The Queen's Rambles

I went to the hospital for my blood work today. I had a paper saying I should go straight to the lab, so I didn’t think it would be a very intense day. Ha! I should have known better.

I get there and they tell me that I have to go register downstairs. Why didn’t my paper say that?

I wait and wait and wait some more down in the waiting room and finally get my turn after over an hour of waiting. There were only four people ahead of me. There has to be a more efficient system.

I pre-registered several weeks ago so thought it should go quickly, but no. No one had ever processed my pre-registration. I was in the room watching the lady clack around on her keyboard for at least 30 minutes. I have no clue what she was doing. At least she was very apologetic about the situation, but that didn’t make me feel much better since we had to go pick Erik up at preschool at 2:30 and the clock was ticking.

I guess I should just be grateful we discovered the problem today instead of tomorrow. I’m already thinking I’m going to be grouchy hungry by the time I have my c-section at 11:30 am. Can you imagine if I had to wait a few more hours while they registered me?

Eventually I saw a lab tech for all of thirty seconds. Or maybe a minute if I am being generous. All that waiting and for what? Two vials of blood. I hope they were precious.

When I got home I discovered that my laptop wasn’t charged up. I started messing with the plug and noticed the power adapter wasn’t lighting up. No matter where I plugged it in, there was no light. My laptop has no power. I won’t have a laptop to take to the hospital. That means no pictures for you, no entries for me, no entertainment for me. I am going to be bored out of my flippin’ mind. I’m taking a couple of books, but I am such an internet junkie that I feel like I’m going to cry.

Dell is sending me a new AC adapter and a box to send my laptop to them if that doesn’t fix my problem. They should arrive in three days. Bah! What about overnight shipping? Apparently me being bored at the hospital doesn’t constitute an emergency.

Despite these last minute frustrations, there were three very good things about the day.

Three packages on my porch!

I was planning on posting pictures, but my laptop is dead so I don’t have a card reader. Boo! You’ll just have to be patient I suppose.

Kisha sent Elsa a cute little diaper that she made herself and some cloth wipes. Real cloth wipes! She even had them folded in such a way that they were pop-ups! They beat the heck out of my pinking sheared, chopped up baby onsie wipes.

Grain_Damaged sent Elsa a beautiful little hat and matching leg warmers. I love the color! My very favorite greeny-blue. She also sent Erik a scarf*. Did I ever tell you that Erik’s a scarf man? Even though it was 70 degrees out, he wrapped the scarf around his neck and went scootering with his scarf and shorts. Silly goose. She also sent some cute little onsies and other baby items. Sophie, her four year old daughter, sent a very sweet little beaded “quilt.” Erik was very impressed and wants to make one himself. Oh, he also informed me that his scarf was not knit, it was quilted. He’s big on quilts. I wonder where he picked that up from?

Margie sent Elsa a beautiful handmade blanket and matching “turnip” hat. She is going to look adorable in it! She also sent some snuggly jammies!

Thank you ladies! You know how much I love handmade gifts. I get a tear in my eye just thinking of the care and love you put into a project for my little girl. I can’t wait to show her off in all her beautiful duds.

Ohhhh! More good news! Mike just came down and reported that he had a charger in his bag that was compatible with my computer. My computer is charging! Being married to a geek pays off!

Dang! He has no spell check on his browser. You’re just going to have to suffer lousy spelling. Maybe you will hear more from me tomorrow. I hope!

*I believe it is a Hufflepuff scarf because it’s black and gold, but maybe I’m just too into Harry Potter and that was not the intent.