Farewell to our darling son for now...

Bittersweet is the way the feeling is when a loved one leaves after a visit...
Although, what rings in my ears is my darling Dad's incantation of after three days company is like fish...

"The traditional saying, "Fish and company stink after three days" refers to the dislike of the two. Most people wouldn't want fish lying around after three days, as it becomes unwelcoming. (Because of the smell.) The term is applied to 'company' or 'visitors' because most people don't want visitors that long. Visitors start to become fish like because of their overdue stay. However, the smell has nothing to do with the visitors unless they weren't provided with showers. :)
Benjamin Franklin made the saying. :)"

Thanks to: http://www.answers.com/Q/What_does_fish_and_visitors_smell_in_three_days_mean

Now that is not to say that our son smells, oh no he most definitely does not; if anything to a mother and father he smells oh so sweet... still…And if anything his three days here were way too short in our feelings for him, we miss him already!

He did call when he arrived home, just like we asked, as we had asked our young men when they were first grown and on their own and even now twenty years later we do it too, as our parents before had asked us…and so the tradition lives on.

Moving on…

Since Hubby was kind enough to manage dinner I, after, Number One left got on the phone taking my new year’s health care coverage back into affect for the upcoming year and spoke with an agent who suggested I call Blue to see what they had to offer and now for over an hour have been on hold with Florida Blue on their line that is toll free and available for questions about the policy changes. I was happy to hear from the agent that apparently according to her estimates stated that my subsidy should be one hundred dollars more this year than last, YEAH!

Now to find a policy that suits my needs…and at a price that we can afford without breaking the bank with these additional expenses.

The background hold music crescendos and mellows out as I write this tonight, it is there hold music at Florida Blue that periodically tells me how important I am to them and they will be with me shortly?????????

Hubby asked me to ask them; what is their definition of “shortly”.

For the last little while they have not spoken to me, perhaps they have gone for the day but left their hold music on?

Fortunately we have call waiting on our house phone too, so Number One was able to get through… but now I just feel stupid. This background music was there during our dinner that Hubby made of Alaskan king crab and shrimp with fries and salad from the grocery, all on sale yesterday!

Actually I even made the salad and cocktail sauce and lemon butter while waiting for the answering of my call, still waiting or not?

This is CRAZY!

And feels sadly so familiar from about a year ago that is when this nightmare of coverage for all began!

Oh to be less stressed  and how I long for being in some type of time warp where when a policy was something you just had and never heard the words “deductible or co-pay”… because everything appeared to be covered and at a nominal fee or by our employers; no later surprises…!

On that heartbreak of remembrances that will never be again…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!

PS I think it is about time to hang up and YES I WILL!

Tomorrow’s another day and after all I could contact Healthcare. Gov via their number, ha!

Where to turn for some sanity, where oh where?

Bah, HUMBUG EARLY!