The Fixer

Yesterday...... as everyday, I was thankful to wake up here at EIEIO, as always.....but I was equally thankful to go to bed and have the day be over!  Here's a short synopsis of my day (and yes I'm whining..it's cathartic).

• Awakened to another arctic day in upstate NY! I don't really mind the cold!
• Tripped over my spouse's boots on the rug stumbling into the laundry room to spy his multi-weekly basket of laundry waiting patiently by the washer. I could have sworn I just put it back in his dressing room the day before.
• Dressed and started the car, forgetting to first open the garage door.  I lived!
• Enjoyed a nice breakfast with my breakfast club pals. (my fave meal of the day)
• Ran some errands and returned home
• Lee arrives mid morning to rant that with our "new" affordable health care, one of his prescriptions is now $300+ instead of $10.  FYI- I've never heard any complaints about the cost of cigarettes!
• I sit at my desk to unfold the mystery of our new health care plan which was sold to me as "comparable to what you had!" NOT!
• I call BC/BS! After entering our policy number, subscriber number, plan number, address and the time of my last bowel movement, I'm connected to Melissa who asks for my policy number, subscriber number, plan number and address.  She sounded uninterested in the latter !
• Melissa becomes my new best friend explaining clearly, and in terms a senior citizen could understand, that I would have to fall down the stairs next Thursday between 1:15 a.m. and 1:17 a.m. wearing non-slip slippers and a blue bathrobe before my policy would kick in......that and a $4000 deductible and no co-pays for anything! So NOT comparable to what we had.
• Next I grab paper, a ruler, a pencil and my calculator.  I should have just grabbed a gun!
• 3 hours and 8 phone calls later, I am downloading the application for a new policy, attaching a check for $400 more than the old, comparable policy, and mailing it so it arrives on a desk in Rochester before January 15th! Now I will have what we actually need beginning February 1st.
• Postpone Lee's heart specialist appt. scheduled for next Thursday to next month because it would cost nearly $500 instead of the old $50.
• I sit back and breathe!
• A text arrives from Jess concerned that Bailee tested poorly in her non-fiction reading today:-(
• A call comes in that my SIL had another spell and my niece wants to go to Florida for the week-end and could I miraculously find 2 flights leaving on the red eye last night and returning Sunday night.  We talked through it and my wisdom of the moment (too expensive, too short and logistically nightmarish) trumped her feelings of being helpless in Moravia!  We'll SKYPE!!!
• I post a benign comment on Facebook about insurance woes..What was I thinking?  55 comments later and familial accusations of being a racist and a hater, I closed out Facebook (duh) and drank a well earned bloody Mary...
• The evening got better.
• Jess and B brought Doug's Fish Fry for supper (no cooking, no dishes)
• I diagnosed the testing issue of the day..I think! Bailee read us a few chapters of I Funny, by James Patterson and flawlessly (after some grandmotherly coaxing) answered all the  drills correctly.
• I receive a phone call with a "can't pass up, money saving quote!"
• I snuggle in my chair with my Kindle and my James Patterson book. I watch some TV. I go to bed and to sleep at 11:11!

Olivia Pope has nothing on me.  I am the fixer!