Cha-Chink, Cha-Chink!

Monday, August 23rd 2010

I had trouble sleeping again last night.  I woke up late - around 1pm.  After a few cups of coffee, I got a bit productive.  I called the pharmacy to see if my meds were ready.  I called to make a pain management appointment.  I'm not in their computer system.  The pain mgmt dept wasn't answering the line when the appointment setter called.  They asked me to try again in 10 minutes.  I called back.  Still no luck.  The girl ran up there and spoke to someone, they advised her to tell me they would call me back.

I wrote out a bank withdrawal ticket, threw my agenda and phone in my purse, and got ready to leave.  I went to the bank.  I went to the gas station.  I stopped at Roy Rogers because I realized I forgot to eat.  I went to the pharmacy to pick up my meds.  Then I jumped on the parkway and headed north to pick up Dayna.

I pulled up as her dad was stepping outside.  He hadn't realized I was on my way.  I went up to Dayna's room.  She was napping.  I woke her up.  I used her computer to find the post office.  She grabbed her library books, put on flip flops, and her dad gave her the IO Box with her movies.

We chatted in the car, as usual.  She sang me the English version of a Japanese song she likes.  She's very into Japanese anime, manga's (comic books), and culture.  We goofed off some, also as usual. 

When we were approaching the Driscoll Bridge and Raritan tolls, I asked her to get me change for the toll.  I asked her to use as many nickles and dimes as possible.  She handed me 11 coins.  I said, "Oh boy!  This thing is going to love us!"  I'd hate to be the car behind us.

*CLANG!  Cha-chink, cha-chink, cha-chink, cha-chink, etc; "Paid, Thank You"*

After that we laughed about what it would be like to dump in a zip-lock bag of pennies - cha-chink, cha-chink, cha-chink, cha-chink...we'd have to come late at night when there's no traffic and put our hazards on :-)  Or what if we sat there and threw them in one penny at a time - 1... 2... 3...  ...98... 99... 100... wait for it... *toss* 100... wait for it... *toss* maybe 100?... Darn!  I lost count!  1... 2... 3... :-)

I asked Dayna what she'd like to do.  I said, "We have to go to the Post Office, what else would you like to do?"  She said she didn't know.  I said, "Ok, maybe the post office, clothes shopping..."  She replied, "Great!  Post Office clothes!"  It took me a second, then I burst out laughing and said, "Yes, we will go clothes shopping at the post office!" realizing she was not acknowledging my inferred verbal comma.

When we got home, we ordered Chinese, she hooked up the IO Box, I took out the garbage, we moved the coffee table frame and the "Back - To - Storage" bedding box.  We watched Eclipse while we waited and while we ate.  Then it was time for bed.