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Jun. 20th, 2015 04:02 pmIt's actually cooler inside our house than it is outside right now. I'm surprised because that isn't usually the case when we don't have the air conditioner running. I've actually turned off the overhead fans for now, and I put on a long sleeved dress. I may change clothes if I'm going to go out later, but I'm comfortable like this now.
Scott got home about 4:00 yesterday and promptly fell asleep. What with that and needing to shower, he wasn't ready to contemplate dinner until about 7:30. At that point, he suggested ordering pizza or picking up Chinese food. I said I wasn't at all sure that would work given the timing, so he waited for me to make up my mind. Never mind that my drop dead, must eat dinner by this time of 8:00 hasn't changed in over a decade. Waiting didn't make it at all more likely that I would be able to eat delivery or carry out food given that the issue wasn't whether I wanted to or not but whether or not I could still eat once the food was available. It's a reflux thing. If I'm going to bed around 11:00 or midnight, I can't eat most things after 8:00. Otherwise, I'll be up past 3:00 a.m.
With ten minutes to go before my deadline, we scavenged enough leftovers to feed all three of us, but it was a near thing, and I was still hungry after dinner.
Scott wanted to take us to Orange Leaf after dinner, but I had to veto that. Most ice cream (but not all) is safe for me even relatively late, but every time we've gone to Orange Leaf after 7:00, I've had reflux trouble on going to bed. I'm not sure why that's different, but it is. I wouldn't have thought that frozen yogurt would be worse than ice cream.
I've dealt with two of my three pending business envelopes. The first of the two Social Security ones was an update for which they wanted me to list every single medical appointment/procedure I've had done since June 2013. Fortunately, my iCal is helpful in that way. It doesn't cover anything that was a same day appointment, and it includes a couple of appointments that I rescheduled but, for some reason, didn't delete, but it was close enough. I hope they don't do a full review, but if they do, I'll cope somehow.
The second Social Security envelope, I still haven't opened. I've had it about a week, and I know exactly what it is. That has to do with them wanting me to tell them what I've done with Cordelia's Social Security money, how much we've spent and how much we've saved. I'm not sure why they bother given that they've never asked for a detailed accounting, just how much money is in her account right now. I'd have thought that us taking thousands of dollars out of her account would be cause for further query, but I haven't heard a peep. I mean, I think our expenditures were justified in terms of being for things that are valid family expenses-- the sewer line, the roof, and now the air conditioner. It's not like we're going to Vegas or anything, but Social Security doesn't know that.
Anyway, I'll deal with that envelope later today or some time tomorrow so that it can go in the mail on Monday. Today's mail has already gone out, so there's no hurry.
The third envelope I needed to open was, as I suspected, a medical bill. It's only for $40, but I think it might be the result of the U's medical system once again losing track of my insurance information. I keep having to remind them again that the first thing they should do with each bill is send it to Aetna. Then, it should go to Medicare. Finally, it should go to my insurance through my former employer. I haven't decided if it's worth the bureaucratic hassle to try to find out if this particular bill was submitted properly. This is the first time in about 15 years that I've actually received a bill for anything medical, so I am inclined to think that it wasn't billed properly, but it's only $40.
I started tweaking my Remix last night. It's a little frustrating because there's more information that I need to get in there, but I want, at all costs, to avoid an info dump. I just want enough there to explain why the characters aren't acting exactly the way that, on the face of things, they might be expected to. The story's only 1600 words right now. Adding a solid paragraph of explanation would be more than a small speed bump, and some of it is stuff that the point of view character wouldn't articulate in any way. He's definitely the point of view character, though. The other character who could be was the point of view character in the original and doesn't know any of the stuff that I'm trying to get across to my readers. Maybe I need my point of view character to have a flashback to when he learned all of this stuff... But the story's so short that I don't know that I can make that work.
In my efforts to procrastinate on my Remix, I've started link finding for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
metanews for next week. In a way, it's nice to start this far out because it means I'll have more time for other things on Monday and Tuesday, but link finding seems to be the sort of thing that expands to fill all available time.
Scott got home about 4:00 yesterday and promptly fell asleep. What with that and needing to shower, he wasn't ready to contemplate dinner until about 7:30. At that point, he suggested ordering pizza or picking up Chinese food. I said I wasn't at all sure that would work given the timing, so he waited for me to make up my mind. Never mind that my drop dead, must eat dinner by this time of 8:00 hasn't changed in over a decade. Waiting didn't make it at all more likely that I would be able to eat delivery or carry out food given that the issue wasn't whether I wanted to or not but whether or not I could still eat once the food was available. It's a reflux thing. If I'm going to bed around 11:00 or midnight, I can't eat most things after 8:00. Otherwise, I'll be up past 3:00 a.m.
With ten minutes to go before my deadline, we scavenged enough leftovers to feed all three of us, but it was a near thing, and I was still hungry after dinner.
Scott wanted to take us to Orange Leaf after dinner, but I had to veto that. Most ice cream (but not all) is safe for me even relatively late, but every time we've gone to Orange Leaf after 7:00, I've had reflux trouble on going to bed. I'm not sure why that's different, but it is. I wouldn't have thought that frozen yogurt would be worse than ice cream.
I've dealt with two of my three pending business envelopes. The first of the two Social Security ones was an update for which they wanted me to list every single medical appointment/procedure I've had done since June 2013. Fortunately, my iCal is helpful in that way. It doesn't cover anything that was a same day appointment, and it includes a couple of appointments that I rescheduled but, for some reason, didn't delete, but it was close enough. I hope they don't do a full review, but if they do, I'll cope somehow.
The second Social Security envelope, I still haven't opened. I've had it about a week, and I know exactly what it is. That has to do with them wanting me to tell them what I've done with Cordelia's Social Security money, how much we've spent and how much we've saved. I'm not sure why they bother given that they've never asked for a detailed accounting, just how much money is in her account right now. I'd have thought that us taking thousands of dollars out of her account would be cause for further query, but I haven't heard a peep. I mean, I think our expenditures were justified in terms of being for things that are valid family expenses-- the sewer line, the roof, and now the air conditioner. It's not like we're going to Vegas or anything, but Social Security doesn't know that.
Anyway, I'll deal with that envelope later today or some time tomorrow so that it can go in the mail on Monday. Today's mail has already gone out, so there's no hurry.
The third envelope I needed to open was, as I suspected, a medical bill. It's only for $40, but I think it might be the result of the U's medical system once again losing track of my insurance information. I keep having to remind them again that the first thing they should do with each bill is send it to Aetna. Then, it should go to Medicare. Finally, it should go to my insurance through my former employer. I haven't decided if it's worth the bureaucratic hassle to try to find out if this particular bill was submitted properly. This is the first time in about 15 years that I've actually received a bill for anything medical, so I am inclined to think that it wasn't billed properly, but it's only $40.
I started tweaking my Remix last night. It's a little frustrating because there's more information that I need to get in there, but I want, at all costs, to avoid an info dump. I just want enough there to explain why the characters aren't acting exactly the way that, on the face of things, they might be expected to. The story's only 1600 words right now. Adding a solid paragraph of explanation would be more than a small speed bump, and some of it is stuff that the point of view character wouldn't articulate in any way. He's definitely the point of view character, though. The other character who could be was the point of view character in the original and doesn't know any of the stuff that I'm trying to get across to my readers. Maybe I need my point of view character to have a flashback to when he learned all of this stuff... But the story's so short that I don't know that I can make that work.
In my efforts to procrastinate on my Remix, I've started link finding for
metanews for next week. In a way, it's nice to start this far out because it means I'll have more time for other things on Monday and Tuesday, but link finding seems to be the sort of thing that expands to fill all available time.
