Thursday, December 28: More Fun w/ CVS Caremark Pharmacy

Well this morning I got up and got a little bit late to Mike’s. The

 ride from SEPTA was uneventful which is always good and then I just merely went to Mike’s and dida  little sweeping and then went on an errand. Mike found out 

that the Rite Aid is officially closing on January 11, 2024. I had a feeling it was closing so it’s not a complete
shocker. After I got back with Mike Mary  

 said she went to Ray and found out the prices of one of the activities. She figured it would be close to $500 an extra expenses once we got there. Then, got a notice from CVS that

 they’re going to mail my prescriptions over. I called them up and found out that they didn’t approve. The prior

 is the authorization and I told the doctor and I went back-and-forth 



with them. I have a nice dossier. The woman was very nice on the phone. It’s a prior authorization group that’s incompetent
mean I have a whole thing on my Notes app about this bullshit so I left it that , that would either be 24 hours for the pre-authorization or 48 hours for the preop authorization

 before they would mail it in. I did give my credit card information so when they’re ready to mail it to just bill me and it’ll be mailed hopefully sometime before January 14 when I’m off to Costa Rica. It’s still drizzly outside even though weather doesn’t show any rain.  it’s 3:45 PM heading over to yoga class.  
Class was very hot! Good thing I brought Gatorade and water with me because I drank that stuff right up. I then took a shower and got some more water and drink half of that water before 

Vinyasa class. Asia don’t take Vinyasa class on Thursdays but today was the last class so I did. Mary did as well. I got my third thing of 

water today just now it’s 654. I have CODA wish I could go there early and sleep upstairs for a minute, but there’s an AA meeting 
but anyway hopefully the rain drizzle stopped. I went over to Mary’s 

and just relaxed and skipped the CODA meeting because I was tired and 

it felt good. Just lying down and resting. I left there around 10:30 and 

called to 21 and came home. That resting was really clutch. then to the final week of 2023 is closing out.

Wednesday, December 27: Focalin Unavailable

Good day everybody out there at the last few days of 2023. Today I slept in and I was still tired. I couldn’t believe how tired

 I still was. I got the Mike’s a little bit late. I then took a nice 35 minute nap had a super coffee and then had lunch. Lunch was pretty good and then I decided

 hell yeah I’m gonna have another super coffee because Wednesday is kind of like my Friday I don’t do anything after
work most times. I did however schedule my cleaning appointment and a private lesson sometime I think of the third is when I’m gonna have my private lesson. Next

 week’s gonna be very busy. Mike has two appointments and I have start planning trip to Costa Rica. But what I did most of the mid to late afternoon was  Try to find a 


pharmacy that had Focalin which is an ADHD drug. Apparently before big companies that

 you stupid to drug are not distributing it and it’s not available I had one 

pharmacy say to call back two of them had the namebrand which was $13-$1500 and one guy ranted about how the doctors were the only people
 not sued like the pharmacies and the drug makers. It was a trip so I did that 

for about 3 1/2 hours. After that I decided to order pizza for Mike and I to 

hang out and eat. It’s now 6:47 PM and then I’m gonna go to Mary’s after 

I eat this pizza. Well, I went to Mary’s and got pretty wet so I dried out my stuff and Mary gave me an 

umbrella. We had good conversation and we hung out for a little bit and I had some 



water. It was delightful and then with Mary’s umbrella I went and caught

 the 21 in the drenching pouring rain. It was raining really hard tonight. 

Tuesday, December 26: Returning Rental Car, Work and Yoga Doubleheader

This morning I drove in downtown with my rental car. Because it was 

a day after Christmas in the morning, I got downtown in 20 minutes. This trip 

usually takes me 30 to 35 minutes due to traffic. I just glide down 

Chestnut. it was almost like a dream. Is it is what was meant to be like in the ideal world of driving downtown. I even got a parking spot in front of Mike’s house and the parking was 

free baby! That was good stuff. I then got to work actually on time and signed in and 

everything.  Once I got to Mike’s, I took a little nap and then did a little cleanup. After that, I had

 to drive out to 25 City Ave. to return the car. That service and that enterprise Rent-A-Car is pretty good. Maybe I’ll go with them. They saw me in and out and then I caught the 4144 bus all the way downtown and just walked the rest of the way. Mike was very surprised that it didn’t take very long. Other times I take my sweet time getting back this time I just wanted to get my ass back. I just couldn’t get motivated with dealing with the insurance company for pharmacies about my so I’m gonna have to get better rest and do that tomorrow and get some caffeine in my system. Tomorrow is Wednesday. It’s now 3:48 PM. I’m about to go to Chris flux 4 o’clock class cause I don’t have therapy and then do Vinyasa so a doubleheader for me. Well, I went to Vinyasa and found out that this is the last Vinyasa class that Hot Yoga , Philadelphia will have. They’re filling it up with Pilates classes and they’ll put in a Yin class on Wednesdays. It was a good class. It was intense as crap I would dare say it was more intense in Chris’s class, but Chris’s class as usual is good and he noted in front of the class that I’ve improved a lot which is really good considering came from Chris, who’s been doing it for 15 years and he’s a straight shooter. So one of the people in our Vinyasa class just told me there’s going to be a Vinyasa class deep in the heart of Pennsport/West philly. I mean South Philly Sunday mornings at 10:30 it’s kind of far it’s about 55 minutes by public transit it would be like I was going to that AA meeting on South Street but further away I’d be taking the world famous 57 Bus. I’m since I don’t have choir tonight I’m gonna go on ACA meeting late I didn’t want to be late but here I am I’m only at 19th and Spruce I’m supposed to go to 22nd Spruce.