Steph’s in-laws are here for the week to work on the cabinets and the plumbing in this 1940s-era fixer-upper. Steph and the Old Man have a really great coffee maker that’s shiny and kewl and makes the best coffee ever, but it had been taking progressively longer and longer for the coffee to brew. Steph’s […]
Final Cost: $836.75 On the one hand: it’s better than being dead. On the other hand: they spent 4 hours and charged me $836.75 to tell me that there was nothing wrong with me. And people wonder why poor people never go to the doctor until they’re literally bleeding and falling over on the floor?
The "I’m Fine!" Emergency Visit Read More »
That you’re just way too sensitive about certain personal push-button topics? I suppose that’s to be expected, but I’d love to be stone cold enough for stupid stuff not to bother me so I could speak about it rationally. Or even, at this point, make fun of it. Because really, at this point, it’s just
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One of the toughest things to deal with, having a chronic illness, is how many other things that that one illness affects. I went a really long time before getting diagnosed doing a lot of harm to myself. I was, effectively, dying, but it was taking me an incredibly long time to do it. I
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Oh, the joys of home ownership…. Yesterday, one of the big tree branches out front came down, so Steph and the Old Man bought a chain-saw-on a stick and Steph’s brother Josh came down for the day and made an afternoon of it. Josh is real excited by this manly stuff… But that chainsaw-on-a-stick is
I’ve been trying out the demo CD for the Rosetta Stone language software; the demo comes with sampel exercises for all 30 languages that Rosetta Stone covers. I’m most interested in the French and Arabic, so I’ve been spending some time last night and this morning running through those. For the beaucoup bucks that they
When I was in the fourth grade, I had a terrible crush on a guy named Aaron. Aaron was the realization of all of my preconceptions about what a good boy should be. He was tall and blond and blue eyed and played basketball and read Stephen King novels. My stomach twisted and my heart
This is another TMI IUD post. I write about my experiences with the IUD here because it’s been really difficult for me to find fuck-all first-hand information about it, and I figure I’m doing a public service to other women interested in the option, though my results may no longer be typical since the whole
God DAMN I Love it When My Healthcare Provider Doesn’t Suck! Read More »