thursday this and that

I was awake a little early this morning, so I just got up. DH (who doesn't get up when I do) mumbled he was going to try to sleep in today, if that's ok. I said of course it is. But, knowing him, he'll be up his usual time and find something to do today. Yesterday afternoon we took the 6 big red bows I bought and added them to our wreaths outside. It was so windy, which made it so cold. I was like "yep, looks great!" to move on to the next one and get inside, haha.

I now know what was causing my mom's internet to be in and out Saturday and Sunday, when I kept logging into the medication app and sometimes it would work and other times not. I read a news article that some idiot lady in a trailer park fired a gun several times and while she was arrested, no one at the time realized she hit a fiber optic cable for the internet in the city, causing outage, so it didn't get fixed until Sunday.

I think dd and I are done shopping for my mom for Christmas. I ordered 2 tops from Blair and dd will give her one. I also got her some socks, a wall calendar, crossword puzzle book (for seniors) and candy.

Awhile back I bought this Revlon hair dryer/straightener combo that has lots of good reviews. Other than it being a bit big/bulky to handle, it really does work well. I can dry and straighten my hair in one go and it takes less than 5 minutes. I then do a tiny touch up with iron, but it makes my hair smooth and looks nice. I don't use it most days, but it was nice to use yesterday morning after my shower. DD has very long curly hair and she tried it while she was here over Thanksgiving and liked it, so I got her one for Christmas. 

An employee for my side job that I send a check to reimburse expenses for said this would be her last expense report for a few months as she just went on maternity leave. I emailed back that I'm mailing out the check to her today. I started to type "congratulations, have you had the baby yet? enjoy the baby and the holidays" but then realized I don't know what the situation is! She may have adopted....so I just said congratulations, enjoy the baby and holidays. Now I gotta walk the check out to my mailbox...LOL. It's 30 degrees out and I see a few snowflakes falling.

When I was at Walgreens yesterday and checking out some older guy walked in and the cashier was greeting everyone as they came through the door and I heard the guy say "I'm going to need stamps when I check out, so could you make sure they are called up to the register" (or something like that). The voice sounded a bit familiar and I turned to look and pretty sure it was my mom's (off and on LOL) boyfriend. (I've only met him very briefly for a minute or two). He didn't seem to see me and I didn't bother trying to say hello. I was in a hurry to get back to the doctors office. Then as I'm walking to my car and am loading my stuff in the back, some guy pulls up and stopped to tell me he almost ran into me and I need to pay attention (another old guy). I don't know about you, but when I am pulling out of a parking lot I look for people walking to their cars before I back out. It's kind of hard, when you are walking to your car to see that someone is in their car and ready to back out, especially when the lot is full and you can't see into all the cars that are blocking the view of other cars parked on the other side of them. I just said "oh, I'm so sorry!" 

So, that urologist visit from last Sept, apparently they didn't submit the claim to insurance until just recently (so why send me a bill for the full amount, if you are waiting on insurance?). I see this morning that his insurance did process it now, and since it was processed now, after he's met his max, it's 100% covered. Throwing this bill for $408 in the garbage! Interesting that it took them over 2 months to file the claim with insurance. When I worked at a doctors office and did billing, we billed out the next day after the visit, or maybe 2 days if we were super busy, and this was a big clinic with 4 offices.

It's like Ground Hog Day every day with my mom the past week or so. For some reason one of the morning medications in her dispenser is reading "low" so it keeps showing a notification on the screen (and on my app). I'm not sure why, other than maybe I missed inputting the quantity when I loaded it (it's optional to do that). It's got the same number of pills the other 3 meds have in their cups inside the  machine. Every. Single. Day. I get a phone call asking me about this and I explain it every single time. I can't fix it from the app, so it will have to wait until I go there and get her refilled - which she really isn't due to refill until like first week of Jan or maybe even mid January.  And she still doesn't understand that the button in front on the machine that is labeled "push" is just a label! It's not telling her she needs to push it! So, she walks by the machine. See's it says "Push" LOL, and pushes it and then of course, since she's already taken her meds for the morning, it thinks she's trying to take again, so the screen above says "this is locked, contact your caregiver". And the other almost daily question is what we are doing for Christmas....and I don't have to come and get her if I don't want to....sigh.....