Reading all the reports is so very stressful, as is the whole process. This does seem like a wonderful opportunity. The location is beautiful and the place looks great.

I keep forgetting to update my burrito price report! Went to the Martinez Sesquicentennial celebration on Saturday and got lunch from a food truck ( I *want* to call it a taco truck, I would call the restaurant it belongs to a taqueria, but their special was burritos so "taco truck" seems vaguely misleading). I got a super burrito with al pastor, a side of chips, salsa, beans and cheese, and a diet coke for $15. Mom got a regular veggie burrito for $9. So they aren't all $20.

To be fair, I think I did get the $20 burrito delivered, so fees and whatnot go into that. But still!

I kind of wish we'd done that stuff for this place. Nothing here is that old, but we've been kind of low-key haunted by electrical problems.

Today I picked up my hard neck brace that I'll wear after the surgery. It is honestly the part of surgery I'm dreading most (even more than the surgery itself), because I hate anything snug around my neck, like turtleneck shirts/sweaters, or even a winter scarf. The brace is pretty restrictive. I'm hoping the pain meds will make me not care so much.

Although I think I have it relatively easy -- I don't have to wear it when I'm sleeping or showering or icing my neck, and a lot of people do. And I think I only have to wear it for the first 2 weeks. Hopefully I can be chill about it. (I mean, I possess zero chill, but maybe opiates will let me borrow some chill.)

David it's a beautiful house. I hope the offer goes smoothly!

If you can't make your own chill, store-bought is fine. Seriously, I feel you on not liking things around your neck (maybe we were hanged in a past life...), I do hope the opiates help with that. May you have a warm fuzzy cloud of not caring about anything including the brace for two weeks.

Today I picked up my hard neck brace that I'll wear after the surgery.

I hope you find it comfortable. After a nasty whiplash accident decades ago, I had to wear one, or my head would just flop around painfully. It was comforting to have the security. Good~drugs~ma!

Guys, the protein Doritos are officially pretty darn good.

Yesterday was exciting in a no fun way. I’M OKAY, which is always the correct way to start a post like this.

On Tuesday night, my migraine came with a side of blackouts. Tiny, few second blips, and extreme vertigo. I took meds and went to bed. Wednesday morning I still had the migraine, but it didn’t seem as bad as the night before, so I logged into work. Then the blackouts and the extreme vertigo came back. My insurance no longer has an on-call nurse line, but options of different telehealth companies, which I don’t trust. So we went to urgent care, but they couldn’t do the tests they felt were necessary because the software they use was having outages. I won a trip in an ambulance to a hospital; over the course of six hours I had an EKG and a CAT scan, the results of which were that everything was fine with me, it was probably an atypical migraine, and I should make an appointment with my neurologist to discuss things.

I came home and slept for 12 hours. Everything seems okay, but I’m resting and being very aware of how I feel.

The software at urgent care having outages was grimly funny to me, because I know what they use and what’s on the backend of it. Of course they were having issues, thanks Microsoft Azure.