Really? I mean, REALLY?

A few things had me thinking this recently, like...

1) The fact that Jack has never ever had blood drawn for labs. Not before his mission, not back when he donated plasma all the time, never has a kid... I didn't know this was possible! I had labs done for the first time back when I was 11. I did have appendicitis, so there was good reason to draw labs, but I didn't realize Jack's never had it done. We found this out because he has to get a physical and they will do labs, which I think is great because everyone should have labs checked! Yeah, he hasn't had a normal physical in forever. I've never pushed it - I know, I know...I'm a nurse and should be advocating for yearly checks, but I figure Jack's pretty healthy and men will be men. The other funny thing is that I was telling Jack about a patient at work who was giving me all this attitue and refusing to have her blood drawn. Well, instead of siding with me his comment was that he can't blame her! He's a little nervous (or a lot nervous) about the whole blood draw thing. :)

2) Our laptop broke, again. Yeah, it's been a whopping 3-4 weeks since it was last repaired.

3) On top of that, HP is saying that the repair isn't covered under our warranty. Really? Because I'll argue this until the cows come home. Jack says what his mom would do is stay on the phone until they give her what she wants, for hours if that's what it takes. So I think I'm going to take a page from Kathleen's book and try this technique. I guess I better block out my whole Monday night and Tuesday night, since that's when they're supposed to be calling. I'm ready with all my complaints written down, people's names, dates, etc. Really, if I were HP, I'd just give me a brand new computer (which really is my request, and isn't that crazy of a request I guarantee you) rather than face the fury. I do plan to be nice, but you can have a nice fury. I can very kindly tell them that I will be filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and telling everyone I know to never buy an HP. Oops, just did that last one! Can you tell I'm a little frustrated? :) Wish me luck!

4) Two out of three of Jack's students cancelled for the entire week this last week! I guess I jinxed us when I told everyone that Jack's back to 40 hours/week. Really, how flaky can students be? I mean REALLY???

5) Now that I'm back to using the old Dell desktop, I'm noticing that changing our pop-up settings hasn't worked out so great. It blocks the pop-ups that I want but then doesn't block the pop-ups I don't want. Go figure.

6) Oh yeah, and my fillings that I had put in a few weeks ago are still hurting. It hurts to eat hard things like chips, and they're super sensitive to hot and cold foods. I don't think that's normal. So I'm assuming that the dentist will take care of it since it seems like their mistake, but I really am not looking forward to having my teeth worked on again. I'm thinking it's really hard nowadays for people to fix things right the first time. :)

So now it's time to go take a hike up at Aspen Grove/Stewart Falls area for some nice rejuvenation of the soul! Thank goodness for the beauty of Utah!