Glurg, ack, and other useful words

Awake (sort of). Coffee. I'll have breakfast at 11:30 am so that my meal-every-four-hours schedule coincides with when George is getting up this evening. I plan to make meat loaf now that my injured finger is healed enough to take the immersion in raw ground beef.

I was looking through Please Don't Eat The Daisies by Jean Kerr for good articles to do optical character recognition on; I wish I could find my copy of The Snake Gets All The Lines, which I just know is around here somewhere. I don't have time to spend on searching right now but will hunt it down after February 29th.

Listening to a biography of Humphrey Bogart on The Biography Channel. Most interesting.

Back to work.

Dinner and Pharmacare

Dinner is on. Today I'm trying a variation on my meatloaf recipe, substituting a small tin of Primo pizza sauce for the ketchup and HP sauce; since this adds more liquid to the mix, I've upped the oatmeal content from 1/3 of a cup to 1/2 of a cup. We'll see how it turns out.

A letter arrived yesterday from Pharmacare dated February 21st, informing me that my application has been processed and that my deductible for this year (from April to April) is $1014. I'll have to add up my little stack of prescription receipts to see whether or not I've already hit that magic number; if I have, I might have a cheque coming to me for the amount that's over and above the deductible.

EDITED TO ADD: I just called the pharmacy and got them to check their system for the total. I'm about $400 over and above the deductible. Wahoo! Tomorrow I'll call Manitoba Health and ask them about whether or not that amount is coming back to me as a cheque.

I've got eight more pages to go in order to hit my MM daily target. I think I'll be able to actually go to bed by 11 pm tonight! Oh, the small joys.