Monday July 1st 2024

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jul 1, 2024

G'day!

Joe, hope you have a good day. Are you off a long weekend or just the 4th?

Dianah, that's a pretty basic sauce but I bet roasting adds a really good dimension of flavor. What kind of low carb pasta do you use? There's a brand of chick pea pasta I occasionally buy that's good. I do like to make sure I get some whole grains in and when I eat pasta it's always whole grain mostly whole wheat or brown rice.

Only "feels like 85" this morning. We got some really good rain in my neighborhood which we really needed.

Getting an eye exam this morning. Will use my Health Savings Account to order new glasses as I didn't get any last year. Not sure if my usually optometrist will be doing the exam or not. I like him and he's young and easy on the eyes. LOL

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jul 1, 2024

Had my eye exam and a nap. I should have been rested but for some reason fell asleep. I did get the young doc again and he actually remembered last year I said I was going to India and asked about my trip. He said he's going Germany this Summer with his German wife. I told him I was raised by a German and talked of her qualities of organization, tidiness and frugality and he said I described her as well. LOL

My eyes are in perfect health he said and in fact I read one of the lower lines without mistake when I missed some last year. Just a few "tweaks" in my prescription. Anyway, I ordered new glasses. I just picked a frame a I liked and ordered progressive lenses and nearly passed out at my part of the payment which was $570.00. She said without discounts from my insurance it would have been over $1000. For a pair of glasses! Good news was I have it in my Health Savings Account and paid in full.

I have a feeling I owe more because I opted for a scan and not to have my eye dilated which isn't covered, and I have a $10 co-pay and I never got a receipt. The optical shop worker should have charged me. Maybe she did.

After nearly two years of very steep car insurance rate hikes, I got my bill the other day and noticed it didn't go up but dropped by $50 for six months. I was in shock about that but I ain't complaining. The cost of high insurance has been a thorn in my side lowering my disposable income for a while now.

Editorial Team / Admin · Jul 1, 2024

Hello all!

Today we return the RV to storage. Dh has a list of things he wants the maintenance ppl to look at, which will have to be done sparingly, as we don't have lots of cash to work with at this point. It should be another hot day.

Tweety, I ordered some Pete's Pasta to try (seems all low-carb pasta is expensive, the only drawback). I too have bought whole-wheat pasta at the grocery store, and while it is better than regular pasta, I really need lower carbs right now. I have tried the chickpea pasta, liked it initially, then one recipe I made, I either cooked it too long or maybe it was the recipe ingredients, but it became the consistency of paste (kinda dissolved before my eyes), and that just put me off! Pete's Pasta cooked up well, tasted good! The sauce tasted really fresh (and no added sugar!), I will make it again! Per two oz. of pasta: Calories 110, Total Fat 2.5g, Total Carbs 34g, Fiber 27g, Protein 17g. (carbs after subtracting fiber = 7g!) //// Congrats on ordering new glasses! I am due for my eye check-up, need to call and schedule.

Joe, good you got some one-on-one time with the organizer, too bad no one else showed up.

We will have the rest of the pasta and sauce today. We ate all the mushrooms yesterday, perhaps I will get more and saute them...

Have a good day!

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 1, 2024

It's Monday and I have a list of things to do, but have been 98% overtaken by inertia once again. Nannie is asleep in her chair, Momo is asleep on a pile of blankets. I am undecided about just about everything. That's it in a nutshell.

nursej22, MSN, RN · Jul 1, 2024

My day seems to have evaporated before my eyes. I went to sis's Dr. office to attend her appointment. She texted me a minute before the appointment was to start to say she's running late. I tell reception and they can wait a few minutes. Then sis calls, car won't start, so she will call and reschedule appointment. I have eggs for her, so I run to her house. She has called her mechanic, he wants her to pick up his battery pack, so we do that, get her car started, and take it to mechanic. Then she wants to buy me breakfast. So I have coffee, then realize I need gas. But it's a Canadian holiday and there was a looong line. All of that took 3 hrs. And now I have a facial appointment. Maybe that will chase away my headache.

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 1, 2024

All I have done is emptied all the trash and wastebaskets. Put away clean dishes. Still have to do the dishes in the sink (mostly glasses and silverware). Tried to balance my checkbook, which SHOULD be easy now, but some transfer-deposits, I don't know what to do with, in the check register....and there's about $245 of checks that haven't cleared yet. None of the balances I subtract or add match any of the balances I have done the math to try to find where the balance really is.

😞 I AM SOOOOO DEEEEPRESSED!

Tomorrow I think SiL is coming by in the mid to late afternoon, and Wednesday afternoon is when chatty CG is here 1 PM to 6 PM. I wish I had someplace to go and money to get there, but I can't, because I have neither.

I have re-set Nannie's left hand back up on the pillows to elevate it, oh, about 8 times in the past hour. Here comes my 19th nervous breakdown?

Imagine all the cusswords you know and pretend I posted them here.

Editorial Team / Admin · Jul 1, 2024

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