Venus Opposed to Uranus

 A Break from the Norm

I saw this yesterday morning and thought oh yeah, I'll be looking for  exciting and stimulating experiences and making an effort to meet new people and have adventures all right, that'll be easy when it's yet another day of me and the cat in the middle of nowhere, but I didn't write it as it seemed just a little negative.

So - most important thing to do was to call Southwest Bone and Joint to see if I could get another injection  in my knee as I'm sick and tired of hobbling around all the time and taking handfuls of Tylenol Extra Strength throughout the day. 

Result of that was a prescription for Tramadol and being told that when that ran out I was to find some place for pain management. 

Only choice for Internet service here is HughesNet, America's Best Rural Internet Service, which works reasonably well unless it's rainy or cloudy or late afternoon when presumably many people who also have to use it get home from work and want to get online. None of those conditions applied throughout the day yesterday but my connection kept dropping and as I spend most of my life online I was getting angrier and angrier as the hours went by.

Mid-afternoon I got a message from Walmart that my prescription was ready and why didn't I save a visit by having it delivered, which is how I get prescriptions and groceries because of the device in my car.  Shortly after that the pharmacist called telling me Tramadol was a heavy-duty opioid and would I mind telling her why I needed it. "I need a knee replacement and a hip replacement", I said, "and before I can get those done I need a stent in my heart". That seemed to qualify me for Tramadol, but then she told me the prescription was for only five days. Ah yes, PLENTY of time to find myself a pain management clinic. 

Never mind, soldier on, one thing at a time. Get online to the Walmart Pharmacy to get the Tramadol delivered and lo and behold, I CAN'T get it delivered and have to go and pick it up, which I'm not about to do because of The Thing In The Car. 

Switch gears and start to look for a pain management place, and discover there's one in Deming, only an hour away, and I need to go to Deming the next day (today) to have TTITC calibrated so I call to see if I can get an appointment. Fat chance, as it's the next day, but I have to go to Deming on 12/18 to get TTITC removed and perhaps I can get an appointment then. 

Well maybe I could have done but this is New Mexico so when I called I got the receptionist telling me Mr. Gomez was out today and to please leave a message, while the answering machine telling me to leave a message was playing at the same time, and when I hung up and called back I got exactly the same thing. I left a message but it was unintelligible and I doubt very much anyone is going to return my call.

By this point I was seething and it suddenly seemed like the right time to write  a review for the solar company that installed panels on my house in 2023 and made a disastrous botch-up of the job. I've been thinking of doing it since April and this day was what it took for me to do it. It's not posted yet as one friend thought it was fine, one didn't, and I said I'd sleep on it, which I did.

Now it's time for me to go to Deming, stop off at Walmart on the way and try and find the pain management place while I'm there. Stimulating and exciting adventures indeed. This isn't proofed.

No Posts for a Week

 No fun being in pain most of the time, but I make it worse by not writing about it.

The good news is I've been able to make an appointment for the ultrasound I need before I can have the stent inserted in my heart for the day after I take my Christmas visitor back to the airport in Tucson, a convoluted sentence if ever I wrote one. That means I don't need to have anyone come to stay to feed Mr. S. as I'll only be gone for one night. The ultrasound appointment's for 10:30, shouldn't take too long and then I only have the three hour journey back to Silver. I h*ate the word h*ate but I really do h*ate having to drive three hours to get to a doctor. 

Okay, that's a start. If I were in better mental health I'd have written about last Wednesday, the second exact transit of Uranus opposed to Chiron, third one coming up in April '06. 

Uranus Opposed to Chiron Exact

I still have hours of community service to do so I went and washed dog bowls for two hours and when I left there was a woman trying to get a huge dog crate into the back of her car and not succeeding. Enter helpful old me, and we took all the flattened  Amazon boxes and two bags of trash (I was going to the dump) out of the back of my car, transferred them to her car, got the giant dog crate into the back of mine and I followed her to her house, which was on the way to the dump. She had a skip at her house and took all my cardboard and trash to go in the skip, got the dog crate out of my car, we swore everlasting friendship and I went to the local The Poor Pay More supermarket.

There I met a neighbor I haven't seen for months, asked if if I had a New Year's Day Open House Party as I did in the days before Covid she would come, she said yes and I decided I'd do it. Could I be making this any less interesting?

Forcing myself to go on, in the afternoon a friend and her adult son came over and we did a swap of a duster coat I've had for decades to her son in exchange for some handy-man stuff I can't do myself.

At the time it felt like a wonderful day, which no one would know from reading this. 

Mars Square Jupiter

 Almost one o'clock on a Sunday and I'm still in bed poking away at the MacBook Air. 

I did get up earlier and go outside to water. The end of November and it's 65 degrees with a new wildflower blooming every day and at least I can be roused enough by that to want to keep that happening.

I seem to be doing very well at not over-extending myself with all the exuberant energy I'm supposed to have. Sun trine Pluto yesterday and again I managed to do nothing of consequence. I suppose it's all the Saturn showing up right now. ML always said The Slowest Moving Planet Wins. 

Dream

Clothes again.

I'm working somewhere where there's a Big Day the next day and I need to find something to wear.

I'm in Bloomingdale's making my way up to the fourth floor. 

Who am I going to be? 

This was days ago and I ought to have changed the date to when I had the dream. 

Jupiter Opposed to the Midheaven

 Moving in and throwing out continues, and unfortunately so does eating. 

All I want to do is be home and warm. 

Sun Sextile Chiron

Well this was an absolutely horrible day. 

Couldn't wake up, knew I had to get blood drawn for a Monday morning doctor's visit, rainy and windy and didn't want to leave the house (as though I ever do) but made it down to HMS, no one there, in and out in ten minutes, home and went back to bed and slept till six and finally felt OK so got up for an hour and was back in bed by seven.