But 6% is a bit more than 7 1/2 cents, every hour, every week...

I hope it's a lot more than 7 1/2 cents.

And I know how aggravating the HR delays can be, but congrats on getting some recognition anyway!

It is, Brenda, I'm just constantly earwormed with The Pajama Game when i think of fighting for a raise.

Last night was hard, nothing like an anxiety attack about the future of the country right when I was trying to go to sleep.

Today though I called both Blue Cross Blue Shield and Delta Dental. A friend of Second Life sent me smiley faces and cheered me on over skype. Downside was I cried for about an hour after.

I applied for a job yesterday.

I also had a dental cleaning today which I go through only using one coping skill (naming off 5 tv characters from various shows). I forgot my stuffed owl and headphones to listen to music. My dental hygenist did give me a break AND asked if I had ever tried CBD oil for anxiety and then told me where I could get it in town. My teeth are in great shape.

Right after that I went to the grocery store to pick up odds and ends because we are supposed to get snow this weekend.

That doesn't sound like a lot but it is. It's not as much progress as I would like to make but I'm celebrating my victory.

Oh and when I got home and put away the groceries I hung out with my nephew - we shared the same chair and watched the end of Scooby Doo. I did not immediately have to go to my room and rest and recover.

Small victories, askye!

Heard from my mom's vascular surgeon this afternoon. Very good news/bad news. All her old stents are shot and pretty much can't be made any better. But, the foot seems to be responding to the antibiotics pretty well. So, we're in a holding pattern over the weekend to see how her foot does. Next week they'll reassess to see whether to just keep going with antibiotics (and probably lose the toes), or possibly do a vein bypass to get more blood flow (possibly saving the toes, and good for future blood flow, but a more dangerous surgery). So, cautious optimism is the buzz phrase. And moral of the story: diabetes is an asshole.

I got my first smartphone in 2010 and have been upgrading on the regular ever since. I love my Samsung 7 but am not wild about the software upgrade that just hit it a week or so ago. I can't even imagine not having the capability of a computer with me wherever I go. It's a worthy investment for the work I do. Though I think I need to get a better voice recorder, I had a 2 hour interview today and a quick glance showed that it only recorded about an hour of it.

much Mom~ma, Epic.

Sending a text message that included the word "white" and the phone suggested "supremacist".

This world we're living in. I can't even fathom sometimes.

I'm just spreading the love, So happy to have found you all

My old cat Java has diabetes Now, epic tangent, and the worst thing about it is the peripheral diabetic neuropathy. We've both adjusted to the constant blood testing -- because he is a bouncy Kitty not one of these cats where you can set a dose and then go -- but his poor hind legs are so skinny and don't work as well as they used to now. I'm kicking myself for not starting him on this sooner, there is a cat B vitamin called zobaline that anecdotally has all kinds of miracle cures. If he can hang in there for another month, apparently the zobaline should start to work by then . Anyway, I sympathize, and I certainly wish the best for your mom.

I really did get along okay with ancient cell phone and the tablet, but now that I've got the smartphone I just love it. It's one of the giant ones, it's a Nexus 6p on the Google Fi plan, which is such a great bargain.

I had a Samsung Galaxy S for a couple of weeks, because I misplaced the Nexus 6, and finally decided it was lost for good and bought the Samsung right after Thanksgiving..... and luckily, before two weeks was out, I found the Nexus sandwiched between Christmas catalogs. Costco and Verizon were obligated under their purchade terms to refund nearly everything. I really like the Samsung it's a great phone. I'd never used the Nexus at the time that I lost then found it, and I even called BestBuy to see if I could return it, but it had been too long, like four months, yeah, just sitting in the box. I've started going on walks now and using the map my walk app. I love being able to pull it out and look up my library record, or a phone number, etc. on the spot.

I'm a really slow adopter of tech, even though I frequently know a lot more about it than most civilians. I remember being at a buffistas event where everyone was in a room together but on their laptops. It took me another four years I think to even buy a laptop. I persuaded those people to go out on a walk with me eventually.