LOUSY DAY TURNS TO GOLD!

So my day started reaaaalllly early today. 1233 am to be exact! Because I am a nurse in a post-anesthesia care unit I have to take call. Meaning if there are any emergency surgeries, I have to be there to wake them up. I love my job but I suppose, night time call...not so much. I go to sleep with the phone by my ear and then if there's a c-section or appendectomy or any kind of something, I have to haul my sorry little you-know-what out of bed and drive into work. Frequently I go in for C-sections and those are my favorite. If I'm not going to be sleeping, a brand new baby seems to make up for it. So I finished with the c-section and drove home at about 330 am. While I was driving I came upon one of these...

except that she was I think at least twice as big (you know how these stories grow!) So I basically slammed straight into her and that was that. I really like animals and this made made me very sad. It made my car sad and that in turn made me even more sad and well, it eventually made my husband extremely sad. Oh such sadness!! So it pretty much disabled the car and did I happen mention that I forgot my cell phone? So poor me, I am out there in the middle of the night pulled off the freeway trying to flag someone down. Any axe murderers need an opportunity? Here I am. Totally available. No axe murderers to be found, thankfully. I did however, meet my new best friend who helped me lift up the bumper, stuff it under itself and make the car at last capable of limping home. So I did creep home, having to stop every few minutes to re-stuff said bumper. Oh the humanity! So then when I got home, I slept a couple of hours and woke up feeling so fresh and kind to all those around me. Ha! We then took "Rosebud" the deer killing wonder-mobile to the body shop. And you bet there was some wonderful news at that establishment! Thank you sweet Jesus for car insurance. Then....I have to go get these...

"Oh my we saw something on your xrays this time....we're going to have to get those wisdom teeth out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I think I need to cry now. Really. Right now.

I trudge my sorry little self home, thank goodness we still have one working car!
And do you know what came in the mail? A CD filled to the brim with glorious pictures of our sweet Elias. He is gorgeous, happy, healthy and completely perfect. And all the yuck of the day just kind of floated away. Not to mention that the courts in Ethiopia opened back up today. Now every day that goes by...a little closer to bringing him home.