Monday

This is where I am every morning - center lane mostly. It's 25 yards and I usually do 92 lengths or 46 laps. Front crawl only, non-stop. I'm not breaking any speed records. It takes me an hour.



I really do love it so much. It's so freeing for a fat girl to experience the buoyancy of water and the gracefulness that it enables. That it counts as exercise is just a double big fat bonus.

Another bonus is the traffic. Since those horrible two weeks after school started, the traffic between the pool and home has gotten steadily palatable. This morning it was a breeze. So nice.

I think today is going to be insurance day. I think I'll just bite the bullet and spreadsheet my options and then make the phone calls and then decide. I'm probably making a much bigger deal out of this than it needs to be but I have the time and the energy and probably more options than most so why waste the privilege?

This looks to be a quiet week here which is fine by me. I have dolls to make, TV to watch and, it turns out, Maria Semple's new book is pretty engaging after all.

Insurance, Check

What a PIA that turned out to be. But, out of a dozen options only one met all my criteria so it turned out to be not a difficult choice. Humana.

Their fitness option is Silver Sneakers instead of my current Silver and Fit so this means that once again, I will have to rejoin the gym. This will make 4 times in 18 months. I am sure I hold the record at least for this location. But for a free membership, I shall not quibble. Plus, yet another chance to get a better ID photo.

Humana will also, finally, give me online access to my insurance records. My current 1970's era insurance does not even provide an email address for simple feedback. Oh and Humana gave me a paperless option. I single handedly killed whole forests with this last insurance company.

None of them, apparently, provide drug purchase history online which is 1. curious and 2. annoying as heck. The drug info is the one bit that is critical and most needed. I still have one inhaler I can get before 12/31 for $30 under medicare rules. Any more than that will cost me $300-400 each before January. I have a bit of an inhaler stash, so I can easily get by on one til January. I do need to wait until the new insurance ID comes through, though. 10 days. Again, no biggie.

The dolls du jour

Now that I worked so hard to ensure that my insurance will cover the gym, I realized a major flaw in my thinking. The insurance covers my gym because they provide Silver Sneakers. Silver Sneakers contracts with the gym. I'm fairly confident that Humera will keep Silver Sneakers through 2017. I'm not nearly so confident that Silver Sneakers will keep LA Fitness through 2017. But, I have no way of finding out so now that I've worried about it for a couple of hours, I'm going to stop.

Worse case, they don't and I'll have to pay. Or find another pool. Future bridge crossing. I'm done for now.