What A Pain

 It's already been a day.

It's been cold and windy all day. There was a full moon and a lunar eclipse last night, but neither were visible because it was cloudy. There was even snow on the mountains this morning.

I had to be at PT at 8:00 a.m. Dave drove and when we got there, I realized I didn't have my wallet. He gave me his credit card to pay the co-pay. When we were leaving, I went to give him his card and I didn't have it. I looked everywhere and we even drove back to the PT office and no one had turned it in. That makes me sad because I've been going there for years and that means that someone picked it up and was what? going to keep it? try to use it? I don't know. 

We had to cancel our cards as soon as we got home, which sucks because all our auto-pay things are on it and all the vendors we normally order from online, for cat food, for household supplies, for groceries. All will have to be re-done when we get our new cards next week. What a pain.

I also had neglected making appointments for our yearly skin checks at the dermatologist, so I did that. I also called to get an appointment with the ENT. My right ear has been bugging me since I got water into it during my shower on Sunday. It also often gives me trouble during allergy season because my Eustachian tube on the right side doesn't open normally, so the pressure builds up and it gets painful. I want the ENT to check it out and to clean out my ear since the wax doesn't migrate normally (as the ENT puts it). Last time he used a vacuum to clean it out (and that was horrible in case you were wondering what it's like to have the inside of your ear vacuumed).

Speaking of ears: All the wind has kicked up a lot of dust and pollen and my sinuse are sore and painful which makes my ear feel worse as all the nerves get riled up. By noon, I developed a headache from my sinuses or from my neck (which I strained on the weekend trying to get the water out of my ear) or from the stress of the morning or from poor sleep or from the full moon or from accidentally reading a news headline. Take your pick. All suck.

We were supposed to go by my mother's this afternoon--we still haven't taken her the glass piece that we ordered with my brother's ashes for her--but I texted her and suggested we meet tomorrow since I wasn't feeling well. Luckily she was able to change her plans. So we'll go tomorrow afternoon and bring some lunch with us so we can eat together.

Oh, and it's also our wedding anniversary. So there's that. We got a grocery order this afternoon that included half a cherry pie (we got married on Pi Day, 3/14) and some ice cream to go on top. (I already dug into the ice cream and had a couple of spoonfuls, but the pie is as of yet untouched.) We'll have dinner from the Indian restaurant we usually go to, then pie.

In addition to the grocery order, deliveries piled up all morning and early afternoon on our doorstep. We got a new humidifier (the one we use has suddenly become very temperamental and has twice just decided to shut itself off), two new pairs of pants for me (one pair of jeans, one pair of green cotton pants), some UTI test strips and urine cups, three books (two by Jennifer Weiner and a copy of Moby Dick), and--there was something else, but I can't for the life of me think what it was.

I've got a pile of books to read right now. Currently I'm working on three: Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald, the Rue McClanahan one about her five husbands (it got a bit more interesting when her first husband left her a few days after she gave birth to their son and now she's about to sleep with her second husband's best friend), and Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs. All books by women, note. I'm adding the Weiner novels to the stack, a copy of The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, All The Beauty In The World by Patrick Bringley, and two books about making art, one by Danny Greggory and one by Elizabeth Gilbert, the titles of which escape me at the moment. Kelly also recommended one to me yesterday and I added it to the cart on Thriftbooks (where all my books come from pretty much since I'm trying to wean myself off of Amazon and I'd rather buy used books than new). Anyway, The Brain has been liking to read again, possibly spurred on by studying French daily, so I'm trying to do a bit of reading each day and not strain my neck too much leaning over books.

That's where I am right now.