Snow Day

[cornerofmadness]

I figured it was coming and hey I kept my power. I've about given up teaching anything this semester. I missed that many days already. I DID read all my novella and to my horror there are three huge timeline slips. Now wildrider and evil_little_dog didn't see these because these are scenes I added in after reading their edits. I AM however rather annoyed that the editor missed them. He spent a lot of time picking on things that may or may not deserve it (some definitely do) and missed that? I think there was a bit of tunnel vision there. I'm currently working on that now but I'm not sure how the hell I can do that and get those three scenes rewritten in the next two very busy days. I am going to be SO glad to see the back of this damn thing.

I got SO lucky today. I called my insurance to double check if i could see a doc back in Pittsburgh. It was a 20 minute wait. They said go online. Well on the 'contact us' part it gives me FAQs but NOT way to email my question. Luckily it was less than a 20 min. wait and yes, I can see the doc. I ask about the email and they said 'only certain policies can contact us online.' SOOOOO you're telling me unless I'm premium you won't let me contact you? Oh I'm so going to HR with this. Bite me. Maybe this will be the last year I have to deal with them.

Anyhow, the lucky part is I called and got an appt for NEXT week at the orthopedic surgeons back home. Do you know how unheard of that is especially for a shoulder guy (they're rarer). They asked how my brother was (they send him work.) I need this. I haven't been complaining much about my shoulder but I can barely move it now. I can't lift my arm to shoulder height without pain and forget about reaching for anything.

So the media loves telling us how shopping malls are going the way of the dodo. I just spent an hour putting bras in my virtual shopping cart, trying to suss out which ones actually went with the sale and that's when I see it. TWELVE dollars in shipping and handling? Almost as much to return it if it doesn't fit. You know what, give me a mall any damn day of the week. At least I know it fits before I buy it. And yes, I hit delete on that virtual shopping cart. The real problem is finding a plus size shop in person that has bras. I hate Lane Bryant's bras. They fall apart every time I buy them. And I'm more than a little pissed that Bali's (my favorite bras) has a 34 bra on a plus sized store. I wore that when I was 120 pounds (though they are an 'outside vendor' so maybe it's linking to their entire store).

Kanda had a moment. He dug into the recycler while I was eating and managed to loop a paper bag with jute handles over his neck and it hit him in the ass. TERRIFIED he started racing through the apt slamming into everything and of course since he has the bag over his neck he can't get away (well he could if he had just stopped and backed up). Dumbass runs under my bed and my arm about falls off with pain as I reach under and get the bag off his neck. He cries a couple of times but I can't get him out to be sure he didn't hurt himself. He reappeared about a half hour later (he's fine)

Product placement- I found Red Lobster's purloined recipe cheddar biscuits in the baking section of Kroger's. I made them for my defense against the power outage and tried them tonight. They are just like the real thing. Yum.

declutter day 215 item tossed -Plastic container why kpet-Held cat food why tossed -Was going to use it for storage but I have like SIX of them. Recycled.