DISappearing Peeps...A fastpass to THIN! Part 2

[pigget74]

Hello Peeps,

I heard the mouse last night... I was hoping he had moved on but I guess he got cozy and has decided to camp out for the winter. I need to move the trap. Hopefully he will be relocated soon. The dogs won't go downstairs again so I know he is hanging out down there somewhere .

Pigget74, 75 degrees... It is cold and rainy here again. I would prefer snow over this mess. So what gift did your DD end up with?

Take care peeps,
Kim

I hate mice. Hopefully you will get that menace.
She ended up getting some stars to put on her ceiling, a slinky, and a cool bouncy ball. I know it doesn't sound like much--but that is much better than underwear.

Wow what a beautiful day!! Supposed to be 77 this afternoon. I talked Mr Kat into letting me drive the convertible to work, and came in with the top down.

I have to admit to having skimmed through a bit today... sorry.

Mr Kat and I have been having some marital problems, but I think that perhaps things have taken a turn for the better last night. Both of my bosses are out today. So, I am in a pretty good mood!

Glad things are taking an upswing--hope they continue to get better.

 

[pigget74]

okay....i'm going to vent here just a second to you guys. yesterday i spent an hour on the phone trying to figure out why i'm still paying $53 a month for birth control pills when i should have hit my $500 prescription deductible back in october. i literally had to say to this person, "hold on. are you listening to me? just listen to the words that are coming out of my mouth!!!!" it was like talking to a brick wall....the must frustrating conversation i've ever had. this is just an excerpt:

me: okay. so you're telling me that it's showing i've only spent $82 this year in prescriptions?

her: correct.

me: that's not right. i've spent at least $53 every month on prescription costs.

her: well, it shows here that you haven't gotten your birth control refilled since february.

me: okay. so is my pharmacy not doing something they should be doing in order to let you guys know when i get them filled? because i get them filled every single month.

her: it's only showing that you got them filled in january and february.

me: i understand that. SHOULD my pharmacy have been doing something that they're not to let you know when i get them filled?

her: we only show that you got them filled in january and february.

me: are you kidding me right now? okay....i'm not trying to be rude, but listen to my question. SHOULD MY PHARMACY BE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAT THEY'RE NOT DOING TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW I'M GETTING THEM FILLED???????????

her: but i only show that you got them filled in january and february.



seriously.....is this woman for real? anyway, now i'm having to fill out a form for reimbursement so they can pay me back what i've paid over my deductible (about $100) and i had to get a list from my pharmacist of all the medications i've paid for this year.

on top of that my insurance is awful. i think i have like a $4,000 deductible and i pay like $128 a month. the monthly payment's not bad but the coverage is. to get decent coverage i have to pay out the wazoo. what's so frustrating about it is that i NEVER go to the doctor! i go once a year to the gyno and MAYBE once or twice a year for a cold, if that. AND i don't have ANY maternity coverage...none. so no babies for me anytime soon! i'm self-employed so i don't have a choice as far as buying my own, except to go on DH's insurance and the cost of that is ridiculous. it costs the same to put me on his insurance as it would to put five kids on there......how does that make sense????? anyway, i'm just really frustrated about the whole thing right now and i think the whole medical insurance thing is a crock.

vent over. sorry to whine. i'm not usually one to complain but i had to get that off my chest!

Sounds like the lady I spoke with at the Dr's office when I was trying to pay for Rebekah. My OB has to be ipaid n full before delivery. So I am talking with the lady that sets up the payment plan. She adds on another $250 because she says that is what I owe in order to meet my deductable. Hello I have 3 kids and DH and myself on this insurance. I have met my family deductable of 1000. THe lady---there is no such thing as a family deductable. Me--yes there is--her I have been in this a long time and you do not have a family deductable. This went on for at least 20 minutes. It took me go over her head and telling the office manager that I never wanted to meet with lady x again.

Sorry that has happened but glad they are going to give you some money back at least.

 

[spongemommie05]

Misty, what book are you reading??

i am reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer it is about a young vampire and a werewolf and a love triangle between a girl it is a young adult series ... i am on the 3rd book Eclipse i just got the 1st one Last Thursday.. the 2nd i got on the 4th i am memorized with it ..

 

[HockeyKat]

D, on the insurance issues. I swear they make it sooo hard sometimes. I have had to get my own in the past too, and it is never as good as you want it to be.

Sponge, hope baby is well soon.

Thanks to everyone on all the hugs. Your support really means a lot!!

I think I have finally gotten back on the weight loss track and can rejoin the group for real without feeling like a big fat liar.

Went back on Alli on Sunday, after doing pretty well last week and AF going away, it appears that I have re-lost the 7 (gasp!!!) lbs I was too embarrassed to admit the scale showed me last Monday.

Hit the gym at lunch and did 40 min on the elliptical, and for the first time in probably a month it felt GOOD to exercise instead of like a chore.

I just hope I can get back in the groove like I was earlier this year. The last couple of months have been really hard for me on a lot of fronts (work, personal), and I am just hoping for smoother sailing ahead.

 

[SingingMUA]

Hi Peeps,

I just wanted to let you guys know that I was released from the hospital yesterday. I have to be on bed rest for the next week or so, and will be on blood thinners possibly for life. I go for my follow up appt with the doctor on Thursday, and he said he may have the results of all the tests that he ran while in the hospital, and they should (hopefully) tell us why I developed these clots.

Since I had to cancel my trip, I don't know what I'm going to do for my birthday next week. But, I am very happy to be alive to even SEE 30 years old, so I think this particular birthday will mean more to me than any other birthday I have ever celebrated.

Anyway peeps, I just wanted to update you guys and let you know that I made it out of the hospital. Thank you all for the kind words and care and compassion.

 

[spongemommie05]

D, on the insurance issues. I swear they make it sooo hard sometimes. I have had to get my own in the past too, and it is never as good as you want it to be.

Sponge, hope baby is well soon.

Thanks to everyone on all the hugs. Your support really means a lot!!

I think I have finally gotten back on the weight loss track and can rejoin the group for real without feeling like a big fat liar.

Went back on Alli on Sunday, after doing pretty well last week and AF going away, it appears that I have re-lost the 7 (gasp!!!) lbs I was too embarrassed to admit the scale showed me last Monday.

Hit the gym at lunch and did 40 min on the elliptical, and for the first time in probably a month it felt GOOD to exercise instead of like a chore.

I just hope I can get back in the groove like I was earlier this year. The last couple of months have been really hard for me on a lot of fronts (work, personal), and I am just hoping for smoother sailing ahead.

Thanks Mayson is doing alot better i just think he is tired...

Hi Peeps,

I just wanted to let you guys know that I was released from the hospital yesterday. I have to be on bed rest for the next week or so, and will be on blood thinners possibly for life. I go for my follow up appt with the doctor on Thursday, and he said he may have the results of all the tests that he ran while in the hospital, and they should (hopefully) tell us why I developed these clots.

Since I had to cancel my trip, I don't know what I'm going to do for my birthday next week. But, I am very happy to be alive to even SEE 30 years old, so I think this particular birthday will mean more to me than any other birthday I have ever celebrated.

Anyway peeps, I just wanted to update you guys and let you know that I made it out of the hospital. Thank you all for the kind words and care and compassion.

sorry to hear about your unfortunate event , take care of yourself , i understand about being thankful for being alive , after my 5th kiddo i had to have a emergency hysterectomy my uterus was seperating from the wall if i would have waited till the time i wanted to do it i would have died ..... life is a precious thing.

 

[Pakey]

Hi peeps.

Spongie--I'll be starting that Twilight series soon too. My aunt read those in her ward's reading group so my cousin is on the first one now and I'll be getting it after her. Everyone keeps raving about them so I have to try it out.

Tia--so glad you are home now. And lifetime medication is better than the alternative so enjoy that life and take care of yourself.

Kat--driving with the top down in December? Even in sunny California, that's a rarity. I did leave my top down for 9 straight months once just to say I did it but there were many chilly days in that timeframe. I'm currently trying to talk myself out of a new company car but your comments about yours makes it hard to resist the temptation. I currently have a convertible but not the one I want (or the one my boss says I can have--oooh, the temptation).

Dawn--OK, I admit, I laughed over the stupid customer service lady on your insurance. I hate when people do not get what I'm trying to say in plain English. I, however, will never ever complain about insurance or costs again. I had to pay OOP about $15,000 this year for my various cancer treatments and medications and it sounds bad but not compared to what the insurance company paid out. Holy moley--the shock of that would easily kill someone. I had to pay so much OOP because I opted for an agressive and somewhat experimental chemo drug that the insurance would not cover completely. And our company just got the annual rate increases for next year and I feel so bad because it went up 25% and it's all because of my claim this year, which they are treating as ongoing. So everyone here at my company is going to pay more for their portion of the premiums next year because of me. In all the years prior to this, I've hardly ever went to a doctor. Except for having a baby 27 years ago, I've never been to a hospital or anything. So I felt that insurance was a waste. Now I've made up for all of it in one year.

And how can you guys say that those school concerts are painful? Dang it, I raised my 3 kids, suffered through them all, you guys can do it too. I'm scared that in 2 years, the grandson starts school and I'll have to repeat the torture. I decided a long time ago that whatever those music teachers earn, it's not near enough.

 

[HockeyKat]

Hi peeps.


Kat--driving with the top down in December? Even in sunny California, that's a rarity. I did leave my top down for 9 straight months once just to say I did it but there were many chilly days in that timeframe. I'm currently trying to talk myself out of a new company car but your comments about yours makes it hard to resist the temptation. I currently have a convertible but not the one I want (or the one my boss says I can have--oooh, the temptation).

It was in the mid-70s today, beautiful. Great day for top-down driving. I may try to make it home that way, but it has already dropped to mid-60s, so I may have to pass.

 

[DisneyLaura]

punkin413 I hate insurance companies. DH is self employed and we used to pay almost $900 a month for a family of 4, it's probably more now because that was a couple of years ago. Now we pay almost $500 for nothing. I say nothing because the don't cover much. Yes there is no copay for well visits (visits to the pedi when the kids just have to go for a checkup) sick visits copay is $25 - $40 for a specialist (OB, ENT etc). But the medications forget it. Even Amoxycylin (sp?) I still have to pay a $15 copay when my other insurance when I was working probably it would have been only $5. They have no lab work, no X-rays, no MRI (yes we had to pay for that almost $1000, DH has a torn meniscus). Sorry for the rant in response to your rant but I just wanted to let you know that you're not alone in the insurance problems.

HockeyKat Your welcome for the hugs, here's another ; I just went to the gym yesterday for the first time since Sept and walked on the treadmill for 40 minutes and then did some weight training for 20 minutes. It did feel good I tell ya.

SingingMUA Glad to hear you're home. Keep us updated about the doctor's appointment.

I went to WW's today and Back on track tomorrow. I will fill up guys in on friday. Good night.

 

[lexmelinda]

GOOD MORNING!

I survived basketball practice last night. The boys are absolutely adorable! There are 7 first and second grade boys. My job is to lead the devotion time but I did stand on the edge of the court and toss the stray balls back in. That's the extent of my basketball expertise.

Punkin....You survived the concert! I hate those calls when no one will answer your question! I AM ASKING YOU A QUESTION!?

KAT....It was warm here yesterday too. But not sunny. I get so blue in the winter time because it's just so gray here. And there's more rain in the forcast for the next week or so. Cold rain. Ugg.

Laura....Our insurance is the same....$25/$40 copays but it paid for my MRI last year. THank goodness! Insurance stinks for the self employed.

TIA....So glad you are out of the hospital! What a blessing!

I have a daily Fun Trivia Quiz going. EVERYONE is invited to come and play! Everybody gets the same questions each day. AND IT'S TIMED...so beware!

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

 

[born2bird]

Hello All,

I woke up in a complete funk this morning. I have no idea why but I am feeling super crabby In the interest of others safety, I closed my office door. Hopefully everyone will get the hint.

I did have a good workout at the gym last night. 45 min on the crosstrainer, 15 mins on the recumbant bike, and then I ran/walked for 30. Tonight is 45 on the cross trainer and then upper and lower body strebgth training. I may need a red bull to get me there though.

Tia, WELCOME HOME!!! I am so glad you are feeling better.

Cheers peeps,
Kim

 

[HockeyKat]

Melinda, I know what you mean on the grayness. One of the reasons I moved to the Raleigh area was the promise of 200+ sunny days a year.

Kim, I am super impressed!! A red bull... I think I would need dragged by the hair to do all that after work!

Is it Friday yet??

 

[monymony3471]

That would be great! My guys are 3 and 20 months. You have two boys and a little girl, right?




Enjoy the warm weather! I have an old, convertible, Honda Del Sol that I refuse to give up. Some of its cool factor has been lost since I installed the baby seat...

My boys are 11 and 9, my girls are 3 and 4 months.

it was okay. not as painful as i thought. it was a choral show too and the singing was way worse than the band. a couple of times i looked at ray and had to literally cover my mouth to keep from being totally rude and laughing out loud. his expressions were cracking me up!

on the way there ray's mom called us and asked if we had a key to her house because josh had forgotten his sheet music. ray didn't have the key so his stepdad had to leave the church (where the concert was) and go back to their house to find it. meanwhile, ray and i arrived at the church and when we got there, i asked josh if someone else had the same sheet music he did. he said yes and then i found someone that worked at the church and they let me borrow the copy machine to make a copy of the music. DUH?!???? sometimes i just don't get his family! common sense, anyone????



sorry to hear this....hope things get better! we all hit bumps in the road. i've been there!

okay....i'm going to vent here just a second to you guys. yesterday i spent an hour on the phone trying to figure out why i'm still paying $53 a month for birth control pills when i should have hit my $500 prescription deductible back in october. i literally had to say to this person, "hold on. are you listening to me? just listen to the words that are coming out of my mouth!!!!" it was like talking to a brick wall....the must frustrating conversation i've ever had. this is just an excerpt:

me: okay. so you're telling me that it's showing i've only spent $82 this year in prescriptions?

her: correct.

me: that's not right. i've spent at least $53 every month on prescription costs.

her: well, it shows here that you haven't gotten your birth control refilled since february.

me: okay. so is my pharmacy not doing something they should be doing in order to let you guys know when i get them filled? because i get them filled every single month.

her: it's only showing that you got them filled in january and february.

me: i understand that. SHOULD my pharmacy have been doing something that they're not to let you know when i get them filled?

her: we only show that you got them filled in january and february.

me: are you kidding me right now? okay....i'm not trying to be rude, but listen to my question. SHOULD MY PHARMACY BE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAT THEY'RE NOT DOING TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW I'M GETTING THEM FILLED???????????

her: but i only show that you got them filled in january and february.



seriously.....is this woman for real? anyway, now i'm having to fill out a form for reimbursement so they can pay me back what i've paid over my deductible (about $100) and i had to get a list from my pharmacist of all the medications i've paid for this year.

on top of that my insurance is awful. i think i have like a $4,000 deductible and i pay like $128 a month. the monthly payment's not bad but the coverage is. to get decent coverage i have to pay out the wazoo. what's so frustrating about it is that i NEVER go to the doctor! i go once a year to the gyno and MAYBE once or twice a year for a cold, if that. AND i don't have ANY maternity coverage...none. so no babies for me anytime soon! i'm self-employed so i don't have a choice as far as buying my own, except to go on DH's insurance and the cost of that is ridiculous. it costs the same to put me on his insurance as it would to put five kids on there......how does that make sense????? anyway, i'm just really frustrated about the whole thing right now and i think the whole medical insurance thing is a crock.

vent over. sorry to whine. i'm not usually one to complain but i had to get that off my chest!

I thought I was the only one who had to deal with people like that. Just reading that got my blood pressure up.

D, on the insurance issues. I swear they make it sooo hard sometimes. I have had to get my own in the past too, and it is never as good as you want it to be.

Sponge, hope baby is well soon.

Thanks to everyone on all the hugs. Your support really means a lot!!

I think I have finally gotten back on the weight loss track and can rejoin the group for real without feeling like a big fat liar.

Went back on Alli on Sunday, after doing pretty well last week and AF going away, it appears that I have re-lost the 7 (gasp!!!) lbs I was too embarrassed to admit the scale showed me last Monday.

Hit the gym at lunch and did 40 min on the elliptical, and for the first time in probably a month it felt GOOD to exercise instead of like a chore.

I just hope I can get back in the groove like I was earlier this year. The last couple of months have been really hard for me on a lot of fronts (work, personal), and I am just hoping for smoother sailing ahead.

It sounds like you are on the right track. Keep going!

Hello All,

I woke up in a complete funk this morning. I have no idea why but I am feeling super crabby In the interest of others safety, I closed my office door. Hopefully everyone will get the hint.

I did have a good workout at the gym last night. 45 min on the crosstrainer, 15 mins on the recumbant bike, and then I ran/walked for 30. Tonight is 45 on the cross trainer and then upper and lower body strebgth training. I may need a red bull to get me there though.

Tia, WELCOME HOME!!! I am so glad you are feeling better.

Cheers peeps,
Kim

Maybe this will cheer you up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyCfRHumHU


Lexy I played, even though I barely saw any of those movies.

 

[DisneyLaura]

Melinda, I know what you mean on the grayness. One of the reasons I moved to the Raleigh area was the promise of 200+ sunny days a year.Is it Friday yet??

DH wants to go to NC on February vacation, any ideas what we can do? We have three kids, DS8, DS6 and DD2. Thanks for the help.

Monica - that clip was hysterical. I never saw the movie but I intend too, someday.

Laura

 

[punkin413]

Dawn--OK, I admit, I laughed over the stupid customer service lady on your insurance. I hate when people do not get what I'm trying to say in plain English. I, however, will never ever complain about insurance or costs again. I had to pay OOP about $15,000 this year for my various cancer treatments and medications and it sounds bad but not compared to what the insurance company paid out. Holy moley--the shock of that would easily kill someone. I had to pay so much OOP because I opted for an agressive and somewhat experimental chemo drug that the insurance would not cover completely. And our company just got the annual rate increases for next year and I feel so bad because it went up 25% and it's all because of my claim this year, which they are treating as ongoing. So everyone here at my company is going to pay more for their portion of the premiums next year because of me. In all the years prior to this, I've hardly ever went to a doctor. Except for having a baby 27 years ago, I've never been to a hospital or anything. So I felt that insurance was a waste. Now I've made up for all of it in one year.

thanks for giving me some perspective. i know i need insurance in case i'm ever faced with what you've been faced with and i know it's a small price to pay. sometimes it's just hard to remember that when you have to deal with morons!

punkin413 I hate insurance companies. DH is self employed and we used to pay almost $900 a month for a family of 4, it's probably more now because that was a couple of years ago. Now we pay almost $500 for nothing. I say nothing because the don't cover much. Yes there is no copay for well visits (visits to the pedi when the kids just have to go for a checkup) sick visits copay is $25 - $40 for a specialist (OB, ENT etc). But the medications forget it. Even Amoxycylin (sp?) I still have to pay a $15 copay when my other insurance when I was working probably it would have been only $5. They have no lab work, no X-rays, no MRI (yes we had to pay for that almost $1000, DH has a torn meniscus). Sorry for the rant in response to your rant but I just wanted to let you know that you're not alone in the insurance problems.

how frustrating! DH's open enrollment is in january. we're going to look into putting me on his. last time we checked it was way more expensive to do that compared to me just buying my own. we'll see!

I did have a good workout at the gym last night. 45 min on the crosstrainer, 15 mins on the recumbant bike, and then I ran/walked for 30. Tonight is 45 on the cross trainer and then upper and lower body strebgth training. I may need a red bull to get me there though.

i had a great workout last night, too! anna did a new BLT (butt, legs & tummy) workout last night and i think that did me in was the squatting dead lifts. OUCH!!! this morning i'm SOOOOOOOOO sore! hope your mood gets better today!

Maybe this will cheer you up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyCfRHumHU

i love that part! i need to sit down and watch that entire movie. it seems like every time i watch it i get interrupted.

here's a collection of clips from my favorite christmas movie ever.....national lampoon's christmas vacation. my favorite clip is when clark unties the christmas tree.......a lot of sap in here!!! then his fingers are sticking to the magazine he's reading later that night in bed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShmY-W5A0Vw&feature=related

 

[HockeyKat]

Hmm, NC in February?? Not sure. It isn't extremely warm here then, can count on high temps between 40 and 60.

Raleigh-Durham is where I am, and I can't think of much. It is a great place to live but I wouldn't see it as a vacation destination... there is an IMAX and some museums, and of course it is the capital city. Chapel Hill is a beautiful little town with the UNC campus there, but once again, probably only worth a day or so.

Asheville area is beautiful with the mountains and such, but likely to be very cold in February. I think there might be skiing and such out there, but I avoid cold weather.

I see NC as more of a summer destination, with the beaches at the Outer Banks and in Wilmington.

 

[punkin413]

wow......it's quiet here today! where are all the peeps at?

 

[spongemommie05]

I was just thinking that too but in a way doing the happy dance because then i can catch up

 

[UtahMama]

I'm Baaaaack!

From my book... I'm done with the Twilight series! The last of the 3 was over 600 pages so I'd literally be standing at the stove stirring the spaghetti with one hand and holding the book with the other!

While keeping up with lurking and some posting here and there. Now I have post-good-book syndrome. NOW WHAT? I wish Stephenie Meyer would hurry up with the 4th book (due in the spring...where upon I will be extinct here once more for a few days) I likes vampires!

Diet? What diet? I don't think I've eaten a balanced meal since picking up book 1 last week.

 

[spongemommie05]

Ditto hear i am almost finished , i am reading long over due TR because my house is so quiet 3 outta 5 are napping