get off my lawn

[susandennis]

I am very crabby appleton today. Well, not very. But medium. It started this morning when I walked up to the fabric shop and found the perfect fabric - two actually - but the main one had a flaw right in the middle and not enough without the flaw for what I wanted. I could have handled that but the chippy running the shop is my least favorite because she does not give a shit and today, she did not. No sympathy, no trying to make it work, no measuring to make sure, no discount. Nothing. So I just left the second fabric there and walked out. Pissed.

Then I got more junk mail from Humana about their rewards thing. They are offering gift cards for wellness stuff. They actually already have one program for this and now they have another. But their sign up website does not work in Chrome. Holy Fuck people. Get your online shit together. At least for this program they ask if I am interested in phone calls. HELL NO! Are you sure?? We can remind you about your great benefits!! CALL ME ON THE TELEPHONE and I will hurt you. I'll get $25 after my annual doctor visit. But the rest of the rewards will get left on the table. You can save your colonoscopy and mammogram and pap smear and all the rest for other peops. Not me. I'll give you one bone density but that's it.

On the up side, my Zappos order arrived. The smaller size is better and I can absolutely live without the other pairs I ordered so I'm keeping two that I like a lot and the rest go back. So I'll be saving a bundle. Nice.

My yarn arrived. Or at least most of it. I'm all set to start the next project. This is not sitting by my chair just waiting to get to work.



But, before I do that, I need to find my next book to read. My current one only has 20 minutes left.

I can't decide between spaghetti for dinner (Stouffers) or 13 Coins. I'm kind of leaning spaghetti, actually.

Tomorrow and Sunday both are getting full of ToDo's. After my swim, there's a rummage sale I need to check out and then the UPS store and then the grocery store and then I need to hustle my ass home because the game starts at 11.

Sunday after my swim is a hair cut and then the flea market and then I have to hustle my ass home because the game starts at 11.

Exciting, eh?

Comments

[terri gordon (from livejournal.com)]

Oh those colors look yummy. I’m more of a cross stitch fanatic, but have been known to pick up a crochet hook. Being left handed I was taught 40 plus years ago by my bestie high school friend how to do granny square as she’s a lefty too. But granny square is all I could ever do. Teaching myself other stuff was a bust.

[susandennis]

I'm a knitter myself but I sometimes like to veer off into crochet - ville. I love that it lets me use all the colors I want.

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

Sounds like dinner in is what you needed. Hope it helped. Meanwhile, that yarn is lovely :)

[gracegiver]

Not really relating to this post - but I gotta tell you, this article screamed JOY at me and you bet I thought about you. Very rich in reality.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/07/barbara-ehrenreich-natural-causes-book-old-enough-to-die

"we're killing ourselves to live longer."

[susandennis]

I think she must be my soul sister!

I am very lucky that my doctor got me from the get go. I never had to beat him into submission. The MyChart app kept bugging both of us about a mammogram and colonoscopy, etc. He finally had his office set my due date for all those tests to 2075. It cracks me up every time I log in.

Great article. Thanks.

[gracegiver]

I use My Chart too. And I just changed Dr. - think I'll ask her to do the same.

I ordered Barbara's book.

[susandennis]

I remember one early on conversation with my doctor. I told him that if we ran all those tests and he found something to treat, I would not be interested in treatment. His take was quickly - no tests - 'no sense in frustrating both of us."

I also gave him a copy of my filled out Five Wishes document for which he thanked me profusely saying "I wish all my patients would do this!"

https://www.agingwithdignity.org/