excess junk

Spent today taking it easy. Had monster cramps. Boo.

I packed up most of one bookcase in the bedroom – woo hoo! a start on the packing! I’ve already gathered up a bit of stuff to sell. No bites so far on the stuff I’ve posted though..

I’ve been going through my computer saving the stuff to BF’s external hard drive that I want to keep. It’s time this sucker got reformatted. It’s working WAY-HAY-HAY too slow for me. I think it has the herpes. (IOW, a virus)

We called Bell to cut off our long distance. Should be gone by tomorrow sometime. Trying to cut costs where we can. It won’t save us much but every little bit helps I suppose.

BF goes to work Friday and Monday on the late shift so we have some time during business hours to make some calls we need to make and go in to ODSP to talk to my worker about his SC etc etc. Yuck. I don’t even want to think about going in to talk to those dumb-dumbs.

I will have to go to the next town over one of those days to try to pick up our records from my psychiatrist as well. He’s been MIA since February. He was retiring and then he was semi-retiring but when we call to make an appointment it’s a 4 month waiting list. WTF? An internist I went to won’t give me copy of my records and is just generally possessive over me for some reason – didn’t think my regular doctor could handle keeping an eye on my diabetes, etc. Was really ticked when I told him I didn’t think I needed to see him anymore. WTF? Our -old- GP has just announced that he no longer can prescribe narcotics because (story 1, the calmer story he told CFMIL) he had patients selling them (story 2, the story he told a co-worker of BF’s who is a current patient) he had 2 patients commit suicide while on drugs he prescribed.

I really am fed up with the doctors in this area. I’ll be glad to get back to sanity in Ottawa. After some of the stories I had heard about the care in the hospitals here, I had thoroughly made up my mind that I am not birthing no babies in any Niagara hospital! Following the medical conversation at the "sexy" party I just had with my girlfriends, I am very steadfast in that decision.

We watched a movie tonight called The Day the Earth Stood Still. It starred Keanu Reeves. Actually wasn’t too bad if you’re into a little sci-fi. I was worried it would have a shit-a$$ ending. It was okay.

I’ve been having a bit of a freak out today about all of the CRAP we have in this house. We brought a TON of "sell boxes" from the old place to this one, intending to sell items individually and then to have a yard sale once we were here. So far, all of that has fallen through. I didn’t want to take any excess junk to Ottawa seeing as how for the first 30 days at least we will probably have to have all our belongings stored in a u-haul locker… but I don’t see how we can avoid it. Yet. I’m not willing to just take it all to Goodwill. We could really use the money from that stuff… *sigh* I don’t know. I don’t even know HOW we got all this junk… I guess combining the lives of two packrats could have something to do with it…

We’re going up to Ottawa in a week or so to have a yard sale at my mom’s house. It was supposed to be our "Stag and Doe" yardsale in lieu of a traditional Stag&Doe event with booze and games and dancing. All of the proceeds will still be ours this time but it won’t be a family event like it was supposed to be. Still, my mom has a TON of stuff at her place for this sale. We’re going to try to bring some stuff from here…. it won’t nearly make a dent in what we have though – so we’re going to have to hold another sale in the fall once we get there I think. With all our junk from here. Blech. I hope this cures BF of his packrattiness… he’s waaaay worse than me. It’s definitely making me rethink every item I own…

Today I am grateful…

* that I have been keeping up with the writing every day for a good while now!

* that I won something at Sears today – have to call and get more details. the message was garbled but I think it has something to do with the portrait studio. It was a Father’s Day draw apparently. Quite ironic, given that my dad has passed away and today was the anniversary of his death. LOL

* that my fur-babies seem to be free of fleas so far… we didn’t have the money to buy their next dose of flea medicine so I’ve been watching them like a hawk…

* ONLY TWO MORE MONTHS!