Weekend Update

Okay, the trip to NC was good and I’m glad I went, but we didn’t get to do anything fun unfortunately. It was still a good trip though.

Friday we cleaned like mad!! As you may or may not know, Sara is the messiest person on God’s green earth. We spent all Friday night cleaning the living room, but it was well worth it.

Saturday morning we finished cleaning the living room and vacuumed and swept. Seriously, what a difference the cleaning made. I wish we would have more time to clean. Then after that we went to the craft store to look at some wedding stuff and to Target to add some stuff on to our registry. We ate at Ruby Tuesdays because we had a coupon (this was the only “fun” thing we really did…I know, lame). Then we went home and worked on wedding invitations. It took us the entire rest of the night to figure out how to print on the envelopes and then print the outer and inner envelopes. We also downloaded and installed the drivers for her scanner and got that working.

Sunday morning we got up and created, printed, cut and folded our insert. That took about 3 hours. Sara still has a lot of work ahead of her assembling them all, but we didn’t have the stamps, so there wasn’t much else we could do at that time. I had to go anyway because it was already kind of later than I wanted to stay, what with the whole 8 hour drive (for the record, it took 9 1/2 this time because of bad traffic).

Nothing too exciting for Easter…we had sloppy joe’s for lunch and I had KFC on the way home for dinner. I brought down an Easter basket for the two of us, but I think we kind of got candied out.

Okay, I wanted to go to bed early tonight…why doesn’t that ever happen?

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I’m leaving tomorrow as early as possible to go see Sara in NC, so no updates over the weekend.

It’s been like 5 or 6 weeks since I’ve seen her, so I’m pretty excited!

To hell with HMOs

‘Discontent’ was the closest mood to ‘Disgruntled’

An update on the allergy medicine saga…

I called my doc today for the pre-approval of my allergy medicine and he said no problem. I get a call back about an hour later from the nurse and she explains the situation in her best “wait until you get a load of this” voice. Aparently, the HMO rejected my request for preapproval because, despite the fact that I’ve been taking the same allergy medicine for 5 years or so, I have not sufficiently proven that I must have Zyrtec. As far as they’re concerned, I should be able to get along just fine with the over the counter Claritin (which of course I just have to pay out of pocket, with no reimbursement from them). Damn Claritin for going over the counter. So listen to this, this is what I have to do according to the doctor. I have to go buy Claritin, save the receipt and take it for 2 weeks. At the end of that 2 weeks I have to fax the doctor a copy of the reciept and tell him that the Claritin doesn’t work. After that they can forward the reciept on to the insurance company and say, “See! He needs Zyrtec!” What a rediculous waste of my time.

And for the record, my allergy medicine is the ONLY benifit I get from the money I pay every week for health insurance.

Bastards.

uuuuuungh

Lots to update about over the weekend, but I’m sicker than shit and I have an awful AWFUL sinus headache, so I’m going to go lay in the dark now and close my eyes.

This is as miserable as I’ve felt, possibly ever.