awwww you missed me!

[susandennis]

I went to the 11 am swim but had to explain myself.  The woman who does pool maintenance also participates in the ad hoc masters group on MWF from 6:30 to 7:30.  When I went in today she was sweeping the pool and did a double take - "that's right, you were missing this morning!"  Then Julie who always comes in at 11 but knows I do the early morning on wednesdays gave me the big WTF?? look from across the pool.

So nice to know when I'm not there, someone notices.

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Before the pool, I went looking for my Medicare card and couldn't find it.  Since I don't need it yet, it's not in my wallet and, turned out, it was MIA.  Yikes!!  So I took apart the house looking. I found the card (and put it in the box where I looked for it first) but not before I had gone through the basket of 'Stuff I need to do stuff with'.  Turns out most of it needed the trash bin.

What didn't need the trash was the tax stuff.  So I sat down and did my taxes!  Not hugely complicated since I have so little taxable income and most of what I have is at the financial advisers and he and my CPA are tight so I just fill in 'see Tyler' and they do the rest.  Nice.  I will hold off a couple of weeks before I send it in to make sure I catch everything.  But, mostly it's DONE!

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My vision is much better than it was this morning.  The TiVo words are way clearer.  Weird.

Comments

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Glad you found your card and your vision has been better!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

My vision varies from day to day. A few years ago, one of the particularly bad days happened to coincide with my annual eye checkup, and the doctor gave me a prescription that was much stronger than my previous one. Fortunately, I looked at it before getting it filled, said to myself "That can't be right -- my vision hasn't deteriorated that much", so I sent off an email to the eye doctor (I love my HMO with its online access!) and we scheduled a re-examination which produced a much more reasonable result.

He mentioned on that occasion that varying blood sugar levels can affect vision.

[susandennis]

I wondered yesterday if blood pressure fluctuation might change vision accuracy. I'd really never noticed it that bad before. I am now paying attention and keeping tabs since I have enough time before the appointment to gather some intel.

Also, I am so glad it happened because it made me realize that February is the only month I'll have vision insurance. I would have been very annoyed to realize that in March.

And oh yeah on online access!!! I was doing my taxes yesterday and although my drugs cost me a shitload last year, I only paid, out of pocket, $35 for doctors. This would have been closer to $700 if I had had to go in to get answers to stuff I got answers to via email. Really very cool.