*giggle*

I got the following email from my ever-so-kind totte. I reminded him that he was supposed to convince me that I was doing the right thing by staying home (yep, sick.) Here's what he said:

Of course you shouldn’t stay home, you dork. I’m sure your parents will agree that hard, physical work in an uncomfortable and overly warm setting is just what you need to get well. I’m also sure that it’s a great way to get customers to want to come back, to have an obviously sick person behind the counter, touching their food and handling money and things. And you feeling miserable has no bearing on anything. You should just go down there and suffer, cause life is hard, and you should never ever take any steps to make it sensible and bearable.

Hop, bitch!

Me

One of my favorite things about M is his ability to turn my silly worrying around until it sounds completely ridiculous. Well. It's usually one of my favorite things, anyway. It can be extremely annoying at times, I must say. :)

Moron Insurance.

I ventured out to town a couple of hours ago with a couple of errands I wanted to get over with in case I start feeling worse. I had to buy the new LoTR movie for my excitable husband (yes, and myself) at WalMart and I needed to stop at the pharmacy.

Every month, one of us stops in to pick up my pills. (Indeed, pills of the contraceptive sort.) They've been $28 all along, until last year when they started raising the price. When I last took in my prescription after about four or five months of not going in (trial packs) I had a new insurance company, so I gave them the card and "only" had to pay $30 of the actual cost -- $33.50. Sucks, but what can you do? I had always thought that insurance companies paid the bulk of the price and the customer just paid a nominal copay, but apparently that's not the way it works in the real world. I got a good introduction to how the System actually operates today. I swear I'm not making any of this up.

I went in and waited while they "filled my order". (Okay, I know jack about pharmacists, but these are prepackaged pills. Just go get the damned things and I'll be on my way.) When it was done, I went to the counter, he put the pills down and said, "That'll be $40." I must have looked a little shocked, because he asked if the price had gone up. I gave him the money, not in the mood to debate the matter, and he hesitated, looked down and said, "that doesn't even sound right." So he went back and started fiddling with the computer. He comes back and lets me know that indeed, the price of the pills without my insurance is $33.50. However, since I'm a responsible citizen of childbearing years, I'm paying out the ass every month for my quality insurance*, so the price for my birth control pills? $40. I'm actually supposed to give them $6.50 to not have children instead of just saving them from paying the expenses of pregnancy and childbirth. It's an incredible world we live in.

For those of you who need conclusions.. I ended up paying $12. He gave me a generic version, the existence of which has never once been mentioned to me before.. though to be fair, I didn't ask, either.

*Don't even get me started on the insurance industry, which doesn't pay for birth control pills but does pay for Viagra. Sure. Equality has been achieved, let's all just sit back and be happy and content. And when the male version of the bcp comes along (which is a generally horrible idea except in theory--the accountability just isn't there, and besides, men can barely remember to put the toilet seat down, much less take a pill every day, but this is a completely different subject), you can bet your ass it'll be covered by insurance. I guess this is a completely different rant, as well.

Battle cry..

Rofl! You know I don't post quizzes often, but I have to say that my battle cry is funnier than anyone else's:

Sprinting over the terrain, brandishing a burning branch, cometh Same_sky! And she gives a cruel howl:
"I'm going to brutalize you until you purr like a bitch-kitten!"

(But haven't I actually heard blookum say that before?!)