Thursday, October 15
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Getting some sleep, though I was having some bad dreams.
This whole situation with the U.S. right now is impossible to ignore, and I feel like the safety of our own country is threatened as well.
Today kind of sucked. Maybe not all of it, but large chunks of it.
I struggle with appointments. I do generally get to them, and I try hard to be on time. It's just hard for me. I have to be mindful days ahead of time, to plan to get there. It takes up space in my head.
Sometimes I can't sleep the night before, because I'm worried about not making it.
Well, two weeks ago my husband made an appointment for me at the optometrist's. We need to use up a government benefit before it expires, and my husband was working on replacing his glasses for the same reason.
He made the appointment specifically for SIX pm, so that he could meet me there after work, because he wanted my help picking out new frames.
So, yesterday I got a phone call from the office to remind me, I missed the call but I called them right back, and I made a point of looking at the card from the office, which THEY filled out, that had the time on it. SIX pm. I made a point of verbally repeating the time to the person on the other end of the line, which they confirmed.
I felt confident that I had it right.
Well, no.
So, all day today I was trying to make the best use of going to this town because I don't go there often. I wanted to take the recycling, I wanted to take several old fluorescent compact bulbs to that depot because they did take them (our regular recycling bin doesn't). I had made a point of finding all the bulbs that I've set here and there, and putting them into a box to take with me today.
I knew I had to get the mail today, since the postal strike is over, and we would have some bills in the mail.
I wanted to take a box of books and another box of items to donate to the thrift store. I've been meaning to do a thrift run for ages.
I still needed to do chores, do some house cleaning (Thursday is usually my cleaning day), then I had to get cleaned up, and get everything into the car.
My husband wanted to go for a walk after our appointment, so would I go find his hiking boots and take them too?
So I had to really hustle to get to all of these places before my appointment, because they would be closed after.
I went with great focus, and I got it all done. I was keeping a close eye on the time, and I got to my appointment ten minutes early, so that felt great. I got everything done AND I was on time.
My husband was in the parking lot and we walked into the optometrist's together.
I went up to the front desk, and said I was there for my appointment, which she replies "no, your appointment was at 5 pm".
No, it was NOT. The card we were given said 6 pm right on it. When I called and confirmed the appointment, they said it was 6 pm. My husband knew that he had specifically asked for a 6 pm appointment because he never would have been able to be there by 5.
She just did this blank look at me, and said, "well, you're in the system for 5". Yes, because someone messed up.
She wouldn't acknowledge that they had made a mistake. No apology.
The whole point of me being in town today was for this appointment. If I hadn't had the appointment, I would have stayed home.
The whole point of my husband meeting me in town at that time was so that he could pick up his glasses that they said would be ready today, which they weren't. These were the safety glasses for work. We were going to pick out another set of frames for him to have a new set of everyday glasses.
So, here we are, ready to buy THREE SETS of new glasses and lenses, and she couldn't even apologize for the inconvenience to us both.
She was like "well, you could come in tomorrow..." and I'd had it for today. No, I can't just come in tomorrow. It was more than enough stress for me to come in today.
Tomorrow we need to work on our sheds, and then I have a ride time with River.
Anyhow, I was so angry I was crying. I had tried so hard today to get everything done.
For literally this last week, my husband has been reminding me of this appointment, the optometrist's office was reminding me, EVERYONE WAS REMINDING ME NOT TO FORGET THIS APPOINTMENT, and I didn't! No, instead the office messed it up, but I don't even get an apology.
No. I get a "blank wall" face with someone who just stands there staring at me, waiting for me to just go away.
So, there we were, with nothing accomplished at the optometrist's, and we'll have to try to make this all work again at some point, and I will have to look at this woman's face again.
Either that or just go somewhere else and have to go through moving our records over.
Sigh.
So, my husband tried to cheer me up a bit. I wanted to go back to the ghetto grocery store and get more of the coffee substitute stuff, and more of the jarred soup that was so good. We ended up with some other stuff too.
Then we went and got burritos, and the woman working there was awesome and really heaped them up and gave my husband some extra hot sauce on the side. She seemed to like the idea that my husband enjoyed the spicier toppings.
Then we went to the bulk barn, and picked up a few things there.
Then we got some little batteries for the key fobs for the truck, and my husband got some storage tubs to organize the garage a bit (always we get more storage tubs, not get rid of what we don't need). I got two clear small ones for craft stuff so I can see it.
Canadian Tire is so weird these days. There are all these giant plastic animals everywhere, Halloween stuff, it's starting to feel like an amusement park.
What I don't understand, is you hear how much people are struggling financially, and yet here's Canadian Tire selling a giant fake bear for three thousand dollars, and plastic lawn monkeys and giant plastic lawn gnomes for hundreds of dollars. Who's buying this? You'd think that if people had that much disposable income, they might buy...I don't know, something tasteful? This stuff is expensive GARBAGE!
We ended up not going for a walk after all, which I pretty much knew we wouldn't be doing. I had tried telling that to my husband when I thought we were still having an optometrist's appointment, that it would be dark by then and we wouldn't feel like it.
Well, we got home, brought everything in, and I was just DONE.
Now it sounds like we might be getting a storm outside. The wind is shaking the house.
Getting some sleep, though I was having some bad dreams.
This whole situation with the U.S. right now is impossible to ignore, and I feel like the safety of our own country is threatened as well.
Today kind of sucked. Maybe not all of it, but large chunks of it.
I struggle with appointments. I do generally get to them, and I try hard to be on time. It's just hard for me. I have to be mindful days ahead of time, to plan to get there. It takes up space in my head.
Sometimes I can't sleep the night before, because I'm worried about not making it.
Well, two weeks ago my husband made an appointment for me at the optometrist's. We need to use up a government benefit before it expires, and my husband was working on replacing his glasses for the same reason.
He made the appointment specifically for SIX pm, so that he could meet me there after work, because he wanted my help picking out new frames.
So, yesterday I got a phone call from the office to remind me, I missed the call but I called them right back, and I made a point of looking at the card from the office, which THEY filled out, that had the time on it. SIX pm. I made a point of verbally repeating the time to the person on the other end of the line, which they confirmed.
I felt confident that I had it right.
Well, no.
So, all day today I was trying to make the best use of going to this town because I don't go there often. I wanted to take the recycling, I wanted to take several old fluorescent compact bulbs to that depot because they did take them (our regular recycling bin doesn't). I had made a point of finding all the bulbs that I've set here and there, and putting them into a box to take with me today.
I knew I had to get the mail today, since the postal strike is over, and we would have some bills in the mail.
I wanted to take a box of books and another box of items to donate to the thrift store. I've been meaning to do a thrift run for ages.
I still needed to do chores, do some house cleaning (Thursday is usually my cleaning day), then I had to get cleaned up, and get everything into the car.
My husband wanted to go for a walk after our appointment, so would I go find his hiking boots and take them too?
So I had to really hustle to get to all of these places before my appointment, because they would be closed after.
I went with great focus, and I got it all done. I was keeping a close eye on the time, and I got to my appointment ten minutes early, so that felt great. I got everything done AND I was on time.
My husband was in the parking lot and we walked into the optometrist's together.
I went up to the front desk, and said I was there for my appointment, which she replies "no, your appointment was at 5 pm".
No, it was NOT. The card we were given said 6 pm right on it. When I called and confirmed the appointment, they said it was 6 pm. My husband knew that he had specifically asked for a 6 pm appointment because he never would have been able to be there by 5.
She just did this blank look at me, and said, "well, you're in the system for 5". Yes, because someone messed up.
She wouldn't acknowledge that they had made a mistake. No apology.
The whole point of me being in town today was for this appointment. If I hadn't had the appointment, I would have stayed home.
The whole point of my husband meeting me in town at that time was so that he could pick up his glasses that they said would be ready today, which they weren't. These were the safety glasses for work. We were going to pick out another set of frames for him to have a new set of everyday glasses.
So, here we are, ready to buy THREE SETS of new glasses and lenses, and she couldn't even apologize for the inconvenience to us both.
She was like "well, you could come in tomorrow..." and I'd had it for today. No, I can't just come in tomorrow. It was more than enough stress for me to come in today.
Tomorrow we need to work on our sheds, and then I have a ride time with River.
Anyhow, I was so angry I was crying. I had tried so hard today to get everything done.
For literally this last week, my husband has been reminding me of this appointment, the optometrist's office was reminding me, EVERYONE WAS REMINDING ME NOT TO FORGET THIS APPOINTMENT, and I didn't! No, instead the office messed it up, but I don't even get an apology.
No. I get a "blank wall" face with someone who just stands there staring at me, waiting for me to just go away.
So, there we were, with nothing accomplished at the optometrist's, and we'll have to try to make this all work again at some point, and I will have to look at this woman's face again.
Either that or just go somewhere else and have to go through moving our records over.
Sigh.
So, my husband tried to cheer me up a bit. I wanted to go back to the ghetto grocery store and get more of the coffee substitute stuff, and more of the jarred soup that was so good. We ended up with some other stuff too.
Then we went and got burritos, and the woman working there was awesome and really heaped them up and gave my husband some extra hot sauce on the side. She seemed to like the idea that my husband enjoyed the spicier toppings.
Then we went to the bulk barn, and picked up a few things there.
Then we got some little batteries for the key fobs for the truck, and my husband got some storage tubs to organize the garage a bit (always we get more storage tubs, not get rid of what we don't need). I got two clear small ones for craft stuff so I can see it.
Canadian Tire is so weird these days. There are all these giant plastic animals everywhere, Halloween stuff, it's starting to feel like an amusement park.
What I don't understand, is you hear how much people are struggling financially, and yet here's Canadian Tire selling a giant fake bear for three thousand dollars, and plastic lawn monkeys and giant plastic lawn gnomes for hundreds of dollars. Who's buying this? You'd think that if people had that much disposable income, they might buy...I don't know, something tasteful? This stuff is expensive GARBAGE!
We ended up not going for a walk after all, which I pretty much knew we wouldn't be doing. I had tried telling that to my husband when I thought we were still having an optometrist's appointment, that it would be dark by then and we wouldn't feel like it.
Well, we got home, brought everything in, and I was just DONE.
Now it sounds like we might be getting a storm outside. The wind is shaking the house.
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Date: 2025-10-18 05:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-10-18 07:03 am (UTC)Instead, it felt like she was trying to make it seem like I had forgotten.
I KNOW we asked for 6 pm, the card we got as a reminder said 6 pm, and when I called to confirm the appointment, I also made sure it was 6 pm.
It wasn't our mistake.
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Date: 2025-10-19 07:50 am (UTC)