So here we are.

As the final episodes credits rolled from the Monk marathon yesterday, I turned off the TV at 11 PM and called it a night. It wasn't like I was exhausted from running around all day. In fact, I napped for one entire episode and a half that afternoon. I did wake up at 6:30 that morning, but there was nothing else to do but read- my eyes were too tired to read. As I began to slowly swim away from consciousness and into dreamland I began to evaluate my day. Dull, simple day. I am house-sitting again, in a different location. I have the house to myself for the long weekend. When I'm not at home home, I tend to get all 'Molly Maid' / Martha Stewarty. You know, make the bed perfectly, do all the dishes in the sink every so often so a huge pile doesn't grow to the point of it being unbearable and unfun to look at or wash. I have an urge to bake cookies, pancakes, or a roast. Then the daydream thoughts get to my head: I wish to sit down in the front room and enjoy a nice, chilled glass of White Zinfandel, watching the sun set through the West Window, and read a book. I wish to Line Dry white linens, plant white roses in the yard, make trips to have tea with the neighbors...

It's all very funny, isn't it?

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I am not calling you anymore.

The clocks are telling me not to.

Buh-bye.


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The ignorant bastards of the healthcare debate.

Here are some comments on photobucket that I have found in response to this image:

...what's wrong with Laci? Hasn't she heard of COBRA? I mean they offer that. Now she can pay 750 dollars a month for insurance now that she's unemployed. That's reasonable!

No, $750 a month for health insurance is not reasonable. Especially if you are jobless. That is close to and over, for most people, one months worth of rent. Either live on the streets and have health insurance, or have a home over your head for you and your family and pray nothing happens to you. You might as well live in a bubble pumped with oxygen and never have contact with the outside world.

Adam is right. We are not a fucked up socialist system like the Brits, we became the most powerful country in the world through capitalism. If you want something, you pay for it. This is a country of motivation, not sitting around waiting for those who worked hard to subsidize your lazy ass. And for laci, if you can't be bothered to get off your ass and find a job and succumb to illness, then no, you don't deserve to be alive

You are a complete tit. Britain is not a 'fucked up socialist system' and we are pretty much going to be gobbled up by the Chinese soon if you don't start shutting the hell up and jinxing us about being the most powerful country 'evorz'. Did you even read the picture? Laci said she lost her job that day. You've made a complete ass of yourself by even daring to say such things. Why? Here is a good reason from a fellow commenter who is from the United Kingdom:

I pay about £150 ($240) a month out of a £24,000 ($39,000) a year salary to national insurance here in England, and for that I can break my leg, slice my hand open, get brain surgery, get any disease, including carcer etc all treated, even if its pre exsisting, have a baby, go to the emergency room for anything, and see my doctor for anything, and have to pay £0 ($0) for any of it. Any drugs I need cost about £7.10 ($11.50) for any amount, even cancer, or AIDS drugs. How can anyone say this is a bad system, noone gets left out, everyone pays what they can, the more you earn the more you pay, and noone is ever, EVER denied health care.

You tell 'em. This sounds like an excellent plan to me! The British are seriously fed up with people like you saying their health system is 'fucked up' and are willing to defend it. The amount of money they pay per month is based off their salary- what it should be like for everyone. Not "I don't care if you work at McDonalds and have severe depression, OCD and epilepsy- we're not going to provide you with insurance because you are a walking disaster." Yep, that's what the health insurance companies do over here. The premiums are sometimes so costly, they don't even want to deal with you. Let's hear about this from a fellow American who has this problem:

To everyone who says "pay for it" that can't always be done. There are people like me, who despite being willing and able to pay for insurance, will be refused health insurance because they are considered "liabilities" due to medical conditions. I literally cannot pay Insurance companies enough money to insure me. That is why there needs to be universal care - something to ensure that people like me, will receive medical benefits when they would be rejected by the machine who only sees the bottom line, and not what is necessary to keep people alive.

Trust me, so long as you have money in the account, the fed's can see that, you will be paying at least a buck each month for your insurance. How can I prove this? For my FAFSA for college funding, I put that I had no job and $0 in my bank account at the time of filing. I still was expected to pay $43 a year toward my college education. Not much, but it's still money expected to be given out of my own pocket. Insurance won't be free. It will just be affordable.

Mentally exhausted.

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