Today was so expensive

[cornerofmadness]

First I had an x-ray and have to have an MRI (more on that later), then my Nexium is nearly 400$ (which really irritates me. If I made less money I could get it for 18$ from astra-zenica itself so you know how much market the drug company has on this) and a warning that it has a limit on how many my insurance will approve (not so sure why they're bitching, I'm the one paying at the moment).

Then I decided to go to Big Sandy super store for their April's Fool sale. I got a couch. It was a bit more than I wanted to pay but by the end, I got a 1800$ couch for 750$. Can't complain. Yes I can. It's a very boring coffee brown color. All the ones in colors I liked were either uncomfortable or too pricey. In fact this one came in cool colors but if I wanted anything BUT coffee brown, excuse me, Mink Brown sugar, then I couldn't have the sale price. Sigh. And HA, ELD, my SF slave boy might not be a Mink Chimera but my couch IS! It is, however, COMFORTABLY. So soft, it about eats you up. I want to invite short friends over and watch their feet dangle because the couch is extra deep too. coffee brown...sigh. Unfortunately it's not on the website anywhere so I can't show it to you.


And this week is going to get expensive more! I had to go out to eat since it was already 6 pm by the time I got the couch and I'm an hour away from home. Tomorrow I have to be a my writers' meeting over dinner and Friday I'll be in Jackson all evening while I buy new glasses. WAAAH. We know the frames are going to start at 200 and go up and my lenses are over 200 by themselves. Thank god insurance pays for some of this.

So my shoulder...the right shoulder has all the same arthritis between the shoulder blade and collar bone as the left did. WTF? I'm betting it's from spelunking. He doesn't think I tore a rotator but has to send me for an MRI before we can go further. Fun. Might need more shoulder surgery.

So cheer me up. I'm looking for songs for a writing soundtrack for the thing I've been posting about in jana_denardo looking for either sad, hard knock life stuff or dirty nasty sex stuff. (nothing too screamy).


In class my students asked 'did you see the basketball player who broke his leg?' No, I saw the link but didn't click. YOU HAVE TO SEE IT. They dug it out. I'm shocked they put it on the web. About six inches of bone sticking thru the open fracture but it looked like it could have been worse. No doubting it, open fractures creep you out.

I've started camp nano. I'll be back later with a word count. It would help if I didn't save something over top my active file and erase it. go me.

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yeowtch. That sounds like an incredibly expensive day. Sorry for that.

Am I the short person who's going to be dangling my feet...? Wait, I already know I am.

I saw they've already taken the links down to the fracture. Or at least there was some hullabaloo about it online. I didn't look at it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I figure even without paying my bills, i'll be dropping 2K this week

yes but I know people even shorter

you know, that's good. it really didn't n eed to be there

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Wow. I need to drop about that. Or more. I keep thinking, if I could get a better paying job, maybe I could also either refinance or get a home improvement loan, get the A.C. installed, a new fence, a new yard barn and do something with the toilet.

Actually, I do, too.

I could see people wanting to see it, for the sick fascination, but not me. Blergh.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I hear you

even the two med student wanna-bes didn't want to see it but were trying to desensitize themselves

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Ewwwwwwww. Go ahead and give them your wound care magazines.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Oh I do and my books of dissected humans. I want some of the footage from the medics to give them an idea of what triaging something like that's like

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Make sense.

[havocmangawip.livejournal.com]

Spice up the color with some accent pillows?? But COMFY... is love.

SOoooo... I really like "Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak" by Macy Grey, and then there is a Jason Mraz song... "O. Lover"... kinda dirty, HOT...

Macy...
http://youtu.be/ePNCqw11CD4

Mraz
http://youtu.be/YwATXJL_nAc

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it comes with accent pillows. I might get more. they have such nice ones now.

I don't know these two so I'll look them up, thanks

Hang in there!

[idic-writer.livejournal.com]

On all counts. ;)

Re: Hang in there!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

Shoulder: OW OW OW!

Couch: Always buy furniture to match your pets and vice versa. Really. We had a couch that was brown with white and orange type designs... went really well with the white and orange cat hair.

Basketball Player: That's what happened to my great aunt Tiny. Except she had to walk to a nearby house to call an ambulance for her unbeknownst to her dead boyfriend. They were in a car accident. He was crushed to death, she had a horrible leg fracture.

Soundtrack: The Cure for contemplative. Hard rock, raunchy must be Throw Rag. >:D Sex, I'd say Voltaire but that's just because I love his voice.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

big ouch

I thought of that myself which is why I passed on some of the darker covers but having a black and white cat means you're kinda screwed regardless

poor aunt Tiny

hmmm good suggestions thanks

[priarani560.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I'm sure the couch is going to be just lovely.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks.

Even if it's not lovely, it IS comfortable and that's more important on these arthritic bones

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

That's why I can't afford Nexium and am managing on generic Prilosect OTC. I know that's not an option for you, tho'.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

actually they will give it to low/no income for 18$ you just have to call them up or so the ads say. When I made less, they gave me huge coupons all the time.