Good evening. We start tonight’s newscast with the weather – we enjoyed about 6 inches of snow last night, and while a fair bit melted today in the glorious sunshine, it is still pretty snowy out there.
Yes folks, that’s right. When I picked up my sister and nephew yesterday at 1 p.m., it was still fall. When I dropped them off around 4 – it was winter. Gotta love the Canadian prairie. But it was really lovely snow, perfect for snowmen and snowballs and thick, lovely whiteness. Much better than the first snow we usually get, which is barely a skiff but falls in a hideously cold wind, sweeping over the barren brown grass. There are still green leaves on the trees here, for mercy’s sake!
In other news, the merging of the families went splendidly and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. We did the draws for Christmas presents and ate a lot of ham. Good times. I didn’t have to resort to drinking myself as I was occupied in the kitchen for much of the evening. Also good.
Day 2 on Clomid and so far, so good. I don’t think I mentioned this before, but my new job has amazing benefits. They cover fertility drugs up to a lifetime maximum of $2500. When I went last week to pick up my prescription for the first time, I paid a grand total, for 2 cycles worth of Clomid, of 42……..CENTS! I just about screamed right there at the pharmacy pick-up counter. What would have been $125 cost me 42 cents. When I got in my car, I was hooting and honking my horn for at least a block!
I’m working the election tomorrow, which will be boring but probably a bit more fun than actual work because there will be more people to visit with. And also cause I really hope we can win back this riding, and I’ll be phoning supporters and harassing them into voting. Stephen Harper and his stupid, evil Tories seem to be cruising for another minority – here’s hoping! Then we’ll get to watch them all slowly implode, and you know there’s really nothing more fun than watching a long, painful, drawn out political death. (I know you are asking yourselves where is the crunchy granola Anna you’ve come to expect here – all I can say is that I’m still here, but with a strong Machiavellian streak you may not have expected.)
And then I have acupuncture at 4:30, and my very first support group meeting at 7:30. Woot!
Thanks for reading, and good night!
You are just so cute!!!!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!! (just think, next year I get to celebrate when you do)
I still do not get your political system yet but I am trying to follow the elections!!
I am VERY jealous of the snow!!!
I hope your support group was awesome!!!!!
We got an election going on down here too… my goodness I think we need a face to face borscht eating politics chatting get together:)
I so hear you about the joy of subsidized meds. I’d be squealing! On the retrieval morning my donor said “and now for the very expensive part of the egg donation” as I walked to the parking meter. I had to laugh. Literally the 8 dollars to park is the only thing we paid for (minus the initial consultation fees as we went privately to skip the public queue for an assessment and a few bits and bobs during the ‘tracked cycle’). I never for one minute forgot how lucky each and every covered health thing is.
I was equally psyched when I learned the drugs were covered!
You go girl! Glad that you are so well covered: there’s nothing like going to the pharmacy and seeing that your insurance is shit and you have to pay out the nose.
Snow??? Oh, my southern head is spinning! It’s OCTOBER!!! Back in Texas, it’d still be sweaty-summer-wilt weather! Here, of course, it is just truly beginning to be actual fall. On Oct. 1, someone flipped a switch and leaves started to change colors and drift off of the trees. This weekend, though, as I mowed the yard, I watched as it went from a slow drift to a much heavier swirl. And today, it’s forecasted to be 85 deg. So really- can’t it just be actual fall already? It’s still a couple of weeks before the leaves will really, REALLY fall, but soon- very soon.
Sounds like your thanksgiving was lovely. It took my stupid american brain a minute to figure out why you were celebrating thanksgiving so early, but DUH. You, like, live in Canada and stuff.
And yeah. Discovering that IF stuff is covered by insurance is AWESOME! Yay for 42 cents!
Ahhh yes – election day! I will be heading to the polls in an attempt to try and rid us of the Evil that is Mr Harper. Sadly I live in a super conservative place (we actually have someone running as part of the Christian Heritage Party – and he gets votes) so not sure if we can make it happen but a girl can dream huh?
I really, really, really hope that the early polls will scare the hell out of people and they will vote more strategically. I am looking forward to staying up late and watching with baited breath as the counts come in.
Am so excited for you with $0.42 – yet another wonderful Canadian thing we can be both thankful and proud of!
xoxo
I love the thought of you honking with happiness alone in your car. You make me smile.
I am thinking about you tonight and hoping the support group is everything you hoped it would be. I am still so proud of you for following your heart.
It’s such great news that the Clomid is covered by your insurance.
Hope the support group meeting went well!
The snow sounds absolutely beautiful.
Yay for 42c Clomid! You have to wonder why they bother charging you at all for that price ? Good Luck!
happy winter anna. and hooray for good insurance. wish I had me some of that.
you may have heard we have one of those election thingies here too in a few weeks. hoping we can take this one back too.
Well, the results are in and it’s minority government again. I don’t like Harper, never have, never will, but apparently we’re stuck with him for a while. These days, it’s like voting for the best out of the worst.
A toast to your cheap Clomid! Do you get airmiles out of it too?
Gotta love good insurance coverage. Happy belated Thanksgiving and anniversary to you! (I’m a bit behind on my reading and commenting)
Glad you had something to be thankful for, both the insurance and the fact that YOUR election is over.