Alright, I'm actually going to try to do this properly, no distractions...
First, before I forget, I had a very...odd? dream last night. Like, it wasn't totally weird, but it was one of those ones where you feel weird after you wake up. But maybe no one knows what I mean. IDK, it's hard to put into words. Anyway, so I'm standing on a street and for some reason I can see inside the Tonight Show studio. And they're recording that night's episode. Well, for some reason Andy or someone says something to me/asks me something and I answer. Conan apparently liked the answer, because he started asking me questions, the first was who's your favorite founding father? To which I answered "Jefferson" without hesitation. (IDK. *shrugs*) With a smile on his face and heading back to the desk he says, "alright", or something to that effect and then continues talking to me. The next thing I know, I'm waking up (in the dream) and start telling people about the dream. Because it felt so real, I want to make sure I and others watch, just in case. Then Corie finds this notebook open to these pages that have Conan's and my exact dialogue from the dream in it. Now I'm more convinced than ever to watch the episode, because something is just weird. And of course, just before it's time for the episode to start, I wake up irl.
Ooh. I never mentioned it before, but my cousin told me about SafeLink Wireless after she saw a commercial. SafeLink is a government program for low income people to get a free phone and free minutes every month so you have a way to stay in contact. You get one of two cheap, simple phones and 68 minutes a month. Though you can add minutes on your own. They go through TracFone, though, and TracFone has the most ridiculously expensive minutes out there. They're supposed to be coming out with SafeLink airtime cards soon and I can only hope they're at least a little more affordable than TracFone. You get service time for a year, at the end of which you have to re-apply. I had heard a vague mention of it some time ago, but wasn't sure what it was all about. So I went onto the website and decided to apply. I got ok'd and just a couple days ago I got my phone. It's really cheap and has NO bells and whistles and only 68 minutes a month, but it's something I can use when I'm home and no one else is there and I need to call the Dr or something. It's basically only good for making and receiving calls. And you can text.
Did I ever mention that I got my denial from SSI? Because I did, back in October. I applied for an appeal. I also got a lawyer. She actually got my aunt her disability after she'd been denied several times over 2 years. I still need to get one paper in to her before she formally accepts the case, but she said, with my Dr.'s cooperation, it looks like I have a good chance.
Also, I'm still waiting to hear from my Job & Family Services caseworker to see if I'll be getting medicaid. I should really call her and ask tomorrow.
Let's see, phone, SSI, Medicaid...that's all i was thinking of last night...No it wasn't. One more thing.
One of the cats (kitten, really) over here died yesterday. Or more accurately got killed. Okay, accidentally killed by Thomas. She was a runt anyway and had in the last couple days gotten really sick (we're thinking pneumonia) and was weak. We told the kids to leave her alone because she would cry out when you held her wrong, like on her back. Ryan and Connor listened, but Thomas kept wanting to touch and hold her. Well, she was REALLY weak the night before last so brother made a little makeshift bed for her in the linen closet and closed the door just in case. He put food and water in case she started feeling like eating/drinking. That night Thomas kept trying to look at her and I told him to stay away, she's really sick, you need to leave her alone. He said okay and shortly after it was bedtime. Well, yesterday morning, I was woken up by dad yelling at him. I was still half asleep, so I didn't realize what was going on. Once I woke up fully, I asked what was going on. Apparently, Thomas had carried the cat, already dead, into the dining room where dad was and must have shown her to him. That's when he saw she was dead and yelled at her. We asked why he had been carrying her and he said, "I was just moving her and she kept meowing". We told him that was because she was hurting (as we'd told him several times before). Later on, after Corie and brother were told what happened and we questioned him further, we found out he was moving her to under the Xmas tree (no, brother still hasn't taken it down). See, when the boy cat was sick a few weeks ago, he kept hiding from the kids under there and he got better. So, in trying to help the kitten, he actually killed her. He's in trouble for not listening to everyone, not for the actual killing of the cat b/c that was just a little kid accident. No one can blame him for not really understanding. But he DOES understand that he's supposed to listen and he didn't, so he's grounded for that.
Ooh. I never mentioned it before, but my cousin told me about SafeLink Wireless after she saw a commercial. SafeLink is a government program for low income people to get a free phone and free minutes every month so you have a way to stay in contact. You get one of two cheap, simple phones and 68 minutes a month. Though you can add minutes on your own. They go through TracFone, though, and TracFone has the most ridiculously expensive minutes out there. They're supposed to be coming out with SafeLink airtime cards soon and I can only hope they're at least a little more affordable than TracFone. You get service time for a year, at the end of which you have to re-apply. I had heard a vague mention of it some time ago, but wasn't sure what it was all about. So I went onto the website and decided to apply. I got ok'd and just a couple days ago I got my phone. It's really cheap and has NO bells and whistles and only 68 minutes a month, but it's something I can use when I'm home and no one else is there and I need to call the Dr or something. It's basically only good for making and receiving calls. And you can text.
Did I ever mention that I got my denial from SSI? Because I did, back in October. I applied for an appeal. I also got a lawyer. She actually got my aunt her disability after she'd been denied several times over 2 years. I still need to get one paper in to her before she formally accepts the case, but she said, with my Dr.'s cooperation, it looks like I have a good chance.
Also, I'm still waiting to hear from my Job & Family Services caseworker to see if I'll be getting medicaid. I should really call her and ask tomorrow.
Let's see, phone, SSI, Medicaid...that's all i was thinking of last night...No it wasn't. One more thing.
One of the cats (kitten, really) over here died yesterday. Or more accurately got killed. Okay, accidentally killed by Thomas. She was a runt anyway and had in the last couple days gotten really sick (we're thinking pneumonia) and was weak. We told the kids to leave her alone because she would cry out when you held her wrong, like on her back. Ryan and Connor listened, but Thomas kept wanting to touch and hold her. Well, she was REALLY weak the night before last so brother made a little makeshift bed for her in the linen closet and closed the door just in case. He put food and water in case she started feeling like eating/drinking. That night Thomas kept trying to look at her and I told him to stay away, she's really sick, you need to leave her alone. He said okay and shortly after it was bedtime. Well, yesterday morning, I was woken up by dad yelling at him. I was still half asleep, so I didn't realize what was going on. Once I woke up fully, I asked what was going on. Apparently, Thomas had carried the cat, already dead, into the dining room where dad was and must have shown her to him. That's when he saw she was dead and yelled at her. We asked why he had been carrying her and he said, "I was just moving her and she kept meowing". We told him that was because she was hurting (as we'd told him several times before). Later on, after Corie and brother were told what happened and we questioned him further, we found out he was moving her to under the Xmas tree (no, brother still hasn't taken it down). See, when the boy cat was sick a few weeks ago, he kept hiding from the kids under there and he got better. So, in trying to help the kitten, he actually killed her. He's in trouble for not listening to everyone, not for the actual killing of the cat b/c that was just a little kid accident. No one can blame him for not really understanding. But he DOES understand that he's supposed to listen and he didn't, so he's grounded for that.