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Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2002 - 1:01 p.m. - A Bad Luck Day
I’m having a bad day today. Anyone who knows me would think that I’d be having a wonderful day today, as it has been snowing outside since early morning and doesn’t look like it is going to let up for a while, and everyone knows how much I love snow. However, for once this snow is causing a bit of a problem for me. You see, yesterday when I went to get teriyaki take-out from our favorite teriyaki place back where we used to live, I slipped on some black ice in the parking lot and took a hard fall. I landed hard on my side and elbow and whacked the back of my head on the back of my car. The only thing I could think of was about my baby. I didn’t care about my head or my elbow. I was just scared to death that I’d done something to hurt this little one we are finally expecting. I drove home in tears. I was going to call my RE first thing this morning and see if I could come in for a quick ultrasound today, but this wonderful snow, just threw that idea out the window. I’m not usually worried about driving in the snow, but my husband who was out in it already this morning says that it’s pretty treacherous because beneath the layer of snow there is just ice and he really doesn’t want me to go out in it. Besides that, Seattle drivers are even worse in the snow. I swear one snowflake falls and we have 70 accidents in a matter of minutes. I’m afraid of the other guy! So now I’m sitting here thinking that I should just wait until my scheduled ultrasound appointment on Thursday. After all, despite my worrying, I’m not spotting or bleeding and not feeling any cramping or any other signs that anything is wrong. I just have another reason to worry (like I really needed another one). Then to add insult to injury, I’ve had one of those days where you think you’d have been better off just staying in bed until the next day. Nothing major has gone wrong, but a whole bunch of small things have. For example, I made myself Cream of Wheat in the microwave today and turned away for a few seconds and it boiled over all over the microwave. Then later the cat was trying to jump up onto my monitor and knocked over a full glass of water all over my desk. Little things like that. Those little things always make me afraid that something else bad is going to happen, so I’m almost afraid to go out in the car today because I’m afraid I’ll get into an accident with my luck. It also makes me afraid of going in to get an ultrasound out of fear my bad luck will continue and there will be something wrong with the baby. It’s irrational I know, but I can’t shake it. Well, with Michael’s nagging, I did put a call in to my RE’s office, but they didn’t really help. They told me I should call my OB and get an appointment with her to check it out. Not particularly helpful or reassuring. I guess I’m just going to wait for Thursday’s ultrasound and hope that everything is ok. (sigh) I’ve already made my first OB appointment for February 5th. The good news around here is that Michael passed another whopper of an exam yesterday. He passed one of the “design” exams which are 5 hours long and quite different from the usually MCP exam because rather than asking questions with a right or wrong answer, they deal with scenarios with many possible answers. They’ll give you a scenario for a company and ask you to design a network for them that meets their needs as outlined in the company info. Apparently these tests are pretty grueling, and Michael has always used up all the time allotted for the exam with only a few minutes to spare at the end. Not enough time to go back and check any answers. I’m so glad he passed this exam. It was a real boost that he needed. So now he has passed 5 of the 7 exams. And technically he really only needs to pass one more, since an elective exam that he took for the last MCSE is still a valid elective, but he wants to take another exam that he feels would be key in helping him to find a job. So now my hubby has his MCSA (a new certification) and hopefully within the next week he’ll have his MCSE again. Hopefully he’ll be able to find a good job shortly after that! He’s so anxious to get back to work. I’m very proud of him! Well, that’s the news from around here. I meant to write a journal entry yesterday, but after my fall, I chose to stick to laying down and taking it easy. Keep your fingers crossed that everything is ok with our little Peep. I would be devastated if something I did caused harm to our Peep!
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