The Most Exciting Trip Home
May. 25th, 2010 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
archaesophiliaThis trip home has been extra exciting; particularly these last couple of days.
First, yesterday Mum fell and dislocated her knee. Fun time with ambulances, and of course now she's bed- and crutch-ridden for the foreseeable future. Pending surgery.
Secondly, we had to put a dog down. Mica, their two year old, had been getting more and more aggressive towards people coming in the house. So that was stressful this afternoon.
Thirdly, my phone died with eight more months left in the contract period. Which left me up a creek. They couldn't do the new phone with plan renewal thing this far out. So I ended up doing an early 'equipment' upgrade, and got a blackberry, which is way more phone than I would realistically need in the next few years, but was the best option, particularly considering that I'll be in the field in a week.
Fourth, the weather had been caving in and delayed my trip back to Washington.
You can't but throw up your hands and laugh; sometimes the universe just wins.
First, yesterday Mum fell and dislocated her knee. Fun time with ambulances, and of course now she's bed- and crutch-ridden for the foreseeable future. Pending surgery.
Secondly, we had to put a dog down. Mica, their two year old, had been getting more and more aggressive towards people coming in the house. So that was stressful this afternoon.
Thirdly, my phone died with eight more months left in the contract period. Which left me up a creek. They couldn't do the new phone with plan renewal thing this far out. So I ended up doing an early 'equipment' upgrade, and got a blackberry, which is way more phone than I would realistically need in the next few years, but was the best option, particularly considering that I'll be in the field in a week.
Fourth, the weather had been caving in and delayed my trip back to Washington.
You can't but throw up your hands and laugh; sometimes the universe just wins.