health insurance! (and other things)
Things done today:
1. Got up ~10 minutes early in order to dump my experimental pork-greens-and-onions slow cooker dish (basically what I did with chicken, chard, and onions last week but on a larger scale and with collard greens because apparently my grocery store doesn't sell chard) into some tupperware and shove it in the fridge.
I had some for dinner tonight. In conclusion: not bad, but I did not increase the spices enough to compensate for the extra meat and veggies. Also I really should have chosen a leaner cut of pork. Ah well, I'll know better next time.
2. Work in the Collegetown office was slow (aside from a few interminable phone calls with parents of Cornell students who are trying to do their kids' apartment hunting for them), so I was able to answer all today's downtown inquiries instead of fobbing them off on Mr. Geniality. I also put in some good work getting a couple spreadsheets closer to up-to-date.
3. Agreed to reschedule tomorrow's dental checkup from 8am to 9am, since my dentist ran into some last-minute scheduling problems.
4. Picked up a couple things from a local store that I ordered online yesterday afternoon.
5. Baked banana bread.
6. Enrolled in health insurance for next year. I was going to give serious consideration to getting insurance through work this year (since I am eligible for the first time since the smoke shop closed in 2014), but the deadline for that was December 1 and it blew right past me. So tonight I pulled up my big girl pants and fought my way through a bunch of forms and a couple computer glitches on the NY State of Health website to pick an insurance plan.
See, the thing is, I NEED insurance, and I specifically need it to cover generic drugs, because how the hell else am I going to pay for my Celexa (which is technically a generic citalopram knockoff, and I know it's been at least two different formulations since the pharmacy has called and asked if it's okay to use an alternate formulation once or twice). So I picked the plan that covers three primary care visits before the deductible starts kicking in, and has zero pill deductible.
As for dental, I'll wing it. Aside from the Year Of All The Cavities (that was a bad year), it is actually cheaper for me personally to pay dental out of pocket than to pay for dental insurance, and I do not anticipate a second Year Of All The Cavities now that I have my handy-dandy prescription fluoride toothpaste and am flossing regularly. If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
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1. Got up ~10 minutes early in order to dump my experimental pork-greens-and-onions slow cooker dish (basically what I did with chicken, chard, and onions last week but on a larger scale and with collard greens because apparently my grocery store doesn't sell chard) into some tupperware and shove it in the fridge.
I had some for dinner tonight. In conclusion: not bad, but I did not increase the spices enough to compensate for the extra meat and veggies. Also I really should have chosen a leaner cut of pork. Ah well, I'll know better next time.
2. Work in the Collegetown office was slow (aside from a few interminable phone calls with parents of Cornell students who are trying to do their kids' apartment hunting for them), so I was able to answer all today's downtown inquiries instead of fobbing them off on Mr. Geniality. I also put in some good work getting a couple spreadsheets closer to up-to-date.
3. Agreed to reschedule tomorrow's dental checkup from 8am to 9am, since my dentist ran into some last-minute scheduling problems.
4. Picked up a couple things from a local store that I ordered online yesterday afternoon.
5. Baked banana bread.
6. Enrolled in health insurance for next year. I was going to give serious consideration to getting insurance through work this year (since I am eligible for the first time since the smoke shop closed in 2014), but the deadline for that was December 1 and it blew right past me. So tonight I pulled up my big girl pants and fought my way through a bunch of forms and a couple computer glitches on the NY State of Health website to pick an insurance plan.
See, the thing is, I NEED insurance, and I specifically need it to cover generic drugs, because how the hell else am I going to pay for my Celexa (which is technically a generic citalopram knockoff, and I know it's been at least two different formulations since the pharmacy has called and asked if it's okay to use an alternate formulation once or twice). So I picked the plan that covers three primary care visits before the deductible starts kicking in, and has zero pill deductible.
As for dental, I'll wing it. Aside from the Year Of All The Cavities (that was a bad year), it is actually cheaper for me personally to pay dental out of pocket than to pay for dental insurance, and I do not anticipate a second Year Of All The Cavities now that I have my handy-dandy prescription fluoride toothpaste and am flossing regularly. If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
comments)