And then they made me eat my words and they were delicious.
I was quite annoyed yesterday. I woke up this morning and my face was still puffy, so I called the health center and, woah! Got an appointment. So I walk there and eventually am just given a prescription for a topical antibiotic that will hopefully get my face under control, because best the doctor could figure, the freaky face-swelling was, in fact, just a result of my mutant acne. When I went to leave, though, they told me I did not owe any money. CONFUSION. Apparently, in the less than twenty-four hours since I played phone-chase, I'd been put on VHAP (aka the cheap but effective health care plan for people below some level of income. So, you know, basically I am broke, which I am very well aware of) (I think I must be very lucky to live in a state that believes in making health care available to everyone). I was off the sliding scale, so I got to keep my SIX WHOLE DOLLARS. And then my fifty dollar prescription only had a two dollar co-pay. Which is pretty awesome, but I'd still rather be earning more than I have to spend on rent and utilities each month.
Anyway, after that whole adventure, I went apple picking with my parents, because apparently Northern Spies are just coming into season, and they are the best pie-making apples. It was raining, but not too bad, so it was mostly just fun. ...And wet. Apples were kind of abnormally large, but that's... probably more just because they hadn't been all picked off yet. We didn't need any of the apple-picking... pole-things, could just pluck them off from where we stood. So my parents walked off with lots of pie-making supplies and I walked off with more apples then I'm entirely sure what to do with, but I refuse to surrender any of them. MY WILD ASSORTMENT OF DELICIOUS FRUIT. Also more apple cider, which I didn't need, 'cause it's non-pasteurized so you have to drink it fast. And also some other stuff from the orchard shop. So basically today was overall good, to counter yesterday's overall I WANT TO SMASH THINGS AND OR HAVE A BREAK DOWN aggravation. Took a bunch of pictures, put them up here (not sure if that link will work), if you want to see (Photobucket's being annoying and I don't feel like writing the html all up right now, anyway). Some of them are from Harvest Market last weekend, but they're all labeled and, really, shouldn't it be obviously which ones are from apple picking and which ones aren't?
Anyway, after that whole adventure, I went apple picking with my parents, because apparently Northern Spies are just coming into season, and they are the best pie-making apples. It was raining, but not too bad, so it was mostly just fun. ...And wet. Apples were kind of abnormally large, but that's... probably more just because they hadn't been all picked off yet. We didn't need any of the apple-picking... pole-things, could just pluck them off from where we stood. So my parents walked off with lots of pie-making supplies and I walked off with more apples then I'm entirely sure what to do with, but I refuse to surrender any of them. MY WILD ASSORTMENT OF DELICIOUS FRUIT. Also more apple cider, which I didn't need, 'cause it's non-pasteurized so you have to drink it fast. And also some other stuff from the orchard shop. So basically today was overall good, to counter yesterday's overall I WANT TO SMASH THINGS AND OR HAVE A BREAK DOWN aggravation. Took a bunch of pictures, put them up here (not sure if that link will work), if you want to see (Photobucket's being annoying and I don't feel like writing the html all up right now, anyway). Some of them are from Harvest Market last weekend, but they're all labeled and, really, shouldn't it be obviously which ones are from apple picking and which ones aren't?