random thoughts - Day 2,009 (Tuesday) - phone calls and flora

The phone call to-do list gained a new entry today. It all started with a text that my cell phone payment was overdue, which was a surprise because I was sure I had paid it via online bill pay with the credit union. The bank transaction activity was checked and it was verified that the money came out of the account and the bill payment had a confirmation number. Then I called the credit union to ask what else might be checked. The outgoing payment was confirmed. The call center rep also helped me with some other account business, which saved me a visit to a branch and was a bonus.

The next call was to Verizon to ask what they could check based on the payment date and confirmation number. There will allegedly be a call back from a Verizon rep and I can also check the app. Unlike when I was a teenager and could spend hours talking on the phone, I had phone exhaustion after two calls and that was that. The day's planned calls were postponed. 

New favorite ramen? We'll see.

Other tasks were also delayed. The grocery list is short and there is no danger of starvation, so a trip to the grocery store was postponed, but there was a trip to Ocean State Job Lot. The Primary objective was a 2026 journal in the style I have bought there for about seven years. The styled they've carried for ages doesn't seem to be available this year so I had to settle for something else. A second potted mum and another solar Buddha lamp plus some curry ramen from a brand I didn't know were also acquired. Sweet and salty snacks were successfully avoided. 

Ideally, the mums will be set into the ground, but that will require digging up a stretch of grass along the side of the house. The front of the house is overcrowded with overgrown hedges, rhododendron, and hydrangea. The hedges were trimmed as much as they could be without losing all the greenery. The rhododendrons can't be trimmed now without losing the buds for next spring, which was learned the hard way at the Lowell house after a massive trim of the equally overgrown plants my first fall there was followed by a flower free plant the first spring.