Wounds, Meet Salt

Hmm, this had a chance of being a fun update about the weekend. That would first assume there was fun to be had. Let's see.

Friday was my first WFH day. That's Work From Home for you unitiated in the ways of the status message that must accompany your messaging tool when you WFH. With phone number proudly displayed next to your avatar. Sounds good, right?

It didn't start off all that smoothly. First, I couldn't find my battery and adapter. Then I couldn't find my keys. Keys are actually a surprisingly critical part of my WFH strategy. Because my security thingy that changes every 30 secons or so and allows me to log into my network is on my keychain. It took me nearly an hour to find my keys. I don't know why I didn't think of looking under the cubbyhole thingy near the door. Underneath it in the very back.

It was very very nice once I found my fob. I stayed in my pgs until lunch. I had lunch with the mister and a few friends from his work. It even cost real MONEY--not just a swipe of my badge. And they TALKED at lunch. To EACH OTHER.

I worked off and on all afternoon. I saved 3 hours by not commuting. THREE HOURS! I also got to see the mister in the morning light, he's quite handsome then.

Friday night we stayed in and kept it low key.

Saturday we went into The City and had a big night out with a group of friends. I drank wayyyyy too much sangria and dessert wine but it was so fun.

Sunday was not so fun. See above.

We did go out for croissants and coffee and the new farmer's market not far from us. We bought lots of stone fruit (yay!), fresh corn and heirloom tomatoes.

Then we went for another test drive. The nice car salesman promised me I could drive the two very specific models I wanted to test. PROMISED ME this on the phone. Of course when we arrived it was the bait and switch. Only one of those models were available to test. I wonder what his manager thinks of the email I wrote today swearing to never buy an auto from them and tell everyone I know in the Bay Area to stay away from that particular dealership? Time will tell.

We still love the car. We're no closer to a final decision but are trying to be open to the right car. The right situation. I think it will happen.

Mostly I wanted to go test drive because I wanted to see the mister smile. He did. He has been really blue lately. He is touched by the outpouring from the internets and I hope he'll begin to blog soon. Because I think he'll like it.

Today we got the bill for my emergency surgery. Not including the ER part. Or the surgeon's fees. Who knows how much worse this will get. Current price: 30k.

Amazing how much 30k gets in that little car. And how little it gets at a hospital. How can they possibly be losing money? I'm sure we'll be at 40-45k when it's all said and done. With no baby. And no heated leather seats, either. Thank goodness for insurance.

Comments

[Louise]

Oh my lord- that bill is awful! It is salt in the wound indeed.

I forget what your insurance situation is. Do you have to pay that entire sum? Yikes. Either way- that is an incredible amount of money.

Here's wishing one of us can win the lottery one of these days and pay off all of these nasty bills!

Hugs,
GL

[T]

Just don't tell me it's Kai.ser Per.manente - blech. I certainly hope insurance is going to kick in there - ouch!

[Sparkle]

F*** M*, are you serious????
For emergency hospital treatment?
Hoping your private insurance will cover a huge percent? Guessing you pay first, then claim?
I really have to stop complaining about how much money we've spent.
Sorry that you got that poison dart.

[patricia mccreary]

hee, hee, hee - no heated leather seats. For fuck's sake, that's probably about the average annual salary in this country.

[Pamplemousse]

Ouch! What a bill. We complain about our free healthcare here but really, there is nothing to complain about.

[fisher queen]

Oh Millie! Please say that that is before insurance. Even if it is, it still sucks. I am sorry.

[thalia]

What a bill. Amazing how they can justify those kind of charges. I remember whenI was in Philadelphia and had to go to the ER, they asked me if I had insurance. I didn't. They then charged me $2 for a single aspirin. They told me that if I had had insurance they would have charged $8... That seems like a very cumbersome system to me.

WFH sounds wonderful. NOt in my job, sadly, but perhaps at some point in the future...

[Jan1902]

My Lord. You would think every hospital center would be papering the walls in money, charging those kind of fees. I hope your insurance ponies up.
In 1980 when I had the surgery that eventually rendered me infertile, I was in the hospital for 3 weeks and actually had 2 surgeries. The total bill was $9k. I still remember my parents' jaws hitting the floor. Seems like peanuts now.

[PBfish]

Unbelievable. I hate our insane health care system.

[joie]

YIKES! I hope you don't have much of a copay!

[Lut C.]

I feel even the small bills are irritations, I don't even want to imagine what a whopper like that would do to me.