Bootless and undergloved

Turns out that I couldn't find my boots when I got ready to shovel yesterday. I am hoping that they are in the boot (tee hee) or at the Smith (not so funny)(They were). I found a pair of boots that I had when I was in 8th grade - needless to say my feet are breathing a sigh of relief from having been released from that torture chamber! And my gloves were not appropriate for shoveling in single digit (I know, I have ten digits (or do toes count as well - in which case I have, er, let me take off my socks and count...nineteen? No, that can't be correct - er, ten toes and ten fingers makes, hmm, 20, twenty digits) temperatures. I recalled having a pair of deep winter gloves in my closet - while mom kept urging me to use her snazzy aquamarine gloves. Luckily, the ones I remembered were right where I thought they were. The actual shoveling wasn't too difficult. Except for the end of the driveway bit. That is never a fun bit to shovel.

I found a pedometer that I gave to mom long ago that she never used. I had wanted her to keep track of how far she walked each day and to strive for 1000 steps. She didn't even open the package. Oh well. I have opened it and put it on. According to the counter thingie, I have already gone 1300+ steps - 5000 being healthy sort of apparently give or take. And it isn't even noon. Somewhere along the way the counter got reset - silly if that is possible without holding a couple of buttons down at the same time. Anyway, I think I did well over 5000 yesterday. And I think I do well over 5000 everyday. Well, most days.

A thought occurred to me, and since this is my blog space, I will write about it. This probably should go in my political blog - but I haven't really posted anything there yet. So, maybe I will put this there at some point. Anyway...

Who came up with the idea of "Open Enrollment" periods for health insurance? What kind of craziness is that? If I want car insurance, I don't have to wait for open enrollment. If I want life insurance, I don't need to wait for open enrollment. If I want dental or vision, ok, well, I don't know about them, but I am guessing that I don't have to wait for open enrollment. Why on earth do I have to wait for an open enrollment period for health insurance?! Just another way for the insurance companies to control our health. Get insurance companies out of our health! For realz!