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Good Morning and happy first Friday of 2024!  I hope that it’s a great day for you. 

When I was posting yesterday I saw the notification about the School Shooting in Perry, Iowa.  I couldn’t believe it so early into the new year.  It’s a horrific tragedy and not something kids should be exposed to but sad to say it’s become part of the norm of society.  This isn’t political and I’m not a gun control nut.  I think that parents should keep a better watch over their kids as well as make sure if they choose to own guns that they are secure and out of reach of children.  I didn’t know it but apparently there have been 4 mass shootings already this year with the bulk occurring on New Years Day according to what I heard on the news, presuming that is accurate info. 

I heard the shooter was a kid and that further broke my heart.  Sounds like he was bullied and picked on.  Same thing happened to me when I was in school and I know that kids are vicious and it hurts, the hurt is deep because you are so young and innocent.  Dealing with that can be difficult.  I never had the thought of wanting to pick up a gun and go shoot up a school or even people who picked on me.  Even if I had it wouldn’t have been an option because there weren’t weapons in the house I grew up in.  I feel bad for everyone that was directly affected by this and I am sure that more news about this will surface in the coming days.  I pray that all of the living victims make a successful recovery. 

In other news, I had the Lasagna last night for supper.  It was pretty good.  I did a little bit of minor snacking in the afternoon.  I was able to call it a day early but kept watch on my email.  There was a little drama in the afternoon but it was over with quickly and didn’t linger. 

I watched some TV in the early afternoon and then in the evening I was able to flip it off and go type out a story.  I sat at the kitchen table and typed out the story.  My back was killing me.  I’ve got wooden chairs and they aren’t the most comfortable to sit in for a long period of time.  It’s the only place where if I sit for a long period of time I can hear things in my back and neck pop when I move.  It’s the only place where I can sit upstairs that I am safe from the cats. 

I went looking for both of them when I was done and they were sleeping together in one of the pet beds on the couch.  Rudy was facing me and Mora was facing away, so they had complete coverage if there was an attack or maybe it was just comfortable for both of them.  They are the cutest when they are sleeping.  Of course as soon as I sat down Mora woke up and had to come over for cuddling. 

It wasn’t terribly long before it was time to shutdown and get ready for bed.  I was out pretty quick last night.

I do think that the pizza will be gone today and I am very pleased about that.  It’s not what I want to eat but I am committed to finishing it.  Then I can move on and eat something different.  Strangely enough TV Dinner actually sound more appealing than pizza at the moment. 

Tomorrow is the day I fire the exterminator.  I need to make sure that I am up early enough to make it to the post office so that I can send the official notice by certified mail.  I noticed that they assigned a different technician to my account.  I logged into remove my cell phone as well as credit card information so they no longer have that.  I am eager to get rid of them and move forward.  I’ve debated about this for a while and honestly they solved the original problem and I wasn’t expected to hang on for over a year.  They got a decent sum of money out of me and in the process they did tackle some common house hold bugs for me.  I just didn’t like the invasion of having to open my home every other month, make sure that I was home and then being able to step away from work.  I’m glad for the service they provided.  Just a shame that the tech told me I could pause on a service if I wanted to and that ended up being a lie.  If he lied about that I wonder what else I have been lied to about.  It’s just time to part ways.  If I need an exterminator in the future there is more than one company in town.  I just happened to pick the one that charges the most.  I would be due for service next month and timed this so that the service ends long before that next service would be due so as to not be roped into forking out more money.  I will be glad when I am officially done with them.  I will feel safer for the cats because they won’t be exposed to the chemicals and I don’t have to worry about them ingesting them before they dry.  Overall I think life will just be better.  I am sure it will be no shock to them and I expect them to try to woo me back by lowering the price but I am done and even if they gave me the service free, I wouldn’t want to continue to do business with them.  I think my letter of cancellation makes that more than clear. 

The post office will be the highlight of my day.  I have to get more cat food and then figure out what I want to eat.  Unless I have an unexpected burst of energy I expect that I will be lazy and watch TV and work in a nap.  It will kind of be a waste of a day but as long as I can cross off the items that are important to me I will call it a success.

My doc told me that I should probably start back up on the allergy nasal spray and after pondering it I decided to give it a whirl again.  Problem is what he is prescribing is OTC now and the mail order pharmacy doesn’t carry it but they do carry a weaker less potent version.  Not exactly sure why but okay.  They are trying to see if the doctor will approve that, which I am sure he will but I will probably be spraying my nose much more.  I had to make a phone call this morning to find all of this out.  PBM’s all suck at customer service, they try but fail.  I was told by the first person that I talked to that quizzed the hell out of me to make sure I was who I said I was, despite the IVR already telling me that I was verified by phone number, said that he would take all of the information and then pass it on to the right person to stay on the line.  The person I talked to next quizzed me also not once but twice to make sure I was who I said I was.  Nice to know that security is important to them.  However, I also had to repeat why I was calling and then listen to her recap everything it was just a miserable experience.  I don’t need a recap I was with you as you spoke to me I know why I called and how things turned out.  It’s as bad as calling the phone company.

The phone call that I was waiting for came in yesterday just before I sat down to eat, telling me that trash collection would be one day late because of the holiday.  I will set the can out today.  Were in for rain and then a rain snow mix oh what fun.  I am hopeful that it fizzles out but it’s the weather and no one has control over that.  Right now the sun is out and it’s starting to warm up a tad.  My cats are happy campers when the sun is out, they love to bask in it and fall asleep.  I think that is every cats favorite thing to do, outside of eating. 

Hope you have a great first weekend of the year.  Talk with you all again soon.  Thanks for stopping by!