mountain_laurel

how gorgeous to have a day to relax after so much unaccustomed activity! i had planned to get together with Michele, but by the time we were both awake enough to make a plan it would've taken her too long to get to Pacifica, and we both wanted to be home by dinnertime so we can unwind before the Thanksgiving madness starts. so we'll hang out next Wednesday.

now i get to put together my shopping list for my own turkey dinner, and for the cranberry sauce i'm bringing for Warren and Shirley tomorrow -- i'll be using bc's famous recipe involving Jack Daniels and orange juice. mmmmmm.

i think i'm going to go ahead and roast a whole (small) turkey. last year i did a breast and i really missed the dark meat. and god, i just adore turkey. i can eat it for days after Thanksgiving, and freeze the carcass for soup later, and some of the breast meat for pot pies. it's just so. damn. good.

re: big bag o' drugs, my psychiatrist talked the Effexor rep into giving her a month's supply for me, so even if none of the patient assistance stuff comes through, i'll save about $300 on medication. she thinks i'm a good bet for patient assistance as well, though, and that would get me an additional three months' worth -- so even if i'm not employed till february, i'd be covered on at least one of my medications. yay! she's also working on the other expensive medication i take, Neurontin -- if she can get me help on that as well, the others are pretty cheap, so it's no problem for me to shell out for them on my own. ("cheap" meaning "no more than $50/month each", which may not seem cheap to you, but when you consider that the other two are $300/month each...)

i'm feeling not-so-awful about life right now. it seems like my insurance and medical issues are, while certainly sub-optimal, being resolved. between that and the enthusiastic resume response i got a couple of days ago (i'll be hearing back next week -- they're all out of the office for Thanksgiving the rest of this week), i'm feeling like life is not entirely one great big bowl of suck.

but i'm still really, really tired. time for me to go out and brave the madding crowd in the grocery, and then retire back to my cozy lair for an evening of TV and laziness.