02/17/10: Almost Hump Hour of Hump Day

Life.  Life is what happens to you when you are making all those other plans. 

My sweet hubby and I got a call last night at 4am.  4am calls are never good.  One of our most favoritest, sweetest, most beloved neighbors had a stroke.  We don't know how bad it was, but it doesn't sound good.  (Can a stroke ever sound good?)  She's in ICU and we will go visit her this evening.  We are planning to leave work early so that we can get there during the visiting hours that end at 5:30pm.

Then I log into my family's private blog site.  I haven't been on there for about three weeks because I've been consumed with reading up on this site.  And my uncle had a severe hematosis and had to have surgery to remove it.  The infection, worst of all, made it to his blood stream.  He just had a torn aorta in December and if this infection makes it to the tube they inserted to fix the aorta, there can be disaster looming.  So he's been in ICU for about two weeks now.

I love my family...but when does it become ok to have the sole source of news and contact be a friggin website?  For an entire family?  I hate that.  I shouldn't get penalized if I go missing for three weeks.  To make it worse, I did acutally talk to an aunt this weekend and another aunt two weekends ago...and neither said a word.  I'm just so frustrated.

Sigh.  On with life, I suppose.

Grrr.  And all of this on top of what turned out to be a crappy day yesterday.  So I already wasn't in a great mindset for being able to just say...ok, what can I do?

I am, of course, saying that.  But I have to vent somewhere.  So this is how I'm feeling - although I'm trying to not let those affected by the above life events know, at all!

It's that TOM where I can either be pretty crabby no matter how hard I try not to.  I am bloated beyond all get-out.  I'm talking about a 6 pound gain in the past 36 hours.  All this water just sitting there does not feel good!  However, this too, shall pass.

Well, it's almost the appointed time of the blog, for me, anyway.  I hope everyone else is having a better week than me!

I'd also like to give a shout out to the new followers which have now put me at 23.  23 is an interesting number.  Have you ever noticed that it shows up everywhere?  I can't say...just look at this and that and you'll see it.  But if you look for 23...you'll find it everywhere.  Enigmatically, it's the most used number in existence; or so it seems...