[Snakeadelic]

And now for what's pissing me off today.

1. My PSYCHIATRIC disability review was rejected. Evidently, my therapist of at least 5 years now AND my psychiatric prescriber for even longer aren't professional enough to have an opinion about my psychiatric disability! Soc Sec LOST the letter my MD wrote which I mailed in its own sealed envelope as it was given to me, but using THEIR return envelope and annotating THEIR cover letter to indicate it was supplemental information for my review. Now I have to find time to get to my doctor and ask him to write ANOTHER letter, so I made an appointment.

2. Which turns out to be the exact same day and time that I'm supposed to be a couple hundred miles away, on the far end of driving four hours each way to get a (really, really unladylike words) root canal. That's the closest specialist who looked at the X-Rays and decided they could handle the 30-degree dogleg bend in what's supposed to be a straight root. It's congenital and a real annoyance!

3. And my neighbor finally got home from Oregon with his new truck, and he's pissed too. They test-drove that battleship-gray bad boy all over the Willamette Valley and it did fine...but Oregon still has ssssslllllloooooowwwww highways by comparison. At eastern Washington speed limits (70ish on the routes he uses most) the front end started vibrating weirdly. On the frost-heaved 80mph byways native to Montana, he said it was like trying to steer an angry rodeo bronc; he nearly got pasted into the median 3 times when the steering wheel just about wrenched out of his grip. He is understandably SUPER PISSED, especially with only a week to get this figured out before that root canal road trip!