OH CRAP! I'm sorry, I totally forgot to call you this weekend, MM. Sorry. I was in Redlands all weekend, visiting with family in from out of town.

Excuses, excuses, you fucking fuck.

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We started the year with Anthem, switched in February to this weird plan that no one ever heard of, and July apparently will be Aetna.

IME with Aetna, some of their plans are very inclusive, and some not. My office offers two versions of their dental plan - one which includes practically every dentist in the city, and one which includes maybe three. It's craxy.

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IME with Aetna, some of their plans are very inclusive, and some not.

I know that can happen, so I just did an end run around Aetna and called my OB/GYN, and she's not on any of Aetna's plans.

I take some comfort that my super-amazing godlike primary-care doctor is on Aetna. For *him* I would pay massive out-of-network fees if I had to.

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I'm betting that by October we're on to a plan where our medical coverage is just some dude with a car trunk full of rusty hand saws and NyQuil.

On the upside you might be able to hire him to take people out for you on the cheap.

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Kristin- i feel you on the dreaded phone calls. The hardest part of SMing for me (not the drama or the crazy people or the 20 hours days) was the pre-production phone calls. Calling everyone in the cast (or their parents for kidlets) to let them know first day of rehearsal, times and locations, script updates, schedling stuff, etc. etc. I would put it off as long as possible and would literally get myself worked up to physical illness trying to will myself to pick up the phone and make first contact. Especially the first year i did ACC and have to make over 50 phone calls just to the cast....ugh. That was terrible and took me days because of course everyone wanted to know who *I* was and what happened to the previous SM and argh i hated explaining that 20+ times to all the adults. At least the parents didn't ask, they just had thirteen gazillion questions about tickets and performances and conflicts....it was always a relief to get an answering machine because then i could just spiel out my scripted bit and hang up. Which was a sstupid way of thinking, because it was far more useful to actually speak to the person in question to confirm that it was in fact the correct numbers (actors are notoriously bad about calling back to confirm that they have recived information and will indeed be showing up at the right place at the right time and understand that there is a costume fitting before rehearsal starts blah blah blah) but i always felt a terribly misguided warm floor of relief when i got that voicemail greeting.

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Happy Birthday, askye!

I hope you feel better, Steph. My only thought to add about calling the doctor is to get ruled out whatever they need to rule out earlier rather than later.

This. I know it's probably nothing, but I would worry about you less if I knew a doctor had ruled out the possibility of something. Also, I'm so sorry about the health plan change. I agree with everyone--talk to your OB/GYN to see if there's a chance she could become part of the Aetna network (ETA: just read your post...I wish you wonderful new OB/GYN search luck. So sorry.). But please, please don't put off getting your ultrasound, okay?

So much tummy ~ma to you and to Fay, who I sincerely hope is feeling better today.

It's Blarney Castle! Hilarious, no?

Jars, that's hysterical.

Poor hurting Buffista pups! Healing~ma to them both.

Blah. My subconscious has been fucking with me hardcore the last two nights. Night before last, I dreamed I had to cut off kittens' heads. I shit you not. Last night, I had an intense dream about my ex-husband that brought back all of the pain and guilt and homesickness from the divorce. WTF, brain?!?!?

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Guess who is (sort of) blonde???

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Me!

...wait. I thnk you were looking for another answer.

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Guess who is (sort of) blonde???

Buh-WHUH?!

Get over here! I wanna see!

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Happy Birthday, askye!

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