Just FYI, I've had my gallbladder out since last year, and have noticed no affect on my digestive system at all.

I'm hacking my way through a thicket of onerous phone calls. Go me! (Of course, some of them I need to actually follow up on, like going to the hospital lab to get blood drawn for my cholesterol test.) But still. Onerous phone calls, off the list!

I also need to figure out what I need to take to the Social Security office so that I can go get my name legally changed before our first anniversary (not that that's a legal deadline, or anything; I just thought it would be nice to change my name by the time we've been married a year, which is Sunday [whoops]).

t edit Also booking the pinup photo shoot, which is making me nervous as hell. Sheesh.

So, it's been two and a half months of just my income supporting the household--and the bank accounts are in good shape. Some of that is the incredible generosity of wonderful people, but I don't think those influxes are affecting standard cash flow. Apparently my income is sufficient for my needs. Hubby's drugs were very expensive, and he had a tendency to buy little whatzits that caught his eye. I could rarely tell him no. The storage shed is no longer there and I've cut the phone bill by three quarters. If there was a bill I was missing, I think I'd know by now.

Gosh. Now I just need to make sure the yarn buying doesn't get out of hand.

I feel so sorry for widows who weren't significant income producers and who didn't manage the bills like did. My loss is immense but it's not catastrophic to running the household.

Connie - excellent news. I'm glad that the practicalities are going smoothly.

I had a follow up doctor's appointment today for something, I don't remember what, the doctor was honest says she can't remember either she thinks it was to follow up with medication refills and about my blood work.

I had more blood work done and I made an appointment for my first mammogram. It will be early enough in the day I don't have to put in an unavailability time request.

In a few weeks I have to see my shrink again. He'll have my blood work and I have to admit I haven't been taking my morning doses of Lithium because of side effects and then I was doing fine so I just stopped.

I don't think he'll be happy but I've been coping well enough.

Connie, it's good to hear that you are in a good place financially and you don't have that extra worry.

Connie, that's good news. It wasn't a huge change for me since I was the breadwinner, but it's still a shock to the system.

Medical~ma, askye.

I scheduled my first mammo today, too!

And I'm SO glad to hear that your finances are doing well, Connie. What a relief.

It makes it easier to contemplate that $300 worth of work on the Jeep's heater. I don't think I can blame Ancestral Puritans for a reluctance to spend money. Perhaps it's the two parents who grew up in the Depression. Though that goes both ways, doesn't it? One type is spendthrift, one is reluctant to spend anything.

So I have a handful of certificates at work for various seminars. I figured, let's grab a handful of frames, so they look nice. Cheap ones. Why not. Finally remember to bring them in to the office. Seems I picked up 8x10 frames instead of 8.5x11. A little too much to trim off the certificates. No clue where the Target receipt is. Sigh. Hey, at least the office is in the low 80's today, and a small breeze can be felt.

How white is the hospital I'm in? Well, I ordered a chocolate cupcake with dinner (because i could) and what showed up on my tray was a chocolate choc chip muffin cut into quarters with a dollop of whipped cream. Total muffin!