Boo Radley

 Okay… I’m doing nothing… absolutely nothing at this point. She
called but they had a lot of trouble getting her blood this morning so
by the time they took the test they were three hours behind schedule.
Arrrrgh… is God just toying with us?? Probably. But maybe that means
it’ll be good news… like when somebody has a good present for you and
teases you a lot first before giving it to you… let’s hope so.

I
spent a lot of the morning writing, but now I am paralyzed. I haven’t
cleaned or done anything productive on this wonderful day off. I am so
ashamed of myself, so I’m not even being emotionally correct either.
Geez!

I would be thumping my fingers on the desk right now as I
wait nervously, only I’m using a laptop so there’s no desk to thump
them on. Instead I’m sort of chewing on my acrylic thumb nail… lovely
picture, isn’t it?

Meanwhile, my husband has given me the task
of going to my sister-in-law’s house to find out why she’s not
answering her phone. My sister-in-law, her husband, their daughter, and
his mom all live together in a townhouse a few miles away from us.
Oddly enough, we see them very rarely. They are sort of strange people.
They find it difficult I think to socialize although they always seem
to have fun when we get together. Their baby daughter has some
developmental problems. I’m not sure whether these are due to physical
or emotional reasons or both but she is getting help from the town they
live in. She goes to a town-sponsored pre-school and gets play therapy
of some sort. Anyway, it’s not unusual to get their answering machine
every time we call, and to have to talk for long stretches before they
pick up or even have them not pick up at all, but we are not used to
getting no answer whatsoever. My husband has been trying them for about
a week only to yield nothing. My sister-in-law’s husband manages a
restaurant so I’m sure that they’d have called the police if he was a
no-show for a week or something, but it is a little nerve-wracking to
not be able to get anyone over there. They don’t usually leave the
house much except for him, so it’s hard to figure out what’s going on
unless they don’t realize their phone’s not working right which is
quite possible. It’s not like I’m related to Boo Radley or anything
(some of you will know who he is) but they aren’t as extroverted as
many families are.

Anyway, I was going to go over there AFTER I
heard from Hopeful1 (an especially apt moniker today), now I don’t know
how long it’s going to take before I hear anything. I guess I may just
have to drive over there being jittery and nervous.