Stuology

I just did my benefits enrollment for next year, here are some numbers for coverage for me, Mac and Ada for the year 2006. There number are just the cost of the benefit and does not include co-pays and deductibles:

Medical: $11,338.34

Dental: $680.68

Vision: $185.90

Life Insurance: $211.58

Spouse Life Insurance: $91.20

AD&D Insurance: $40.30

Healthcare Spending Account: $1000

Independant Care Spending Account: $5000

Cost of benefits for 2006: $18,548

The company pays for $9,050.34 of that bill, leaving me with the rest. It gets higher and higher every year, and at a faster rate than my base pay gets higher. Then factor in the extra $6500+ in daycare costs that I can’t use my dependant care spending account for and the increased cost of gasoline and toll for traveling to work, and eek. I’m making way less and have way more job functions than when I started. I also didn’t just get an out of the blue bonus worth 100% of my annual salary either.

No wonder I’m starting to lose my drive. I think that I will go out for lunch and stop by to play with Ada.

Only slept 4 hours (again), woke up in pain, couldn’t keep my eyes open the ride into work, lost my id badge, stabbed my hand with a fork, my network account keeps getting locked out at work and the automatic reset system isn’t working for me, and a toilet just exploded while I was in the bathroom (at least I wasn’t on it at the time).

Now, I’m going to attempt to eat food. Wish me luck.

Let me run something down for you:

1. My car is in the shop for a total of $500

2. I have a presentation on testing in a few minutes, and my machine is freezing and crashing.

3. Ada was up every two hours last night crying.

4. My dog ran away.

So, let’s not write me making fun of me wishing my daughter a happy 5-month birthday. This is your official e-slap on the back of the head.

I was so tempted to just hit reload and get another one. I mean, WTF?

Oh well, from chernobylred.

Your Sexy Halloween Costume Is

Sexy Trekkie

Hmph.

Pulling Ada duty all weekend so that Mac could get plenty of sleep to shake his cold, I was exhausted last night. So exhausted that I could not even reach for the remote commander to change the channel when the local news came on. I was finally motivated to get off the sofa and head to bed when I heard the newscaster say these words:

So, what are these blogs and are they safe for your children to use?

Oh geez, here we go. A teeenager has stabbed her mother to death in KC, and oh, she had a blog where she posted about having fights with her mother. Now, Beware Children, for now your own thoughts are dangerous, and you shall not write them down for the general public, or even a group of friends to read.

We must save the children!!!

So, not only did I not get paid for part of my maternity leave, I have to pay my workplace for taking the time off because they don’t cover my benefits for that period of my maternity leave. So, add another $225 onto the medical bills.

Or, I could not pay it and have my insurance coverage canceled.

I had to include one of my LJ icons for this post:

Today has turned out thus far to be “one of those days.” Small annoyances are compounding together, mixed with my only 3.5 hours of sleep, and knocking my mood down the bottom rung of the mood ladder. It is far from my worst bad-day-a-thon, a day that started when I set myself on fire and tumbled downhill from there. The only harm that I’ve suffered today is burning my hand on the hot teapot this morning.

I already have Halloween costumes planned for Ada and I. Heh. Yeah, it is early, but I guarantee you will see Halloween decor and editables in the stores in a few weeks. Now we just need to find something to do for Halloween.

As is typical, I fed Ada in bed with me early this morning, so we both ended up falling asleep and not getting up until 12:40–yeah, about 25 minutes ago from this post. I was carrying her into the living room when lo and behold, I see that Oldsmobile that was in our cul-de-sac on Saturday. Ada is already screeching her head off, so I feed her while going back to my closet to get clothes. I put her down long enough to get dressed and find my phone. I’m just about to head out the door to take a picture of said car, including the plate, and it is gone.

Now, I’m pissed all over again.

However, I will keep watch to see if they come back today to continue working on my neighbor’s driveway. Perhaps they are just taking a lunch break.

So, after a nice afternoon, well a hot afternoon, of movie viewing a cool treat and a visit to see Tess’s new house, I come home to this. Just in time for me to be driving to work and wanting to spend money on a fence since the insurance situation just got cleared up. Vaffanculo–faccia di stronzo.

At least it looks like the damage is just to the bumper, so all it needs is reattached and a quick fix up of the paint, but it is still an inconvience and money and a hit-and-run, which always pisses me off. You made a mistake. Admit to it and take care of it. The cop that took the report was cute though.

Update: The cop came back by. The part they found lying by my bumper belongs to a 1992 Oldsmobile Cutlass. I saw a dark one when we left earlier. So, maybe we will find out who did it.

I found out yesterday evening when I logged into work to check e-mail that once again, IT was re-aligned. This is not new. We just went through this right before I left. I have yet another new boss, or rather, a different boss. This person was my boss when I first went to work for this company. I’ll be positive and tell my happy thoughts about this: two people who focus on interface design and html are now on our team after asking and asking for them ever since I’ve worked there. That means that I don’t have to do that anymore, hopefully. Yippee!!!

Okay, now the negative. This boss is a notorious hard-ass when it comes to the working environment. He would not give on flexible hours when I worked for him before. If I get my work from home schedule taken away from me, I will be mighty unhappy. If he makes us move to Raytown to be with the rest of his team, I’ll be even more mighty unhappy. Compound that with boring projects, not seeing a raise that has kept up with increasing expenses and cost of benefits, and not getting a promotion because I’m required to perform tasks that others with the same title and way more pay do not have to do, I’m not sure why I would want to stay with this job. Perhaps it will be time to do some job hunting, even though I hate job hunting and hate interviewing. Hate it.

It is a beautiful 84F outside right now. Perhaps I will go sit on my deck for a bit and then try to get some sleep. Later today I will be hopefully attending a viewing of The Island–the current Ewan McGregor movie that opened this weekend. From the previews, I’m getting a Logan’s Run with corny dialog feel from it, but it’s Ewan, so I will go and clap with glee.