what a day....not really....

it's amazing to me how one event/appointment/situation can send your day into a tailspin....ok, well, maybe not a tailspin, but it can keep you from getting everything done that needs to be done.  this morning i had a doctor's appointment at 8 am.  my liver has been acting up.  i didn't know it was an unhappy liver until i had to have bloodwork done for our medical clearance to move to africa.  but yep, those late night drinking binges seem to have caught up with me.  randy had been warning me for years, but i just wouldn't listen.  anyway, i have to keep having bloodwork done to see what's up.  it's going to be akward if this leads us to an embarrassing disease and i just blogged about it.  nonetheless, i'll go on with my not that interesting story. i without question go to the most unfriendly doctor's office on the planet.  everyone that works there is miserable.  they make me want to say, "hey, i hate you just as much (or more) than you hate me, but can we not at least pretend to like each other?"  truly these people are very sad, angry, or some combination of the two.  and since i'm there to have bloodwork, i'm not any better.  i won't pretend that i am the ray of sunshine that they have all needed to see in their day.  i'm not.  i hate needles.  i strongly dislike all who poke me with the needles.  moving on.....    i ended up getting there a few minutes early, so i proceeded to look in their stacks of magazines.  their magazines, like their personalities, are completely dreadful.  off brand sports magazines and opera news were among the highlights.  yep, opera news.  ANYWAY....  this event set my whole day off.  it made it where i couldn't go running...which would have been like my 8th time this month, so it's clearly very important to me.  it also made it to where olivia and i didn't get started on homeschool until an hour or so later than normal. .... which made us not get finished in time for gymnastics, which made me not get the kitchen cleaned, which pushed me on over the edge to serve leftovers for dinner instead of cooking.   ok, ok, i was going to do that anyway, but still, the list goes on and on.  you will never get this 5 minutes of your life back...sorry....  oh, i was kidding about the drinking binges.... and i'm sure the doctor's office employees are delightful people....when they are not at work....