I am frustrated. Yes, frustrated. I have been looking at different health insurance companies and policies for quite some time. I think I found the policy we will end up with from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield. The price is right and if I'm reading everything correctly it seems to have all the necessities but none of the extras we don't need. I sent it all along to my dad, a surgeon, to check over before signing up. The downside is that for the next 6 months if we have an oops baby then none of the maternity costs will be covered. zero. zilch. Which was kind of the whole point of getting new insurance in the first place. Oh well. We're not planning on having a baby for at least another year so that should be fine. Hopefully birth control will continue to be our friend. It hasn't let us down for the first 10 months of our marriage. As long as it lasts the next six months as well then I'll be happy.

So that has been a long and aggravating journey. I'll be relieved once we receive our insurance cards and know we are both insured properly and on the way to being covered for maternity. It seems wrong that we'll be paying for maternity coverage that won't even be put into effect for six months. Seems like our bill should be less for the first six months since the additional cost for maternity coverage is about a third of the entire bill. Oh well.

Other than that, this Saturday has been beautiful and refreshing. My head has finally stopped hurting after an entire week of excruciating pain in the same spot at the back of my head. I used to have horrible migraines that worried the doctors some, but then they ceased and now the pain is back. Hopefully nothing is growing back there. I had a friend in high school who had a brain tumor so I've always had the slight worry that I'll get one too. But, the pain is gone for now and I am free to think and feel and be cheerful once again. I woke up when Matt left for work instead of being lazy and sleeping until lunch. I cleaned most of the house and had an excellent work out. My thigh and calf muscles have been really tight lately so I spent most of the time stretching them out. I feel much more limber now. I tried to switch up my workout moves so my body would stay in a heightened state but not get too comfortable in the same old routine. I think it worked. Thank you, Shape magazine for constantly giving me new ideas and workouts.

I found the tux place we need to go to for Matt's fitting for the wedding. We'll do that this week sometime. He'll look so handsome. I'm glad I didn't go through the hassle of getting tuxes for all the guys. When I look at our pictures you can't tell they're all just wearing whatever black suits they had. They looked sharp and great and no one could tell the difference. My goal for the wedding was to make things as cheap for our attendants as possible. The bridesmaids dresses were on sale and very inexpensive, yet still beautiful and unique since I loathe David's Bridal and wouldn't go there for anything. The guys looked sharp and only had to pay for their fabulous gold ties. Everything was lovely. The guys all stayed with their own parents so no hotel fees were needed, and my out of town friends and bridesmaids stayed in a hotel with me that my parents paid for so no expense there either. But I'm sure Matt will look so dashing in his tux and I'm excited for the wedding in June.

I paid the last of our bills and was pleasantly surprised to see that we had 1000$ more than I was expecting left in our accounts when all was said and done. It's always nice to see that we've kept our spending at bay so that we have a surplus in our account. Hopefully we'll continue to be wise with our money and not frivolous. I am learning to live a simple life. Less is more.

Now it's time for a nice read while Matthew rests from his work day. I apparently am being too loud with my typing while he is trying to nap. Who knows what our evening holds? But as long as I'm spending it with him I couldn't be happier.

Love.