Health Insurance is awful

I really really fucked up yesterday. I slept through therapy, and now there's a big chance that I'm going to lose my therapist and psychiatric nurse. My new insurance has this rule: If you miss an appointment, insurance will pay for that day. (Which happened Dec 20) On your second missed appointment the insurance will pay again, but you are no longer a client of that health group. I know, it's fucking horrible, especially because having zero sense of time is from my ADHD. I'm not blaming my ADHD for all of this, it was my responsibility to work around my ADHD, so it ultimately is my fault. But being forgetful and floating haphazardly through time is a symptom of ADHD, and that's part of what I'm being treated for! Plus I'm not even medicated, the nationwide Adderall shortage has us hoarding it for when school starts again.

My parents and I had a serious talk about this. I had to enter a weekly reminder on my phone and set a weekly alarm in front of them. I did that. They both said they will try to actively remind me about my appointments, even though it's not their job to. My parents also said if it will save me from losing my mental health services, they are willing to pay for the missed session out of pocket. Insurance doesn't have to be involved at all. My therapist told me she'll talk with the office, so now it's a waiting game.

Battlebots is back, my one weird guilty pleasure. I don't know jackshit about robots, engineering, electrical work, welding, whatever... but I love the show so much. I think it's extremely entertaining to watch two 250lb robots bump, slash, grab, flip, destroy, and explode. My dad and I watch it together before dinner, it's way more fun watching it with someone else. He actually really gets into it, which is funny because he doesn't know jackshit about robots either.

I passed out at 8pm-ish and woke up at 11am with a headache. Possibly pre-migraine. I decided to have a Coke just in case since I'm not going to sleep anytime soon anyway.

Still nothing growing in the polkadot plant basin. I fed Stumpie but she couldn't see anything in the light. I fed her at the entrance of her little cave and she spotted everything in low light. All my plants are looking good, even a semi-wilted pothos plant looks like it's coming back. 

I managed to get the other foot and one toe done on the pink cat before I realized that my headache was reaching the threshold of being a migraine. I had to go pop two Excedrin, and I basically just dicked around on Facebook and Reddit until it was partially alleviated. Then it was back to work.

I got all the toes done, gave it heels, and now I'm bulking up the sides to make them visually compatible with the large hands. After that it's time to make the head big. Exaggerated features come next. 

This has been such a slow endeavor. It's also the largest needle-felted piece I've done. Shame I'll only be charging $25 for all the work I've done, but let's face it, people aren't willing to spend more than that. And people wonder why artists starve...