So It Goes
During open gate on opening day Tuesday at the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, done for the 50th anniversary of the 1964-65 World's Fair, I waited three hours on a mile-long line made up of over 2,500 people to get a ticket to go inside the pavilion, which hasn't been open to the public in decades. I arrived at 10:45 a.m., waited in line until I got my ticket at 2:10 p.m., returned at 4, and got inside for a brief tour at 4:45. I took a selfie inside, but being tired, strained, footsore, aching, and hungry, as well as having been wind-whipped for hours, I looked bad. The National Trust for Historic Preservation declared the NYSP a National Treasure that day, and a lot of Queensians are hoping this'll make it more likely that someone will renovate and reopen it.
I've posted some photos of the day at Flushing Meadows Corona Park and some very cool Fendi window display shots at my Flickr account and my deviantArt.
My TV screen is dying. I've lost 1/6th of the visual now.
(The text box is the Closed Captioning I have on. Sometimes the CC tries to appear at the top of the screen and gets hopelessly garbled.)
God knows what it'll look like when I turn it back on after turning it off tonight.
This is an especially bad time for my TV to die since my trust, which I'm in so I can be in Medicaid, has switched things up on me again. I can no longer submit bills to them to be paid unless I already have enough money to cover it in the trust. I used to just have to send my bills to them as they arrived to me, and they'd pay them as the money showed up in my account. Now I have to call them to find out when and how much I have left, and it takes them 48 hours to get back to me.
I don't have enough in the trust account now, so I have to resubmit a credit card bill with the remainder figure on it, plus all the receipts from the original bill, after they've received my newest payment, which I can't send until after I get my next SS payment May 3. I'll have to call them to find out when they get my check too.
Since it still takes them 19 days to pay anything, I foresee a lot of bills getting paid late in my future, and I'll have to faithfully pay off the minimums on all my credit cards every time to make sure I'm safe. GEICO doesn't give me anywhere near enough lead time to submit their bills to the trust. GEICO already kicked me off them once years ago because my trust failed to pay on time.
Meanwhile, what I'm supposed to do changes depending on whom I speak to at Medicaid. One person says I don't have to send more money to the trust monthly unless I get a notification letter, another just said he couldn't tell me anything, all of this making this year's Medicaid Renewal even more stressful than usual.
This and all the appointments for various things for me and Grandma are why I'm not writing lately and haven't been going on spring flower photography jaunts. (Though part of the thing with the spring flowers is that we haven't started getting any until about a week ago, and high winds are already ripping them off the trees!) Just too much going on, leaving me in stress, pain, and fatigue.