Done yesterday (20091107)

[mdlbear]

1107 Sa
  * awake 6:45; body scan
  * up 7:15; drugs, nose; coffee
  * call from Barbara Hanson (http://www.barbarahansonltci.com/)
    set up appointment for next Tuesday.
  & made fried rice for lunch for me and the Cat
  & Saw a book Monday about structured journaling to manage your emotions.
    Lots of stuff on managing (excessively strong) emotions.  Nothing I've
    ever seen about _finding_ them.
  & Out shopping with Colleen.  ~3:30.  No walk, though scooter-wrangling at
    three different stops got me maybe as much exercise as I can handle.
  & Fail at Century Lighting.  Never again.  Though it appears the bulb isn't
    the problem at all in the bedroom.  Double fail.
  * buy: -king-sized- cervical pillow (neck roll); two small pads @ ABC
  * Liz dropped off the sorted receipts and Aetna paperwork.
    quite a few missing receipts.  Grr.
  * receipt sorting.  ~15m
  * BILLS!!! --> Should have been done Thursday
  ! Unusually happy today.  Weird.
  * bed ~10:30; snuggle

I made a double batch of fried rice for lunch -- Colleen liked it. Afterward, we went out shopping, mainly to buy a new lightbulb for the fan in the back bedroom. FAIL. We took it in to the place where we'd bought the thing, Galaxy Lighting, only to find that they no longer sold that fan and didn't have the bulbs. They sent us to Batteries and Bulbs on El Camino, where the expert took one look at it and said "buy a new lamp". Apparently it's a custom job. He'll look... The topper is that when we brought it back home, thinking I'd swap it with the known-good one in the living room, I found that it worked fine there. Apparently the problem is in the controller.

So... no more buying fans -- or anything else -- at Galaxy. They're also expensive. We'll stick to brands that are likely to still be around in another decade, and only use standard Edison-base bulbs.

On the plus side, we found a lovely little grocery store with inexpensive, fresh produce and falafel chips. Win. We're guessing they'd taste really good with hummus. We also checked out a discount store called Tuesday Morning, which Colleen had heard of but I hadn't. They had discount luggage, but not nearly as good prices as Ross.

I didn't take a walk, but got a little exercise wrangling the scooter in and out of the car.

Got a moderate amount of receipt-sorting done.

I see that I listed my mood as "unusually happy". I have no idea what caused it, or where it went. I found a self-help book about "structured journaling" earlier in the week, and was on the edge of buying it until I realized that it was all about "managing your [presumably, excessively-strong and out of control] emotions." That's not my problem; I just want to find my emotions. I don't recall ever seeing a self-help book about that.

Thanks to tetralizard, who brought back my box of random health-care receipts, neatly sorted. There are a few missing, apparently. Grump.