...and I cancel the earthlink account I've been paying $34.95 a month for even when I'm not in New York to use it, shooting myself in the foot as I'll probably be back in New York before too long and will now need to set up a Verizon account a week or so before I get there and hope for the best.
I was supposed to be paying $25 a month, after my conversation with them last year, but that expired and was a special promotion anyway, they told me, and I was back to $34.95. That in itself was a vast improvement over the $49.95 they had been charging me, but still, in this 'ere recession and all, $34.95 seemed like a lot to be paying when I wasn't using it. Of course they had just billed me for a month, so I have service even though I'm not there till the 14th or so of August, and will probably go to New York in September.
Next on the recession list is Dish Satellite TV, which appears to be charging me $73 a month when service began three years ago at something like $49. ADT home security is already cancelled, or will be as soon as John contacts them as my name wasn't on the original service order, saving me $30 a month. Trash pickup, at $40 a quarter, has been cancelled, and I made a trip to the dump - excuse me, landfill - last week with all the bags in the back of the Volvo.
Next comes adding it all up to see how much I'm saving a month, and then figuring out what to do with the "extra" money.
17 July, 2009
10 July, 2009
Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron square the Ascendant
Seeing as how my last post here seems to have been way back in June and it's now July 11th, I suppose what this aspect means to me is that this poor blog is being totally neglected as there are so many more time-consuming things that are going on. My daily engagement book (hysterical laughter) is full of cryptic notes - Sun square Neptune, squeaked in on time with credit card payment -Mercury trine Chiron, find out Nicola is staying in Spain - but there doesn't seem to have been time to settle in at the computer and write up one day's aspect. Today though, with the aspect, Chiron R square the Ascendant exact tomorrow and today's manifestation, are (is?) too good even for a frazzled person not to write up, pardon my syntax.
Since March or so 2002, when I was finally *allowed* by my ex-employer's insurance company to go to a psychiatrist not of its choosing, I've been taking 300 mg. daily of Wellbutrin XL, a time release antidepressant. At first, the cost of this was covered by the insurance company, and then by the $3,000 allowance from the 9/11 Mental Health Victims' Fund (I think that's what it was called).
When that ran out, I intended to call GlaxoSmithKline and ask if they made out-of-date medication available to those who couldn't afford the real thing, but was told in time by the psychiatrist I see that there's a program called Bridges to Access by which GSK make medication available to those whom Dame Edna calls paupers at no charge. Since then, having enrolled in the program with the help of Dr. M, I call every three months and request a refill of my 300 mg. Wellbutrin XL, which is promptly mailed to me.
Today, with about 14 pills left, I called for my refill and was told by a very nice lady at the other end of the phone that GSK has relinquished all rights to Wellbutrin XL to a company called Biovail and can no longer provide that specific medication through Bridges to Access. She told me a letter saying just that had gone out to all patients and doctors concerned at the beginning of June, and was surprised that I hadn't received it. She gave me a phone number for Biovail and suggested I call, and also suggested I visit my doctor to see what he or she had to say. I didn't tell her I was in New Mexico and my doctor was in New York, thanked her very much for all her helpful information, and determined to make an entry here before the day was out. Sometimes one could wish astrology were not quite so literal.
Since March or so 2002, when I was finally *allowed* by my ex-employer's insurance company to go to a psychiatrist not of its choosing, I've been taking 300 mg. daily of Wellbutrin XL, a time release antidepressant. At first, the cost of this was covered by the insurance company, and then by the $3,000 allowance from the 9/11 Mental Health Victims' Fund (I think that's what it was called).
When that ran out, I intended to call GlaxoSmithKline and ask if they made out-of-date medication available to those who couldn't afford the real thing, but was told in time by the psychiatrist I see that there's a program called Bridges to Access by which GSK make medication available to those whom Dame Edna calls paupers at no charge. Since then, having enrolled in the program with the help of Dr. M, I call every three months and request a refill of my 300 mg. Wellbutrin XL, which is promptly mailed to me.
Today, with about 14 pills left, I called for my refill and was told by a very nice lady at the other end of the phone that GSK has relinquished all rights to Wellbutrin XL to a company called Biovail and can no longer provide that specific medication through Bridges to Access. She told me a letter saying just that had gone out to all patients and doctors concerned at the beginning of June, and was surprised that I hadn't received it. She gave me a phone number for Biovail and suggested I call, and also suggested I visit my doctor to see what he or she had to say. I didn't tell her I was in New Mexico and my doctor was in New York, thanked her very much for all her helpful information, and determined to make an entry here before the day was out. Sometimes one could wish astrology were not quite so literal.
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