KrisOverstreet

What I'm Dealing With Right Now

Added 2024-08-07 16:23:29 +0000 UTC

(1) Today I'm doing prep for an endoscopy-colonoscopy tomorrow. I was due for it anyway (5 years since the last), and recent increases in acid reflux and intestinal discomfort makes it good timing.

(2) Friday- the day after I go under general anasthesia for the poop snoop- I need to trap at least one of the feral cats and take them to a clinic (NOT free) to be fixed. The best I can do is take one every other week because the clinic only does it on Fridays, and I have conventions to sell at. This means the last half-grown kitten will be fixed in two MONTHS. (I've scheduled their mother, who I can actually handle enough to get into a carrier, for the end of this month.)

(3) Also Friday, as well as Saturday, tree services are coming in to get the tree off my back porch and get rid of a couple of others that pose a direct and immediate threat to the house, plus some other work. This is going to cost me $5000, and the initial check from the house insurance for tree removal AND house repair will only be for about $7200... and it hasn't arrived yet. Because of this... well, just last month I celebrated paying off $10,000 in credit card debt in the first six months of 2024. On Monday I borrowed most of that back so I could write the checks.

(4) On Monday I drive an hour and a half to FINALLY get my left shoulder and arm looked at. It's been causing me varying amounts of pain since early May at least, which has made sleeping very difficult.

(5) On Tuesday the plumber comes out to run a new drain line for my washing machine, so that the water doesn't back up onto my laundry room floor. (BTW, damn the 1980s and everyone then who thought it was a good idea to CARPET A LAUNDRY ROOM.)

(6) Thursday morning is load-in at Geek'd Con in Shreveport, my next con weekend. I'm having to prepare for that while juggling all the other crap just mentioned.

And that's why very little writing is getting done right now.