YOU'RE FIRED!

I feel peeved. I feel irritated because insurance companies are crooks and thieves. They make sure you pose little to no risk for them at which time they will gladly take your money but not before they make you feel like you are lucky they are even allowing you this honor ("It looks like you may be accepted but we're still not sure. We'll get back to you. Then they keep you cliff hangin' for a week or two til' you forget that THEY are working for YOU and should be glad to have YOUR business.) Then they take your HUNDREDS of dollars a month with only one stipulation. Should you ever need them to cover anything they have special people working there whose sole purpose is to find and create reasons your needed service was not actually "needed". AHHH! I have begun paying almost $400 dollars a month for just me, Jared, Faith and Ethan to get coverage. Of course Harris will never be covered by insurance in his life b/c he had the nerve to be born with a hole in his spine and I had the nerve to not abort! Well, they made sure we were aware that we were not eligible for ANY mental health coverage. None. Why? Because we need it, and that would mean they would have to pay for something with OUR money that we give them EVERY month! I will continue to pay out $100 every time I see my shrink for 15 minutes and $160 every time I take Faith to her pediatric shrink. We use ALL generic meds even though most of them don't work as good and our bill will still total $225 a month on that one. Because OF COURSE they will not cover any of that. They'll just keep getting richer and richer off my $400 a month and never use a shred of it to help me. And get this--my diagnosis was mild anxiety. That's it! Faith has no official diagnosis because they don't typically diagnose kids with anything official when they are so young. So it's not like we went in there and said, "We're nuts!" Oh, I guess I forgot, you can only be insured for the parts of you that are perfectly healthy and they get your money by playing on your fears that one of those healthy parts will get cancer and then, well, you just coudn't survive without said insurance company. Never mind that I don't drink or smoke. Never mind that I work out just about EVERY DAY! Who cares about that! This girl has mild anxiety! She is much more likely to--I dunno, get expensive illnesses! WELL ENOUGH! I ain't doin' it. I am fighting back. I called my insurance guy and he is supposed to be calling me back. His wife answered and I asked if her husband could call me back and she was very pushy about wanting to help me herself b/c they work together> and I was insistant that I wanted to talk to her husband who personally sold us our "no mental illness allowed" policy. So finally, she was so intent on helping me herself that I layed it on her and she promptly said, "I'll have Dean call you back!" Yeah you will! I'm sure I've already been deemed the "crazy lady" around there but who cares? They can't fire me because I am THEIR employer! I give them $400 a month and so far they have payed a total of $0 for me! So there you have it. THEY are fired! I will see what he has to say. Maybe I am crazy. I dunno.

Tagged-- Six Things you may not know about me.

1. I had a tatoo on my shoulder removed. (Painful!!!!)

2. I ran a marathon. The first person I saw when I crossed the finish line was George Bush Sr. and he said, "Atta girl!" I wanted to ask for his son's ph# but I was 99.9% parched.

3. I used to love writing when I was younger and would write little novels and keep them in notebooks in my bedside table. I got older and read through them and got embarassed and threw them all away. Sad.

4. When I was in middle school I pushed my two front teeth together until I closed my own gap. (My mom said we couldn't afford braces).

5. I sucked my thumb til' I was ten and my great grandma offered to pay me $100 to stop. I promptly did.

6. I am REALLY good at remembering names. I can be told your grandma's neighbor's niece's boyfriends name one time and ten years later I'll be able to recall it. Too bad I can't seem to remember useful information.

Tags are fully optional, of course, but I'd like to hear from any and all of you kind enough to read my blog. I really love nothing more than learning new things about people so, humor me!

YUCK!

I once ate a rotten raisin. It was the craziest kind of disgusting I have ever experienced. I have eaten frozen grease that I thought was ice cream, a cup of egg yolks that I mistook for orange juice and a glass of juice that was half full of dishwashing liquid. So it's safe to say I'm no stranger to the nasty. But nothing and I mean NOTHING compares to a rotten raisin. It was so bad I was wiping my toungue on my shirt and trying not to cry. I was eating these raisins while driving my kids to school and I had no drink with me. I actually swerved, narrowly missing an oncoming car. Sarah says she believes it was a bug rather than a raisin and she may be right. Whatever I ate didn't even have the consistency of a raisin! It was grainy and gritty. This is what makes me believe I could be on Fear Factor. I feel nothing they could make me eat could be as foul as a rotten raisin!

What's the worst thing you have ever eaten/drank?

Tag, I'm it!

( ) gone on a blind date

(X) skipped school (a lot.)

( ) watched someone die

(X) been to canada

(X) been to mexico

( ) been to florida

(X) been on a plane

(X) been lost

(X) been on the opposite side of the country (-ish)

( ) gone to washington, dc

(X ) cried yourself to sleep

(X ) played cops and robbers

(X) recently colored with crayons

(X) sang karaoke

(X ) paid for a meal with coins only (at least once a week!)

(X) done something you told yourself you wouldn't (at least once a day!)

(X) made prank phone calls

(X) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose

( ) caught a snowflake on your tongue (Not that I've noticed anyway.)

(X) danced in the rain (Me and Jared have had a fight in the rain. This is our preference)

(X) written a letter to Santa Claus

( ) been kissed under the mistletoe

(X) watched the sunrise with someone you care about

(X) blown bubbles (Do snot bubbles count?)

( ) been skinny-dipping outdoors (Wouldn't skinny-dipping indoors be a bath?)

(X ) gone to the movies alone. (One of my favorite things to do--although I don't do it much.)

Striking resemblance.

I went back to bed after my work-out (in all my sweaty clothes of course). I woke up with Nick Nolte hair.....and face.

Carol's tag!

5 things in your purse:
1. chapstick
2. planner
3. catheters (they are for Harris, but could come in handy in other choice situations!)
4. trash
5. It is worth mentioning that once I found a whole hamburger in my purse! Must have stuck it in there at McD's thinking my kids would eat it later or something! When I found it was like a week old!

5 things in your workroom
I don't have any such thing. I'd prefer never to have a room designated for "work" of any kind.

5 things you always wanted to do:
1. play the harmonica.
2. sky dive
3. be on Fear Factor
4. be the lead singer in a band. I'd like it if I could also jam on the guitar and I'd like it if the band were called "buckets of blood!" I think it should be a country band.
5. teach step aerobics.

5 things you are into:
1. blogging (fo shizzle!)
2. donuts, in a big way.
3. decorating
4. running/working out
5. laughing

5 bloggers you want to tag:
1. laurie
2. jamie
3. mel
4. natalee b. (I'd do Natalee H. too but she has no blog! sniff.)
5. alisha
Posted by Carol Beck at 11:03 PM 2 comments
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Happy Birthday to Faith!

Happy Birthday to
-the girl who made me a mother.
-the girl who helped me change in ways I could never do for myself.
-the girl who teaches me.
-the girl who makes me proud.

Happy 11th birthday! I love you!

LOL

So tonight was Girl's Night Out. This is one of the Enrichment Activities our ward offers. It requires almost no commitment. Come if you want, late if you'd like, eat if you feel like it, pay for yourself, leave when you please, say what you feel. Ain't nobody judgin'--no haters allowed.
It is an absolute blast and so I'm thrilled to be the new point person for this activity. This means I email people about where we will meet next (as soon as Jen teaches me how to send out a mass email) and then I let the Enrichment leader know. That's it. I don't even have to go. My kind of job.
When I can sneak away and convince myself that it's worth the work (hygiene) to get there, I never regret it. It fills me up physically, boosts me up emotionally, and best of all, I laugh like crazy.
Tonight was no exception. We met at 9'rs and stayed til' they were sweeping the floor. We ended up touching on several random topics as usual, and also touched a bit on the disturbing and even got to scary. I love all of this biz-nis! It was a blast. So anybody who needs to laugh out loud and be reminded that they are doin' alright in the grand scheme of things (or even doing BETTER than alright) come to our next one! It will be the first Thursday night in February and we will meet at Five Guys Burgers and Fries in Brazos Town Center at seven. The burgers are heavenly, the fries are from Rigby, Idaho (they are the best!) and the company is out of this world. ALL are welcome!! Questions? Call me! I got an answering machine, and yes, it IS plugged in. #281-232-8450

SLEEPY

These meds I'm on make me soooooo sleepy! It's ridiculous! If you have a conversation with me I will yawn the ENTIRE time and it's not because you're boring. I can't read, watch t.v. or even SIT hardly because I'll just pass right out. I can't live like this! Well, actually, I could. I love to sleep and would be pleased as punch to sleep my life away but I think my kids and husband might miss me.....I said might.
Anyway, I have always been pretty sleepy in general, probably a thyroid issue like so many women in my family, or maybe just life, or maybe I'm just a complainer, but nontheless, I always suspected my house had a slow carbon monoxide leak and that was the cause of my fatigue. Even my sisters would come over to visit and within thirty minutes or so they would feel woozy. But then I moved, and....well, the carbon monoxide leak moved with me so.....I'm guessing....no leak.
But this time it's different. It's all out, drug-induced drowsiness (and can I just say while I'm on the subject that "May cause drowsiness" is not a powerful enough warning. I think it should say "Will cause lethargy"). So, I stayed awake long enough to call my drug dealer and he's out (how dare he take a vacation! "Crazy" never goes on vacation!) until the 5th. So I'll call him back then.......I need to go lay down.........just for one..........................

Recipe for Pabsts' Famous NY Eve Party

Take one exhausted mother,








Add two stubborn red-heads







Mix with one sleeping beauty,








Now gently fold in one tube-addicted husband








Next, quickly add large amounts of greeezy take-out








Stir until just before midnight and then....


















Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!












Yeah, we really know how to party!