Life on the Run

Between struggling with her 2018 taxes and problems with her PC, Fio had a pretty rotten day yesterday. But things got better when she decided to taken Sonia Dog out in the early evening, which was warm, but not too warm, and bright, but not too bright. Doggie wandered around in the woods, and Fiorella readjusted a few flagstones in the new walk beside the side of the house. Nothing like hefting rocks to make a girl feel in charge of her situation again.
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Today will start off with a visit from friend Marie, who used to be Fiorella's cumadin nurse and is now a big dog RN. Fio and Marie are kindred spirits, and she is an especially kind one--so kind that she is going to drive out to Fiorella's house to help her with the dreaded finger-prick machine that Austin Heartless has bestowed upon her because it's too cheap to pay for cumadin nurses on site. Not that Fio has any problem with her finger being pricked to test the efficacy of her blood-thinner prescription, but she was born with some kind of in-built, iron-strong resistance to damaging herself, sort of a do-no-harm gene. Yes, your Fio could never have been one of those teen-age self-mutilators.
       On the other hand, Fiorella is quite calm in medical emergencies and does a great job of binding wounds and driving people to the ER, even herself.
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In preparation for Marie's visit, Fio has run around the house like a mad woman, trying to get it in half-decent shape, which is hard with tax-related papers spread out all over the place. Hopefully, Marie will ignore the mess and focus on Fio's sparkling personality 😁
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Have you actually gotten anything done on those on those 2018 returns, you ask? Well, yes, but it's slow-going. Anything I think can be handled quickly takes forever, and everything I think will take forever does take forever. And, by the way, Chase, squirrelly as always, sent Fio a "years' end" accounting of her 2019 credit card expenditures instead of her 2018 ones.
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Now, if you'll excuse her, Fiorella needs to go read the comic strips before Marie gets here. A day without the funnies is a day without sunshine 🌞