car payoff

i've finally paid off my car! woohoo!!! now i can use the monies from that payment to start paying for my medical bills. i've let them pile up while i save up. i'm not afraid to NOT pay them since i figure they want to keep me alive so i can pay them for the rest of my life unless i move to Iceland or Canada. ;-) i figure they won't send their knee-breakers/spine-crackers for me any time soon. since it won't look good in the news that "jennifer lopez was beaten up by mysterious strangers in hawaii while recovering from heart transplant." actually, i'm hoping they go bother the other "jlo" first and considering she just had twins she might not be all there mentally.

i went to Costco yesterday for an appointment with the eye doctor. who would've figured that the optometrist's father had a heart transplant a few years ago. it was incredible timing to get him and not his other partners. i didn't have to explain my meds to him and he knew exactly what i was going through and what is gonna happen with my vision in the future. he was a very thorough doctor. because of the steroids i'm on...i now have glaucoma developing in one eye. hopefully i can get off the roids so it doesn't develop any further. until then...maybe i'll practice walking around with a blind-fold especially now that the water in the pool is warmer as we head into summer. makes falling in less of a shock.

before i went to my appointment i stopped off and got an ice tea lemonade from Starbucks (yummy and refreshing). so i go to the entrance of Costco and show my card. the Costco guy stops me and says that i can't bring in outside drinks. now, i have a full Venti (large cup) of tea and he's telling me i have to finish it before i can go in. yeah, right. i tell him, as i'm coughing from my chest cold and from my walk across the football field of a parking lot 'cause all of the handi-cap parking was filled, that i will not be shopping and that i have an appointment with the eye dudes. as i'm telling this young asian Costco dude this, i notice that he's wearing blue contacts over his brown/black eyeballs. come on! how 90's is THAT?!!! he looked like a friggin' reptile. i told him further that the doc said it was ok for me to bring in liquids since it was gonna be a long appointment and that i needed it...not because i wanted to look cool like lizard dude. i'm like thinking has Costco had bomb threats sent to them or something? is bin ladin now targeting Costcos and Sam Clubs (which would be smart since they are only checking card ID's and outside liquids...no checking for strap-on bombs or grenades)? no outside liquids. give me a break.

needless to say, i tried to save a little of my drink so i could slurp it on the way out to rub it in to lizard-boy. hehehe! but it really was a long appointment not too mention i got news of the glaucoma...major slurpage at that point since it's another operation to look forward to in the future.

what was funny...towards the end of our "conversation" between lizard asian dude and myself, he throws out, after i tell him the doc says it was ok to bring in the drink, that HE's gonna have a "talk" with the doctor. HELLO!! delusions of grandeur, ya think? dude counts people on his clicker (btw doesn't Costco sell laser beam stuff...why can't they use their own technology for counting instead of clickers?) and checks to see if we have Costco cards. but come on...he's gonna go scold a doctor about outside drinks that the patients bring in when there is a ton of rubbish in the aisles from all of the samples they give out. give me a break. i just don't get the ego this kid had...maybe it's a lizard thing.