The man's side of it!

What a day!

This morning we got up a 5:45 AM to get Billy and Heidi to their SAT test by 7:45 am. The test is in a different location than where Billy took it last, so we had to leave a little earlier. I pulled up in front of the Moorestown High School to let Cassie and the kids go in to sign up and we couldn't find Billy's ticket! What a mess, there were people all over the place. I stayed out in the car with Kristin and waited for Cassie to get Billy and Heidi signed in. What could possibly go wrong? Cassie came out about a half hour later explaining that the test administrators were crazy. There was poor to little planning on how to deal with the crowd of people that showed up, everybody milling about in a small cramped space.

We told the kids we'd be back at 12:30 pm top pick them up and then left to get some breakfast at McDonald's. We then went home to wait until 12 noon to leave to pick up the kids. When we went to leave we saw there was already two inches of snow on the ground. So what would usually take about thirty minutes to get to the kids, took almost an hour. After much slipping and sliding on the snowy wet roads we arrived at the school about 45 minutes late, and there were no cars there, no people, we didn't see our kids anywhere! Cassie went into the school and found them, them janitor opened a classroom for them to wait in.

The first words out of the kids mouths was "I'm Hungry!" "Can we get something to eat!" Cassie and I explained that the roads were bad and getting worse and we needed to just go straight home. (You can imagine how that went over!) We got back home, (it took over an hour!) and started wondering when the Regal Cinema would let Linda out. (She works there) The snow had piled up about ten inches by the time Linda called to let us know she was on her way home, and we heard on the news that Governor Cody declared a snow emergency, so we were pretty worried. Linda finally got home but there was so much snow she couldn't get into our driveway. Fortunately Billy went out to shovel so she could get the car off the street.

Now we are all sitting around relaxing, safe and sound enjoying the rest of the evening. Thank goodness we don't have to go anywhere tomorrow.

On another note, Wednesday I went to the doctor and he cleared me to go back to work, with no restrictions. I called my boss on Friday and he told me they had no work for me not to come in. Great! I then called the Local 27 Union Hall and was told that there might be a sketching job breaking in a couple of weeks. Monday I have to sign up for unemployment by phone, band may have to wait three or four weeks to get any kind of check, that's if I qualify. I haven't worked at all in the past two years. To collect Unemployment benefits, you have to have worked sometime in the past eighteen months.

Cassie wrote in another post and I wholeheartedly concur:
"I tell myself, this, too, will pass. That which doesn't kill me only serves to make me stronger. So how come I don't feel like I'm made of steel?"