Thursday
I got up at 7:30. Knowing the electricity was going off at 8, I vacuumed the livingroom floor. Then I made fiber gel. I drank hydrogen water. I read e-mail until the power went off.
I went out to water the plants and patches of grass. Michele showed up having walked over on foot because her garage door depends on electricity. Chris went to work (headquarters has generators). She followed me around as I watered. Then we sat at the diningroom table and talked while she handsewed a leather strip to the bottom of a bodice.
It was 10am. She mentioned that she was curious what she might find at the antique stores in Tooele. I told her I wanted to go in town for a blood draw anyway. So we decided to go and get back by 2. I made sure a copy of the lab test order was on my phone and I had a copy of my insurance card (just a piece of paper).
She drove us in my car. We decided to do the blood draw first. We went to where I thought it was, and they said we had to go to the emergency room of the hospital. So we drove over there. We went inside to the desk. I showed the pic on my phone and she said she needed a paper copy. So Michele used my phone to forward the doctors e-mail to the receptionist. But then the clerk said it didn't have a doctors signature. So I called the office to ask for a fax. They sent it but it took so long to arrive that I called back and they sent another one. Michele worked on her handsewing.
When the fax came in, I went through the sign-up process. I told the lady I would rather pay upfront, before it got submitted to insurance. Her computer estimated the price at around $500. Then she said that paying upfront would qualify for a 50% discount. OMW! So I only paid $250.
Later I got called back to the lab. The lady told me she would need 17 tubes of blood. Yikes! But when she said they were 8ml tubes, I did the math and came up with half a cup. She disappeared for a long time, supposedly looking for which color of vials to use. When she came back, she filled a glove with hot water and put it on the crook of my arm to expand the vein. She disappeared again. Later she came back and took the vials of blood. Then I was free to go.
So Michele and I returned to the car. It was already 1pm so we headed back to base without shopping. She stopped at the commissary to pick up cat food, then went to her house. I drove my car home.
I took my trombone to Saronna's house. We chatted. We played through Happy Birthday and the hymns and some other tunes. Then we called it a day and I went home. I drank fiber gel. I laid out in the sun. I made and ate breakfast while looking at e-mail. I looked at sewing projects, searching for one that kids wouldn't mind missing. I saw one for a toilet paper holder for extra rolls of toilet paper. I had a devil of a time finding the instructions. I looked at several videos and took notes. I copied a pic and posted the class on Facebook.
I worked on my blog. I added to my VMIS hours. I made tea and we watched one episode of Longmire. Chris wasn't in the mood for the devotional book, so we watched about half an hour of the BSRT presentation. Then we both went to bed.
** How about flattening the curve of our national debt? **
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