Long Week

So it has been a very long week here. Mostly filled with triumphs of one sort or another, Lexi successfully turned 11 and I made it through that(yes, I do feel old now, must be something about the double digits that are the same thing as it didn't really hit me last year..huh...curious! ). We conquered the leak and sealed things off and now I get to redecorate the kitchen, although I was already headed that way, but something about the fact that half of our tile is peeled up is sort of pushing me to actually do it instead of talk about doing it, of course I do still have to go and decide on things, but hey, it's been a busy week here! I had a sick kiddo Monday then a Brownie meeting Tuesday and Wednesday was helping and Lexi's bday treats at school plus the 'tax dump'(which is how we affectionately refer to me returning calls left on the AARP machine about taxes) then a whirlwind Thursday which started with a meeting with a person who had been very hard to reach for weeks now regarding equal scheduling for our kids at a specific school and then the car dealership for them to fix something they were supposed to have done two months ago. And after that a half day of school so the kiddos were home early on Thursday and then they were off today so a full day of fun ...ok, mostly just shoe shopping which one might consider fun unless one was shopping for one's daughter who is now in a size 7 women's and for some bizarre reason the shoe people don't seem to want to make any dress shoes that don't have heels this year!!!!! Oh, and the fact that she seems to be sprinting across the finish line in a race to outgrow everything I buy for her before she really even wears it...sigh....


Needless to say it has been a lot. And then....today I got a ginormous bill for the brace I have been wearing on my foot to help with my torn ligament which has been cutting into parts and leaving permanent bruises even with all the extra padding I stuff in(which I am sure is not truly helping my foot to do that) and was told that interestingly enough the amount charged could not be changed because they had run it through insurance(who didn't cover it) even though it is listed for sale on their website for a whopping 1/3 the price!!!!! So basically they are trying to grift the insurance companies and then the customers if the companies won't pay?!?!? That just seems so very wrong on so many different levels that I am having a hard time wrapping my head around it! So now I have to deal with them next week and the fact that I am not going to pay more than what they are advertising it for online regardless of what they say because that is just outlandish especially in this economy and state of turmoil about healthcare....it's not hard to figure out why people are so upset when it seems as if the whole system is completely out of whack. Now, this doesn't mean I am against healthcare reform, I'm for it. But then again, I don't want to die. And it used to be, and still is for a while yet, the policies of the insurers out there that I can't be insured if our coverage was dropped because of my pre-existing condition. So basically they have decided that due to my genes I am not worthy, even though they can charge more to cover me....that almost sounds like a selected genocide especially when you quote this section of the UN definition of genocide, "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;"

So it seems that every time I win a "battle" a new front emerges so that I have to quickly regroup, gather my reinforcements and plunge again into another fight. Am I just a magnet for this??? Am I doing something wrong???? It doesn't feel like it because everything I have done is about correcting things that out of balance or unequal and generally not even for myself but I battle for others.....and this doesn't even include the list of battles that I have decided were not worth the fight and have removed myself from to let someone else take up the banner or occasionally to just give in because I don't have that much strength in me....

Anyway, I am getting tired....so tired.....

At least it was a beautiful week with temperatures well above normal and I was able to get outside and get lots 'o vitamin D:)

Hope your weeks have gone more smoothly than mine:)

Blog ya later-
K