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Everybody please wish a very happy birthday to the beloved penguinboi! He's a 30-year-old now (or will be this afternoon), so be gentle with him. :-)


In less pleasant news, the state disability determination people made a doctor's appointment for me that I have to go to this morning. Will resist the urge to whine about that, since I have to get ready to go to it soon & whining takes time. Oh well, I had a nice restful week last week (and fun Thanksgiving!); now it's time to go back to work again.

Update

Wow. I'm feeling really amazingly stupid at the moment. Did manage to get to the doctor's appointment, but had to get myself lost along the way. When I found a church where they were willing to let me in to use the pay phone and got hold of the doctor's office, the woman on the other end of the line gave me directions slowly, deliberately, and repeatedly as if I were a particularly stupid child, which is precisely how I felt so I suppose it was fitting.

Not sure if the appointment went as it should or not. It did disturb me that the office was dustier than the house where I live. I live with grad students--a doctor's office should be cleaner than this, shouldn't it? He didn't know anything about fibromyalgia either, so he asked me some questions then thwacked me on various parts of the body asking, "Does that hurt? Does it hurt there? So it hurts all over?" Well, yeah it does when you thwack me like that. Thanks.

Before the disability determination folks made today's appointment for me, I'd made an appointment for tomorrow with one of the job-hunt-related people. Since I still have no medication or supplements, today's appointment (and all the walking around I did while pathetically lost) wiped me out & there's no way anything useful can be done tomrrow, that appointment is now canceled. Drat. Not sure when I can get supplements considering the little bit-o'-cash my sis-in-law sent has mostly gone to pay utility bills. It'd be nice to be able to do something on more than one day a week again. I think most jobs require more than 4 hours per week of work, so if I want one of those, something will need to be done soon.

So there's all the update I can muster at the moment. Going to crash in bed now.

Have a good day, everyone!