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Non-Complaint: The weather was lovely today!
Complaint: Got one of those AI-spoofed text messages from 'a friend' today. It's easy enough to trick the clankers into revealing themselves almost immediately, but I know that won't be the case forever.
Non-complaint: I finally called the phone number given to me for access to information straight from the horses mouth at the hospital's main billing offices. She confirmed that I do not currently owe the hospital any money. Yay!
And she confirmed that the bill is currently being submitted to my proper insurance company, and she has now removed my old insurance company from the list. (I don't know why that wasn't done automatically
) It may turn out that I owe something that the insurance doesn't cover but it should be less than the bill last sent to me. (Fingers crossed)
Complaint: Last night while watching TV, eating a bowl of pea soup, my nose started leaking again.
All better in 10 minutes though. Soup was still warm enough to eat.
Non-complaint: I'm getting pretty good at washing blood out of my t-shirts.
Complaint: I had to throw out a bunch of overly old potatoes. And my onions are sprouting and getting soft. (*sigh*)
Non-complaint: I have enough food in the house to not need potatoes or onions for a while. No need for a grocery run for a week. (Yay, more budget relief.) Also, no doctor appointments for 6 weeks.
Complaint: The next doctor to be seen is my dentist. He wants me to have a root canal procedure. I've been putting it off, but my bad tooth keeps reminding me now and then. Bye-bye $$$$
Screw root canal, I'd rather have an extraction.
Sounds like there's a story there.
Just a bit. I had my one and only root canal done at 15. The supposed "best dentist in the area" totally screwed it up. I ended up with a huge abcess like a golf ball on the side of my face, plus he damaged the surrounding teeth. So, as I hate needles in my mouth anyway, I just go for the extraction after a huge amount of jolly jelly. Never had an infection after an extraction. Once I run out of teeth, I'll get dentures - cheaper and easier to clean than implants.
I do have to be careful now though as I'm on anti-coagulants and bleed like a {insert expletive here} so I'm trying to make my remaining teeth last as long as possible.
!. Don't be surprised if the old insurance info shows up again at some point. It happened to us. We had a former plan that showed up every time we used a particular hospital, for years after the plan was switched. The new, correct plan was from a different insurer, through a different job, and had a different primary insured. We'd give the clerk the correct card; they'd say, "Uh, the computer shows you have FormerCo"; we'd say "Not any more"; they'd enter the card info; the claim would finally go to and be paid by the correct company. Next visit was a Rinse & Repeat scenario. I think the only thing that ended it was we moved out of state so never used the hospital again. I still wonder if FormerCo would pop up if we or one of the kids visited Previous City and had to go to that hospital. Granted this was 20 years or so ago, but computers, amirite?
2. If Hydrogen Peroxide isn't working on all of them, or you have older stains, get some Awesome, either the stain sprain or their general cleaner. Awesome often takes out set in stains. It's very cheap (here $1 for a pint spray bottle or $3 for a refill jug) and I find it at Dollar General and Walmart (where I think you mentioned shopping a lot).
Ouch for your experience.
However, I trust my dentist, been with him for decades. I still have all my teeth. Well, except for four and a half of them... the four wisdom teeth extracted at 19, and a crown at 70. I'm 77 now and I intend to keep the rest of them. They're mostly in good condition and I've become accustomed to them.
It's almost like they grew on me.
Growing up, I watched my friends head off to the dentist one-by-one to get a wisdom tooth or two (or three or four) yanked. Never happened to me, but I assumed it would eventually.
Turns out that I don't have any wisdom teeth, and never did. I wonder what that says about me?
I've had all my wisdom teeth pulled over the last ten years. Could explain my turning into a grumpy old {expletive}
This. Last year I had some serious issues with my insurance getting rejected because we supposedly had other insurance.... which was a plan from a job that ex- had gotten fired from TEN YEARS AGO. Extra weird because we hadn't had an issue before that. It made for me beating my head against the wall for several months running trying to get Teen Kiddo's ADHD meds refilled, but somehow things got straightened out on the admin end and it finally stopped.
You were smart enough to not grow them?
Had mine pulled at 16. I think they didn't take into account my weight when calculating how much of the painkillers they should give me... I was a wisp of a thing back then, and WOW was I spacy. After the first day I figured the pain would be better than the side effects from the drugs and went to OTC stuff.
I was on anti-coagulants for a while and no insurance company wanted me within fifty feet of a dentist's office, and all the dentists insisted on written waivers to even clean my teeth.
Oh no! You are in my thoughts!
I am doing okay. Spent Thursday with my dad. It went okay. I told him my interest in learning Tagalog. He kept insisting I was dropping the last g. But I could hear it every time. He kept insisting I was saying it wrong, but I felt like I was saying it right.
Mine too.
Here too, I hope it can be resolved satisfactorily.
Yes, that must have been terrifying. I wish you the best.
...same here as well.
Not good!
Stay strong for her.
Complaint: My Symphony Buddy is dropping and not replacing his leased car at the end of May! Oh no!
His partner/roommate/whatever still has a car but it's one of those "Smart Cars". i.e. an oversized rollerskate, barely adequate for 1.5 people our size.
We've made plans for a last breakfast mini-adventure sometime first week of May while he still has a proper car. I'm gonna miss trips to the symphony.
..sounds like being downgraded from a 737 to a Cessna 150.(the latter which has more interior room than a smart car).
Add my thoughts & well wishes for the best possible outcome.
I use hydrogen peroxide. With all the knife slices, dog and cat bites, claw rips I get it is critical to keeping decent looking clothes in my closet. It also works on cat poop smears when Charlie used my White bathroom mats, and then scratched up the mats to bury the evidence.
Food stains I use hand dish detergent liberally applied to the spots and then sprayed with regular 409. This was a hint from my brother-in-law who was a chef and resturant owner before he and my sister retired. I hit the spots ASAP and then again just before I wash the items. Sometimes I miss and have to go again. Frying tortillas is a messy business.
I had my mammogram in January this year and found out there is some new tech now. I was pushed up to the plate, but nothing got squashed, no pain, no issues. The radiologist was able to tell me if she had a clean image right away, and reposition me for the other views. No issues. Clean bill of health. I did have a fibrous cyst found back in '93 that had to be dealt with. But both parents and my brother have had cancer, so my doctor and I make sure I get all the cancer screenings, including the colon. My dad survived colon cancer.
I can't emphasize enough the importance of screenings, but also avoiding risk factors. I lost my mother when I was 27 and she was 59. It is an empty hole in my heart where she was still.
I'm sorry you lost her, and especially so young.
I'm definitely doing my best on the risk factors. No smoking, no alcohol, N95 mask when I'm in public, healthy food (for the most part) and exercise. Still working on getting my weight back down to something more healthy after lack of sleep + a truly absurd number of mochas did me in during school a few years back.
The ones that really get me are the stress & the sleep stuff; inadequate sleep and an inconsistent sleep schedule can definitely mess one up, they've found. Not a whole lot I can do about either of those than to just mitigate things as best I can.
Sleep is the hardest thing to control. No one has control over the behavior of neighbors, their work schedules, inconsiderate partying your home, fighting, gun fights, (yes I have been woken or been outside when in early morning hours groups of people decided to have gun fights on the streets surrounding my home/apartments), or alarms going of. Or in my case, two cats having food, cat tray visits and then major zoomies that result in using my bed as a bounce point. The previous apartment we had a family above us whose husband held parties every night the wife worked as a nurse, that were loud and violent. They were not invited to renew their lease there. We were zombies during that time. Also my flatmate had been on his first year with Target, so had a rotating schedule, where he would be on from 3pm to 11pm, and expected back at 8am the next morning. Ignoring that it took 20 minutes (40 minutes in snow/ice) to commute to that location, diffuse, eat, then fall asleep, wake, clean-up, eat, commute back. We averaged maybe 4 - 5 hours those nights. One reason we moved within walking distance to the store when we could. But 'Battling Bickersons', gunfire, drunks, partiers, ... are still around.
Sleep is precious. But there are times in our lives we can't obtain it. I feel for you @Silver_Girl but keep in front of you that Little Dude's improvement is yours and his achievement. It can get better.
And I will try to remember that the next time I am woken at 1am to 'mew'... 'mew'... 'mew' and find Simon looking at me from the floor and he wants the water bowl fillled or the food bowl top up'd. You just can't shut off 'Mommy Radar'.
I got a free android tablet today, but I can't figure out how to log into it after a factory reset.
Whoof, you've had some doozies throwing off your sleep. I'm so sorry. It's frustrating when it's out of your control like that, and it's down to a complete lack of consideration of others or their workplaces. (Cats don't count, for obvious reasons. Mine used to sit on my chest and very gently pat my face until I would get up and handle their issues.)
Unfortunately the base problem with Little Dude's sleep is a separate thing from the autism and often treatment-resistant, which seems to be the case here. All the things that can be reasonably tried for him just don't work, so according to our sleep specialist it's likely we're just stuck with the slow march of our sleep schedule for good. The part where he makes the giant time jumps when he gets dysregulated... that part might get easier with time, if self-regulation starts coming easier at some point. At least, I can hope. In the meantime, I'm enormously grateful that supports exist to keep me home with him or I probably would've dropped dead of exhaustion by now. (Even if they're one of the primary causes of my stress at the moment... argh.) With the ability to synch my schedule to his without ALSO having to synch it to outside things needing me, I more often get a reasonable amount of sleep than don't, these days, and I hold onto that with both hands.
It's just the WHEN IS IT COMING?? part that has me near-permanently jet lagged.
Ah well. It's been worse.
And today's a good one. He woke happy at 3 PM, said "wonerful" while we were cuddling (I think to describe either his mood or his dreams?), the weather was gorgeous for our walk, he was shrieking with joy at the wind, a few of the trees finally have enough leaves to hear them rustle, and there are no mosquitoes yet.
I'll take it. :)