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Waiting, but grateful...
Posted Nov 16, 2011
So, here I sit typing away, as I wait for a friend to pick me up to go to the doctor's office for lab tests. Did I mention that they're *fasting* lab tests? I'm wondering how this will effect the outcome, but I'm not up for the trip to the office by bus, as I'm having one of my bad-leg days. I'm very grateful for the help, but...
My kingdom, for a car of my own!
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HooToo New and 12 Years too!
Posted Nov 10, 2011
I've been having so much fun looking over and rediscovering the New HooToo, that I completely overlooked my 12th anniversary here!
Seriously, it's been so much fun, seeing all the returnees and seeing what's in store, for my favorite home away from home. I'm so glad to have been here for so long. This site is "sticky", to me anyway, and I hope it'll remain that way for the people who have come back for a nostalgic look see.
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Latest reply: Nov 10, 2011
Argh, nanatomic moths!
Posted Oct 22, 2011
I've got those disgusting tiny little moths in my kitchen! More specifically, clinging in a growing group on the ceiling of the closet, which passes for my sink and pantry area (don't ask!).
I've checked -- no nuts out, no open dried fruit, and no open packages (those invite even nastier things -- do. not. want. those.). I'm about to try spritzing them with something that won't cause harmful chems to fall over my shelves. But, I'm stumped...white vinegar will just draw fruit flies, and Dog knows, I don't want those, either. Decisions, always decisions.
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Latest reply: Oct 22, 2011
Stubborn
Posted Apr 21, 2011
There's two kinds of stubborn, obverse sides on the same coin:
"I will and you can't stop me!" and "I won't and you can't make me!" I believe we all have each of these.
My friend made it through and Ivy League university, on to a noted Technology school and now is employed at an even more famous Technology Institute by not letting himself be stopped.
I, on the other hand, have managed to not be swept aside, discounted or dismissed by being unmovable. I've survived, I'm not invisible, but haven't achieved much, either.
Now I wonder if I should/could have tried harder, or is that just not my nature?
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Latest reply: Apr 21, 2011
Choice
Posted Apr 7, 2011
I didn't want to put this up where it's in everyone's face, but I feel like I need to put this "out there". I've got some decisions coming up, and I'm surprisingly torn on what I'll do.
I went with a new option for my health care -- a company I had been with before and liked. The options I was offered made it seen reasonably priced. Turns out, not so much. Now something's come up which might zero out all my non-replenish-able savings. As it is, I'm going through about $250 a month of savings, in addition to my benefit check, just to meet minimum expenses. They weren't going to last for more than another 3 years anyway.
I went in for the routine mammogram, and as usual they thought they Found Something. Not the first time, but after the biopsy, while the samples they had were negative, there was a papilloma adjacent to the tested area, which might actually Be Something. I got called in for more tests -- a repeat of the ultrasound and mammogram -- plus a surgical section biopsy. I'm figuring about $120-300 just to make sure. If it is cancer, I could end up using all my savings, through hospitalization charges and surgical copays.
When the nurse called yesterday to set up the new appointments, I just said no. The way it seems to me, I either keep my savings but with a 10% possibility of not surviving, or go through them all, and end up literally homeless, unlike the Couch Tour I did for a couple of years. HELL of a choice.
I'll go for the tests and all the rest of it, but this is a ridiculous choice for a citizen of one of the World's Wealthiest Countries to be faced with. I never thought disabled and unemployed could be so much fun.
[And, yes, I KNOW it's so much worse for most of the rest of the world, but I live where it's supposed to be BETTER.]
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