Pill loading innovation (yet another)

[azurelunatic]

Previously: line up AM pills on the left side of the desk, PM pills on the right side, and Both pills in the middle (to be added to boxes after AM pills, and then put on the PM side). This requires extra clearing off of desk space to make sure they all fit. (Bottles that have already been loaded in go back into the "Come With Me If You Want to Live" drawer, either right-side-up if I don't need to do anything else, upside-down in the fabric organizer that the primary stack of filled boxes will go in if they need a refill soon, and upside-down in that place with a little plastic dot inside them if I ran out midway; a set of matching plastic dots mark the compartments where there aren't that pill.)

New procedure: AM pills go in the pink bins on-or-near the desk, PM pills go in the blue (teal) bins, and Both Times pills go in the white bins and migrate to Blue after they've been added to AM.

The colored plastic dots come from Microlet lancet tip protectors. (Used lancets go in my mini Sharps jar, which started life as a Costco Loratadine jar and then got a red paint job on the lid and bottom using some non-preferred nail polish, and a label saying SHARPS on the side, implying Please Don't Fill Above This Line. I dump it into the big sharps bin in the bathroom.)

This weekend featured some Bodily Fail, over which I am still Disgruntled and Apologetic. Fucking cancer. Fucking cancer treatments.


Book status: finished with The Curse of Chalion a day before the audiobook was going to get whisked back to the library, and into Paladin of Souls. (We will probably not do The Hallowed Hunt, and the next person to breathlessly suggest that we do any Sharing Knife gets The Cut Direct. However: Penric, my beloved.)

In other book news, I waxed enthusiastic about All The Warnings on Cyteen to alexseanchai, concluding "But it's great about Growing Up Autistic Under Surveillance" although modern understanding of neurotypes and Azi vs Cit psychology suggests that uh, starting a kid off via 100% Tape-based learning would Probably Not result in Autism. "Oh, they're not sensitive to their discussion, are you Florian" "No, sera" (paraphrase of Ari I and Florian I) hits Significantly Different in context of Autism "Speaks", those morally bankrupt allistic and about-us-without-us fuckers.


Relevant to The Locked Tomb, Target's Halloween shit is coming out, and they have a skull-topped decorative bottle, some blatantly 3rd House skulls that are bedazzled to fuck and back, and a "Finally, some peace and quiet" coffin shaped motto board with a skull that could be painted into a number of different House skulls.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I'm not tied to a specific type of lancing device because I lance freehand / raw dog lancets. Standard lancing devices go *spang*, all spring-loaded, and I don't like that. So I gently stab myself instead.

[vass]

It literally didn't occur to me that that was Allowed/possible. This changes... well, not everything, but definitely something.

[princessofgeeks]

PENRIC

Ah, Cyteen. I read that way before I knew how out there it was. I'm kind of afraid to revisit it. But I adored it as a teen and reread.

[azurelunatic]

It's been a few years for me, and it's one of the books I use to reset my brain. I should probably pull it out once I finish my current library stack.

[azurelunatic]

Have you read Demon Daughter? I was DESTROYED (in a good way)

[princessofgeeks]

I'm not sure; is that a Penric novella? I have not read all of them plus I lose track of the titles.

If it's Cherryh, I have not.

[azurelunatic]

It's the almost-most-recent Penric story. A young girl and her demon wash up, chaos-attended.

[princessofgeeks]

Oh, super. I must investigate. I am somewhat behind on Penric, I think.

[mdlbear]

I have the lids color-coded -- I use lids from supplement bottles, which come in different colors from different manufacturers. I use green in the morning, yellow in the evening, and white for both. Also for when I run out of lids the right size. When I run out of something I'll either order it immediately or put it on my shopping list.

[azurelunatic]

Useful!

[musyc]

the "Come With Me If You Want to Live" drawer

I am cackling. I desperately want to put this label on my dad's insulin kit. He would not be amused, but I am.

[azurelunatic]

Not only is that label on the actual drawer, but there's a huge plastic carrier bag inside so someone can shovel everything into it without thinking about it much.

[kore]

the "Come With Me If You Want to Live" drawer,

That is AWESOME.

[azurelunatic]

I wanted to make the "we're evacuating, get the meds out of my desk drawer" "which desk drawer" conversation a lot easier, but without having a desk drawer labeled "GET DRUGS HERE" to any casual visitor or repair professional. So I settled on Funny Reference (that didn't say Drugs). Never mind that all the possibly Interesting meds are elsewhere, I would be in a world of hurt if the Keep Me From Stabbing Myself drugs vanished.

[azurelunatic]

My Less Active Pill Bottles drawer is now called "The Heir and the Spare", complete with fancy fonts and a crown dangling off the H of Heir.

[ephemera]

I am trying to painfully rebuild my probably-many-fewer-pills organization and habits, and pill organising boxes call to me, but I also know that my brain Just Wont keep up with filling them, so I have shelving cubbies with the actual boxes in places where they're in front of my face, and pray that I remember the refills in a timely fashion...

[azurelunatic]

Ah, yes. Brains. It's good to know yourself, at least!