Week in Review
Here is how my week has gone.
MONDAY:
Martin Luther King Jr holiday. No OT was offered at work so this was my first real holiday break from work. Nice. Very nice. :) However, word came that it was going to be icy the next day. I live on a dirt road so I drove my car down and parked at the bottom so I could get to work the next day. Good call on my part.
TUESDAY:
My road was a complete sheet of ice. Should take me 5 minutes to walk down...it took be a half hour, maybe more. The real excitement came when I lost my footing and fell flat on my back on the ice, in the dark, at 5:30am. Just like the movies...my feet went one way and my body the other. My purse flew out of my hand and my cell phone flew out of my purse. The road was so icy that when both hit the ground, they just kept going. I am laying on my back on a slab of ice thinking, "Please stop, please stop, I don't want to have to find you in the dark" LOL. I sat up and the road was so bad that every time I tried to crawl to the side where there was snow (i.e. traction), I would just glide downhill. I literally slid on my butt for most of the ride down my hill and yes, I found my phone and purse, PTL. Some people would up and quit and turn around to go home and just call off. Not me! I was scared at the thought of turning around and trying to go home because that would mean going UPhill on ice. Yikes!
I didn't hit my head, PTL, but the back of my arms began throbbing later in the day (I'm thinking when I fell, my arms hit first, protecting back back/head because my back didn't hurt as much). I should invest in a sled. I had one at one time and yes, I once did use it to get down my hill, lol
WEDNESDAY:
Walked down the road again. Not as bad this time. A lot of the ice was melted. But I skipped kickboxing all week because I felt like a punching bag, lol. Bought my Motrin though so I was good to go.
THURSDAY
Heard a big snow was on the way Friday and not wanting to walk downhill or uphill in that, I drove up my road. Most of the ice was gone at this point so that was good. And a good call on my part to because...
FRIDAY
It snowed badly Thursday night (thankfully Bible study was can canceled...not that I would have gone anyway) and the next day I spent a half hour cleaning off my car and removing tons of ice. If I would have had to walk down my road and then do that, it would have taken forever and I wold have frozen to death. I cleaned off the car and then to melt the ice I let my car run while I sat in my warm house.
However, I then had to leave for work. I work 15 min from home. The roads at 6am were so completely crappy that it took me 50 min to get to work! Of course my job couldn't give us a delay of any kind. The building would be on fire and they'd be like "A little smoke never hurt anyone, come on in anyway!" LOL Do you know how much it stinks to be at work and get blasted with emails from the other company offices around the country saying "so-and-so is closing or having a delay due to inclement weather"? I bet some of those places got an inch of snow and freaked out. Not in Pittsburgh though, lol. So many people at work had a hard time getting there on time because of the weather and a few folks ran into car accidents along the way which made them even more late. Supposedly another big snow is on the way and we all pretty much decided that if it snows like that again, we're calling off. Our lives are a bit more important. Those of us who can work from home should be able to when the weather gets bad. It's better than having an employee call off, right?!!!
Did my taxes and found out that I OWE the federal government money! This is the first time that has EVER happened! This is what happens when you have a job and make decent money, LOL. But it's all good because at least I can afford to pay the money I owe. Life could be worse. And it was payday so I put some more toward my credit cards, got some grocery shopping done, and paid some other bills. :)
SATURDAY
I refused to sign up for overtime this weekend. My first weekend in MONTHS in which I didn't work. I got up at 6am though and went to get my laundry done. I was running out of socks and my bedding needed done, and with this new snowstorm supposedly on the way, I wanted my socks and warm PJs to get done. Then I went and got my hair cut which I desperately needed, came home, watched some TV, cleaned the kitchen and then took a 4 hour nap. Sooo nice to finally have a Saturday off and be able to nap! Today is when I began to feel 100 percent. No more aches from my fall.
What a week.
MONDAY:
Martin Luther King Jr holiday. No OT was offered at work so this was my first real holiday break from work. Nice. Very nice. :) However, word came that it was going to be icy the next day. I live on a dirt road so I drove my car down and parked at the bottom so I could get to work the next day. Good call on my part.
TUESDAY:
My road was a complete sheet of ice. Should take me 5 minutes to walk down...it took be a half hour, maybe more. The real excitement came when I lost my footing and fell flat on my back on the ice, in the dark, at 5:30am. Just like the movies...my feet went one way and my body the other. My purse flew out of my hand and my cell phone flew out of my purse. The road was so icy that when both hit the ground, they just kept going. I am laying on my back on a slab of ice thinking, "Please stop, please stop, I don't want to have to find you in the dark" LOL. I sat up and the road was so bad that every time I tried to crawl to the side where there was snow (i.e. traction), I would just glide downhill. I literally slid on my butt for most of the ride down my hill and yes, I found my phone and purse, PTL. Some people would up and quit and turn around to go home and just call off. Not me! I was scared at the thought of turning around and trying to go home because that would mean going UPhill on ice. Yikes!
I didn't hit my head, PTL, but the back of my arms began throbbing later in the day (I'm thinking when I fell, my arms hit first, protecting back back/head because my back didn't hurt as much). I should invest in a sled. I had one at one time and yes, I once did use it to get down my hill, lol
WEDNESDAY:
Walked down the road again. Not as bad this time. A lot of the ice was melted. But I skipped kickboxing all week because I felt like a punching bag, lol. Bought my Motrin though so I was good to go.
THURSDAY
Heard a big snow was on the way Friday and not wanting to walk downhill or uphill in that, I drove up my road. Most of the ice was gone at this point so that was good. And a good call on my part to because...
FRIDAY
It snowed badly Thursday night (thankfully Bible study was can canceled...not that I would have gone anyway) and the next day I spent a half hour cleaning off my car and removing tons of ice. If I would have had to walk down my road and then do that, it would have taken forever and I wold have frozen to death. I cleaned off the car and then to melt the ice I let my car run while I sat in my warm house.
However, I then had to leave for work. I work 15 min from home. The roads at 6am were so completely crappy that it took me 50 min to get to work! Of course my job couldn't give us a delay of any kind. The building would be on fire and they'd be like "A little smoke never hurt anyone, come on in anyway!" LOL Do you know how much it stinks to be at work and get blasted with emails from the other company offices around the country saying "so-and-so is closing or having a delay due to inclement weather"? I bet some of those places got an inch of snow and freaked out. Not in Pittsburgh though, lol. So many people at work had a hard time getting there on time because of the weather and a few folks ran into car accidents along the way which made them even more late. Supposedly another big snow is on the way and we all pretty much decided that if it snows like that again, we're calling off. Our lives are a bit more important. Those of us who can work from home should be able to when the weather gets bad. It's better than having an employee call off, right?!!!
Did my taxes and found out that I OWE the federal government money! This is the first time that has EVER happened! This is what happens when you have a job and make decent money, LOL. But it's all good because at least I can afford to pay the money I owe. Life could be worse. And it was payday so I put some more toward my credit cards, got some grocery shopping done, and paid some other bills. :)
SATURDAY
I refused to sign up for overtime this weekend. My first weekend in MONTHS in which I didn't work. I got up at 6am though and went to get my laundry done. I was running out of socks and my bedding needed done, and with this new snowstorm supposedly on the way, I wanted my socks and warm PJs to get done. Then I went and got my hair cut which I desperately needed, came home, watched some TV, cleaned the kitchen and then took a 4 hour nap. Sooo nice to finally have a Saturday off and be able to nap! Today is when I began to feel 100 percent. No more aches from my fall.
What a week.