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The "file pile" of papers on top of the computer tower fell off, which meant it was time to file. I set out this (Tuesday) afternoon to extract a few of the receipts so I could scan them and then discard them if that was all I needed to do with them.
At 10pm, I was just about around to starting the scanning, as I'd wound up dealing with the pharmacy sheets before that. For my filing system, to reduce the sheer volume of paper I keep, I detach the part where it says the day of filling, what it is, and how much money my insurance saved me from the section that tells me that I absolutely should panic and call my doctor if I have any of these nine very concerning symptoms, at least one of which is just normal life at this point. I keep one copy of the information sheet in the file folder for that year's medication info, and the rest get tossed or cut up into notepaper.
We went down to the basement because Belovedest needed some things for a work program, and I requested the additional hauling up of a paper guillotine and two bottles of salad dressing.
My desk is still a disaster, but it's slightly less of one right now, and one with a very convenient paper guillotine. Also I found a face powder compact that expired in 1995, which is an entire year before Ev was born. (I pried out the mostly empty powder tin and then washed the thing because I honestly need a portable mirror around my desk area. At this point it's Nostalgic or something.)
I'm absolutely delighted with how Red Folder Blue Folder (my custom filing system) allowed me to put down the project of splitting up my enormous Medical folder and sorting it at the point when I was le tired, and not making me keep going on it well past the point that I was going to fall over from ennui. The non-prescription medical stuff is split into years now, and eventually I will make the papers in those years become sequential (and then they will go into the Blue Folder). (New unsorted medical paperwork goes in the front of the red-labeled green hanging folder, outside of the year-labeled manila folders.)
Tomorrow I will maybe attempt to sort out the stack of prescription papers that I extracted from the Medical folder. And maybe at some point start pulling out the red folders that are supposed to be the active monthly ones.
Also tomorrow (later Wednesday, which we are now about 2 hours into), I have a doctor appointment to poke my leg so a medical professional can go "yup, probably not a blood clot" at my Officially Unexplained Calf Pain, but honestly the circumstances suggest some anger at my seated elliptical foot fidgeter. I've been trying to use my flippy timers to make sure I don't stay seated for extremely prolonged periods, but also so I don't annoy my hips and knees by standing, or jumping up and down, too much.
Steph visited last week; that was pleasant. I get custody of their Cricut machine for a while. Belovedest has one at work and has been trained how to use one. Ph34r.
Big news from the Kiddo department that dropped today, one of the things that we don't talk about until everything settles and all is well, but I'm very pleased for her. (Not a baby. We would all be extremely upset, in that case.)
Time to crawl into bed without waking Belovedest. They've been upgrading the Home Assistant so it can help them use commercial breaks usefully, which is a delight to behold. Also I drafted them a layout for daily productivity planner stuff, which was exciting and now they have a little ring-bound booklet to use, and a guide on how to create new pages in that scheme for themselves.
At 10pm, I was just about around to starting the scanning, as I'd wound up dealing with the pharmacy sheets before that. For my filing system, to reduce the sheer volume of paper I keep, I detach the part where it says the day of filling, what it is, and how much money my insurance saved me from the section that tells me that I absolutely should panic and call my doctor if I have any of these nine very concerning symptoms, at least one of which is just normal life at this point. I keep one copy of the information sheet in the file folder for that year's medication info, and the rest get tossed or cut up into notepaper.
We went down to the basement because Belovedest needed some things for a work program, and I requested the additional hauling up of a paper guillotine and two bottles of salad dressing.
My desk is still a disaster, but it's slightly less of one right now, and one with a very convenient paper guillotine. Also I found a face powder compact that expired in 1995, which is an entire year before Ev was born. (I pried out the mostly empty powder tin and then washed the thing because I honestly need a portable mirror around my desk area. At this point it's Nostalgic or something.)
I'm absolutely delighted with how Red Folder Blue Folder (my custom filing system) allowed me to put down the project of splitting up my enormous Medical folder and sorting it at the point when I was le tired, and not making me keep going on it well past the point that I was going to fall over from ennui. The non-prescription medical stuff is split into years now, and eventually I will make the papers in those years become sequential (and then they will go into the Blue Folder). (New unsorted medical paperwork goes in the front of the red-labeled green hanging folder, outside of the year-labeled manila folders.)
Tomorrow I will maybe attempt to sort out the stack of prescription papers that I extracted from the Medical folder. And maybe at some point start pulling out the red folders that are supposed to be the active monthly ones.
Also tomorrow (later Wednesday, which we are now about 2 hours into), I have a doctor appointment to poke my leg so a medical professional can go "yup, probably not a blood clot" at my Officially Unexplained Calf Pain, but honestly the circumstances suggest some anger at my seated elliptical foot fidgeter. I've been trying to use my flippy timers to make sure I don't stay seated for extremely prolonged periods, but also so I don't annoy my hips and knees by standing, or jumping up and down, too much.
Steph visited last week; that was pleasant. I get custody of their Cricut machine for a while. Belovedest has one at work and has been trained how to use one. Ph34r.
Big news from the Kiddo department that dropped today, one of the things that we don't talk about until everything settles and all is well, but I'm very pleased for her. (Not a baby. We would all be extremely upset, in that case.)
Time to crawl into bed without waking Belovedest. They've been upgrading the Home Assistant so it can help them use commercial breaks usefully, which is a delight to behold. Also I drafted them a layout for daily productivity planner stuff, which was exciting and now they have a little ring-bound booklet to use, and a guide on how to create new pages in that scheme for themselves.
