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Oct. 24th, 2015 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWe probably won’t go back to that Indian restaurant. I went to bed at midnight last night, ten hours after I’d eaten, and I still had trouble with the spice from that meal. It’s sad because the food was so very, very tasty.
I need to make a grocery list for Scott. I’ve printed the template, so I just have to fill it out. I’m tired enough that this seems like a daunting task.
We’re having lunch with Scott’s family tomorrow to celebrate his sister’s birthday. I’ve looked at the menu for the restaurant in question, and I’m not thrilled by anything on it. I can probably find something that won’t make me sick, but I’m not sure I’ll find anything that I’ll actually enjoy. Scott’s sister always picks this restaurant for things like this in spite of her having gotten really, really terrible service there once (I think they once completely neglected to bring her food until she prompted them after the rest of her family had eaten).
Cordelia spent a lot of time cuddling with me last night. She kept urging me to smile. She seems to have internalized the idea that smiling will automatically make everything better. She was really pleased, though, when she got me to laugh later on.
I need to order some pants for me and for Cordelia, but I’m having trouble overcoming my reluctance to spend money. Two pairs for me and three for Cordelia comes out to more than $100. I know we’ll both wear them, but that’s a lot of money. I know it’s cheap as pants go, but… Also, two of those that Cordelia picked out are back ordered. One won’t come in until mid-December, and the other won’t come in until late January. Unfortunately, she didn’t like the other available colors. I will admit that many of those are ugly colors, but they’re available now, so…
I mainly want more pants for me because I’m finding pants and a shirt easier to deal with at my radiation appointments than stretch pants and a dress. The dresses are heavier and harder to take off and put back on. I don’t want to wear stretch pants and a shirt because I don’t feel decently covered when I do that and because many of my stretch pants are old enough to have developed small holes along the seams in the thighs and/or crotch.
The radiology people called me at 4:30 yesterday to ask if I could come in half an hour early on Monday. I wasn’t enthusiastic about doing that, but I didn’t really have a reason to say no apart from uncertainty about transportation. I managed to clear the schedule change with my driver for that day, so we’re set to go. I just hate to do that without a pressing need. I hope they don’t ask me to change the timing often.
I need to find out if any of the cab companies in town would be willing to call me when the driver arrives at the radiology center. That would make using a cab to get home a lot more feasible because it would mean that I could sit inside while I wait. There’s nowhere in the parking area to sit down, and even if I stood right in the doorway of the building, I wouldn’t be able to see a cab pull up. I do not want to stand in a parking lot for an hour when I’m this tired, and I’ll be even less willing as the weather gets colder. I have noticed, though, that the cab company I’m used to dealing with doesn’t seem to know what I’m talking about when I tell them where I want them to take me/pick me up from. I’m not entirely convinced that they wouldn’t go to the hospital main entrance and then drive away when I don’t come out to meet them. Surely the radiology building isn’t all that rare a destination?
Unfortunately, getting an answer to my question will probably mean calling the various cab companies, and I really, really don’t want to do that. I just looked at the website for the company I usually use. They’ll let you send feedback by email or ask a billing question that way, but all other questions have to be asked by phone. Googling is only giving me two cab companies currently operating in Ann Arbor that do every day transportation in town. I thought there were three, but Veteran’s Cab seems to have either vanished or never to have bothered with any sort of online presence and isn’t listed on the out of date visitannarbor.org cab guide.
I need to make a grocery list for Scott. I’ve printed the template, so I just have to fill it out. I’m tired enough that this seems like a daunting task.
We’re having lunch with Scott’s family tomorrow to celebrate his sister’s birthday. I’ve looked at the menu for the restaurant in question, and I’m not thrilled by anything on it. I can probably find something that won’t make me sick, but I’m not sure I’ll find anything that I’ll actually enjoy. Scott’s sister always picks this restaurant for things like this in spite of her having gotten really, really terrible service there once (I think they once completely neglected to bring her food until she prompted them after the rest of her family had eaten).
Cordelia spent a lot of time cuddling with me last night. She kept urging me to smile. She seems to have internalized the idea that smiling will automatically make everything better. She was really pleased, though, when she got me to laugh later on.
I need to order some pants for me and for Cordelia, but I’m having trouble overcoming my reluctance to spend money. Two pairs for me and three for Cordelia comes out to more than $100. I know we’ll both wear them, but that’s a lot of money. I know it’s cheap as pants go, but… Also, two of those that Cordelia picked out are back ordered. One won’t come in until mid-December, and the other won’t come in until late January. Unfortunately, she didn’t like the other available colors. I will admit that many of those are ugly colors, but they’re available now, so…
I mainly want more pants for me because I’m finding pants and a shirt easier to deal with at my radiation appointments than stretch pants and a dress. The dresses are heavier and harder to take off and put back on. I don’t want to wear stretch pants and a shirt because I don’t feel decently covered when I do that and because many of my stretch pants are old enough to have developed small holes along the seams in the thighs and/or crotch.
The radiology people called me at 4:30 yesterday to ask if I could come in half an hour early on Monday. I wasn’t enthusiastic about doing that, but I didn’t really have a reason to say no apart from uncertainty about transportation. I managed to clear the schedule change with my driver for that day, so we’re set to go. I just hate to do that without a pressing need. I hope they don’t ask me to change the timing often.
I need to find out if any of the cab companies in town would be willing to call me when the driver arrives at the radiology center. That would make using a cab to get home a lot more feasible because it would mean that I could sit inside while I wait. There’s nowhere in the parking area to sit down, and even if I stood right in the doorway of the building, I wouldn’t be able to see a cab pull up. I do not want to stand in a parking lot for an hour when I’m this tired, and I’ll be even less willing as the weather gets colder. I have noticed, though, that the cab company I’m used to dealing with doesn’t seem to know what I’m talking about when I tell them where I want them to take me/pick me up from. I’m not entirely convinced that they wouldn’t go to the hospital main entrance and then drive away when I don’t come out to meet them. Surely the radiology building isn’t all that rare a destination?
Unfortunately, getting an answer to my question will probably mean calling the various cab companies, and I really, really don’t want to do that. I just looked at the website for the company I usually use. They’ll let you send feedback by email or ask a billing question that way, but all other questions have to be asked by phone. Googling is only giving me two cab companies currently operating in Ann Arbor that do every day transportation in town. I thought there were three, but Veteran’s Cab seems to have either vanished or never to have bothered with any sort of online presence and isn’t listed on the out of date visitannarbor.org cab guide.
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Date: 2015-10-24 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-24 09:38 pm (UTC)Heck, I can't find much solid information about Uber in general. Their website seems to consist of "We're wonderful! Download our app here!" over and over and over.
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Date: 2015-10-24 10:46 pm (UTC)This sounds like my 'rents. If anyone comes to visit, it's the same damned restaurant even though I'm not sure I've ever gone there and had consistently good food and service. But it's always the go-to place even when I point out the parade of horrible experiences (which are apparently somehow just me - if I can't make it to lunch/dinner, everything tends to go fine). I think people just get stuck on a place and overlook its downsides.
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Date: 2015-10-24 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-24 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-24 10:41 pm (UTC)My mother has taken to using Uber ("I've been Uberized," she said) once her grandchildren got her started with it.
I won't go as far as "wonderful," but it sounds as if one of the two might be a good fit for you.