a little less of this and a little more of that
Egads, i can't believe it but after starting to think I was feeling better, I am actually feeling worse. Mostly, it is just coming-down-from-cold crap, i.e., the sniffles, a headache and a weird shortness of breath. If I were the governor this would probably net me a nice two or three hour rest at my local hospital but I am not the governor and my healthcare coverage only gets me a bottle of Tylenol in situations like this.
I think I mentioned this before but I'm switching health care coverage in January. Not because I want to but because I can no longer afford the equivalant of my current coverage. The type of plan I have now will cost more than twice as much so I'm forced to go with a plan that's still more expensive than what I'm paying now and is also way less comprehensive. What I hate most about this is how they keep trying to sell us on what a great deal this is - how our new coverage is 'preventative-based' and will help us to stay healthy. Basically they're telling us to exercise and eat right (nothing wrong with that of course) so that we don't need to shell out the massive co-pays. Factor this in at a time when we're still getting used to paying a big mortgage, dealing with rising energy costs and thinking about a new life insurance policy and damn if I don't long to be seven years old again when my only concern was that the new house my parents just bought only meant (to me at least) the looming threat of fewer trips to the Dairy Queen.
Ah, money. It probably goes without saying that I wish I had more of it ...but I really can't complain too much. The fact of the matter is that it's 2005 and this year we were able to buy a house and we have a decent savings account and every now and then I get to buy some new shoes or some lovely Lush soap or other random things that prove that even if money can't buy happiness it can certainly buy the illusion of such.
Two weeks and one day until my next birthday ... and I'm hoping that 2006 and my next year on this earth are a little different. A little more focused, a little more realized, a little less full of regrets and a little more lived.
I think I mentioned this before but I'm switching health care coverage in January. Not because I want to but because I can no longer afford the equivalant of my current coverage. The type of plan I have now will cost more than twice as much so I'm forced to go with a plan that's still more expensive than what I'm paying now and is also way less comprehensive. What I hate most about this is how they keep trying to sell us on what a great deal this is - how our new coverage is 'preventative-based' and will help us to stay healthy. Basically they're telling us to exercise and eat right (nothing wrong with that of course) so that we don't need to shell out the massive co-pays. Factor this in at a time when we're still getting used to paying a big mortgage, dealing with rising energy costs and thinking about a new life insurance policy and damn if I don't long to be seven years old again when my only concern was that the new house my parents just bought only meant (to me at least) the looming threat of fewer trips to the Dairy Queen.
Ah, money. It probably goes without saying that I wish I had more of it ...but I really can't complain too much. The fact of the matter is that it's 2005 and this year we were able to buy a house and we have a decent savings account and every now and then I get to buy some new shoes or some lovely Lush soap or other random things that prove that even if money can't buy happiness it can certainly buy the illusion of such.
Two weeks and one day until my next birthday ... and I'm hoping that 2006 and my next year on this earth are a little different. A little more focused, a little more realized, a little less full of regrets and a little more lived.
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