ups and downs
I cleaned my desk yesterday. By which I really only mean I took up the pile of ancient mail that needed shredding and actually, you know, did the shredding, but it still counts, I say. there's like a whole new 9x12 section of desk that's visible and can have stuff put on it again. I'm trying to avoid actually putting stuff on it, but the opportunity is there.
In other house news, we got a toaster oven. It is SO NEAT. We got the Breville Smart Oven and promptly broke it in by walking to Panera (4 mile round trip!) Sunday morning for bagels, coming home, and shoving them in the toaster oven. It was GRAND.
Paladin and I hosted a dinner party on Easter Sunday; I don't celebrate Easter personally (though, delicious candy...) but I enjoy the opportunity for making food and presenting it to people, and fortunately I have friends willing to indulge this habit. :)
For appetizers, we made Creamed Mushrooms on Chive Butter Toast, which was great. (p.s., the additional suggestions? I would absolutely eat these mushrooms on pasta or under poached eggs or pmuch any way.)
Soup course was "German" Onion Soup, without the accompanying sandwiches; instead, we toasted some rye bread and added cheddar. I've made this soup before and it's delicious. In general I am a fan of onion soup, and this one is interestingly different from French onion soup. Also, I love whole-grain mustard.
The salad course was strawberries, spinach, walnuts, and goat cheese in a poppyseed dressing, because I enjoy it as a spring salad.
For the main course, we did Rosemary and Garlic Leg of Lamb with mustard roasted potatoes and fresh asparagus. I neglected to make the lamb sauce, since I personally prefer mint jelly. I found that recipe years ago and I pretty much make it every Easter because it's drop-dead easy and also delicious. (The mustard potatoes are also a recipe I love. FOOD IS GREAT, OKAY.)
And for dessert, we had chocolate pudding, which was incredibly easy and also tasty, so I was a happy cat.
I had been having a terrible headache off and on all weekend, so when I woke up Monday and it still wasn't gone, I called in and then rolled myself back into bed for a few hours. I spent most of the day being a zombie--I managed to read a book and play dumb phone games and that was about it. The cats were pretty excited that I was home, which meant more snuggle time for them, which of course they went about in the most obnoxious ways possible, because cats.
In video game news, I finished the 3.2 plot of FF14 last night, and I am not okay. That was a really intense roller coaster and I have too many feelings and don't know what to do with any of them. Mostly THIS IS NOT OKAY and I am angry and heartbroken and why does this game give me so many feelings, why. Square breaks my heart all the time.
(In related but silly news, the victory pose for summoners is so ridiculous. EARNESTLY WRITING. So cute.)
Meanwhile there is some fuckery going on with getting meds refilled; a generic of my birth control has come out just this year, meaning my insurance tried to charge me $450 to refill my meds with the brand name. Now, the last time I switched something related to birth control, that led to a year and a half spiral of terrible anxiety, so I was, let's say, not eager to try this again. Phone calls to the pharmacy and insurance led me to "you have to get your doctor to request it as brand name only." So I tried to do that - only to find that my ob/gyn has left the practice. So I asked the call center girl to ask my family care doc to do the prescription. I did not have a good feeling about this because she did not seem to understand what I was asking for, but I waited. Then the pharmacy informed me my insurance had denied my scrip....which was for a generic.
So I messaged my doctor through the online portal, and two days later she lets me know that indeed the messages were not conveyed correctly and that she'll ask them to do the brand name. And the pharmacy says it's denied AGAIN, so I shall have to call them tomorrow and then call the insurance and somebody better fucking figure this out fast, becuase I asked for my refill in a totally reasonable amount of time (2 weeks before I ran out) and I am now 4 days before I run out and none of this is okay and I am very not pleased. If I have to turn HR loose on this tomorrow, I will. Despite the utter embarrassment of trying to explain that I need brand-name birth control so that my meds do not make me sit in a corner and cry every day from anxiety. Just what HR wants to hear, I am sure!
Ugh. Meds. Brains. insurance. why.
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In other house news, we got a toaster oven. It is SO NEAT. We got the Breville Smart Oven and promptly broke it in by walking to Panera (4 mile round trip!) Sunday morning for bagels, coming home, and shoving them in the toaster oven. It was GRAND.
Paladin and I hosted a dinner party on Easter Sunday; I don't celebrate Easter personally (though, delicious candy...) but I enjoy the opportunity for making food and presenting it to people, and fortunately I have friends willing to indulge this habit. :)
For appetizers, we made Creamed Mushrooms on Chive Butter Toast, which was great. (p.s., the additional suggestions? I would absolutely eat these mushrooms on pasta or under poached eggs or pmuch any way.)
Soup course was "German" Onion Soup, without the accompanying sandwiches; instead, we toasted some rye bread and added cheddar. I've made this soup before and it's delicious. In general I am a fan of onion soup, and this one is interestingly different from French onion soup. Also, I love whole-grain mustard.
The salad course was strawberries, spinach, walnuts, and goat cheese in a poppyseed dressing, because I enjoy it as a spring salad.
For the main course, we did Rosemary and Garlic Leg of Lamb with mustard roasted potatoes and fresh asparagus. I neglected to make the lamb sauce, since I personally prefer mint jelly. I found that recipe years ago and I pretty much make it every Easter because it's drop-dead easy and also delicious. (The mustard potatoes are also a recipe I love. FOOD IS GREAT, OKAY.)
And for dessert, we had chocolate pudding, which was incredibly easy and also tasty, so I was a happy cat.
I had been having a terrible headache off and on all weekend, so when I woke up Monday and it still wasn't gone, I called in and then rolled myself back into bed for a few hours. I spent most of the day being a zombie--I managed to read a book and play dumb phone games and that was about it. The cats were pretty excited that I was home, which meant more snuggle time for them, which of course they went about in the most obnoxious ways possible, because cats.
In video game news, I finished the 3.2 plot of FF14 last night, and I am not okay. That was a really intense roller coaster and I have too many feelings and don't know what to do with any of them. Mostly THIS IS NOT OKAY and I am angry and heartbroken and why does this game give me so many feelings, why. Square breaks my heart all the time.
(In related but silly news, the victory pose for summoners is so ridiculous. EARNESTLY WRITING. So cute.)
Meanwhile there is some fuckery going on with getting meds refilled; a generic of my birth control has come out just this year, meaning my insurance tried to charge me $450 to refill my meds with the brand name. Now, the last time I switched something related to birth control, that led to a year and a half spiral of terrible anxiety, so I was, let's say, not eager to try this again. Phone calls to the pharmacy and insurance led me to "you have to get your doctor to request it as brand name only." So I tried to do that - only to find that my ob/gyn has left the practice. So I asked the call center girl to ask my family care doc to do the prescription. I did not have a good feeling about this because she did not seem to understand what I was asking for, but I waited. Then the pharmacy informed me my insurance had denied my scrip....which was for a generic.
So I messaged my doctor through the online portal, and two days later she lets me know that indeed the messages were not conveyed correctly and that she'll ask them to do the brand name. And the pharmacy says it's denied AGAIN, so I shall have to call them tomorrow and then call the insurance and somebody better fucking figure this out fast, becuase I asked for my refill in a totally reasonable amount of time (2 weeks before I ran out) and I am now 4 days before I run out and none of this is okay and I am very not pleased. If I have to turn HR loose on this tomorrow, I will. Despite the utter embarrassment of trying to explain that I need brand-name birth control so that my meds do not make me sit in a corner and cry every day from anxiety. Just what HR wants to hear, I am sure!
Ugh. Meds. Brains. insurance. why.
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