V is for V I C T O R Y oh, yes, it is!!!

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Today was a mostly a most excellent day.  It ended most excellently, anyway.

It started, as usual, when I got up, thinking I had a doctor appointment and had to shower and get dressed and skedaddle on down the road.  I showered, got dressed, and was ready to go when I glanced at the calendar - and noticed that my appointment is the 23rd - which I knew - and that the 23rd is NEXT Tuesday!  Well.  Now I am up, showered, dressed, and nowhere to go.  Phooey.  so, I played on the pute until noon, then ate my lunch - I zapped the leftover 7-can soup for my lunch - then went down the road to pick up my prescription that I am now out of.

I get to Walgreen's.  "We have no prescription for you.  We are still waiting for the doctor to call in a refill order."  Oh.  Well, I argue, why, then, did I get a phone call on Saturday afternoon saying my prescription is now ready?  They don't know.  I ask them to please take me (us) off whatever list so we will quit getting those annoying phone calls about refills.  We can tell when our pill bottles are empty, thanks.  So she did.  She did get me an "emergency supply" to hold me over until this refill is called in.  But, damn.  I called it in last Friday and they've been trying to get ahold of the doctor ever since!  This is the heart doctor, too.  I did not get home from all the errands (you know me and my running around) until too late to contact them today, so I will call them tomorrow and find out just what the hold-up is.  If they want me to take this damn medicine, they best be getting me the refills!

My friend had called me while I was out and asked me to stop at her house on my way home.  I did, and she gave me a box of tomatoes, apples, and over-ripe bananas (which I put in the freezer first thing when I finally got home!).  How cool is that?  I am gonna make apple pie over the weekend!

I stopped at the bank when I got back to Bethel.  After the fiasco with Duke Energy last month, I was not able to pay our overdraft (along with the credit cards) account, and when we needed to pull from it yesterday, "the system" wouldn't do it and instead CHARGED us InSufficient Fees.  Twice!  So, I went in for the personal touch (works most every time, here in our small town) and told my sad little story.  They reversed out the ISFs and she even is trying to get the last couple months' of late fees off of our credit card!  Wow - I didn't expect that!  Then, she even went a step further and asked 'how many points has your credit card earned?' and I had no idea, since we don't use it all that often.  She checked into that, to see if that could be converted to cash (deposited in checking account) to help out, and she found almost a hundred dollars there! Bless her heart!!  Nothing like knowing your bankers by name, huh??  V for Victory, right?

After I got home and got the car unloaded (bananas right into the freezer!), I got back on the pute and got my games caught up for the afternoon.  Then I did my Wii training at 5:00.  A little late, but I still got it in today.

Then I went to my TOPS meeting.  Remember, I lost 4 pounds on Saturday when I weighed in for my Biggest Loser contest......will it hold for the Tuesday weigh-in??  Please, please, please..... YES!!!!  I lost almost 5 1/2 pounds since last Tuesday!!  Cha-ching!!  5.4 to be exact.  Wow, oh wow.  <<happy dance, happy dance>>  Now it is V for V I C T O R Y day.
To top it all off, I got to drive to Ripley after the meeting to spend the night at my son's to go to school with my grandson in the morning for Grandparent's Day.  Beats getting up at 5:30 or 6 to be down here by 7, that's for sure!  I drove thru Wendy's for my supper, since I knew I had Wendy's food listed on myfitnesspal and could keep everything up-to-date.

Today gets five stars for food (I stayed way under my calories!) and four stars for exercise.