Unwanted Visitor

I got an unexpected visit from an old "friend" recently. She isn't gone yet so I'm having to force myself quickly through this post so I can attend to her. She is a quite demanding guest.



She got here about a week ago. I hadn't seen her in quite some time and I quickly remembered why I don't like having her around. I do all I can to keep her at bay but she somehow always manages to wiggle back into my life. I'm just going to vent a moment and I hope ya'll can handle it.





She is moody! I've never met anyone so unstable! I never know what she'll do next! Sometimes her behavior is rash but mostly she is just grumpy and sometimes downright mean! She is very rude--having little to no regard for others. While these things seem to take up a lot of my time and worry, she can also be irritatingly "zoned out". I'd venture to say she is mind-numbingly boring. She can be very quiet and robotic. She never wants to do ANYTHING or go ANYWHERE. She sleeps EXCESSIVELY and eats all of the junk food in my house.....ALL OF IT! She doesn't want delicious meals or just regular food! She wants fat-laden, grease-saturated, frosting-coated JUNK! When I have none left to offer she forces me out the door to buy more.





The worst part is I never know when she plans on leaving. She stays just as long as she pleases. She doesn't leave when I ask her to, or even when I TELL her to. There isn't one thing I can do to get rid of her. There isn't one thing ANYONE can do to get rid of her!! How long will she be here? I have no idea!!!





She'll finally decide, for whatever reason, to up and leave just as swiftly as she arrived, and then I'll be able to breathe again. It takes a while to transition back into normal life once she's gone. I have a lot to catch up on having neglected my life to better accomodate her endless list of demands. Who, might you ask, is this horrible girl?















Her name is Depression, and I hate her.

Weird kids

Ethan was home sick today. We had to make a trek to Wal-mart to get laundrey soap. On the way out the smell of fresh-baked cinnamon rolls wafted toward us from the bakery. Ethan announced, "I can tell by the smell that those cinnamon rolls are round. I can smell shapes."

Later, after school, I left Harris in the bathroom to cath. I came back to check on him and there was a large, strange stain on the bathroom rug. I was studying it, trying to determine the origin when Harris said, "Don't look at that! It's my throwup!" I became alarmed. "Are you okay? Are you sick, buddy?" "No, I just wanted to see what it would feel like to touch the back of my throat. It hurt. I'll never do it again!'

What a couple of weirdos!!!

GIRLS NIGHT OUT!!!!

This Thursday, Feb. 5th, get in your car and drive to this place:








You can then purchase one of these:












and also some of these:














Or you can just sip on one of these:














But, no matter what you do or don't purchase, you are guaranteed to leave with some of this!:

















Hope to see you there!

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.