fridayness

This is totally silly but today is the grand opening of the new super Walmart in my hometown, and I want to go. I have no idea why. I mean, Walmart isn't terribly exciting, and we have a super Walmart here and really, I liked the little one at home better anyway. I am just so homesick sometimes, mainly for getting to go do all the little things with my family that I don't get to do now. I am there once or twice a month (in town, that is, not at Walmart) but it's not the same as living there by any means. There are restaraunts in town that I have never eaten at now! That is just wrong. It's such a production when I want to go up, though. Planning in advance and travel times and all that. Bah.

M keeps making plans to work on the yard, but it is really impossible for him to do that during the week, as it is dark when he gets home. We had a storm a few weeks ago that caused a big branch to fall down on the back porch... and shatter the glass-topped table sitting out there. The table was no big loss.. it came with the house and was covered with rust, but there is now a pile of glass out there that hasn't been cleaned up, and also, giant tree limbs scattered about. It's kind of embarrassing. And dangerous. I can't believe I'm admitting that it hasn't been cleaned up yet. Anyway, we actually made special plans to be at home this weekend, and guess what? It's snowing. I have heard estimates of getting somewhere between three and ten inches tomorrow. (I haven't checked myself so who knows what we're actually supposed to get?) Poor guy. He's been talking about puttering in the yard for three or four weeks by now.

The internet is SO BORING on Fridays.

I was so tired yesterday, but for some reason, I was in the mood to clean. M took Evelyn to do the grocery shopping last night. He was gone for an hour, and instead of doing something fun, like I would normally do, I cleaned both bathrooms and the kitchen. I worked my tush off for the entire hour. It felt so good to be able to work without worrying about how much noise I was making or how long I had before I got interrupted. And today? I really feel pretty okay with sitting here without being bothered by the state of the kitchen as I usually am. The kitchen is always the weakest link in our house. I wish I could get better about keeping it clean. I can't even blame M, like I used to, because it's now my job to clean it up instead of M's. ;)

I did, however, spend half an hour on the phone after lunch, talking to the hospital. My baby is ten months old. They still haven't gotten tired of sending me bills for her birth. (Though I received my first bill from them the day after I got home from birthing her. They are QUICK.) I've dealt with them, another hospital for using their visiting doctor for her potential heart murmur at birth (her heart was fine) and the pediatrician's.. not to mention the insurance company (HUMANA. I AM LOOKING AT YOU.) who caused most of the trouble in the first place by terminating her policy* instead of adding her when I submitted the paperwork to begin with. I have always wondered.. how did they terminate her if she was not actually officially on the policy yet anyway? Anyway. Yesterday, I got a bill from a collection agency!! I am really responsible about things like paying bills so I was horrified that my name had been linked to a "delinquent account". ME? I had a note on my last bill that I had called them in November, they told me not to pay the bill because insurance was currently "being processed". Then they sent the bill to collections. Bitches. Has anyone EVER given birth and had the bills taken care of appropriately by insurance? I'm not sure I've ever heard of it happening anyway.

*This originally said just "terminating her" but M made me change it because it sounded like they came out and shot her or something, according to him. Clearly he is not up on the insurance lingo. Also, since I am editing this entry at M's request, I am also going to add that he just now told me that reebert is having her baby today/tomorrow. She is "possibly at the hospital right now". Let's see how his psychic baby vibes are going now...