doh!

[susandennis]

After my swim, I went directly (via sausage biscuit and coffee at McDonalds) to the pharmacy even thought the morning rush hour wasn't done yet. Got there. Got my prescription. $2.70. I was worried that it might toss me over the Medicare donut hole line and I'd have to pay full price. Had a nice friendly chat with the cashier (who can be a bit snippy so she's always my challenge) and was on the way to the car when I looked and saw that I had ordered the wrong damn drug!

I take 2 blood pressure drugs and 1 cholesterol drug. I resent mightily having to take any of it. I mean really resent it. This leads me right into denial. I move the pills out of pill bottles as soon as I get them home. I refuse to remember what their names are and have to look them up every time. (I keep the details - names, prices, Rx nums, and pictures in Evernote.) And, so, this time, when I looked it up, I looked it up wrong. Sigh.

And it was a prescription that had expired so they have to get a renewal from my doctor first.

So... again... I will forget, find excuses not to go and, finally, do a repeat of this morning. So silly.

Zoey's new favorite wet food is Anything Different. She keeps a favorite food about 3 days and then she's no longer interested. So my house now looks like a cat food hoarder's house and she's bitching, right now, about the breakfast I just served her which was the same as yesterday. I think she wants to order off a menu. She has plenty of dry kibbles and likes those, too. And she runs around enough to keep her trim figure so at least I don't have to worry about that.

I just saw (on front door TV network) the mail carrier come in with today's packages. The cable I ordered should be in the pile. Today's cable is to connect up another chromebook to another monitor. I hate having black screens and I love having pretty pictures cycle through the 'frame' all day.

So there will be some more cable work today and then the regular dolls and bears and futzing around. And I need to pick which audio book to start tonight. I finished my latest one last night.

Comments

[celluloid-jam.livejournal.com]

Pharmacies and prescriptions always kick my ass, too. The pharmacy near our house is laughably bad and the past 3 times I have had to have something filled I have sent Joe to do it for me because he doesn't mind getting bitchy and yelling at people. Right before we went to Denver we were told that my prescription would be ready by 1:45pm. When he stopped by to pick it up at 5, he told the pharmacist the time he had been quoted and she said, "Who told you that?" and because there never isn't at least a 45 minute wait he exploded on her and said, "WHAT DOES IT MATTER? I AM CATCHING A PLANE IN 2 HOURS. THIS PHARMACY IS NEVER ON TIME AND WE ALL HAVE TO LIVE BY YOUR SHITTY SCHEDULES. FILL MY PRESCRIPTION," which resulted in clapping from customers around him, and a prescription filled in less than 1 minute. BLEH.

Also, sorry that your stuff got stolen. I'm enjoying reading about the innovative ways that you (and technology) are working on getting things situated.

[susandennis]

Oh that so sucks. In this case, the pharmacy is actually a good one. They once gave me a tip that has changed my life* so I have very warm and fuzzies for them. The mistake was totally mine. But, they are at 7th and Madison and not totally but very nearly a pain in the ass to pop in quickly.

*The doctor gave me cream for my back and I whined that I couldn't reach back there to the pharmacist who suggested I try using a spatula to reach back there and spread it around. Perfect! I load up my spatula every day at the gym to get cream on my back. I now see several others doing the same thing!

PLUS, after I first started doing it, I was so thrilled that I sent the pharmacy and email thanking them for giving me the pharmacist who gave me the suggestion and I got the kindest, sweetest reply.

BUT good on Joe!

Audio Books

[ctgstr8.livejournal.com]

Susan -- do you have a list of audio books that you have enjoyed? I need to entertain myself while using my exercise bike. I've never bothered with audio books before, but my daughter listens to them while marching on her treadmill. It's about time I tried something new and I trust your taste. (My daughter and I like very different books and TV programs.)

Re: Audio Books

[susandennis]

I actually do have a list! After I read a book, I add it to Goodreads with stars and a tiny little review. Nearly every book on this list (and 99% of those since 2012) have been audio books.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/746973-susan?shelf=read

If you want to pick up some that look interesting and send me the list, I'll give you a Start with This One or This One.

I don't know your reading habits, but I loved:

Heft by Liz Moore
The American Wife Curtis Sittenfeld
The Nix by Nathan Hale

RE: Re: Audio Books

[susandennis]

AND

Waking Up Dixie by Haywood Smith

[mixter11nm.livejournal.com]

"I think she wants to order off a menu" required a splurt alert.

I had forgotten about your Front Door TV Network. I have something similar here at the office so we can see who is at the glass door when the receptionist isn't there to let them in. I have a handy button on my phone that will unlock the door without me having to move my ass of the chair.