keeping the MMP score: rosie 5, swampy 4

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Happy Firday, everyone!!! Boy, seems like we just had one last week! :wink:

wally, I am sorry your mother doesn’t understand. It’s even more sad that she feels the need to go to such lengths. I hope she comes around.

swampy, have fun at the fish fry!

rebo, I think because nurses see so much suffering and have to continually suck it up, sometimes all that bad stuff leaks out in a negative way. But IANAN.

soapy, hope the storm doesn’t “snow” on your plans.

moooom, I always kept a backup copy on my desktop for exactly that reason. Bosses shouldn’t ever be able to save their changes. :stuck_out_tongue:

Sigh…off to the job boards.

Tupug

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Well, I’ll be, it worked. One of my bennies this year is a pre-tax medical expense account – mostly because I needed new glasses. So a couple of weeks ago I mailed off the form with the receipt and all. Pretty much used up all of it with that one thing but that’s fine.

And this morning there it is in my bank account! I though it was going to take weeks. This does not make me rich (looks at pile of bills, laughs), but it does make me happy.

Otherwise, not much happening. But a nice surprise in the bank account is a good way to start the day.

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Evening all. {{{Wallflower}}}

Update on the health insurance angle of my cancer treatment: I got a formal letter from the COO of the insurer. My claims are denied because my “current condition was brought about by an excluded condition” (i.e. HPV - the dreaded sexually transmitted disease) … “However, we also take our company’s good standing with [my employer] and your particular hardship into account. Therefore we are pleased to inform you that we are willing to contribute towards meeting the medical expenses for your cervical cancer.” The letter goes on to say that their generosity is capped at BD4,000 (about US$10,000), which is fortunately almost exactly what my treatment has cost (not including the airfare home for the less-invasive treatment option). It’s still f***ed up that they would deny the claim, but I won’t say no to the money extracted from them as a result of a bit of behind-the-scenes strong-arming from my big boss to theirs!

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Howdy, all. Those were some nice pictures, Noonie and I agree with whoever else it was that said you look cute.

It’s been one of those weeks where I was super busy but didn’t seem to get much accomplished.:dubious:

Today, after delivering lunch, my grandparents and I are going to go visit my favorite great aunt and uncle. They live in the same city that my delivery is in, so I thought it would be a nice way to spend the afternoon. If you’re my friend on fb, it’s the uncle that was with me in my profile picture for awhile. He has MS and is pretty much bedridden now, but thankfully, his spirit hasn’t dimmed at all.

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Whatever works when fighting insurance companies, Dotty! I’m still amazed at the sheer ballsiness of their turning you down before. Amazed in a horrified way.

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Up, caffeinated, off to work.

Yay for the insurance win, Dotty!

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Video of the new granddogif you’re on facebook. :slight_smile:

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I don’t iron. But since my workplace is jeans-friendly, it’s pretty easy to avoid any clothing that needs ironing. My usual work outfit of jeans + a sweater works pretty well. And men’s clothing does the “wash then 10 min in the dryer then on a hanger immediately” thing really well with no wrinkles. Why is almost all men’s clothing wrinkle-free or wrinkle-resistant but women’s clothing is not??

Yay for the insurance win, Dotty, but it sucks that they won’t cover HPV. I think it’s a horrible idea to deny insurance coverage as a punishment for behavior that they disapprove of. Bordering on the “death panels” that everyone was so riled up about here last year. “If you did something we think is bad, we’re going to let you die unless you can come up with the money yourself.” :rolleyes:

Half day at work today. This has been a looooooooooong week after all the driving and the funeral last weekend. I need this recovery day!

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I do iron, and I hate it. I’m supposed to look “professional”, so jeans are out unless it’s a Friday.

I’m glad to read the insurance company is paying up, Dotty, but sorry they’re such jackasses. I think it’s really cool that your big boss went to bat for you too.

Our tickets to Hawaii were booked yesterday. I have to go over to my friend’s house tomorrow morning and help her book the puddle jumper flights from Honolulu to Lihue and back, though. I can’t complain. She booked hers, mine and hubby’s ticket and just put it on her credit card. We are, of course, paying her back. However, if I had booked, I would have just done all the legs.

I cannot WAIT for 25 September! That’s when we leave for Hawaii.

It’s kind of gray out here. There isn’t much else going on.

Hugs, smooches and gropes to all.

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That reminds of something I keep meaning to make a thread about: the HPV vaccine has been approved for men. So if you are, or you know someone who is, between (I think) 16 and 26 and not sexually active, insurance should cover it. GO! Or make them GO! It’s just three shots. If little ol’ me who hates needles can do it, so can you! (Actually I was just barely 27 and didn’t have insurance anyway, but I still did it! It could be the best 450 dollars I ever spent.)

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Howdy Y’all! Sneakin’ in a quick post before fish 'n chips takes over my life for a couple of hours.

Dotty yay for the insurance coverage however stoopid it is.

BTW, anybody missin’ a Bison? There’s one on the loose on the interstate in Etlanner. If your is missin’, please go claim it. Poor Bison!

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**snowbunny **- I have the health savings account thingie and they’ve been really quick about reimbursing me. I need to get the paperwork from my glasses so I can put in the claim for my copay - something like $150 (I have great vision insurance, but it doesn’t cover progressives…)

The MMP has bled into my work life. I was sharing a recipe for my baked potato soup, and I wrote N.O.T. in the instructions. The poor woman who got them was very confused. So I had to give her a quick explanation of our life here… what a hoot!!! :smiley:

Speaking of work, I got out on time today. The project from hell is done, and we’ve been promised that there will be no Phase 3 - so YAY! On the downside, I have to read over 100 single-spaced pages of Art of War crap for a training class. It is horridly boring and totally a waste of time. Mostly I’m skimming - I’ll read a line or two till my eyes glaze over, then I skip to the next paragraph. First off, it was translate from Chinese, very *flowery *Chinese, and it was written in 1999, so what it says about terrorism and such is decidedly dated. Not to mention all the discussions of Saddam. I dread the class - the instructor loves this crap and I hate it with a white hot hate!!!

My sweetie and I are going out to eat tonight. Sans kids. Hope it’s soon - I’s stahved!!

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So I found a bigger mess today. Dear Og, FSM & IPU! A merge document with hundreds of letters and dozens fields, with lots of legalese. And she typed them all! By hand! No merging! And made up the legalese!!!eleventy! Since the merge document is a permanent document, it has to be corrected. And I will have to fix everything we don’t catch now, next year. Og only knows what else is lurking out there. The physical mess has to be cleaned up before we move at the end of April, beginning of May. Job security, I haz it.

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I haven’t added any family yet because I’ve been working on figuring out how to control what people see. It’s easy to put friends in lists and easy to keep them from seeing what you post if you start it yourself, but I haven’t finished figuring out if my profile is set up so that people don’t see what I’ve commented on and what shows up in my news feed. I’ve just started using facebook Help to go through and understand what people can and can’t see. There’s a lot of detail there. Should be done setting things up over the weekend. I can give you tips after that, if you want. My one remaining concern is that it seems like fb has made global security changes that make prior features obsolete.

Did I comment on your pics, SO? I liked 'em too.

Yay on being done with the project, FCM!

Sounds like you won’t be bored for quite some time, Shadow.

Sign of a good employer: they’re willing to fight insurance battles for you. It’s awfully stupid to handle coverage the way they do, but having them actually cough up $10K is great.

I’ve made a career of buying clothes that don’t require ironing. I have a few blouses that require ironing and they’re the ones I rarely wear. Knits are wonderful.

We have snow. Again. I had an inch on my steps and walk, but there was just a dusting on the sidewalk. :confused: Didn’t look like anyone had been through to blow snow (one neighbor sometimes does that), but maybe it had snowed just enough again to cover their tracks.

Tomorrow is one long social butterfly day: garden lecture, volunteer meeting, dinner at a friend’s. Yay!

I’m contemplating what to have for din din.

Back later.

GT

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If they’d quit cutting the wings off the damned things, it could fly out of trouble…

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Stuffded. We went to D.B. Mc Millan’s for dinner. We started with the calamari (Best I’ve had in ages) and I got the Castle Stew. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO yum.

I’m going to assume the knit position, then crash. So I think I’ll power down this machine for the night. Catch ya tomorrow!

MWAH!!!***

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I’m stuffed too. I just ate an entire dozen chocolate covered marshmallow eggs. I feel sick. They’re like crack for me–I really shouldn’t buy them at all…

I cannot wear jeans to work, period. Because librarians don’t spend their time crawling on the floor and climbing dusty shelves, nope. :rolleyes: Besides, I’ll take my nice, dark blue jeans over some of this “business attire” any day in terms of coverage and decorum etc.

I have to work tomorrow. Dammit to hell. 0530 here I come. In my next life, I plan on being independently wealthy. Someone make a note of that.
I am kicking around the idea of doing a massive FB purge like another Doper did (for the life of me I can’t remember his Doper name right now). Truly, I have no interest in keeping up with many of my “friends”. Who has time?

Shadow–I am having something of the same experience at my work. Just last week I discovered that the previous librarian had access to an online journal (I doubt she knew about it). I keep coming across things like this. It truly is like an iceberg–if I see X, what the hell am I NOT seeing? :eek:

It’s official: I am sick of the Olympics. Will not be watching tonight.

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Note: rigs will be independently wealthy in her next life.
(Well…you said!)

Watched Star Trek and organized a bunch of stuff that goies in the office.

Should get to bed, I suppose. Tomorrow’s a long day.

Hugs.

GT

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You know, I *thought *today was going to be a pretty decent day. But nooooo, TVCTPMO had other things in mind.

This afternoon, hubby called me on his way home from work and said he be at the house in a few minutes. I thought, great, I’ll wait for him to get home, have a cigarette with him in the garage, and head out to the grocery store.

So, time passes and I’m wondering why he wasn’t home yet. I was upstairs when I heard the garage door open, and then my son come into the house, with hubby trailing behind. I came downstairs and asked my son how his day went.

He looked and sounded and pissed and then he told me why. He put car key in his ignition and it broke. He hadn’t even turned it! He put the key in and it just freakin’ broke.

Hubby had gone to pick him up, unbeknownst to me. Anyway, my son called the school to make sure they weren’t going to lock the gate to the parking lot, and then he called a local locksmith.

Locksmith said he’d be there in about an hour and would call when he was on his way, because it might be sooner. About 30 minutes later, the locksmith called and said he was on his way. So, my son and I took off for his school. We’d been sitting in the parking lot about 10 minutes, when the locksmith called and said he was on his way for sure, but he was in Federal Way and it would take him about 45 minutes to get there. We were both doing this::dubious::mad::rolleyes:

He finally showed up about an hour and half later.

Total bill: Three hundred twenty dollars. Forty bucks just to show up. One hundred twenty five bucks for the key extraction and another one hundred and twenty five bucks to have a key made. A plain, simple key. No lock chip, nothing.

I was less than pleased and felt totally ripped off. I guess I should be grateful it took him all of two minutes to simply extract the key from the ignition and that he didn’t have to remove the ignition and take it apart. Bah!

Anyway, my son definitely didn’t have enough in his account to cover it, so I had to pay. Dammit! That was money I was definitely not planning on spending. I hadn’t budgeted for that at all.:smack:

It’s my turn to have something good happen; like win the lottery. Sheesh.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN It’s my Firday!!! YAY!!!

I hereby declare that TVCTPMO is off limits to Taters for at least the next month. Hear that TVCTPMO? :smiley:

Last night went well. Very good fish 'n chips if’n I do say so myself.

Ok, gotta purtify for work.

Happy Saturday Y’all!