…tanned, rested and ready, and I find a letter from my insurance company that says my new dental plan covers all of $40 of a nearly $400 bill for replacing a crown I broke just before Christmas.
Oh, and I owe on the vacation, too. And we heat our home — as do many people in New England — with an oil-fired furnace, and we just got a delivery. Oh, yes, and my car needed repairs. Why does this suddenly sound like a bad country song?
Have no fear, though. From here, I see that applying for TARP
(Troubled Assets Relief Program) funds takes less than a half-hour — and that’s including the time it takes a financial person to explain it to me. Now I could just figure out how to incorporate my sad financial empire…
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Your sad financial empire … that was great …
Sez you. Maybe I could take up a donation? Give a sermon, lead a song, pass the collection plate? ‘Twould be in keeping with my religious upbringing. Or maybe I can start that all-purpose building fund, like churches sometimes do.
I kid. Sort of.
Stand on a street corner with banjo and cardboard sign saying:
“I play banjo for food. I stop playing for money.”
However, I’ve sat on picnic tables at rest stops between here and Missouri playing and no one has ever thrown money in my case. But I didn’t have the sign….
What a great idea! And I’ve heard me play banjo so I know I could make a lot of money stopping. That, or I’ll promise to eat a bug for a dollar.
Tod, when’s your next concert? The entire Dating Jesus community wants to come and heckle.
Let me know when you figure THAT one (TARP) out, I’ll be in line right behind you. The chiropractor I have trusted for a decade with my cranky back and neck is not on our new health insurance, and though the darling is willing to see me for $50 a visit (a deal, compared to others) it still adds up. Just can’t bring myself to try someone new–trust is important when it comes to chiropractic.
Probably a performance coming up in DC in the next few months. Other regular appointees to a board I am on have pushed me for awhile since they always see me hauling my banjer back and forth. Can’t say no forever.
Shucks..might even do a cover of “She Left Me for Jesus” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyxEO9dqi44/
I couldn’t load “She Left Me for Jesus,” so I went directly to YouTube (the nation’s television network) and looked it up myself. Awesome song, and — bonus! — Hayes Carll looks like the Norwegian Jesus in my Bible! Is that freaky? Or what?
Did you watch any of “The Book of Daniel?” The Jesus-character in that was very bland/blond/unsuitable for the role. Poorly acted too.
That was something I kept meaning to watch, starring as it did Aidan Quinn, but I never got around to it. I sometimes think about getting ahold of some of the DVDs to catch up. Is it worth it, blond-Jesus notwithstanding?
Worth it……… Well, hmm. It’s a big sloppy soap opera with lots of intertwining stories about the minister, his family, his minister dad, his inadvertent connection to The Mob, his mom’s Alzheimers, and on and on, and if you like that kind of interweaving (which I do), it’s worth it. But it’s not brilliant. I watched several episodes in one sitting (as I did with the first season of Brothers and Sisters), so I keep expecting to run into these people. (Actually Kathleen Chalfant who plays the mom is the mother-in-law to a Nields, so I DID see her at a folk festival last summer!)
But back to DENTAL INSURANCE — what is UP with that? Last I heard the mouth and its furniture was definitely a part of the body, right? So why isn’t it covered as such? Horrible things can happen if that area isn’t taken care of.
Excuse me — WERE definitely part of the body…….