Harrison Briner

Noooooooooo I have to itemize my taxes, what a disaster

I've started a beta blocker (finally got to see a cardiologist about POTS) and my insurance actually approved dupixent the third go around for the hives!!!

It's a good thing that I understand that pharmacy benefits and medical benefits are often separate and the medical benefits provider will deny pharmaceutical requests because the benefits coordinator at my doctor's office benefits coordinator sure didn't seem to know this!!!

WOW uhc processed my appeal for my September OON claim which means...I am finally all caught up? Once the direct deposit goes through it will be the first time in 18 months that my insurance company has not owed me THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS???

Coordinating someone else's long distance travel to/from new haven is a logistical nightmare, there are many options of plane + train(s) and they are all kinda terrible

My new apartment has a beautiful gas stove with like an enamel interior and I HATE it because the heat goes everywhere and I get hives and it exacerbates the POTS and cooking is already hard enough

To be fair, I dropped with my masters! 😁

Aaaand a fourth time

Oops, bad editing there. (...Because so many people have told me I'm doing it wrong.)

🫂 honestly it is very fucking annoying and I am frankly terrible at dealing with it. Even well intentioned questions of "have you tried x" get me on the defensive because.

I redid alllllll the sleeve cap, underarm, neckline, and shoulder shaping on the sweater I'm currently sewing together because I got ROW gauge but my stitch gauge was wildly off. I'll know how it works out once I finish sewing it up and I can tell how it fits! But that seems reasonable to me

Yes exactly this, it is most of the work of mentoring with zero rewards that come from actual human connection, thanks I hate it

I spent 10 minutes of a sync meeting explaining knitting machines to my coworkers today, surely a good use of all of our time

Despite the fact that "makerspace knitting machine a 5 minute walk away" is absolutely the correct amount of knitting machine for me to have in my life I have set up alerts for used ones for sale in my area

To the surprise of no one I have become OBSESSED with knitting machine

There are so many actual cheeses that are produced in this country, I don't understand why this abomination is called American cheese

Alas, an almost great breakfast sandwich, foiled by the unfortunate texture of American cheese

Sometimes your (my) body just needs to sleep for 20 hours straight for no apparent reason, normal part of having a body

After 16 years of hand knitting I was getting a little bit too cocky, time to feel like an absolute beginner again

Learning to use a knitting machine so I can feel incompetent at knitting again

I mean I do like connections but it is not the crossword

"your most played game is connections" LIES

How does the NYT "year in games" LEAVE OUT THE CROSSWORD
that is the entire reason??? I have an nyt games subscription? The other games are like a cute sideshow

Best thing about working with people from SF, Europe, Argentina, and India from the east coast is that I am the least likely to be asked to join a meeting at either my 7 am or my 8 pm. Worst thing: I very frequently have a giant block of meeting from like 11-2 so I have no time to eat lunch

It makes me so happy to hear you getting back life's small but important pleasures like freshly baked 🍪!!

Mmmm I love freshly baked chocolate chip cookie

Uhhh maybe flavor is not the right word for cookies
Kind? What kind were they?

Love this for you! What flavor were they?

I have called my old Walgreens several times and notified multiple people that I have moved and do no want my prescriptions refilled anymore and they have all assured me nothing is on auto refill and yet for the third! time! they have magically decided to fill a prescription where I no longer live