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My appointment with my foot guy was at 8. I checked in and then sat down and opened up my game on my phone and before I could put finger to the screen, I heard "Susan?". I was in - shot, chit chat, - out and at Safeway by 8. He said 'make an appointment for 3 and if fine, cancel!' So I did. Very efficient. It takes 2-7 days for the steroids to start work BUT the psychosomatic results are immediate.

I walked all over Safeway with only a hint of pain. Except I couldn't find anything to eat. I walked up and down every aisle looking for inspiration. None. I did manage to spend $90 because I got coffee and other high end stuff. The oatmilk I like for my oatmeal comes in a gynormous container so I went looking for something in a smaller one - maybe something shelf stable? And, whaddya know? There's my stuff! Smaller container and shelf stable. Nice.

We get new menus today for next week. This past week has been a loser. At the first of the year, I changed my meal plan to $300 from $600. So the pressure is off to spend money on food I don't want. I think $300 is a workable amount as long as the menus aren't losers!

I have a load of laundry laundrying and I did order an Italian wrap from the dining room for lunch to be picked up at 11:30 to enable me to get back here for the first baseball game.

Last night Julio was curled up in Perfect Cat Position so I just captured him.

My foot was much better yesterday. A little off but not like Monday. And today is about the same. Monday felt like it was not only cramped to the max but with the add on of stabbing pain. Today it feels like it could cramp up in any minute but it's not cramping now. So grateful.

I tested out some new goggle in the pool this morning. FAIL. The ones I have been using are, in fact, the reflective ones Google says should work. At least they don't bore holes into my eye sockets like the others. Amazon return. Otherwise my swim was good.

And I remembered, coming home, that I'd forgot to send the Food and Beverage Committee paperwork for duplication to reception. Yikes. Did that and, hopefully, as long as they printer isn't broken, they will have it in time for the 1:30 meeting. Whew.

So meeting at 1:30 and then fixing up the minutes while it's fresh on my mind plus, Harriet needs them for a meeting tomorrow. And that's it for my day.

Friday is my foot doctor appointment BUT ALSO the first baseball game of the year. It's a Spring Training game. I remember years when I was counting the days until this game. One year I was on jury duty and could only listen on breaks. This year, I'm interested but if something else comes along, it won't kill me to miss it.

My CPA should have my taxes done any day now. It will be nice to get them out of the way but I am not the least bit stressed about them. I'm sure, if I owe anything, it's not much. And, I don't even expect his bill to be that much - but whatever it is, it is totally worth it to me.

Whew my copies are ready at reception.

Better go get 'em before someone else does. No one is going to but I do need the steps.

When my doctor asked about any other issues, I said 'well, the normal back and leg issues from being old and fat and out of shape.' That's when she started talking GLP-1. She said not so much for the numbers but for the burden relief. And that's how it got started.

I'm about finishing 4 weeks and I've lost some of me steadily - not too much. I think she'll be pretty pleased when I check in with her in a couple of months. I haven't yet lost enough to notice anywhere but on the scales.

Except...

My wrists!

I wear a watchband on my left wrist and 3 DNR bangle bracelets on my right. My watchband kept sliding around so I couldn't tell the time without fiddling with it so yesterday I took out a link Much better.

Today, after maybe 5 months of wear at this size, my bangle bracelets fell off twice during volleyball. Just now I took them off and squeezed them smaller.

So, Susan, where would you like to lose weight? Ass? Hips? Boobs? Chins? Nah, let's go wrists.

I'd like a partial refund, please.

I remember losing my credit card once in the early 2000's. I kept being bounced from one support person to another. I practically had to have a legal affidavit saying that the card was nowhere in my house, care or clothing. Finally, the next day, the declared it dead and agreed to replace it. "Your new card will be there in 4 to 6 weeks." I think it was closer to 5 but by then, of course, I had a new card from a different bank.

This morning my card, lost Saturday, is useable via my phone and Amazon and I don't even know the number myself yet! Nice. The only real stickler is Chewy. I'll need to have the whole number for them. I do have my backup card and I also have a healthy supply of cat food and tofu litter. So it's fine.

Bonny popped in yesterday afternoon "You wanna go over to the Wild Fin for happy hour about 4:30?" SURE!! So we did. We had a drink and an appetizer (tacos) and it was lovely, different and delicious. She's getting a new hip on May 4th and she's fairly freaked out about it. She's been putting it off for years. We did go in my car. She drives a giant Lexus and had never been in a Smart car before. When I turned it on, she squealed. "Look at that dashboard, it's got nothing on it!!" hahahaha. I remember the first time I took Myrna in it, she exclaimed "Wow! This feels like a real car!" Bonny did ask where the engine was and I told her that I knew where the battery was but had no clue where the engine was. I've only had the car for 14 years.

No swimming today. I have an appointment on Friday with the foot guy. I'm going to ask him about the skin issues on the bottom of my toes but mainly I need another cortisone shot. My right foot is very unhappy again. He fixed it once.

One project today is to find a new book. I finished The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett last night. It remained delightfully weird and quirky to the very end. It's going to be a tough one to follow. I think I need a bloody murder mystery with no melodrama.

And I'm back to mini monsters on the knitting needles. I made 40 bunnies - well, actually 45 if you count the test bunnies (not pictured).



Martha wants to add neck ribbons and cotton tails to them. I don't care one way or another. I'll put them out for adoption starting on March.

I watched Song Sung Blue yesterday. I am so not a movie person but I did make it to the end. I thought Kate Hudson was amazing. I thought Hugh Jackman was very meh. And the movie was ok. The fact that I watched it to the end is probably the highest praise from me. The music was fun.

Ok, time to get on with my day.

My best morning is after a lovely sleep, waking up to dark, drinking my coffee and interneting and then going for a swim, all before the first light. For half the year, I can do that easily. But, today starts the other half of the year. I woke up at 6:30 and I could see light. CURSES! I'll get a bit of a reprieve when day light saving time kicks in but only about a week until it's full assed daylight before I open my eyes. And soon it will be full assed sun in the pool unless I want to swim at 4 am. ARUGH. Oh well, it was a lovely winter. And at least I have shades I can lower in here. And maybe someday they will get the fucking shades at the pool fixed. Meanwhile I need to get blackout goggles. My dark ones aren't going to cut it.

My CPA uses this secure file system for exchanging documents. It's very easy on my end plus, it tells me when he downloads the stuff I uploaded. Dude was working at 9 pm last night - Valentine's. Ahhh the life of a CPA.

Hazel, John and Joan all have some kind of cold/crud. Timber Ridge now has a nurse who will come to your apartment and assess or wound dress or any number of other things. It's a FABULOUS service and she is really good. She's seen them all and so we know it's not life threatening but... John and Joan are over 90 and Hazel is close so on any given day, breathing can be life threatening. I do find myself not as interested in spending a lot of time in the elbow and walking on the other side of the hall when I pass their apartments.

I did get to Target yesterday. What a shit show that store has turned into. They had 5,897 different colors and combos of thin ankle socks. I wanted socks with thick bottoms. So I went to the men's section. Every single piece of their mens underwear was behind lock and key so you had to find some invisible sales person with attitude to unlock to even look at the shit. I bought a twofer bundle of cheap assed socks on sale (even so paying double what they are really worth) and got out of there.

Then on to Trader Joe's where I discovered at checkout that there was a problem with my credit card. DECLINED 3 times! WTF?? The really sweet clerk said his end indicated the card "has been compromised." So I whipped out my debit card and then went to the car to investigate. Sure enough, I did not have the card. Where the fuck was it?

Oh well, I've had that card/number and secret 3 digit code for a fair number of years and used it for everything. Would not hurt to refresh. So I called Chase. And I learned a lot. 1. There is no way in the app or online, to find out your actual full card number. If you don't have it written down somewhere else or have the card, you do not have the full number. 2. Chase is actually pretty damn efficient at this stuff. I had to wait and I was transferred but I never had to hear hold music. There were no weird charges on my card. Once I verified that I did not have it, they started the replacement stuff. 5-7 business days. "Oh no, said I, can't you expedite that?" "Of course, I can. 1-2 business days. It will come via UPS and probably be there Monday." Thank you.

I totally forgot to ask why they had locked the card in the first place. Then I remembered/pieced together what probably happened. The only time I actually use the actual card is at Hobby Lobby where Jesus won't let them use Google Pay. Yet another reason for not shopping there. I need to stop that. I'm guessing I left the card there and they called Chase and Chase said ok will lock it down. But, that was Tuesday and I've charged stuff since then, haven't I?

Oh well. done is done. But, here's the interesting bit. When I got home, I logged on to check and verify when I was actually in Hobby Lobby and when I looked, Chase had already changed my card number to the new one! And, according to them, I can use the new card in my digital wallet right away. Interestingly, even though I have my Amazon and Chase account linked together, the old card number is still showing up there so I'm afraid to use it for Amazon purchases. I'll wait until the new one comes and everything looks kosher.

And I need to make sure all my credit/debit card full numbers are written down somewhere I have easy access to whenever and wherever.

Someone opened up YET another Poshmark account with my email address. Holy fuck people. Lean your email address and it is NOT susandennis@gmail.com. Poshmark sends out a lott o shit.

Ok, now I need to go pull an uncrustable out of the freezer and clean up my breakfast dishes and scoop out the litter box and then watch Tia Weston's Sunday morning YouTube update. Busy day!