My middle daughter (BiP) had a baby a few days ago and since she lives at home and can’t drive (thanks C-section) I was given the honor of going with them to my granddaughters (Itty Bitty) first doctor’s appointment. One cool thing about this was that same doctor my children go will also be my granddaughter’s doctor. So that makes it a generational thing now.
Side Note: It is weird to me that my youngest daughter (Aspie Girl) and Itty Bitty are close enough in age to see the same doctor. The doctor isn’t old and neither am I (no…40’s are not old) and they are only 11 years apart, but it still seems strange.
Of course, we end up talking about the rest of the family and especially the youngest (Aspie Girl). She asks how the transition to middle school is going and we talk about the changes we have made this year. Then when everything is done I tell her I will see her at Aspie Girl’s 12-year check-up in November and she just smiles. Little did I know that when I said it I was jinxing myself…keep reading….please!
After dropping off BiP & Itty Bitty at home I commute on the road most people call Route 66 to my office. (I often refer affectionately to this horrible bane of my existence as the “Highway of Hell”.) I get to my desk and realize that yet again I have left my laptop at home. Now, most people would be thinking that instead of going all the way back home just get a loaner laptop. Let me tell you right now that trying to get a loner laptop might be an option for some but at my office that is the equivalent of obtaining the Holy Grail, but hopefully, it will not melt people’s faces. Also, since I don’t bother to save my information to the network everything I need is on the laptop.
Another Side Note: In my mind, it is riskier to save my stuff on the network then it is saving it on my laptop. I know all the cyber people and computer experts will tell me that isn’t true, but let me explain my rationale. In my mind, if something is going to get hacked and taken down it will be the server and not my laptop. Who cares what is on my laptop when there is so much on the server that is much juicer. I do have an External Hard Drive (EHD) but since my laptop is locked down I cannot set it up to automatically back things up. Also asking me to do it is just ridiculous because it wouldn’t have the ability to do it automatically if it wasn’t supposed to be done that way. So that makes it ITs fault that I don’t have a backup. Plus isn’t it easier for someone to pick-up my EHD vs my laptop? It might be a few days before I notice my EHD but I would notice my laptop missing immediately….right?
So I do what I have to…..I schlep back to the car and start the drive back down the Highway of Hell to the house. I get 10 minutes down the road and then comes the call every parent hates….the school nurse saying that Aspie Girl isn’t feeling well and needs to go to the doctor. So after a Bluetooth enabled the crackly call to the doctor’s office that had me repeating myself and ready to pitch my phone out the window I got her an appointment that would be in only 30 minutes.
I rush to the school, sign her out and rush her out to the car. Now Aspie Girl doesn’t like to be rushed and when you do she moves at the speed of a sloth so you can guess how that went. We pull up at our exact appointment time and then I have to get her to go inside (sloths at this point would move faster). The doctor comes into the room and just laughs because here I am back in less than 1 ½ hours after telling her that I would not be back until November. I explain to her that if I hadn’t forgotten my laptop (as usual) she would be seeing my Hubby (Odin) so this doesn’t count. Again she laughs. Then she tells Aspie Girl she needs to give a urine sample which of course means explaining the directions in detail more than once, 3 trips to the bathroom, countless glasses of water and guess what….she doesn’t have to pee. I, on the other hand, have the bladder of an elderly person and have gone multiple times. At this point I am done and ready to get to work so they give me the stuff to get the sample at home. (Gross!) The doctor just smiles and says she will see me soon and probably before November…I just smirk and tell her that the next visit is for her since she just jinxed me!
Guess what happens as soon as I get her home…she has to pee and the stuff I need is in the car. Really????? Then when I am finally back on the Highway of Hell headed to the office I realize that not only do I jinx myself often but now I have other people doing it for me. Great!
Karen
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