A friend with a 6yo has been decluttering her kid’s toys and mentioned having a bunch to donate/that I won’t be ready for them for years. I accidentally said out loud that I don’t want a whole lot of plastic shit. And this was offensive.
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Is COBRA an option for either?
Nope, it’s complicated. They were on XH’s policy, and he retired from the military last week. There is a retired military plan, but it’s expensive and he’s not going to use it because he qualifies to get his own care from the VA and doesn’t want to pay for just the kids. AND Kid-3 has refused to speak to XH for three years now, so he wouldn’t be getting that policy even if XH did want to enroll in it.
I’m on Medi-Cal (Medicaid expansion). I’m sitting in their office right now (and have been for a LONG time) trying to see if I can add Kid-4 to mine.
Then next month I do it all again because California is requiring Uber drivers to become employees, which means I won’t qualify for Medi-Cal anymore after January 1.
Edited to add the complaint that XH informed Kid-4 of this LAST TUESDAY and suggested she could just go without insurance. 
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XH is just the “gift that keeps on giving” isn’t he? I thought it might be this. But it was worth positing COBRA since you can wait a bit then buy in if needed. Sadly it is often a pricey option.
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I am either freezing or sweating my ass off at all times, no middle ground.
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Kiddo’s class is doing an elf. As in Elf On The Shelf. Last year kiddo’s class had Santa visit (that won’t be happening this year). We weren’t going to do the Santa thing, but fine, whatever, it makes him happy and god knows we talk about unicorns and Jedi and other fictional stuff all the time like it’s real.
But fuck that elf.
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you just need a good excuse to avoid it.Jumping back into the icy cold annoyance of this work project after five glorious days off
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I fell and skinned my knee a few days ago. It still hurts and is super annoying. Also constantly reminds me of being an idiot because it happened, so my pride is wounded too lol.
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I like that this comment is utterly baffling to me, but I know that it is perfectly comprehensible to Elle, to whom it is directed.
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I don’t want to build 2020 forecast numbers for work today. Such bullshit. It’s more throwing darts to predict what’s going to happen over things we have zero control on. Sigh.
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It probably isn’t comprehensible to anyone but me 
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It made perfect sense to me.
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I don’t want to write my self-assessment at work.
I mean, I never want to write them under the best of circumstances, but this year it’s going to be tougher. Because we reorg’ed and now we are under a different overlord, because our overlord (and that overlord’s overlord) got laid off.
I used to be able to write “I learned/found/used this cool techie thing” and go into the details of said techie thing (we have a line item on our assessment about innovation and automation and other things that end in -ation, haha). And all the relevant players would understand the value of it. Now, only my boss would get it. So we’ve been instructed to quantify the time savings of each Thing.
Which… I can do, I guess? Though it’s going to be a pain in the ass to backtrack and essentially time myself doing tasks the old way vs new way.
Also, I miss that I can’t just say “you guys, I learned how to do this THING” and get “OMG, shiny!!” in response because everyone who got laid off understood my job but our new overlords don’t really get what we do.
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My dominant hand/wrist/arm is being fucky and in pain lately and I can’t do anything I like without making it worse and I can’t find my wrist brace.
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It is my bedtime and I only have done one round of my sweater knitting because I got home late because I did an after work coffee (well hot non-alcoholic cider) with a person considering a job change who wanted to talk.
And she is not a good fit for either of the two teams who are adding new folks in January 
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I hate how, when I delete an entire paragraph or heading, Word adds a space. If I wanted to add a space, I would have highlighted it and hit the spacebar, not the backspace/delete key.
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I’m hungry and the food I brought to work is boring. I want thai food.
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My mom said she’d be here to help with the baby at like 9:30. It’s 10:15 and I haven’t heard from her at all 
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I got an email from my credit union yesterday offering a $50 bonus for opening a new account. Yay! But in the fine print it said the account must be opened by November 26. What?
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