Sorry I didn’t get this out yesterday. I had to binge the end of Katla instead.
This week, I got even more figs from my chiropractor’s tree, so I have made some lovely salmon with a honey-fig sauce, in addition to the raw figs I’ve been enjoying in abundance. Today’s lunch will be teriyaki salmon with figs.
I also decided to try cooking an entire chicken in the air fryer this week.
I usually do my whole chicken in a crock pot.
I like them both. Neither heats up the kitchen too much. The air fryer took an hour at 360. The chicken was juicy and had a great skin, but the crock pot chicken is just a bit juicier and much easier to de-bone for leftovers.
Also, after having pickled watermelon for the first time in Indy a couple of weeks ago, I made my own batch yesterday.
The boy had a lot of stress this week, but that’s not my story to share. I will say, though, that the angst of parenting never ends. When they hurt, you hurt.
I haven’t been able to walk much this week, due to the smoke. I’m actually pleased that I miss it so much.
I haven’t used the treadmill as my back up, though. It’s so uncomfortable (you can’t adjust the incline, like it said, and the handlebars are too low). I need to suck it up, though, in weeks like this.
I finally saw my gyno about the bleeding. My bloodwork and thyroid are fine. We’re going to do one more ultrasound to see if anything has significantly changed in the last 11 months. But it’s looking like I’ll have a hysterectomy soon. She talked about trying more birth control, but I’m on two kinds already, both of which are supposed to stop me from having periods at all, much less the super-periods I’m experiencing. She agreed with me that adding another on top or switching out was unlikely to fix anything.
She said that some women are attached to their uteri, but I told her that we’re not getting along, obviously, and I’m not having more kids, so why not just break up? I added that showing all this grey is partly to signal to the world that they should stop asking me why I’m not having any more!
I spent hours on the phone with CVS again. As you might remember, they wanted me to tell them each prescription I filled in the latter half of last year. So I got that information and called them back. In addition to reading out the number, I had to spell out the name of the drug, etc. When the woman realized we would have to do that 50 more times (she thought I was calling with ONE prescription), she decided to send me up the chain.
Now, CVS is claiming that they don’t owe me money, since they didn’t know any better when they charged me for copays. They say insurance has to refile all the claims.
But my “stupid hours on the phone” this week will likely be spent dealing with student loans.
In fact, I just got off the phone with Fed Loan Servicing. I didn’t actually talk to anyone, mind you. The call was disconnected before I got to a person. And all of their “chat” agents are busy.
But I need to talk to them, because I still don’t have confirmation that the deconsolidation has been approved. Their site lists two loans, with the same $ total as the three I have (subsidized, unsubsidized, and parent), so I’m confused–which loan still has the parent loan in it in their system?
The Department of Education site is even more confusing–and panic inducing–since they say I owe them 317,138. That’s exactly double what I actually owe them.
I’m hoping this is a side effect of the de-consolidation request actually going through. In other words, they’ve updated to show my three loans, but they haven’t yet gotten around to erasing the consolidation one, which is why they seem to think I owe double.
This is still so stressful.
I’ll end on a weird moment.
I was reading an interview of Werner Herzog, and there was one paragraph that prompted this thought: I need to get Dante to read that aloud in Herzog’s voice.
A few minutes later, Dante returned from work, explaining that he had the limes I wanted and noting that his Werner Herzog impression just wasn’t coming together the way he wanted.
Had I texted him after reading the interview? No.
Is this proof that telepathy is real?
Yes.
Is this the first time this has happened to me? No.
