Dear Friends

August 14, 2013

Dear Friends:

Did you see this?  I heard Denise talk about this at work this morning and decided to look it up.  It isn’t a nationwide mandate but CVS is going to make it policy for their entire chain.  What I object to is the store clerk out and out lied and said it was a state law.  Why would I even trust anything from this chain if they lie?  Yes I am sure many pharmacies have lied but I haven’t found out.  I think it is illegal for the chain to set this precedence and I hope someone stops them.

I had another healthy breakfast courtesy of Mama Joanie...She had brought in a Vienna Finger Cookies the other day and every day I have had a small handful that ends up being a lot.  Today was no different.   Yes I know its not her fault and yes I know I could have said no.  I love me my cookies.  At break time I went and got something a little more healthy and hopefully cancels out the damage somehow.

I found out the West Haven Train STation will be opening on August 18th.  I am going to try and start using it if at all possible.  Unfortunately I will be on the other side of milford this week so I don’t know if I can at all after Sunday.

I met with Debra today.  Unfortunately I was extremely early for the session and sat around for 30 minutes.  We discussed what had happened in the last two weeks and of course what is currently going on which hasn’t really changed in the last 24 hours either.

WEll I have to finish putting the garbage out so I am going to do that and then go to bed early (I hope) I didn’t sleep well last night.  Didn’t have coffee yesterday but I also cut the coffee intake lately to 1 cup these days.

Have a great night.

I am sorry

I am sorry I didn’t write yesterday. It just wasn’t a good day to write. I got to work and found the lockbox from the previous day waiting for me. I started on it and short time later more came. I was pretty busy with the mail well up until 2. Today was up until 3 pm with the mail. I have no idea why (well I may have inkling). Good news is I have been keeping up the office.




G was training for most of this week on the epic system and she likes it. Unfortunately it made her behind in a lot of stuff. People (another supervisor/team leader) were complaining and making unreasonable demands on her and our team. To me this is only pushing her in her resolve to leave YMG all the faster. She is taking the next couple of days off so we are on our own and I am sure SR will be looking in on us every chance she gets.
Diva has been annoying several people this week. Apparently she hasn’t done much of anything but walk around and look out windows. I even noticed she had been doing the batch logging. I know of two people who are ready to lay in to her.


We heard from Patty W today. I had to ask Denise when we left who that was. She was the Godsend that helped on the road to office organization. Anyway she just got home from vacation. I sort of threatened Denise with disowning her if she even acknowledge I had temporarily forgot who she was.


The other reason I didn’t feel like writing is Mom and discussed my decision to drive in yesterday to work yesterday instead of taking the bus. I wanted to because it would give me time to relax and get ready for the campaign kickoff party we went to. She made a rather hurtful comment and I was stewing about it for most of the day. When she said to me I did something I was rather proud of. I didn’t yell at her I didn’t hang up on her. I just said well got to go more work came in. I told a number of people and they advised me to let it roll off my back. I listened grudgingly. By the time I got home she didn’t even think about it or react to it.


Last night was Senator Gayle Slosberg’s campaign kickoff. It was held at Stonebridge Restaurant and the food was delicious but not really filling me up. I chatted with many of my DTC friends that I haven’t seen really in a while. Some were in a month some a few weeks.


I did even chat with them about life with Mom and they all agreed that it is hard and difficult because we both headstrong and strong willed (and pig headed) but it is best to just not argue with her. By the end of the event I was willing to try it. I made a promise to Mom on the way home to try and be more patient with her about the hearing and speak so that she can hear.


I can say its working over all. I sent an email to DTCcasey for DTC matter and thanked her again for the advice. That reminds me I need to send last month’s minutes to DTC admin.


Most of us found out that one of our members lost her Mom and the services were for today and tomorrow. I had to send out or forward the DTC chairs email to the 4th district members. I forgot to do it when I sent out the meeting reminder and last month’s minutes last night. I have had a few RSVPS’ already. I was unable to attend the wake tonight. I have a card ready to be mailed on behalf of the 4th.
I saw the Hematologist today. It was a good appointment. He wants me to come back August 1st and we should have the results from the blood work. He wants me to take in about two weeks. At least that’s what I understand. He is also pleased at the legs less swollen. I will write about it in my health blog later.


I had to cancel my appointment with Debra today. I hadn’t told G about it and she wasn’t going to be in the office for the morning. We have rescheduled for Friday at 11:30. I am also going to start notating which of the entries I have already given her so I don’t duplicate them.


It looks like my weekend will be very busy. I got a call from Dave inviting me to dinner and a movie for Friday. Our friend Rose may or may not be able to join us. He is picking me up around 6 and we are having dinner at Sloppy Jose’s. We are supposed to see Spiderman #? I need to see if the restaurant has a website with a menu on it so I can decide how much to bring.


DebbieM called and said our Mexican Train night is going to be Saturday. We are having pot luck BBQ. We are all bringing some thing. I asked Mom if she would make her cole slaw. It is going to be at 6. There should be ten of us.


I am expecting to be on the picket line at the nursing home in the morning. I am also hoping it won’t be as hot as it was last week. I am getting mixed signals as to what the weather will be like. It’s supposed to be nice and then showers some time during the day. So I really don’t know.
I will probably do some house chores in between all this and get some rest before going out Saturday. Sunday is bingo and will be the same routine as last week. I need to get a Volunteer badge first.
Okay I need to wash out the compression stockings and hit the sack. I will see you in the morning.

I Had me a Day

I got to work and had an unpleasant incident with three co-workers on the elevator. They all moved to the opposite side of the elevator saying “don’t get close to me I don’t want what you have”. I looked at them and said it was fucking rude. Before anyone says it wasn’t to me it was embarrassing and rude. I reiterated what would be the beginning of several “I am fine”. Yet these idiotic morons continue to blame me for two others getting the stomach flu that has already been going around anyway. There are many who do not think I caused them to get sick. As I said in yesterday’s entry I was feeling better by 1 am yesterday morning. The Doctor cleared me when I saw him yesterday afternoon.




To the added stress SR came to me and told me that if I get behind that I need to ask for help. That people are expecting things and need to have it. I looked at her and said first the volume for lockbox on Tuesday was above and beyond what I would normally get and I went home sick. Apparently that didn’t faze her at all. She asked Gayle to get me some help and that was LG. She worked on today’s mail and I worked on yesterdays and we got it done. She opened it date stamped it and put them back in the envelope put them in various piles. When I finished with what I had to do I think it took me a half an hour to work on the stuff she did.



After work was the retirement dinner for JH. It was at the Kelly Gastro Bistro on the corner of Crown and Temple. It started at five and had quite a turn out. We met her family and saw some old friends who came to say good bye and wish JH well. The food was good. I had a salad, bread and for the main course I changed from I think the fish to beef tenderloins with mustard rub, mashed potatoes and vegetable medley and the dessert was Italian cake. I had some coffee too. It broke up by 7:30.



Now that I am sitting here I am afraid to say that my stomach got a “little rumble”. It wasn’t the only food I had today. I had a couple pieces of cheese Danish for breakfast and for lunch ham sandwich on Croissant and some fruit and vegetables all provided by GC. I drank a lot of water today too.



I was able to sit in for the rest of the 4th District meeting and I really should have just gone to bed. I was there for an hour and we were talking about ways for more community service involvement.



After the meeting I was checking emails and found an email from Mom. Her 95 year old cousin died this morning. We attended her 95th Birthday last month I think. The services are not until Saturday I think.



Tonight a member of one of the pen pal lists removed herself from the group after receiving hate mail from another member for not continuing to write the person. The member has said she was polite about it but continued to receive hate mail. So she felt she should leave to stop the nonsense. I am trying to think of what to write to the groups to remind them that this behavior is unacceptable. I have it pretty much down to what I want to say but it may not be received well. This is just great.

Here is what I wrote

Conversations like this

Conversations like this



make me scratch my head....does anyone listen tot he radio shows at all..The power crews are doing the best they can...if anyone else can do a better job then by all means give it a try.

I need to have

I really need to go back to LensCrafters® and have them check my glasses. Every time I take my glasses off and put them on it feels like they can’t focus or I see double. I think it started back the night after I literally slept on them and found the left lens popped out. I put it back in but I don’t think I did it right. It seems fine once I put them on but it just feels strange.

I woke up around 2 this morning for a bathroom run. I noticed my left ankle/foot was doing pretty well until I was awake for a while. The right ankle felt like someone was putting one of those vices on it while I was walking. I may just have to keep taking the “tramadol”® until this passes.

I stayed awake for a while so I did my routine of surfing the net until I got tired again. I am not sure why else I stayed up but I felt rested. The only problem is I wanted to be up by five so I could do some things before work. (That didn’t happen)

I was really glad to see one of my co-workers Wendy return from a short term medical leave yesterday. She had been in a car accident weeks ago and was out recuperating. She tells me she wasn’t feeling well yet but she was sort of glad to be back.


It rained for a bit last night. I really couldn’t hear it but during one of my tours around the upstairs before going to bed I looked outside and saw the roads were wet. It looks like we will be getting rain until Wednesday night or so. That’s the night I am having dinner with the Rubinstein’s. I still haven’t decided where to go yet. There is a restaurant called The Equinox we went to a couple of times but haven’t been there in a while.

Today went pretty well. Despite the fact I had a hard time walking from the garage to the office however it was nice to have Sally T my director walking with me. We did get stopped after crossing the crosswalk by a police officer who was chastising us for walking against the light. We looked at each other and kept saying “yeah, yeah”. After he left we talked about how stupid he was with all the crime in the city that he was going to give us a hard time with the crosswalk.

We were supposed to have a fire drill but some one was good enough to cancel it since it was raining out. I finished yesterday’s mail but I still have to finish today’s mail. Some how I managed to get behind (again). Most Tuesdays I am usually finished with the mail.

Connecticut and especially Cheshire Connecticut got the word today that one of the defendants who raped, murdered the Petit Family women was found guilty of 16 of the 17 charges against him and he is looking at the death penalty.

His co-defendant and partner in this horrendous act will be going to trial sometime in January of 2011. Many feel that these two men should be put to death. At this moment I do not feel this will achieve anything. I don’t have any solid reasoning behind this but I do respect others views on this.

Today was also the day the Time Square Bomber was sentenced to life for his foiled attempt to blow up Times Square in NY. According to the reports he was defiant and warned that the US will still be attacked.

Now that my NCIS watching is over for tonight I am going empty out some more emails and perhaps some files as well. Then I am going to bed as I can feel my eyes getting heavy.

To the Owner of

a Black Volvo Cross Country station wagon with the CTLicense plate 1942. I think you are a flipping idiot. You need to review your freaking driving manual again. The passage where it says 'you must be at least 2 car lengths from the car in front of you' when you are driving on a highway. The person in front of you was going at least 65 miles an hour (that would be me) in the fast lane. That's why I slammed my breaks on...if you didn't get the message which you clearly did when you decided to get in front of me and do the same thing. If you have gotten the message you were following to close! You would have been at fault. You might want to remember that when you are driving. I did notice you really didn't care because you did the exact same thing to the car in front of then too. I really hope you get arrested the next time you do that.

Everyone is getting on my nerves!

Some of the members from Gail's Group are demanding that we stop the pettiness. They have one fucking hell of nerve. They keep bringing it up. I better not hear anymore of their crap or I swear they will hear from me!!! They can also use the delete button. Its the same shit. Everyone else can say or do what ever they fucking want but not me! I did ask them to remove my name from the subject line.

This morning Mom asked me if anyone reads over the minutes before I send them out. I told her Tessa does and she said they were fine. Mom said it wasn't and she told me in two places the sentences just stop. That it is always okay to wait a day to check. Well guess what? I needed to get them out by before the next Democratic Town Committee . I told her I would look it over later...and then I said see ya later and have a nice day.

Then this morning there was a meeting about where offices are going to be and what ever and the girls back here got into it..The freaking moon is causing this I am sure of it.

I am sick and tired of people thinking they can say what they want and not have me respond.

Well it is almost 3 pm...for all intensive purposes everything dealing with the mail is done. I just have to put stuff in the envelopes and sort the rejections but I can do that later right now though I am stuffing envelopes.

Well I finished the envelopes by 4 pm. I have the 2 piles of rejections to sort and the readdressing mail to be done. I can do that tomorrow after I do the charts and tomorrow's mail. As long as it is done by the time I leave tomorrow that's all that matters.

I was able to get to Mike and Roberta's by 4:30. The dogs weren't out at first but as I started for the porch they were. I fed them treats and then Phil came out and we talked. Then I went and fed the kitty and called Mom.

After the call I watered the plants and stuff on the porch. Missy was waiting there. I ate the cookies and then came back out gave the dogs some treats. Phil remembered the first time I met the pups. I reenacted the scene and poor charlie started to get nervous I had told Phil that Mom was a little upset with me last night for being late.

It was just before 5 when I headed home. Mom was just starting dinner. It was Lamb chops on the grill with mushrooms. She was a little concerned that grill plates she washed were going to affect the food. We ate it anyway.

While we had dinner we watched the news. One of the reports was about how two different cities and towns began the school year. One in Hartford without any problem. They were touting the new school uniforms and how people enjoyed it. In Norwich there were three schools in lock down because there was allegedly a Man with a gun who ran from a car accident. The police really screwed up because they arrested some innocent people who were doing nothing. I don't think they have found the guy or the gun. All I do know is there are going to be several civil suits on the Norwich police department.

After Dinner I helped clean the kitchen and watched TV. Around 7 I started the laundry and then cleaned the downstairs bathroom. I was sweating when I finished. I still have to put the garbage out.

Aw you won't believe this it started getting dark at 7:40 pm tonight. That's the earliest in a few days. It has been after 8.

What did I get in the mail today? Well I got two birthday cards. One from David and the other from The Milford Bank. I don't have an account there but I guess they do it because of our club accounts. I also got more AARP insurance application. I will have to throw that out. There was nothing in the PO box. (sniffle)
I decided to watch part of the Nature program on Channel 13 (PBS). It was about the Arctic and the effects of Global warming has on its inhabitants such as the ring seal and narwhal?

I got a nice email from Gail W in California thanking me for the letter I sent last week. She felt bad because no one remembered her birthday last week. I told her I would be better at it next year.

Well I better go put the garbage out front. It would be the day they come early and it wouldn't be out there.

Aw Gimme A Break!

I am so sick and tired of these same conversations that pop up on the pen pal lists. "Jean Anthony" and I were discussing Reporting bad swappers. (people who buy things and send them to each other. It is a "game" for a lack of a better term on the groups. She doesn't understand why I object to it and insinuated if anyone objects to this practice they must be have bene reported. She also couldn't understand why I would be so defensive. I gave my explanations and told her she insinuated and that if I felt like it I could sue her for either Libel or slander. I also said that I don't have to justify anything to her or anyone else. She wrote back say ing that she never said anything directly to me. She says I have a guilty conscious. I have only participated in three swaps ever. A Towel, Post Card, and Magnet. I sent them but never got anything back.

Jean then posted the definitions of slander and libel. She seems like a petty human being. I decided to block her email from coming in. I also tried to write Cyndi but now I am not. I don't have to apologize. I am sick and tired of apologizing for expressing what I believe to be right.

Oh and the other conversations was about form letters. Geese it it really hard to figure out? God...if that's all that's important then no one should be pen paling. Long before the computers were used to type up letters it took weeks for letters to get someone. For a variety of reasons.

Well the rest of the day went okay. I still hve to even start today's mail. Spending too much time on the net is one of the reasons.

Well I did get an email from Cyndie she apologized for the problem (what else could she do?) she said could I avoid getting into discussions jean Anthony and if I were to have any problems to contact them and they would figure something out.

I went and did some errands after work and I fed junior and got into a discussion with Phil. Unfortunately I made dinner late and pissed off Mom.

I am going to bed.