Meanwhile, back at the medical billing office, they'd taken me out of my happy little cubical and put me back on the phones. (Insert rant here.) I was stressed, but I was still writing. And I tried for every other job in the office that came up, and believe me, I was NOT pleased when I got passed over in favor of someone who'd barely been there six ( Read more... )

My first action on staggering out of bed this morning was to grab my bank card and the phone and call the cable company...six days without an internet of my own was a week in Hell. (You know, Hell---where Time is dilated, so that six days is really sixty, which in Internet Time encompasses entire glacial epochs. Thank God that's over ( Read more... )

Today has been quite a day. Visted three food pantries with BC. The first was a 20-minute wait and yielded sausages, canned goods, baked goods and 2 2-liter bottles of diet cola (Best by 5/16/09). The second involved a 45-minute wait in a dark, crowded stifling hallway and yielded more baked goods. The third was already closed for the day, out of ( Read more... )

Okey-dokie. FPL is paid. First thing I did this morning after reaching for the caffeine and Excedrin. BIG sigh of relief!

Making plans with missybrat for Sunday afternoon---shopping after church, yay ( Read more... )

Yesterday's cortisone shot helped quite a bit. My range of motion has improved, and this was the first morning in weeks that I didn't get up and immediately pop three Excedrin---I'm sure my liver is grateful, too ( Read more... )

I'm hoping today will be reasonable. Lots of good sales, a minimum of dumbasses, help desk the whole time---one of the Saturday night stressors was no help desk after 4 PM and one insanely bitchy broad who wanted to dispute an auth hold on her prepaid Visa card. Prepaid credit cards are a massive pain in the ass when they don't go through, because ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm up awfully early for me, but I had to deal with what work dealt me Saturday. I just happened to check my schedule around 10 PM---I was actually looking up vacation time I have scheduled, because unless we have training, my schedule doesn't change except for things like break times, and that's on a day-by-day basis---and some genius had me ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've cleaned up after a major holiday weekend, and I had forgotten just how much stupidity ensues. That said, if profanity makes you go blind, I strongly suggest you shield your eyes, because Tuesday was fairly hideous, enough that I came home and went straight to the Captain Morgan's, and I am a cheap drunk. 2 drink maximum ( Read more... )

So tonight? I'm critter-sitting for the C's. Got the request yesterday, sure, fine, no problemo. Hey, they're the reason I still have a roof over my head---whatever they want from me, they've got it. Up to and including a kidney....

I got woke up at 7:45 AM this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. And now I have to go to work, no joy. Brand X ( Read more... )

I thought we were finally settled into a permanant seating arrangement, but today several of us---including me---got shifted around. I had a minor hissy fit and managed to get a place I like at the end of a row, although tomorrow, I'm going to wear pants so I can crawl under my previous desk and swap out keyboards. The space key on this one sticks ( Read more... )