A Mercurially Retrograded Monday

Found out Sunday that Mercury was going to be in retrograde til the 15th, so I shouldn't have been surprised that this is how my Monday went:

I had already gotten permission to start my Monday shift three hours later because I had a doctor's appointment with my orthopod that morning. My Mom had had a garage sale at her house Friday and Saturday that had a bunch of my stuff in it -- she had to be someplace Monday morning at 8:15, so she brought my $307.05 by on her way -- called me on my cell phone (which I keep under my pillow) and woke me up, in fact, to tell me that's what she would shortly do. But that was OK because there's a branch of my bank close to Dr. Hall's office and I could drop it off on the way to my 9:30 presurgical appointment (which they rescheduled from 8:45).

So, I nipped into the drive in bank and deposited it -- or tried really hard to. First when I tried to get the capsule out of the pneumatic unit to put the money in, it sucked itself back up the pipe, and it took about five tries for them to get it to come back so I could put my money in. Then, once they'd gotten it, and made my deposit, they couldn't get it to go back to me with my deposit slip, so I had to sit there and wait while somebody walked out of the bank lobby and back around to the motor bank part and handed it to me.

Then I sat in the doctor's waiting room for an hour before I even got back to the exam room, and sat in the exam room for another 45 minutes before he finally came to give me my exam and talk to me about the surgery. (He also whipped out his surgical marker and drew an "L" with a circle around it on my left upper arm with a big arrow pointing to my shoulder -- very attractive!)

I didn't even get over to the outpatient admitting to do that part until noon, which was when I called my boss to explain that I would be later than planned. Then I sat in the EKG room for almost 45 minutes while the tech and the repairman convinced the EKG machine to print out my EKG. Took two tries to get a PA chest x-ray they liked. When I went to do the urinalysis, I dropped the cup in the toilet and had to go get another cup.

Dr Hall's office is way on the other side of town, and by the time I was finally on my way back home, I was just in time for the two elementary schools between me and home to let out. Then there was a wreck at a major intersection and a stalled car that had two lanes blocked and by then it was sneaking up on 3 o'clock. Finally made it home and got my 'puters booted up and sat down to work only 3 hours and 20 minutes later than I said I was going to.

And not to put too fine a point on it, they tell me I have to be at the hospital at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning as I am first on the surgery schedule!