1. My computer has flatlined. It's nearly brand new too. I was just chatting away with Ivan on skype when it just kinda froze up. It restarted a few times, and then started again with the black screen and a message that I needed to reinstall windows!!!!!! Ivan's sending me the disks, but that'll be awhile until they get here. I handled it better than I would have if I was at home, simply because I'm surrounded by people I don't know so I'm on my politest behavior you know? But I wanted to throw it across the room and bang my head through a wall....didn't though. So I had to buy a calling card (much more expensive than skype by the way) and jockey for time on the house computer. (Pictures will be coming much slower now until this little mishap is taken care of!) Just pray that when the disks get here, they load, and all is well. Life can then go on.
2. Our little boy with the trachea tube pulled it out of his throat in the middle of the night! (In case you're not following--this is his air source, and pulling it out could lead to death!) No worries, they got a new one shoved back in there. But in the process of either the pulling out or the shoving in, he must have got a cut or something in his throat as he was coughing out blood all day...yes, we're suctioning out blood all day. Yum. (Gloveless). In the afternoon, Eleanor decides we better take him to the hospital, just to be sure. So I go with her to suction him out in the car the whole way there, and when we get in the hospital, and before we leave, and in the car on the way back....get my drift? Luckily, the nurses say they think he's fine. The blood has slowed up at this point and they agree we probably got a cut or scrape but he'll be fine. Whew. Sidenote here-- I held him on the way there--there was no car seat....I was wondering to myself if this was standard or what, when we pulled up to a stop light and the car next to us had a 2 year old just running around the back seat...ok, I guess it's safe then... Blew my mind. Obviously if I wasn't there to hold him, I'm sure he'd been buckled in... Other than that, work was uneventful and LONG! My coworker and I were short on patience today and the babies were long on things to cry about!! uggh. But it's over now, still love my Lona (haven't yet figured out how I'm going to smuggle her out of the country, but I am).
3. I'm sick. Not like horribly sick, but I've got my sore throat, and just today I woke up with a nice hacking, painful cough to match. I'll deal, but man it would be nice to not deal!!!
Because....(drumroll....) tomorrow is my shark dive!!! I'm getting picked up at 6:30 a.m. for a 2.5 hour drive, to get on a boat, go down in a cage, and meet great white sharks face to face! I don't think I've quite thought this through enough at this point because I'm not scared yet. But I do know they feed (or chum) the sharks for awhile to get them to come to the boat and I think at that point I'll be SCARED!!!!! But now that I've told you all that I'm going to do it, I have to do it. Someone's got to right? And see if this is really all that? haha I'm hoping to get some good pictures above or below the water...but I'm worried they'll be too fast and all that. We'll see. If you can't see good pictures you'll just have to take my word for it ok? And...if something goes horribly wrong and my time in the cage is the first time a shark has ever attacked the cage...well...just know that I would be saying..."what a way to go!!" No stroke or cancer for that girl, she got ate by a great white!" Really... just tell the story over and over :) haha I wouldn't want to go any other way than some fabulous way... (if there is a fabulous way to die)... even if it was a car accident while I was here...at least I was in South Africa volunteering with AIDS orphans right? (Silver lining) haha Write soon.
