And when I say “practically,” I mean “forcefully.”
September 6, 2006Oh, that’s right—I have a blog. I knew there was something I was forgetting.
We’re back from scenic Salt Lake City, where my brother- and sister-in-law live with my brand spanking new niece. Conveniently, Heather and Jon also live there, so when we weren’t gorging on sweet, sweet New Baby, we were hanging out with them, begging them to move to Jersey. (Their responses: “No, thanks. Really, no. No. No. Please let go of me.” I think they’re coming around!)
Of course they won’t come here, because there’s no reason anyone should ever leave Salt Lake. Damn it, we should all have such low humidity. Maybe some people find zero percent humidity to be a bad thing, but I am squarely in the Hooray For Desert Climate camp. Not to mention, it’s sunny all the damn time, and there’s all this, like, space, and everyone is friendly. Crazily friendly. I was suspicious, but they seemed like they meant it. I had to find a doctor for this sore throat that I was sure was strep and that I would kill the baby (it wasn’t, and I didn’t), and I was calling all kinds of doctors and urgent care places, trying to figure out where to go, and everyone I talked to was so lovely and genuinely concerned and not trying to hang up on me, I just wanted to cry. At the urgent care clinic, the nurse put me in an examining room, and then returned five minutes later to apologize because the doctor was late. Five minutes. I practically humped her. And then the doctor arrived, and he was hot. They think of everything there!
When we weren’t ogling the baby, we were leering at my brother- and sister-in-law’s nice house, with its plants that are alive and its stuff that isn’t broken. Scott and I would ask questions like, “So how do you, uh, keep plants from being all dead and you know?” and “How much did you pay for, like, this thing that works and also is pretty?” We got some answers, but all we wanted is for them to come live here with us and do everything we’re too lazy to do.
So once my sore throat was better, I decided to throw myself down some stairs. That’s what I did at 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday (we were leaving at 5:30 a.m., and I figured I’d ruin any chances of sleep with an injury or two). And I’m bruised in so, so many ways. My arm has this fascinating lump on it that if you touch it I scream. It hurt so much that I didn’t even notice the broken pinky toe until 12 hours later, when I was all why does my toe hurt? And what’s that purple stuff on my foot? And then I took my shoe off (NEVER TAKE THE SHOE OFF) and saw the horror therein. I honestly saw stars. If I had had a tiny tiny saw in my purse, I might have just sheared the thing off. Just to never look at it again.
I'd do it all over again, bruises and all, to see Henry holding his new cousin and kissing her soft little head. If my baby niece and her lovely parents were to come move here they could beat me up every day. And if that doesn’t get them here, nothing will.
Reader Comments (45)
(OH MY GOD IT'S ALICE - SHE POSTED - SHHHHWWWEEEEEETTT!)
About the fall - whatja do that for?
Glad you had a good time!
When are you posting again? Huh? Huh?
Ha ha just kidding. Sortof.
Glad you're back--it sounds like all but the last 3 hours were a lot of fun.
(I guess I'm not that much of the 'loyal' reader I think I am...)
Hope you get healed up soon.
No, it wasn't that interesting. I was getting in the shower at my parents house, and they have sliding glass doors on their tub. I've stubbed my toes on that track a hundred times getting in or out of that tub, so I didn't think anything of it. But when I got out and took a step, lovely white hot pain shot up my foot. I just taped it up myself, that's about all the docs can do for it anyway.
Turns out it wasn't, just some kind of irritation. When I asked the doc what could have caused it, she replied "giving too many blow jobs".
Your temporary doctor sounds much better.