martianmooncrab

I have a rash thats spreading, its from a heat rash and other factors gone wild. I have already had a medication issue (and ER visit) ... plus the Va pharmacy thinks I am using up the ointments at a faster rate than they think is allowed. sigh.. I have a lot of ass to spackle there, so I calls into my primary care doctor.

waiting on my brain MRI to see if I still little friend free.... I do apprecaite their followups.

I did score a new upright walker this week, it folds down better and its bright blue!

have given money to ford and firestone in honor of still driving my van. sigh. I am trying to collect the rebate on the new tires, but, they are bound and determined to make me use a QR code, give them my email, or do crap I dont want to on electronic devices. What ever happened to just filling out a piece of paper, xeroxing the invoice and mailing it in? so simple and easy. And it doesnt take screen time, just a xerox machine. I am really rejecting this modern age now. Of course they want to track you and sending you emails and texts, because thats what they are rebating you for I guess. Maybe they should call it a ReBait instead. I already have their damn credit card, I think thats enough data sharing.

this is the 3rd week of the 3.0 dose of trulicity. Still having odd moments, and when it hits the sleep phase its 10-12 hours before I can function. If this higher dose doesnt bring down my A1C then the last increase will be to 4.5 and thats it on the diabetes train for me.

Got 2 raised beds cleared and planted with tomatoes, weed whacked the front lawn only, and have been attacking the blackberries that think my flower beds are their new homes. Not.

went and saw the new Stitch movie with my niece, its movie lite.... and they left out my favorite line "its okay, my puppy has a chainsaw" We both wanted to see the new Karate Kid movie, but its not out yet.

Some days its a struggle to read, and to even play my game online, but I still not giving up.

I had a bad body day last week, as if I was at 60% of functional and extremely tired. I went to bed at 930pm which is normally when Istart to become functional. I slept until I had to get up, then I played on my game, I also put the new bin in the fridge door which was fun, as I didnt know they had two sets of supports to chose from for the bin holder, and I couldnt get it it work until I saw that , I wanted to put the bin in one spot, but that didnt work for the fridge now I have my mill container sized bin in the middle of the door rather than at the bottom but I now have cold juice that fits, then back to bed and woke up early afternoon. I felt better.

The county sent me a jury summons, silly them.

Worked in the yard during a break in the rains for about 3 hours, I got me a replacement weeping pussy willow tree and spent most of the time digging a hole to plant it in. I am so out of shape, I spent half the time sitting in a chair while digging. My balance is off a bit anymore, and I dislike the minor wobblies. Tree got planted, I got the tools put away, oh, and I feed the birdies and watched the side yard while I was sitting, I even spotted a young chipmunk out there feeding. Silly thing, their tails are hyperactive. Two bunnies, young grey squirrels, older reddish squirrel with bright orange belly, the wood ducks were back (they are smaller and prettier than the mallards) the second type of quail showed too. It was good. I got the new finch feeders filled and hung, and suet was dispensed.

I forgot to post last time I was on... yeah, that short term memory issues...

I spent 20 years dealing with COMSEC and with the latest BS from the administration, the old adage of Loose lips Sink Ships is brought to mind. On the positive side, no US personnel were lost. Our enemies dont have to break our comm and cryptos, we just blab it out it bits and they connect the dots.

Still not a fan of Elon and the Musk-rats ..

New fridge is great, still havent used the water and ice functions yet, but I keep cycling the systems to flush them out.

A friend gifted me an advance copy of the new Miller & Lee book, so I am nibbling on it in small pieces...yeah, I wanted more Tree! Turtles! and stuff, but, no author ever writes what we truly want to come next, just MORE STORY please...

another friend recommended the Dungeon Crawler books by Matt Dinniman, and I am a couple chapters in. Not a a gamer here, so I taking that one even slower.

I have been trying to get the new Gigi Pandian secret staircase mystery, and my local B&N has failed for two weeks now.

I have gotten a lot of new non fic, mostly Ancient Egypt (and more Aidan Dodson work) and I am looking forwards to the new Ada Palmer history. And reading about the German peasant revolt of 1536.. because as the saying goes, peasants are revolting.

Continuing the cleaning, trash bin is only half full this week, but, I just seem to have slept most of the week away.

I dont have any appointments for at least a week, other than meeting my stepcousin and her grandsons at OMSI next week to look at Lego Dinos, and to get Voodoo Donuts and shave ice. I can also give her the xmas gift I have for her

The new improved dosage of Trulicity is both good and bad, I am still adjusting to the new quirks and foibles. and I seem to have lost 10 pounds in the last week.

The new fridge was a No Fit, mostly because the small cabinet above the niche is uneven. I have a built out pantry that is on one side, and I guess when they put the small cabinet in, they just went for fit, not level. They will be ordering me a shorter fridge just like the other one. Hopefully I will be getting it around the 8th. The new microwave has been installed, and I havent used it yet, nor looked at the manual.

I have so much trash and debris and fridge deteris to dispose of, my bins were full, and I have refilled them again since trash pickup, I think I will be at maximum bin capacity for some time. I hope not to lose the cleaning momentum and quit, but I would like to have a less cluttered house.

Youngest Nephew was in town and got together with family. Interestingly, the kids wanted to play the arcade games in the pizza parlor, and I was the only adult that had any quarters on them. Mostly because I had the unicorn coin purse I keep my parking meter quarters in. I dont trust the new and modern parking kiosks with my debit card, nor the city for that matter. Cash. Yes, the kids cleaned me out.

I had another conflict with the VA Pharmacy, it was the english is not their first language person, and the arrogant young man that knows better than me. She screwed up my refill order, I got 3 out of the 5 I requested, one was expired, and they subsituted a totally different script because I had asked for my Vit D tablets and my Ergocalciferol gel caps. Both mind you are Vit D scripts but different. So they gave me Calium Citrate instead of the vit D3. When I tried to tell the young man there was a problem, he totally blew me off and insisted that I had gotten what I ordered. I left before I lost my cool (my brother wont bail me out if the federales arrest me), and called when I got home, and it took awhile for them to understand, and they promised to fix it. So, they sent me another bottle of Calcium citrate. I decided not to call Pharmacy direct because that isnt working out, and phoned it in to the care nurse to let my doctor know pharmacy is still trying to kill me. Over 30 years and they still not sucessful.

So, just chipping away at cleaning, and reading more, just living my life.

On the 7th I went to solar power as my main source of electrons. I havent tracked the usage yet on their handy dandy guide.

I measured where my new fridge will go, its going to be a very very tight fit. Its 71 inches and 1/16th and my spot is 71 inches and 1/4 . Looking for the magical shoehorn here. But, I wont find out until 14 february, having ice and water in the door I think will help me a lot, and looking forwards to the new microwave since my old one died last year. The new m/w is a very fancy thing with capabilities of convection and an air fryer. Both are black stainless steel.

Still learning the new phone, I got most everything deleted or turned off that doesnt apply to just being a phone. The annoying gif/emoji thing that launches when I open some emails (its preprogramed for dates or words from what I can tell) I cannot find to kill, so I may have to go back to the store to ask how to do it.

Replaced my cracked windshield yesterday. Its so clean!

The year started out with getting a phone call from an old and dear Navy friend that her husband had passed away, he was a friend too, one of the Marines who guarded our base, which is how they met. I was hoping to avoid death of people I care about this year, but it doesnt seem to be working either.

I have just about finished my list of things to do before You Kmow Who takes office and screws us all, and bunkering down.

My reading has picked up a bit, and I am happy about that.

I have been watching a lot of cat videos. A LOT of cat videos.

Other than being depressed and fatigued, I am still taking the Trulicity for my blood sugars, and so far I have gained 3 pounds, because, yanno, I am just a freaking medical unicorn.

I am pushing to do at least an hour most days of being an adult, I even remembered to increase my home insurance because I now have 15 shiny solar panels that arent yet active because I am waiting on the multiple inspections.

Progress on the solar install is going slowly, but I finally have heard from PGE about their install on my breaker box...

Orycon was ... quiet and the hotel didnt even open their bar/cafe on sunday. sigh.

I do miss a real bookseller at the con, but, its a thing of the past I fear...

My eyes are healing.. or healed, but, I got my new glasses and I can see!

life is getting back into the normal rut, and hopefully I wont be spending my days going to appointments.

things your dont want to hear during surgery "oh thats not good"

yup my second cataract surgery was fucked up. Its only a 3% chance of happening, but, the bits of old cataract and the old lens went walkies and fell behind the eye. Wackiness ensues. Over to Casey Eye Institute the next day for more advanced surgeries that had the big dogs over there and the retina specialist, and lets not forget the two opthamology residents who were like excited squirrels in a nut storage facility.

Anesthesia ran out before they were finished, so they had to hold my head straight when they were still poking things into my eye.

I had a bag of eye drops and all sorts of instructions to follow. I also screwed up 3 days of my brothers time, but, I am after all a professional baby sister.

So far its all healing well, I had demonic red eye, but, hey, I have had hangovers worse when it comes to bloodshot eyes. I am seeing them more often to make sure I didnt do damage to the eye when the pressures got high in there.

I am tired of being a special medical unicorn.

trying to catch up on things I had to resked, and to find my receipt for my Orycon membership, they keep ignoring my plaintive emails whining about it.,.. but not allowed to bend or lift and other restrictions, and of course, most things I need to look for weight too much or are on the floor.

This week it phone call times, and oh yeah, my water connection to the city is cracked and hissing, but the good news is that its on the city side of my pipes, and they really arent into returning my calls or fixing it, but then, I wont be paying any water bills until this is fixed.

I am sweeing better, but, its a process..

I am feeling better but I have no energy and the recent heat spell has been miserable.

My cousin passed away sunday so that phase is over, I will help his wife do her SBP paperwork and a couple other things but she isnt grasping that I am not going to be there for her and do everything for her like my cousin did. The drive is very taxing for me and frankly she is a morning person and I am not. She is so used to having everything done for her she wont even try to fend for herself. Its not pretty.

I dont see my cardiology team until late august, but, last told, its healing and improving since the hospital stay.

my birtday last week was low key but fun, I had three different outings with family or friends

Eldest niece is in Wisconsin, her daughter and her partner were in a very bad car accident, and at first, it didnt look like she was going to come out of the coma, but, she is out and at home, it been a very rough year.

I did go and see the newest Godzilla movie, but not enough Lizard! but the cute visual of him curled up inside the coliseuem was darling, I could go for a statue of that.