for pretty much the whole performance, not singing, not doing the adorable hand motions. He’s definitely not the ham his sister is. I’ll see if I can post the video I took - after I transfer it from my phone. Anyway, afterwards, we went to Olive Garden for soup and salad.
First load of laundry is in the dryer, second is in the washer, 2 more to go. I’d forgotten that in pre-MIL days, I did unders every other week so I’d have a full load. Which makes this a non-unders week. In case you were wondering…
The woman came and picked up the incontinence stuff. The carpet in the guest room is clean and drying. I need to get into the attic and see if we have a bed frame up there. When MIL used that bed, the foundation sat on the floor because she was so short. I’m hoping I didn’t give the frame away with one of the other mattress sets.
FCD is re-re-re-doing his design. I think I’m due a little chillage time.
He’s like, “Look, I showed up. I’m here. What more do you people expect from me?”
… which come to think of it, will be pretty much me today, too.
Still a bit blurfy, but some Vitamin Water and a handful of Cheerios have gently assimilated, so that’s progress.
Don’t have the soup I want in the house & donwanna deal with Wal-Mart, BUT!!! I do have two little containers of deli pasta salad - one pesto, and one bowtie rainbow something-or-other mix - so imma take both of those in with me instead. No prep (just grab a fork!) and I can nibble on them throughout the evening as time - and tummy capriciousness - allows.
Now I’m off to take a verrrrry long shower, and dig out some nice, clean clothes from the growing hamper collection in my living room.
If I have the wherewithal, I really need to take out some very icky trash and Monkey’s old litter box, cuz I know for sure I won’t be able to deal with any of that by the time I return.
We’ll see how winded I already feel by the time I’m showered and dressed.
