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Feb. 1st, 2019 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesToday is going to be a "go to three different grocery stores" day, if I can ever persuade myself that 20 degrees is warm enough to pry myself out of my chair and go outdoors. I need Lily's crunchies from Star Market, beef jerky and tea from Trader Joe's, and I want radiatore from Whole Foods.
So far, while staying indoors, I've attended to some of the indoors portion of the list. I finally shredded last year's papers and scrubbed the shower grout and tried to get the orange stain off the refrigerator door (I don't think it worked, but at least I tried). I have some mending to do, too, but I'm not sure I have the correct thread for it. Given the nature of the mending, it would probably be best to use unwaxed dental floss, but I don't have that either.
I got a jump on the list last night by doing my taxes and setting up electronic bill payment for the rest of the bills. I've been paying the cell phone bill electronically since they stopped mailing bills two years or so ago (and I was most unhappy about that), but the credit union hasn't screwed it up yet, so hopefully the rest of the bills will be OK too. Years ago I said I'd go to electronic payments when stamps got over 50 cents, and that happened on Jan 27, so here we are. When I said that, 50 cents per stamp was a lot of money, and I absolutely couldn't afford overdraft fees from either a morale or a financial standpoint. I still want nothing to do with them from a morale standpoint, so let's not start with them, shall we?
The taxes, besides being a thing I like to do as soon as possible, fell under "quick, get them in before the government shuts down again!"
All right, if I don't pry myself out of my chair, I probably won't, and I refuse to waste a Friday on things I could just as easily waste a Saturday on.
(Much later)
Pried myself out of my chair and went to BB&B for cookie sheets. Success. I now have three heavy duty cookie sheets.
Then I went to Walgreens and was told my prescription "wasn't covered" and I'd have to call the insurance company. Grr, but I have a three-month supply, so not massively urgent.
Then I went to Stop & Shop and they were out of precisely one kind of cat crunchies, and it was the one I wanted. Grr, but Lily won't starve before tomorrow, and at least they had silver polish.
Then I went to Trader Joe's and they were out of tea. Grr, but the sign was still up, so they'll probably have it tomorrow, and at least they had everything else that was on the list.
Then I came home and called Harvard Pilgrim. They have disavowed all knowledge of prescriptions and farmed them out to Express Scripts. So I got transferred to the Express Scripts phone tree from hell, and hung up on it twice before I got to an actual human being. She sounded like she was underwater, and I think what she told me was that I can't use Walgreens, I have to do mail-order through CVS, and my doctor's office has to approve that. So I think I told them to set that up.
Then I called Walgreens back to tell them to forget it, and they said "Express Scripts said WHAT?", and told me I could still use Walgreens and that I can come get the prescription I couldn't get earlier today and they've updated my account so I can keep using them.
So I emailed my doctor's office and told them that I had no idea what the current status of the prescription was, but if Express Scripts and/or CVS contacts them to change anything, please don't do it.
I am now massively confused, and still somewhat annoyed, so I think I'll go wash the new cookie sheets.
So far, while staying indoors, I've attended to some of the indoors portion of the list. I finally shredded last year's papers and scrubbed the shower grout and tried to get the orange stain off the refrigerator door (I don't think it worked, but at least I tried). I have some mending to do, too, but I'm not sure I have the correct thread for it. Given the nature of the mending, it would probably be best to use unwaxed dental floss, but I don't have that either.
I got a jump on the list last night by doing my taxes and setting up electronic bill payment for the rest of the bills. I've been paying the cell phone bill electronically since they stopped mailing bills two years or so ago (and I was most unhappy about that), but the credit union hasn't screwed it up yet, so hopefully the rest of the bills will be OK too. Years ago I said I'd go to electronic payments when stamps got over 50 cents, and that happened on Jan 27, so here we are. When I said that, 50 cents per stamp was a lot of money, and I absolutely couldn't afford overdraft fees from either a morale or a financial standpoint. I still want nothing to do with them from a morale standpoint, so let's not start with them, shall we?
The taxes, besides being a thing I like to do as soon as possible, fell under "quick, get them in before the government shuts down again!"
All right, if I don't pry myself out of my chair, I probably won't, and I refuse to waste a Friday on things I could just as easily waste a Saturday on.
(Much later)
Pried myself out of my chair and went to BB&B for cookie sheets. Success. I now have three heavy duty cookie sheets.
Then I went to Walgreens and was told my prescription "wasn't covered" and I'd have to call the insurance company. Grr, but I have a three-month supply, so not massively urgent.
Then I went to Stop & Shop and they were out of precisely one kind of cat crunchies, and it was the one I wanted. Grr, but Lily won't starve before tomorrow, and at least they had silver polish.
Then I went to Trader Joe's and they were out of tea. Grr, but the sign was still up, so they'll probably have it tomorrow, and at least they had everything else that was on the list.
Then I came home and called Harvard Pilgrim. They have disavowed all knowledge of prescriptions and farmed them out to Express Scripts. So I got transferred to the Express Scripts phone tree from hell, and hung up on it twice before I got to an actual human being. She sounded like she was underwater, and I think what she told me was that I can't use Walgreens, I have to do mail-order through CVS, and my doctor's office has to approve that. So I think I told them to set that up.
Then I called Walgreens back to tell them to forget it, and they said "Express Scripts said WHAT?", and told me I could still use Walgreens and that I can come get the prescription I couldn't get earlier today and they've updated my account so I can keep using them.
So I emailed my doctor's office and told them that I had no idea what the current status of the prescription was, but if Express Scripts and/or CVS contacts them to change anything, please don't do it.
I am now massively confused, and still somewhat annoyed, so I think I'll go wash the new cookie sheets.
