Friday, January 31, 2014

Happy New Year!


That is Chinese New Year of the Horse!


The above banquet/Smorgasbord/yànxí is in celebration!  

Again we received THREE,as you can see,3, fortune cookies:

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."  Words to live by.  

"Just because you put tap shoes on an elephant does not mean it can dance."Oh so true.  

"Knowledge and not doing are equal to not knowing at all." My personal favorite.

Hubby is an OX on their Chinese calendar.
I am a tiger as so many of my school chums are. Below is the chart for you to see who you are just for fun!



"The Chinese New Year Calendar - With Its Associated 12 Animals

The lunar Chinese New Year (CNY) calendar below shows which of 12 animals you are!  Naturally the animal depends on the year in which you were born.  Note: if you were born in January or February you need to check if your birthday was before or after the date of that Chinese New Year. (If it was before this day your animal is the one shown for the previous year)."


Rat
1924
1936
1948
1960
1972
1984
1996
Ox
1925
1937
1949
1961
1973
1985
1997
Tiger
1926
1938
1950
1962
1974
1986
1998
Rabbit
1927
1939
1951
1963
1975
1987
1999
Dragon
1928
1940
1952
1964
1976
1988
2000
Snake
1929
1941
1953
1965
1977
1989
2001
Horse
1930
1942
1954
1966
1978
1990
2002
Sheep
1931
1943
1955
1967
1979
1991
2003
Monkey
1932
1944
1956
1968
1980
1992
2004
2016
Rooster
1933
1945
1957
1969
1981
1993
2005
2017
Dog
1934
1946
1958
1970
1982
1994
2006
2018
Pig
1935
1947
1959
1971
1983
1995
2019

Thanks to the below site for the above info too.More information is at this site and to see what your animal represents:

http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/christmas/chinese_new_year2014.htm

On that note of much fun I hope allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS: I am not Chinese, but as I understand my Jewish heritage has made me a big lover of anything in the respect of enjoying that cuisine on all special occasions real and made up. And I follow that dietary law as strictly as possible. BIG SMILE HERE!

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Skeptical

Is being cautious, and some might even say not trusting, yes a given.

When we are young our brains are like sponges and we suck up any and all of our environment and maintain that information in individual vaults in our brains. And at those young ages most that we see and hear we believe for no other reason than to not have any reason or history of disbelief in those vaults as of yet.

We were, well I really don't know how to say this other than we have two sons that for one reason or another had their I.Q's tested while in first grade and number one's came back as a 145 plus and then little brother's came back as 155 plus! Since I was never into any of that except having a first cousin who had gotten a perfect score on her SAT's and a best friend in college who was member of MENSA and part of a Think Tank and graduated high school at sixteen, oh and my Mom's best friend's son read the newspaper at three and did graduate high school at fourteen and college at eighteen. This was all new territory for me and Hubby, and we were of a bit above average I.Q's, mine as an adult I took a test and it was only a non-bragging 120, but not geniuses by any means, 130 starts that, I think. People would be kind or funny and would say they must take after you and I would come back with a no, and say no it's a weird fluke, I believe it skips a generation! And smile. I always knew this was not going to be easy. So I would always gush about our sons successes to them, since holding back was difficult. Number one son who never seemed confident enough in spite of what we all knew and would say, but our younger son who also excelled and he reacted much differently, by going over the top with confidence to the point I found myself reeling him back in with warning him that there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance, ya know?
 Again with a smile...

They had musical instruments, piano, keyboard, guitars, and drums from toddlers  at home libraries as story time at home and at school and team and individual sports as well as excellent schools, consequently they were well rounded. They both attended pre-school, with number one being able to attend Montessori pre-school then regular nursery and in a neighbor's home since she had recently become a Mom too and was a retired Montessori teacher. We had moved when our younger son was just two and half and he also went for two years to pre-school.

And as parents we trusted them to make good decisions and they always did, especially as teens, when most had to be watched more closely, we felt that ours were capable to make good choices and trustworthy.
We met all their friends and they would stay over and we would take them to movies and dinners. And if there was something askew we knew it could always be discussed and it was.

Today they are independent successful adults with women in their lives that they treat with love an respect, the younger one is married to an attorney, but number one is in a long term relationship with a psychologist with two masters in her field, both their equals.

To me that is my bragging rights.
Although, not all is as it seems, nothing is perfect in life.

And so some things about our sons are personal as many may have noticed they prefer their anonymity, so vagueness is what I try to do for their privacy.

Hypocritical, neither are on social media and feel negatively about it.

So perhaps being a skeptic is inborn?
Who knows but the discussion on nature and nurture will go on long after I am gone...

Love and the need for contact with those whom you love will never change and missing them oh so much will continue to cause a yearning in all parents hearts when children are far away.  

Thank goodness for Hubby and him being tried and true, and on that sweet note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear! 

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

SHOCKING!

  

Did you hear the one about the congressman and the reporter? Well, the way we saw it was this young fellow, Scotto, the reporter, was interviewing a state representative from New York, by the more than appropriate name of Grimm.
Catching him as he was leaving the president's state of the union address last night, and questions are asked rapidly about after the address and he tossed in an additional one about a controversy that the congressman has been involved in; in effect trying a hard hitting device with a bit of smoke and mirrors, before the congressman would know what was hitting/happening to him, or so he hoped... Shockingly for all of us to hear on mike, he, the elder of the two, the representative, threatens the young media man; who was just trying to do his job, with saying to the man/boy: I will break you in half like a boy, you are not a man and throw you over this balcony; paraphrased by me, with my memory this is not the exact wording but the gist of it...  
All who heard this and it was quite clear
to most all with a TV as well as me at the time and all the repeat news casts of the incident. To be fair, the congressman apologized after to the greener than he or any of us would have thought being chosen for those front-lines, at the White House, none-the-less, having that primo assignment. I'm not saying he did anything wrong, who am I to say anything of that nature? Only thing is he didn't get the answer, but the congressman who insisted he didn't have enough time to go off topic, meaning the state of the union address... oddly enough had the time to threaten the lad, curiouser? Just a whole BIG misunderstanding, hmm? I've been there and done that, nearly daily! And I'm probably thrice that reporter's age. 

Moving on...
Any-who, today was a ridiculously unsafe day to be out and about from our state panhandle to the entire northeastern portion of these united states, the freeze was on!
The most horrendous and beyond belief Atlanta Georgia had snow and freeze on their roadways, which caused a seven hundred car pileup on I75, five died there but more nationally have been killed and so many more hospitalized.
Children in and around that city were safely redeposited back into their schools for a sleep over; due to it being safer for that than trying to transport them by bus to their homes.

On my own home front in southwest Florida, our temps did not make it into the seventies, only topping out at sixty-four degrees Fahrenheit!
But without trying to brag too much, by this weekend we have once again been promised the low eighties!

For me personally, I seem to have begun, this week, in a weird new sleep pattern, waking up around one-thirty A.M., like last night or two-thirty A.M. like two nights ago and staying up, due to my Cervicogenic headache and eye pain added into the mix! But what is truly odd, it is an every other night event, and so tonight I will more than likely be able to sleep till five-ish or six-ish in the A.M. Sure I will. Very tired now and no nap this time, it should work if I can just make it to ten or eleven...

On that note of my version of ODD NEWS!
Allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear! 

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Two things that I don't listen to people tell me anymore

Nah, there are probably a whole bunch more , but tonight I thought I would just talk about the two, okay?

I can't hear you!
But that's all right, I'll take again your silence as a yes.

Hilary Clinton, former first lady, former secretary of state, possible presidential candidate; I think most know who that is, ha, hasn't driven a car since 1996. She said that the secret service could tell us why, huh?
I suppose she was not a very good driver maybe?
Then by all means she did the right thing.
Now I heard the news anchor 'assume' that she has a driver, could be.
But if not most of the places she has lived are cities with great public transportation, true?

I personally too have stopped driving after over forty years, with only one ticket, two weeks after I got my license, talking to friend with loud music on in the car and going through a red light, angled badly. And foolishly having an accident while on my cell phone way back in 1994 on an access road to the highway I4.
I was a district manager at the time on my way to one of my five stores, this one was in Orlando, FL.

Any-who, I decided to quit only a few years ago, due to the weakness in my legs, and when I lost the sight in my right eye, July 2. 2010, a day after my sixtieth birthday. The combo of the two made me say yes, it's a good idea.
Now according to my eye doctor even with only one working eye it's fine to drive.( Many have seen my picture from June of that year, 2010, when I had been already on IV steroids for the MS, but about two weeks before I lost my sight in that right eye!)

Now, ordinarily I would have fought for my right to continue that independence and with my ophthalmologist saying I was still good to go, why not...? Oh and this guy had no idea about my inability to turn my head too far due to the cervical stenosis, too many blind spots in our car... on so many levels his judgment call was way off!

Well, I'll tell you why I made a better decision; Hubby is retired and a much better driver than me, so availability at his finest.
And hauntingly I recall all those stories he had told me while he had his over a decade tenure as a deputy about those accidents that were mostly caused by snowbirds or elderly and too many of them were fatal. The worst, was the one I witnessed that I recall was the woman getting into her car after PT for her right sided stroke that she had to drag her leg back in her vehicle and then she drove erratically away, scary! I wanted to yell stop, she had no one with her!

When a few who had canes or walkers upon exiting their vehicles at the accident location were asked why they were still driving, many answered no choice, widow or widowers with no public transportation!

But we do have taxicabs and Dial-A-Ride, a short bus and reasonably price, only a dollar or two depending on where you have to go...and less for the disabled and they are disabled accessible with one of those elevator contraptions for wheelchairs. So if Hubby cannot drive some day we have choices and that's not putting others lives in jeopardy!

Moving on...
The other thing is a flu shot, Hubby and I chose to get them yearly, not all do, but so far no adverse effects from the shots or any flu either. This year in our state a couple of young women have died in their twenties and thirties from the flu, opting for not having the shot! So sad, and so unnecessary.
The ICU has seen too many this year alone and so very preventable get your shot folks!
 This just in: dozens have died in our state alone from the flu! From a young child to someone in their fifties!

I was told with Multiple Sclerosis it could be not recommended to take the shot but the caveat here is if you are exacerbating the disease process then it is not advisable and every year when I get it I seem to be okay as far as that goes in either September or October. This year I had it early on September 4th at the doctor's office. Good thing because the end of October I was not that great...with the beginnings of the triple respiratory infection trifecta!(Note: not a flu related ill at all)

Well, I suppose now you get where I stand on those two more controversial issues, mild compared to most, hmm?      

On that note of some not too newsworthy, but a teensy bit interesting, maybe? Anyway, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Monday, January 27, 2014

Ask a question and...



...one would expect an answer.
But not always.
We, in southwest Florida had wanted to know why a congressman, Tres Radel, who was caught red handed with cocaine while "working" in Washington, D.C. and was arrested and was court ordered to go into rehab; we all wondered why he thought he would still be the right one to represent his district down  here? Most residents aren't coke heads; that means not much in common with him, ya know? Everyone here felt he should reconsider his consistent reasoning to stay and until today he was staid, but yep, he finally quit.

Rumor has it that he was going to go under deep investigative scrutiny, and by stepping down today, surprise, the investigation stops for some reason, hmm?

Well, most of our questions have been answered here for that one, and now the district, just south of here will be running another election; five people are already chomping at the bit,to run, to replace him!

Good luck folks; a replacement election will be costing you, so I was told, around a million bucks! Not my problem though, whew happy about that!

With a smidge of concern of sounding a bit like a hypocrite, our Supreme Court in Tallahassee, our state capital in Florida, approved to allow medical marijuana to go on the November ballot and I said YAY and here I am saying Hooray; it passed all the hurdles of how the bill was worded, as one of many!

If any of you are not keeping up with this national issue I am one of the many who with my Multiple Sclerosis will benefit from the ability to access medicinal quality pot, to either ingest or inhale to aid in pain control. Chemo patients will also have an easier time in managing their nausea, glaucoma sufferers too will be helped with the severe pain that comes along with eye pressure and so many other ailing people who before were only offered heavy narcotics, medicinal implants or costly surgeries.

An odd thought came to me in all the excitement of the joy of the possibilities, which was all the awkward questions, when thousands of us needing to have prescriptions from our physicians for this Mary Jane, how many will be onboard? I wonder how that will go, really?
Now my new neuro is older than me and so it could go either way...And an India Indian.
Probably more with it, since many trained in India have open minds with innovations in medicine old and new methods.

With that hope for more answers to my daily new questions, in fact still waiting on why a nineteen year old boy accused of murdering his grandfather whenever the news clip comes on they show him unclothed with a blanket over him in shackles? It just seemed odd, especially with another story after it about adults raping a four year old and filming it on their phone and thankfully getting caught due to leaving their phone some place!

To be fair the teen murderer has been found guilty and sentenced to twenty years, and the news station now show his healthy grandpa's picture with just a head shot of grandson, the killer. I suppose sometimes no answers are needed, just action taken, hmm?

On that note of craziness here in the south east coast of our version of lala land... As my wonderful terrific Dad used to call Hollywood CA. when I was a mere child... I suppose that's what many nicknamed it, but as a child I thought it was fun and his idea, and he always was a happy decent being... Dad would have been one hundred and seven today, but passed away too young in 1986 on May 11th, Mother's Day that year, now from this side of a view, at this angle/ vantage point of age, way too young... funny how that works, hmm?

On that note of things could be worse, and they go there sometimes, allow me to be the the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Sunday, January 26, 2014

When you least expect it something happens that...

Makes your assumptions, yeah, I know that I am the one who preaches, not to assume anything, because it makes, "an ass of you and me!" Throws those damn assumptions out the window!

I again got involved with an online FB conversation that I came into late and as usual the training of the comments made me misunderstand, or perhaps my brain did that to/for me? Any-who, I interjected what I thought could be helpful, but once again it was misconstrued, foot and mouth disease is my sideline! And any of you long time regulars of reading my nightly drivel here knows this to be so very true!

Things were said and I jumped the gun and thought I was being accused of my suggestion being 'MEAN', who moi? Well, what had been said that the person needing help would never do what I suggested because they didn't have a 'MEAN' bone in their body! Oops yep it still sounds that way to me, but I am disabled, cognitive stuff and all and I will use that excuse, since I know I can!

Yes, of course 'moi' being MEAN is not that farfetched; logically, I mean being mean, sure, I suppose some might think I have been that way with my lack of patience with  incompetence! Anger is a notorious side affect of my MS! So my disabled card is in play, na, na, na! Kidding, it's NO excuse for bad behavior and for that I am truly sorry, nearly daily! To everyone in my past and my future too, while I am at it, okay?

Although, again I am beating that metaphoric dead horse, since the person who said the above to me apologized and I did too to them, since I told them what I thought of them saying that to me in public!
After I wrote my ridiculous counter insulting hurt message, telling of how I felt, I then realized that I blew the whole thing out of proportion, and I am happy to say that we are once again, BFF, Best Friends Forever, yep, they said that to me, me and my ole school chum after all was said and done .  They are way better than I, I guess old friends can be the best friends...?
And for lack of a better analogy here comes a horse one again "looking a gift horse in the mouth", I should take it for what it is a hand reaching out and being tolerant of my weirdness or in spite of me...Thanks friend!

On that note of me knowing I need to find an off button somewhere and just 'like' what people post, nothing more or less...NAH, we all know that won't last very long, allow me anyway to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS Seriously, thanks Pal and you know who you are!
 

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Making your own excitement happen!




Would you believe that since October 23rd. 2013, I have left my sanctuary less than a half dozen times and those times were to the doctor, for a MRI and sure, also for a haircut?

Unbelievable, you say, that is some of you and others are wondering why and others are not interested either way, hmm?

Well, the reasoning is simple, when you cannot maintain an upright position you cannot utilized vehicles seats, wheelchair seats, or anything that expects you to remember how to sit up straight, but a flight attendant may have lamented on your last get-away! "Keep your seat in an upright position", sure cars allow for adjustments but even with a pillow and heat pads it is not that comfortable. I am practicing though to sit at the dinette table. You see, Hubby has been bringing my meals to me in the recliner with a tray! Yep, many would love the indulgence of being waited on, but it gets old fast!
And in my case about two months ago, really!

Sure I love Hubby bringing me things including all the medication that I am on...YUCK!
Damn this herniated disc and Multiple Sclerosis, and all my other maladies too!

But sure I am 'grateful' for, him, and our good to us number one son who keeps us on his radar in spite of living so far away and working full-time, having a great girlfriend and going back to college; and of course my laptop on my reclining tummy chubby bump making communication easier with all of you and of course the affection from our darling canine, Skipper, and the fact that we own a lovely cheerful tiny waterfront home with beautiful window views!

The title refers to the fact that previously we made sure we would go to anything going on locally, from crafts and arts, car and boat shows to home and garden to flea markets etc... But with me out of commission, and missing my three days a week with independent exercise and finding new restaurants to test or going back to our favs... Hubby over these months has brought home take out, from Chinese to pizza to comfort, but not that often... I missed one that we have not taken out from before but both have enjoyed. Oddly enough an old school chum from NJ made me remember how much I missed this cuisine, he lives and works now in Thailand and for some reason we spoke on FB more today than we have ever, I think...this is actually really silly, but for some reason, maybe I felt that this evening it would be nice to have Thai food, and the Thai Café is less than a mile from here so we called in out two duck orders, Hubby's crispy and mine curry, and a side of crab soup and here I sit happily refreshed with another real world contact!

Unfortunately, I have been getting depressed with the delay of my physical therapy until after February 1st, I know it's only now a week away and seriously HOORAY!
Future bodily torture never sounded sooooooooooooo appealing!

The only good part aside from what I mentioned above is that all of you are here and again if I haven't thanked you enough, please be assured that you are THANKED!

On that note of not too bad a note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!    

Friday, January 24, 2014

Mary Jane, pot, canabis, marijuana?

Those are just a few of the names of a wave of new understanding of a commodity being legalized throughout our nation for medical reasoning's as well as just for the fun of it, in lesser amounts of states! 

Timing is everything, and I do imagine that this is marijuana's righteous days of more logical reasoning!

The information is out there; that is the benefits of ingestion or inhaling this always more than available crop.

Establishing it as a legal product for the masses will remove the illegal reasoning for prosecution of the many, and let's
not forget the criminal element that has been profiting from their untaxed sales for generations!

Another notable positive for the maligned previously weed of much outwardly desired these days, and oddly with me on that list, a past naysayer of the so-called who knew what hippie happiness laziness too relaxing item of much confusion and disdain of my best teen years, the nineteen sixties!I even went so far as to say that, back then, when offered the underground product on a vacation in the Catskills, in the mid-1960's, or while in attending college in NYC by a classmate in the later sixties that I said that I smoked cigarettes and that was bad enough and so no I don't want any... but I was most likely wrong in my choices then, thankfully I did quit since, cigarettes that is, but, POT would have been the lesser harmful decision, but who knew? We were still not listening to the surgeon general about the harmful affects of cigarettes...who would know that Maryjane would help people going through chemo be able to NOT throw up and eat and get nourishment to help with their recovery, or glaucoma with very painful eye pressure,etc., or in addition for people like me with all over pain, mine again is from Multiple Sclerosis, if you have NOT heard that one enough from yours truly, hmm? ( PS we taught our sons to just say NO too! And they did!At 37 and 41 they never did drugs or smoked cigarettes either,we made them see how disgusting they were.)

So, this is weird at my age, of sixty three considering to be okay, well more than okay if the law is passed... We signed the petition Hubby and I to help to get it on our November ballot, so all that we need is the 82% that felt it was a really good idea in a state poll that had been taken on the topic, to vote for it this fall and we are in, and many of us will be feeling so much better! Keep your fingers crossed. 
My understanding that five more states are seriously considering to allow it too, adding to the already twenty that have committed and that means made it legal in one capacity or another, much broader one... Hip, hip, hooray!

On that note of hope for any of us in this country who need to know that other than hard narcotics offered to you as a patient when doctor's can think of no other way to help you... this is something very important in the pain wars... a little bit of something... and even if it is on the ballot and wins approval it could be a while, a long while... until it all actually comes to be... and I truly hope we all can last.

Now allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and so will we too! 

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Taking time to breathe...

A large portion of these United States is dealing with the 'polar vortex':
http://climatechange.cornell.edu/what-is-a-polar-vortex/
More than half of our US has been in a frozen state again.
Snow has fallen by the footage, not inches, in the northeastern part of this fair land...
But no snow here in paradise, although not from the lack of trying.
Frost and frozen standing water has occurred as a real below freezing situation has befallen in the northern and inland areas of his state of Florida, which is not that usual in this very warm state...

Why even here, where we live on a saltwater canal in the southwestern part of the state, five minutes from Charlotte Harbor via boat, it had registered thirty-seven degrees Fahrenheit this morning on our thermometer but warmed to a tolerable seventy degrees for our high this afternoon!

More unnatural chilling temps will be happening tonight. Not good for those crops or livestock... people are warned to cover with cloth, (plastic can harm vegetation) their gardens with tropical flora or home veggie gardens for protection.

Hubby, fortunately, has not begun any veggies for this season.

My title suggests to my snowed in pals to stay indoors, don't try to drive; since the news has been broadcasting horrible pileups for those who don't heed the warnings. Most schools have closed where the snow or ungodly temperatures have befallen my countrymen and women and children! Businesses too have had to close for the time being; not very many customers if they were to open anyway,I am sure.
Of course necessary medical, police, and firefighters are all on the ready and never ever close, but food and gas businesses probably are available in many areas too but just smattering's.
STAY HOME THOUGH, IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE! It is safer! A good time to take that breather from all that stuff and enjoy your partners and children or what you wish!  

And know that we send our hopes for any early spring for our northern realm friends, and they will find that out on February 2nd, on Groundhog's Day! Far as our warmer temps go... it is usually every few days, with some back lashings to a chill, but we are more than likely not as severe as them...

On that note for all to be warmer and safer, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Got my health insurance bill yesterday and it said...

...that I had a -$505.45 balance, a credit.
So I called Florida Blue, since I also noticed that the check I had stopped payment on and my credit card payment were both on the top of the bill saying payments of $505.45+ $505.45= $1010.90- $505.45 = -$505.45 balance
What?
So I called, since the large amount concerned me, with that first check, cut on 12-18-13 and that it was told to me that it had not arrived there and so it was stopped, thus the phone call credit card payment to get it in under the thought to be deadline.
My bank account was credited with the amount of the stopped check, it had been removed on the eighteenth, but by January 2,2014 it was replaced, and even my bank sent me a message notifying me of their doing what was suggested at that point. I even documented what was happening here.

Now I was concerned that even though I personally notified them, FL Blue, that the check they had claimed even up until I notified them that they never received  it and made the notation in their computer of the stop payment with the credit card one making it in the nick of time!

And now after I spoke to my insurance agent, just yesterday, who assured me that even though the new coverage with the FL Blue Options would take effect February 1.2014, I would still be covered by the FL Blue Select till then. Now this strange confusion. I asked the billing department woman, Shanelle, and she said that I still did have coverage from the Select until the Options took effect and that my monies due for the new policy would only be $56.06 on February 1.2014, the difference?

I tried to explain that means I have the Select one for free this month, but it wasn't of any use anyway, hmm? 
Maybe they do have a heart.
But my math and theirs doesn't jive...After blowing my stack this morning, although, while writing this I finally got what they did!
I did check my bank account to make sure that they didn't just try to cash that stopped check and they didn't... so they are being nice to me and so after all this baloney I've been through...they gave me a safety net until the right one kicks in, since the old Select one did give me access to hospitals therefore ER's and such, which I worried my health insurance agent with when we spoke just yesterday, concerned if something happened while waiting at the time for ten more days for coverage.

Yep, my worrying finally was alleviated and I didn't get it!

Thanks Florida Blue!

I wanted to take care of my new bill but they said to wait till I received it...just nine more days...I sure hope this nightmare is really finally over!

On that note of an interesting turn of events, allow me to be the very first
to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Same story, slightly different tune...

Some people breeze through life unscathed by any humps or bumps that might get them along the highway called life ...

And I have been told, that there is a rare group of people, a small clutch, more like it that have never experienced any issues of things not going their way, and they go through their lives never realizing that some of the rest of us don't have it so easy and so therefore compassion is not in their repertoire of character builders...

We also know that's what makes the majority of us become distinctively our quirky selves; or perhaps just me?

Being ornery or stubborn is inborn in some and in others, like myself, I have found can be illness related. Here I go blaming Multiple Sclerosis again, and as usual it is legit. I have more documentation!

 http://www.elements4health.com/anger-in-multiple-sclerosis-patients-linked-to-nervous-system-damage.html

Thanks to the above link my theory has been proven! My patience over the years has dwindled and although I must admit I was never ever willing to wait for anything unnecessarily in my mind, wanting things done or getting things now or dare I say even yesterday, but we all must admit that people not doing what they say they will do these days makes me uncomfortable, and I bet you too!And people who get paid for doing what I end up having to do for myself causes me extreme discomfort, and anger!

That said, over the last several days I have determined through intense waiting on phone lines to speak to all who hold my health cards in their hands, figuratively, no literally! Have once again misdirected what I was initially told about my new and improved policy, which now will not go into effect until February 1st of this year, thankfully!
This new plan is more money-wise and I am only waiting for my bill to pay it, since I set aside the entire amount, in the beginning of this month for the other plan to pay for February, but all I did was add the additional $56.06, since my new monthly premium is now $561.51 and it was $505.45 and folks that is after the subsidy, a bargain, I think not!And this last plan was good for nothing and never able to be used, a month lost.

One dear, young woman, Dawn, in North Carolina was with me for two days in the phone journey to determine where my policy was and when it would arrive for my viewing and using pleasure, not really any pleasure, but absolute necessity!  While unbeknownst to me her computers were down I went on to pursue the answers that I needed getting my insurance agent involved but I had really had all my current info before he called back from my yesterday calling of him..

So as we all know Florida is notoriously or for many "fondly", known for their "mañana attitude", after all this is a tropical paradise and that is why we moved here nearly twenty-eight years ago to slow down, don't worry, be happy, true? Shame on me! How easily I forget! And that's a bunch of bull anyway, people should do their jobs after all they get paid to do them, don't they? They are NOT on vacation and I am NOT a paid employee? But I do have a legit excuse for this ANGER and that is documented on that above link!

On that note of me fighting with myself in circles, with making it a draw, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
 

Monday, January 20, 2014

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King revisited again and I wrote back...

...to that person I discussed last night.
My return letter was the length of a few of my longest blogs, tit for tat, hmm?

Actually, I gushed...but with appropriate dignity, I do believe and the below is only a small part of what I did write, a smidge.
"You have reminded me of how resilient the human spirit is.
Your relaying of your past is nothing short of extraordinary! 
Being so strong of will at such a young age is miraculous and quite noteworthy for anyone, and to rebound into your success makes me speechless.
My respect for you has been multiplied significantly...
It will be my fondest joy to consider you a friend.   
Incredible!"
Then I treated this person to my short history, not really that short... with so much more to say... but that's what this venue is for, my blog... memories!
And to all who might be skeptical of my sincerity; I truly meant every word that I wrote! As I always do here too.

Moving on...

Last year I revisited my writing about Dr. Martin Luther King from 2011 and so here it is once again hope you enjoy it:
And so on that note of some note? Any-who, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!

Next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS I am pooped and eye weary to boot, sorry for the shorty!

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