The Invisible Woman Chronicles

 It's been a week.  Not a good one.  One that has made me angry and annoyed. I really have no tolerance for women who "just can't handle" the difficult stuff and push stuff on others.  I have had a lifetime of it and I'm tired of being the human dumpster for others BS. I had an episode with acid reflux that scared me.  Scared my mom.  I was just eating a sandwich and she put gravy on it and I think the gravy felt stuck in my throat and I had to stand up and walk around. She thought I was throwing up.  I was belching up water.  I was ok but I thought that's probably why my airway looked small.  All the acid from all the stress people have caused me from being lazy assholes. I started my 14 day thing of Nexium. I haven't done it in a long time.  It's day 3 and I'm feeling a lot better.  Yeah.  I'll be more mindful of what I eat.  Horrible wake up call.  I have had that happen, in fact a couple of weeks ago.  It's n...

 That seems to be my new hang after work.  I really need to get in on that Taco Tuesday special. I saw what people were getting and it looked good.  I just sat down at a table and messaged Corinne while I took a short break before I went back on my evening walk.  It made me happy to see that they did have a fair amount of people ordering at the stand that they have for food.  I want the business to succeed.  It's a nice store.  Lower the prices or offer some more incentives.  Everyone loves a rewards program.  I really look forward to going there at night and maybe do some people watch while I sit down and gather my thoughts from the day.   Ever have someone talk to like you're a child and you're older than them?  I have had several instances and lately it's annoying me when it happens.  Not everyone is like this.  I've dealt with some great people who were younger than me and higher up on the food chain and have talk...

 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...