Thank God for Little Girls :)

okay so my brand new baby cousin has finally arrived! and while i'm so happy that she is finally here, let me just go off on a tangent about baltimore hospitals.

first and foremost, i arrive at the hospital and its hailing. the parking lot is covered in ice and its mass pandemonium of people arriving and trying to leave. my cousin comes waddling across the parking lot and hops in the car so we can smoke a cig before we go in because you aren't allowed to smoke on the ENTIRE premises of the hospital, unless of course you have a badge in which case you can do whatever it is you want. so we start driving around the parking lot looking for a spot. we pull up in front of this lady who keeps turning her lights on and off and my cousin rolls down the window and asks if she's leaving. "uh no i just parked." is the response we get....sorry i couldn't decipher that from your constant brake tapping.

so finally i park. i head up into the room to see my aunt. shes laying there quietly as well all jam into this little room making idle chatter. the nurses appear and check up on her then disappear with promises of returning shortly. an hour later they come back..and the cycle repeats. so my cousin and i sneak out to sneak a couple cigarettes.

the 2nd time we go they lock the door we've been coming in so we have to park on the other side of the hospital and go in that way...my cousin forgot her badge so i had to go in and get it for her. she runs back out to the car later and people are screaming in the emergency room bc someone got shot and died. yeah not what you wanna be stuck in the middle of.

so sitting in this room crowded together, we tried to entertain eachother by telling funny stories and jokes and just chatting about anything. the anesthesiologist comes in to give her another dose of her epidural. afterwards he's standing in front of the paper towels and seems to give up and walk away..my aunt's best friend is like you can just pull on them. as he walks out of the room i'm like "uh did we really just teach the phd how to use paper towels???" hahahhaha.

finally after a looooong day my aunt finally gave birth to 7 lb 10 oz 20" delaney jolee<3


so after the nonsense of dealing with the hospital, it was all worth it for her beautiful face. a baby is such a blessing that we take for granted. i can't wait for my turn :)


daley inspiration for 12/17/08: being negative because your day is not going well is not going to make it better. in fact, as a firm believer in karma, if you do this and make someone elses day bad, it will make yours worse. do unto others as you would have them do unto you. try to make a bad day positive by making someone else smile.