Just One of 'Dem Days ...

I'm just annoyed, that's all. No real problems in my life, just little stuff that's bugging me:

-I just got a call from my doctor's office because I submitted a refill for a daily prescription that I take. The assistant with whom I spoke told me that I had to come in the office for a checkup and that from now on I had to come in every THREE MONTHS just for the hell of it. Ugh, what is the point of me taking a third of a day off and pay an insurance copay to go to the doctor's office to have a conversation with my doctor just for the hell of it? I mean, this is rather pointless. Sure, it's under the guise of "my health" or whatever, but why the sudden change after I've been going to him for almost 18 months?

-I've been getting a bill for $30 from my dermatologist for something in January. Now, $30 is my required copay for specialists, but there's no way I would have left without paying. They wouldn't let me out the door. Of course, the billing is done off-site, and I'm sure that whatever outsourced company I call will just look on a screen and tell me that I owe $30 without explanation as to why. I haven't bothered calling yet because I just don't feel like it. I've been to the dermatologist at least three times since then, and this unpaid balance hasn't been a problem.

-I've also recently received a statement in the mail from my cancelled MasterCard for something like $300. I cancelled this card back in January with a zero balance, confirmed it with the agent on the phone, and received a letter indicating as such. This is the first statement I've gotten since January, and I'm sure they'll claim it's for some bullshit partial-billing cycle interest payment, plus accumulated late charges. At the time I thought "wow, this sure was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be" since I know that a lot of credit card companies will make you jump through hoops to try to cancel your account. Again, I haven't bothered to call because I just don't feel like going through the whole automated rigamarole on phone, waiting on hold for eight to ten minutes, and then explaining my situation to an agent and waging a war over it. Maybe when I'm painfully bored I'll deal with it.

-While I'm trying to keep my financial commitments low in lieu of my home repairs and subsequent sale, I can't help but long for a trip of some kind about which I can get excited. I'll have a few beach weekends coming up this summer (S.C. with the family and then Rehoboth and Fire Island with friends), nothing's set in stone, plus I want to do something fun with my close friends here in DC. We had these grandiose plans to rent a house in Provincetown, Mass., this summer and then go to a fun urban (probably Pride) weekend somewhere. Well, P-Town has fallen through because not everyone wants to spend what it's going to take to rent something in high season there, and our decided-upon pride weekend, Chicago, is not inspiring much excitement in us all (since we picked it at random and not because we heard it was a fun weekend, per se). Plus my two friends in Chicago said Market Days in August was more fun then Pride in June. So who knows, we may just scrap Chicago and go back to San Francisco, our old tried-and-true. But as a beach lover, I'm still really bummed that we haven't been able to pull something together for the summer. Not only that, I actually TURNED DOWN offers to join other people's shares in Rehoboth this summer because I thought that my close friends were going to do something. UGH!!!

-Yesterday was my first day back in the gym on the weights in a solid month. Between being sick for a couple of weeks with early-spring congestion and such and my grueling travel schedule, I just haven't had the energy or desire to hit the weights. Though yesterday was a struggle and I didn't do my original full routine, I did leave feeling better and satisfied with what I did do. So I'm going to make a special effort to go every day this week (save for Friday, which will be haircut day). My friend Matt's coming down from New York for the weekend, and I know for a fact I won't make it anywhere near the gym while he's in town. Mercifully I am still slender and have kept off the 25lbs that I lost last fall. Now I just need to tone up a little and I'll be set for swimsuit season (well, plus some trip to the fake bake, lol).

-My psoriasis has been acting up the past few weeks due to my illness and my having missed two doses of my current treatment method (injected medication), but I think I'm starting to get a handle on it. Again, I'll have to rid myself of my "spots" (with the help of the aformentioned treatment and some tanning) before I can hit the pool or beach this summer.

-A lot of my clothes, and in particular most of my dress clothes, don't fit due to the weight loss. Yes, I know, better they be too loose than too tight, but the fact that all of my suits look like sacks on me is not flattering. Not to mention my shoe wardrobe could use a little freshening up, too. I've been good about keeping discretionary spending low recently, so I just need to get to work on some clothes and shoe shopping.

-And I wish Hillary Clinton would just go away.