May 31, 2017
12:56 a.m.

Ah, peace and quiet. The household is asleep. There is not toddler on my lap scribbling on my bills or singing to me (not that I'm complaining--she's welcome in my lap!) and I am typing without little hands trying to help.

This means I may finish before dawn!

You know--maybe!

I am enjoying the quiet, though. It's nice.
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Speaking of the toddler, though--what a character. The parents ran off for a grown up evening and I kept her. We put on the movie "Sing" to watch. There's a character, a gorilla, who sings the Elton John hit "I'm Still Standing", and my granddaughter loves it. I left her watching and went to get water. When I returned to my room, I looked in to see her  pretending to play piano and mouthing the words.
So cute!

Later, we were looking for something at my desk and I found this large plastic ruler that I use for some art work. It has longish lines that my granddaughter instantly decided were piano keys. She lay it in front of her on my desk and started "playing the piano" and singing "I still standing! Like a little kid! I still standing! Like a little kid!"

We tried to get it on video, with marginal results. Once she saw the camera she started cheesing for a picture. But let me tell you--cutest thing ever!
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I spent a good deal of time on the phone today, first calling to make sure old films had been sent to the new place I went to for this year's mammogram, and then with my insurance company.

Have you ever noticed how hard it is to get a straight answer from your insurance company about,,,well, anything?

I know what my co-pays are for most things--doctor visits, specialist visits, outpatient procedures and the like. My screening mammogram was no charge to me, as it is a fully covered well-woman preventative service. But once you get that call-back, it's a whole different story.

All I wanted to know was how much I could expect to have to pay on Friday, if anything. After over an hour on the phone with a very nice lady, all I know is that my out of pocket is 20% of the billable portion payable my my insurance.

Basically, that means that my insurance will be billed whatever the clinic bills, and then they will decide what portion of that is actually the allowed billable amount and I will owe 20% of that amount.

In other words, I have no idea what I'm going to be expected to pay.

Yay.

At least I have insurance. So I guess I will just play it by ear.

That's how I deal with everything else, anyway! Haha!
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I was going to try to upload the video of my singing sensational granddaughter, but that didn't go well. Maybe later I'll be able to share that bit of super-fun with you all.

On the meantime, I'm running on fumes. So it's time for the "good-nights".

Good-night!!