It has now been a little over two weeks since I got in a fight with a sidewalk and since then, I've realized a few things. For one, it's suuuuuuuuuper interesting that not a single person anywhere asked how much I had been drinking. I hadn't been, of course, BUY WHY DOES EVERYONE ASSUME THAT? I think maybe I'm not perceived as "fun." That's how I'm taking it.
Another thing is HOLY MOTHER OF INSANITY IS DENTAL CARE EXPENSIVE. I'm like three hours into getting the evidence of the fight fixed and have already racked up over $4000 in bills. Insurance is covering a lot of that, but I'm still out a giant chunk of money. Like, a mortgage payment worth of money. If I add up appointments and estimates and such, it is costing about $1200/hours to rearrange things back to some semblance of normalcy. WHO HAS THAT? How did we reach a point where we collectively decided that was acceptable?
I'm totally serious. I had no choice but to go to an emergency room (which I haven't seen the bill for yet ... ::gulp::) and then to the dentist but people who don't have insurance? They have to decide to suffer or ... suffer. There is no choice. They either deal with pain and misery or they deal with debt and misery. It's not at all how the world should be.
Lastly, I have realized that my children have no souls. One of them has made fun of me endlessly for fighting with a sidewalk. Because she's mean. The other one has been extra needy, as if I don't have my own little world I'm trying to deal with. That's the kid who has gone from fearless to scared of her shadow in a *snap.* I don't entirely know why, but I think it has something to do with a fake hand that happens to be in my piles of Halloween decorations. She's having nightmares about it, which is great. I super love getting woken up fourteen times a night to hear about a nightmare involving a fake hand. o_O
You would think my children would be nicer. After all, I just spent all of their Christmas gift money on getting my teeth fixed. If they don't start being nicer, they're both getting a fake hand for Christmas.
