By Prokofy Neva, Virtualtor
So continuing on with my mission to do Just One Thing…or rather…select a thing that wasn't getting done and feature it…Thus it was with three medicines that had to be picked up, that now had co-pays because I was kicked off Medicaid and started a more expensive insurance. So it wasn't more than like $5.99, but I had other bills to pay, and just didn't have it. Just One More Thing. The pharmacy kept calling…one of them was a new medicine I was supposed to start taking last week…
So…it's quite windy out, but not that cold (61?), so on goes the Russian scarf and of course the COVID mask. I sometimes think I'm the last person wearing a mask, although occasionally I'll be surprised and see someone who doesn't seem like a "mask category" person wearing one. So many people are just "half-masked" in the hospital and pharmacy…all the more reason…so saddle up, and walk — it can't be more than a mile?
Perhaps because of the sprints yesterday to the public library and post office, I was tired today and seemed to nap through the entire day even after sleeping a good 7 hour I think…then I looked up and saw it was 5:30 and the pharmacy closes at 6:00. I would have to hurry.
Google Maps says 0.7/mile and 16 minutes, I would have to run, because some of these places stop serving at 5:45 pm (like the library did the other day!)
But mercifully the door was open. They know me here.
I didn't have the heart to stall them when they were closing and ask them to put the meds in NON child-proof bottles but honestly, it's one more struggle. I spend a good chunk of every day struggling with 2FAs forced on me by every single site, whether e-mail or Amazon or whatever, then with all the pills I have to take, struggling with the goddamn caps on the bottles. I didn't realize until quite recently that you can ask for NON child proof. I'm all for child-proof caps. As a mere toddler, I somehow got into my parent's medicine cabinet and it was feared I had swallowed some unknown quantity of thyroid pills so I had to have my stomach punked, a horrendous experience I still recall.
Next, to the grocery store to pick out some Vitamin Water (3 for $5 a Morton's — compared to $2.89 a piece at Gristede's, where we are hostages in our food desert, and have to walk a mile to save a dollar or more on practically everything).
Now, for home, braving the winds again and my mask has fallen off but my hands and bag are full because I refused to pay for one more goddamn cloth bag when I have a zillion at home used for plant beds, cat beds, recycling, and every conceivable thing, as well as groceries.
I like the Proper Cloth cloth mask with mesh which some people would wear as their only mask but I put it over the K95.
Why am I an old lady today? I'm only 67 in real life but when I go shuffling out to the store and on other errands I often feel like the kind of old ladies I have seen for years, struggling with a cart, going to sales to save money. My cart is too heavy to bring down the stairs of the footbridge across the FDR Drive!
Now, a word about Just One Thing theory…I actually had ANOTHER thing I did today — imagine! But no fair telling! There Can Only Be One.
And if you fear that Just One Thing-ing will make you tend not to get anything done but That One Thing, actually, I find that it empowers you and energizes you to get ANOTHER thing done. You might think for a minute, oh, I could be featuring this OTHER THING tomorrow, why waste it on today, when I can only do Just One Thing? Answer: there's always Another Thing, trust me on this. The more you do, the more you see what needs doing.
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