You’re gonna what?!
Category: Daily Life
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
Healthy by ignorance
For 14 years, I lived a healthy life. I was healthy because I did not know any better. For those 14 years, I was uninsured and avoided the doctor. Since I avoided the doctor, I had no reason to believe I was anything but healthy.
Today I go to the doctor as an insured person to receive a physical complete with EKG. I suspect that I will have very good results with the exception of high blood pressure; none the less, I sit in the waiting room with butterflies in my stomach. See, nothing makes an uninsured person more ill than visiting the doctor and after nearly a decade and a half, more than a third of my life, without insurance, my mind cannot help but think of worse case scenarios and how they, no matter how minor, could devastate my life and finances.
I have good insurance now. However, I have walked the walk and am acutely aware of how desperately this country, the United States of America, needs healthcare reform. The Obama administration made a start but gave in to too many concessions. Were I still uninsured, the healthcare “reform” would be doing nothing for me.
From the mouths of babes
Me: "It’s time to wake up."
Evan, 6 years old, stumbles from bed, stomps down the hall: "Argh. Why does this happen every night‽"
Memory flush
It’s never a good time to suddenly remember that you need to buy a new plunger.
Mental Me
The stress is far too great today.
Something has changed
Why yes! There’s some before and after and more before and after.
How tired?
So tire, I cannot even type a post…
To Live, To Love, To Learn, To Leave a Legacy
I slowly explained, with long sentences and great clarity, "To Live, To Love, To Learn, To Leave a Legacy
3PO! 3PO! Shut down the…
You know the garbage compactor scene in Star Wars? Yeah, today is like that.
What is stress?
I’m so stressed I cannot even complete this thought.
Beautiful Sunday Morning
The weather is great. I so wish I could be working on the playhouse, the real house, and the yard but instead I’m at Firestone getting new tires on the van and programming on a client’s website.
Look Out Astroglide!
So Astroglide, when are you going to start shipping in more reasonable sized containers?
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On this eleventh day
Of this eleventh month
In this eleventh year
Of the second Mi11ennium
During the eleventh hour
On the eleventh minute
At the eleventh second
And the hundred and eleventh millisecond
We shall
Turn it up to eleven!
While Cathy was away, the boys played!
Cathy went to visit Sarah in New York City. The grandparents basically had Amy and Evan for the entire trip and Noah for much of the trip. That left Tommy and me at the house alone. Tommy, like Freakzoid, gets sucked into the Internet so I basically had the house to myself for duration of her trip minus the time I spent for clients and the time I spent juggling at Boo at the Zoo. So what happened in that time? The yard had a major cleaning of the junk which had been accumulating for a decade. The house received a sweeping and mopping. Then there was this surprise for Cathy:
