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Conga through the day in style!

Another long workday here - glad I have nothing else on my calendar except for work today, although I will come home at lunch time to take Moe out to potty. I'll leave around 8 for work, and dh and I (separately) won't be home until probably 9 p.m. and it's too long to leave him in. I miss having ds home from school at 3 p.m. or so - last year he would let them in and out as needed once he got home.

I wouldn't say that I'm seeing daylight at work, but I've worked my way through a backlog this week and can finally start on new returns - some of which I've had a week already w/o starting. The next big deadline is March 15 and I'm in decent shape with almost three weeks still.

Well, we had and abrupt left turn yesterday. While working in the yard, the trailer tongue fell off its block. DH and I tried to lift it and I heard something pop in his back. So we headed to the ER.

Xrays showed nothing skeletal happened - that it is probably a pulled muscle but he is in a bit of pain. He was OK last night (after a shot and 3 pills) so didn't want me to fill the prescriptions - but this morning is a different story so I'm off to the pharmacy as soon as it opens. I've given him some Tylenol and an ice pack.

Just glad he didn't get another compression fracture.

Will be back later to CUOP.

(((Mr. MT))) I absolutely cringed as I read about his back injury.

Going to buy some groceries this morning. When I am done, I hope to be able to clean, starting where I left off yesterday.

I did my conga-ing last night mopped the floors, picked up the living room and other hot spots, got the table cloth changed and sinks & counters are cleaned yea!

"The Help" was okay not awesome, I thought they should have been less mysterious about MLK's death and shooting for young folks that did not know about that it assumed too much. IMO

I've been sorting out some things pens this week from a tote that I stored in the craft zone down stairs after moving the desk last summer when they were doing the floors. Leaky pens tossed, dead ones too and the ones that skip; boy that felt productive. I found 'em while searching for kiddie paint brushes for dgd to use. I'd been looking for a over week so glad I had 'em here and had not de-cluttered those! She was delighted!

Dd gave notice at her Pier One job as she is getting her certificate for Zumba and wants to pursue that instead.

B.S. was okay today coffee is great.

Good morning, villagers ~

Harriet ~ I'm glad you're having the chance to "visit your colorist" and a little relaxation.

I haven't decided whether or not to try to go anywhere this afternoon. The main roads should be cleared enough to be safe, but it's still an awful mess out there. We got a lot of snow and all of the schools in the area have had a late start. Probably the deciding factor will be later this afternoon -- how much will I need to shovel today vs. will it be warming up enough this weekend to melt? Because I'm really NOT in the mood to shovel snow right now.

I just made 2 DPCs and confirmed what I suspected about my doctor's office and last appointment. They insisted that I go to the office to discuss lab results (normal tests for cholesterol etc.) rather than telling me the numbers over the phone. Guess why? Go ahead, guess why?

So they could charge my insurance company as much as if I'd gone in for a full physical exam! They charged more than the lab that did all of the actual work!!

I talked to the insurance claims person to make sure that it hadn't been coded incorrectly by mistake. She said it was the correct code for a generic office visit.

So let's recap here ... I had to take time off work (note that I only get paid for the hours I'm on site), drive an hour round trip, wait in the waiting room, wait in the exam room, and pay a co-pay ... for a 10 minute discussion during which the doctor could not answer most of my questions. For bloodwork numbers that could have been given to me over the phone in less than 3 minutes. So they could charge the insurance company what I consider a huge amount of money.