The Invisible Woman Chronicles

 I woke up later than usual and I guess it's never a bad thing if you get more sleep.  Not like I got to get in a car and drive on the freeway.  Thank goodness. I have to find my mom's AARP bill and call to get her cash value emailed. I can handle that.  And change her eye doctor appointment.  I told her she has to talk to Charlie about the faucet.  I'm too afraid to and it's not his or Jeremy's fault.  Just worried about what will happen next.  If he can get a faucet, great!  If not, then I'm worried. I finished my postcards for the New York primary.  I got stamps from the Environmental group that I've volunteered from.  They used to send me a 100 cards and now they upped it to 200.  Too hard to get that many stamps on that short of time.  I'm on a budget, people. I have cards for Postcards to Swing States but I don't have to mail them until mid October and I got time to build my stash.  Hopefully enough money. I'm t...

It was a better weekend after that phone call on Friday.  Life is tough and there's more road blocks, I'm sure.  I just really am happy when we can get a win.  Small or big.   I had a small victory this morning.  For about six years, I had this damn thing of kitty litter in the trunk of my car.  My mom always said don't say no if someone offers you something.  This attorney asked me if I could use some litter for my cat because they had just put one of their cats down and she didn't know what to do with what they had.  It was about 40 pounds and she helped put it in my car.  Well it never went anywhere in six years.  There was no way I could have brought it upstairs and my mom thought maybe I could use it during the winter months when I drove to work.  Well this was in March 2020 and we all know how that turned out.  I thought how do I get something heavy out like that?  Where do I dump it?   I found a dumps...

 I called Aurora Healthcare yesterday morning to at least get the information my mom might need to apply for financial assistance. I spoke to a nice woman and I explained our situation as well.  She said "You're a team."  I said yeah.  We are.  I felt hopeful. We got the information that was needed and I called later in the day.  She had gotten approved for assistance and I told the second woman I should probably have you talk to her so she knows what she's been approved for. The bill or bills are being completely written off. Yeah.  You heard it.  She owes zero.  I cried a little bit because well, that's what I do best.  Things like this don't happen.  We wind up having to sell something to pay for something.   It was just a really good day yesterday.  Still can't believe it.  

 I'm so sick of spoiled women.  I feel run over.   I was having a bad day yesterday and I actually started crying in Monterey Market.  I felt bad because my mom is overwhelmed by the hospital bill.  We don't know if it's a good idea if she should apply for Medicaid and that maybe we should go to the hospital for help.  She said it just seems like we're never meant to have any money.   I got asked yesterday for help with an assignment that really isn't supposed to be starting for a couple of weeks.  I didn't mind because there is something I would really like to avoid. What do you know?  Frack reaches out to me.  It's a nice message asking for help and it's ok if they don't get it.  Ok.  You're not getting it.  They shouldn't be reaching out to me.  They should be reaching out to managers. I was just so taken advantage of when I was in the office.  It was always about everyone else being happy but it's o...

I've been actually taking a break on my evening walks at Monterrey Market.  I have set my goal to walk there every night if I can, weather permitting and walk back.  It's about .9 mile and if I stop at Dollar Tree or the grocery store, it adds more to my walk.  It's nice to do and I feel good doing it.  On Friday night, I was so tired from staying up late that I sat down in their food area and played a video game for about 15 minutes.  I've been making it a habit the last couple of nights.   They have some ice cream stand and a place where you can get tacos and other food.  Other people are sitting there eating.  The ice cream is kind of expensive and well, I should pass on more sweets or I know I should but I noticed the 99 cent tacos on Mondays.  Or is it Tuesdays?  I don't know. I might try it some time.  I'm happy to see people there because honestly, the prices are expensive.  I have found some fruit at a reasonable p...

I wanted to clarify my last post.  Never went to prom or any dances in school and I'm actually ok with that.  When you hear about what my classmates would do, you think, I'm good.  Maybe one of these days I'll go buy myself some mascara and give all the customers a thrill at CVS on Downer while my eyes turn into racoons from the heat.  I do miss my mascara and yeah, it would be nice if I got asked to do something that involved dressing up and wasn't for work. I do keep some work clothes that fit me because there might be a reason I got to do something or something changes.  I'll be happy to burn them when retirement shows up.  I'll admit I didn't have to dress up like I did at other jobs.  When I found out I could wear sandals, I thought I won the lottery.  People would get written up for showing their feet at my previous job.  Gasp! I don't look forward to my day because it involves me talking to people and well, I don't have much to say at ...