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1 hour ago, Spudater said:
I feel like I’m in limbo as far as planning goes until I figure out extracurricular schedules for next year. Will it be a four day week? Five day? Three long days and two short days? I don’t know. And no one will tell me until May probably...doop dee doo..
Right there with you. Only I won't find out DD13's fall schedule until July. If then.
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1 hour ago, Slache said:
I forgot about mother's day. :svengo:
So did I. I wonder if this year I can get DH to think of and get his own present for his own mother? Perhaps if I start mentioning it now....
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2 hours ago, Critterfixer said:
Everyone is being kick-butt today but me! Wah! I went to art after hassling the folks at Lowes about plant markers, but I don't have much energy today. I haven't eaten much of anything yet. That might have something to do with it. I got home and started working to get stuff ready for dinner, and forgot that lunch might be good for me.
I'm not that kick-butty today either. I didn't consider that a NOON phlebotomy would of course have me hungry before we were done. Note to self: eat a snack BEFORE Dad's appointments. You make Dad do it, so you should do it, too. We both got lunch about 1:45 PM.
We waited 20 minutes just to get his vitals taken before he could start his phlebotomy. No one told the nurse taking vitals that Dad was just there for a phlebotomy, and not to see the doctor of the day. As soon as she found out she brought Dad straight back and took his vitals immediately.
Dad has bandages on his arms that are to stay put until 5:30 this evening. After I fed him and took him for a haircut I took him home and told him I will come back this evening to take the things off his arms. I can do that while DD13 is Aikidoing.
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3 hours ago, prairiewindmomma said:
I am pricing out chemistry equipment. I have a fair stash of supplies already and I'm trying to decide whether it makes sense to order a full kit or only components. The full kits run $300-500, depending on whether you will settle for an alcohol burner (nope, I want butane so it gets hot enough to do the experiments) and depending on how much glassware I want. I can't find the calibration weight for my digital scale either. :(
Be sure and check if any chemistry equipment is outlawed by your state. For instance, for some reason Erlenmeyer flasks are not legal in Texas.
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4 hours ago, Jean in Newcastle said:
I guess that I'm wearing my Xena Warrior Princess battle clothes today. Lots of doors to pound on (by phone) today to get things to happen.
We will all ululate impressively in the background while you make your calls. People will fall at your feet in awe!
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So, I have a decision to make. (Granted, not that important. Just worrying over details because I'm getting caught in that rut now.)
A couple weeks ago I booked myself a new patient appointment with a primary care doctor in the same building as my endocrinologist. I needed to talk to the office at my endo and this other doctor had a poster out in the hallway advertising that she was a primary care doctor accepting new patients, AND I didn't have a primary care doc and need one, so I walked down the hall and booked myself an appointment for a week from tomorrow. I know nothing about her beyond what was on that poster, and I'm sure she's a good doctor.
It occurred to me that I COULD instead call up the old clinic where I was once a patient of an internal medicine doctor who served as my PCP at the time. He's no longer practicing, but they have other doctors I could get in with. It's a good clinic, and Dad's new PCP is over there.
The old clinic still has my medical files, so going with them automatically has whichever doctor I sign up with there already in the loop. However, it would be a simple thing to have the doctor I already have an appointment with get a copy of my records from that clinic, and there are other doctors with records on me (GYN, endo, ENT, sports medicine, dermatologist, urgent care, etc.) so no matter who I go with they will be collecting records from various doctors.
So, what do y'all think? Stick with the doctor I already made an appointment with, who is in the same building I visit at least 3-4 times a year anyway, or get in with someone at the old clinic?
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It is another phlebotomy day with Dad today. After the phlebotomy I will take him to lunch again, and after lunch, if he is up to it, I might try taking him for a haircut. Then I take him home and get home in time to take DD13 to Aikido, and hopefully DH will be home from his offsite stuff in time to take DD13 home after Aikido so I can go to yoga.
Round and round the wonder AMJ goes....
Rather like Lynn, huh?
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54 minutes ago, Critterfixer said:
I woke up ten minutes early because the birds were screaming outside my window. They weren't actually screaming. Noise just seems extra loud today. I warned the turtles.
Caffeine will make that all better, right?
Yeah, I have noticed that some days and times noises are just more insistent, less able to be ignored or filtered out. ((Critter))
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18 hours ago, Jean in Newcastle said:
I know that it isn't ds' fault that he is sick. But I am getting frustrated. And frustration makes me grumpy.
((Jean and Tech Support))
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20 hours ago, Jean in Newcastle said:
This is way outside of my comfort zone. The first time this issue came up at a meeting we were blindsided by two neighboring HOAs (we're poor so don't have an HOA) bringing this to the council as an "urgent issue". I had to get up and speak without notes or preparation even though my voice and legs were physically shaking with nervousness. But it was important to me that there be a rebuttal to what I felt like were spurious arguments. The second time it came up, I was a bit more prepared because I suspected that it might come up again but again, since it wasn't actually an agenda item I had come with no notes. So I got up to give rebuttal again only armed with my indignation. I haven't listened to the tapes of the meetings (which are public record) because especially the first time I kept losing my train of thought and couldn't for the life of me remember important details like street names! (But a retired newscaster lives here and has been very encouraging to me personally to get over my fear and to speak out.)
The meeting last night was a bit different. We had mobilized by then. I was part of a group of six neighbors who came for a war council. I was the moderate in the group. I don't like the "activist" in the group - she and her husband are abrasive and tend to default to being rude no matter who they are talking to. But it gave me a chance to really think through my own stance.
For two weeks I have been out measuring streets to get objective data (this was a safety issue that was bolstered in part by data like that). I have been taking pictures. I have been answering questions by other neighbors. Dd taught me how to use Sway - a Powerpointish presentation site. We get 3 minutes to talk at council meetings. My first speech was 7 minutes. For hours yesterday I timed my speech, cut out inessentials, timed it again, cut some more, timed again etc. I cut out all my snark that was in the first draft and I now feel like my speech was better for not having it in. I learned a lot about writing and rhetoric and my dd was able to see some of that process. (I did write down my name on the papers I was reading from because I was afraid that I would forget it in the heat of the moment! But I am weird in that my public name is not the same as what friends and family call me.)I do care about my community and it's safety and livability. But one of my resolutions (if you can call it that) this year is to step outside of my comfort zone. To stretch myself. A couple of years ago I realized that a combination of my middle age and chronic illness issues were making me afraid to step out. I think that it was making me age faster. And I didn't like it. So even though it scares the crap out of me to do stuff like this, I'm "taking chances, making mistakes, getting messy" (Apologizing to Ms. Frizzle for changing the grammar in her saying.)
I apologize for the treatise. I'm thinking with my fingers so to speak. This has been such a growing experience for me. One that I didn't expect to have at my age!
You are a wonderful example to us all of courage and careful thought. Thank you for sharing this process -- it helps us see HOW we can do similarly, if we need to.
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(((Tsuga, too)))
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53 minutes ago, Junie said:
I never did get a nap today, although I did try for an hour before dinner.
One of the girls took 2 1/2 hours to take a 20 minute math test. I'm about 3/4 of the way through a second book for the week. I got a bunch of 99 cent books in the mail last week -- just in time!
Hamburgers for dinner.
Cleaned some kitchen cabinets.
And I found out that the script for my medication is expired and I only have one injection left. This gives me two weeks to get this figured out. Sigh.
And that, for the most part, was my day.
:)
Likety and ((Junie))
My pharmacy switched my regular prescriptions over to 90-day refills when I inquired about that this evening. They discovered doing so would drop the copay on all but one of this bunch to $0! And the one that didn't drop was Levothyroxine and didn't cost much.
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5 hours ago, prairiewindmomma said:
Speaking of resourceful little things...
Don’t read this if you are eating.
Seriously, put down the food.
The oven installer is here and we discovered a ton of mouse poo and a hole a mouse ate up through the flooring to reach a covered space under my oven.
Dying here. Seriously freaked out. They are patching the hole before the new oven goes in.
4 hours ago, Jean in Newcastle said:((Prairie)) Want to borrow my cat? (Though seriously, this scaredy cat would be scared of a mouse.)
(((Prairie)))
She can borrow my cat. My cat will hunt those meeces!
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DD16 and I went for a bit of a walk together, then we set the canopy swing back up and sat swinging and talking for a bit. It was nice. I got to listen to her latest ideas on the direction she would like her life to take, and what would be needed in the rest of high school and in college in order to pursue that path.
She also said she would be my walking buddy, and help me get meals planned and cooked.
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12 minutes ago, Jean in Newcastle said:
My mouf is numb. Can you tell?
You sound like they left some cotton in.
Foo-eeahh!
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33 minutes ago, Susan in TN said:
I have complete my task list, including a phone call, and now I get to look at backpacking meal recipes.
Which recipes are you looking at?
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28 minutes ago, prairiewindmomma said:
I am using my rainbow pens in Oldest's planner and I feel no shame. I need the color coordination for my brain.
I also turned on Magic School Bus this morning for Youngest and have been letting that roll for a few hours. New episodes, no shame, all that.
It feels really nice to be able to plow into getting work done.
I love it when I get some time like that!
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18 minutes ago, Critterfixer said:
I woke up on fire at three this morning. Not literal fire, but blankets went flying as I tried to cool off. That happened around six this morning, and I got up at seven. So I'm pretty punchy now. I revised the last of chapter nine, and need to print out chapter ten to work on later. I also promised to go help with bees this afternoon. I'm so tired. Blech.
I have a couple of these, and they help: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S8OUCVW/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Basically when I wake up hot I peel back the covers, go use the toilet (to give the bedding a chance to lose some heat), then I put one chill pad on my pillow and one along where my spine will be and I get back to bed. After an hour or two they start to warm up from my body heat, but I just rouse enough to pull them out of the bed and drop them on the floor, and I usually am cooled enough to drop back to sleep.
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1 hour ago, Jean in Newcastle said:
Good morning. I have to have dental work done this morning. I hope that my lips cooperate tonight when I am making an important city council presentation.
I hope so, too! Good luck at the dentist!
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1 hour ago, prairiewindmomma said:
I trashed mine. For the trophies where I could peel off the brass label, I did that and donated them---they can often be reused by cub scouts or whatever during pinewood derbies.
I might be able to peel the facing off of the plaques themselves. The desktop ornaments are plastic with slogans and logos and the like poured inside. I'll see if DH or Aikido want any for anything, and trash stuff otherwise. Thanks. Part of me still gets the guilt for throwing stuff like that away.
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I have some old plaques and desktop clutter (stand-up plaque-like thingies spouting company values or slogans and the like) from my time years ago working for a corporation. These things are essentially meaningless; they won't help me in the future if I wanted to return to work and they aren't things I want to have decorating my home. What does one do with such things? Just chuck them into the trash?
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18 minutes ago, Susan in TN said:
Good morning!
I have been whipping through the tasks this morning! In my pj's and bathrobe! :D
Ds13 is so discouraged about his cello piece, which he is playing for an audition on Saturday. He actually plays it quite well when he takes it at a manageable tempo, but he tries to keep up with the breakneck speed his teacher insists on and just flounders through it. I played him several youtubes of professionals performing the piece and I think I have convinced him that if YoYo Ma takes it at 66 bpm (instead of 92 bpm), then so can ds13. :tophat:
I'm gonna go putz around the plants for a bit since the sun is finally out! Then back to my list.
Coffee!
I agree, follow Yo Yo Ma's example and play it slower. When auditioning playing well is much preferred over playing fast. Unless it's a NASCAR audition. And even then it is still better to play well.
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10 hours ago, Slache said:
I am at a complete loss as to how to answer this.
Aristotle would be envious about your hairline and full follicular scalp coverage.
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11 hours ago, myblessings4 said:
Ds33, when he was 2, had one of those experiences. He had eaten a bunch of my dad's sugar-free Certs. (remember those? "two. two. two mints in one." Anyway, he had poo running down his leg for a couple of days. We were very careful to keep sugar-free stuff put away after that!
Yeah, I can't be trusted around the Cherry Coke Tic-Tacs. They are just too yummy to me (even though I am not fond of the beverage itself).
Ignore this thread!
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See? I KNEW that ululating would pay off!
Seriously, good job!