shpout (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shpout) wrote,@ 2006-12-21 23:11:00 |
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well i just got home, and here is my odessey
so yesterday morning i wake up at 7:15 to go to work, but my mom tells me that its supposed to snow (starting to) and turn into a blizzard and make travel just about impossible, so i called in to see if we were open (i work in a montessori school, helping out with 6 month old to 6 year old) and of course we were open... they have a never close for the parents' convenience policy there. So i leave and the wheather is already going crazy: looks like there is a sand storm except with snow, 0 visability, 40-50 miles an hour winds and more, snow falling all over and huge drift already forming 2-3 feet. So i start by skidding around some ice and then just freaking out on my way but i make it all the way to school (aka work), woohoo....
And of course there are already lots of kids in the classrooms and everything and parents keep on dropping them off, while the weather is still acting up outside. Yet from inside it doesnt seem so bad until about 10 am. By 10 its decided that we will close by 3 so we have to call all the parents, and we hae about 10-13 kids in our class and same with most of the other classes.
Around 11 i m told i can go home, but (stupidly) i decide to stay and help the teacher at least until nap time at 12:30, by 12:30 when i go it is HELL outside.
I get in my car, the radio is on telling us to not go out except if its a life or death emergency, and i laugh. Until i go towards the end of the parking lot to get onto the street and my car just stops.... hahaha who is laughing now. so i m stuck, about 1 foot of snow surrounds my little tiny not 4X4 car and there is no moving what so ever. great!
so i go back in, but just walking across the small parking lot i m thinking i m gonna die, it is sooo cold and the wind is so strong, i have snow all the way up to my thighs and i am frozen, ears/fingers/eyelashes everything. and I see that lots of parents (only here for a few minutes to pick up there kids ) are stuck as well, wonderful!
so i go back into work the directress is freaking out a bit, we hear sirens all over, and parents start to come in. so i start helping out other teachers, we discuss the situation, we all think it was a HUGE mistake to open today, and that some parents are just plain stupid to bring their kids in on days like this (i m serious some of those parents will go to any length so as not to have to take care of their kids its unbelievable and really sad)
so i call my dad to see if he can pick me, dont really want to spend the night at work. right after calling him i start freaking out because i m hear more and more about accidents and getting stuck and how bad the roads are.... half an hour later my dad calls and says he is turning back because he cant make it and cannot see anything whatsoever, he barely made it to a third of the way (a 15 minute drive total) so now i really dont know whats gonna happen...
all the other teachers are looking for rides, but i cant ask anyone to drive me home because its so dangerous and i live pretty far compared to most.
finally a coworker says that i can go home with her and spend the night if her brotherinlaw can make it there (they live about 3 blocks away) but he is stuck as well. ends up one of the moms pick her child up is their neighbor so we hitch a ride, and man it is SCARY out there, very SCARY!
so now i m at a coworker (whom i barely know seeing as i started working there only 1month ago) 's home were her sister and her family live, and her parents and another sister are staying for the holidays. they we were all super nice and tried to feed me every half hour (Mexican family) we watched tv and well just hang out. it was very nice but i so wanted to be home in my own pjs with my family, snowdays like this is how they should be at home with your family, so i was a bit sad that i didnt get to be home.
so watched a bunch of tv, the mi3, slept on the couch and got woken up at 7am by the 2 year old niece, who only spoke spanish but was just adorable, and so was her sister. problems were that i had nothing for my contacts (they did find a little solution in they had left thank god for me, man they were jsut really nice) no pjs change of cloth, and my periods started.... whooohoooo! just so you know i didnt feel all that confortable the whole time, felt a bit like a burden, but they were just great and doesnt look like i was too much of a pain but man they did so much for me in 24 hours!
in the morning i tried to see if my dad could come and pick me up, he was able to make it by 2:30pm, there was a 3ft drift in front of our garage.... then the sun came up and started to melt everything little by little so it was a bit better.
so i got home safe and sound but in desperate need for a shower and my own pjs as well as my teddy bear and home! lol!
it was a CRAZY 40 hours, and the roads are still bad with hundreds of cars along the ditches, some totally ramed in. we did learn that we didnt have work today (Thank God, it didnt seem like they would take a day off until 10pm! and we will most likely be opened tomorrow, and well we only will have monday off too, sucks) but hey thats life right!
so i hope i can get pictures and apparently in denver they turned parks into sledding parks with hot coco and stuff (everything was closed in the whole state, colorado, im in colorado springs) ooo and yea and the whole state was under a disaster emergency or something....
yea this truely was the Mother of all Blizzards and Snowstorms, and it will go down in History!
so many people are stuck at the airports too, man and just before the holidays, i did think i might not be able to be home for xmas....
here you have it all (well almost i m sure!)
also last sunday we saw eragon and it wasnt as bad as i thought it would be but not the bst movie ever either, the kid was cuter than i thought too and made the movie better, some of the characters were off but some were just right, all in all it was a pretty good/ok summary of the book
and the next Harry Potter book is gonna be "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" not sure what i think of that just yet....
so yesterday morning i wake up at 7:15 to go to work, but my mom tells me that its supposed to snow (starting to) and turn into a blizzard and make travel just about impossible, so i called in to see if we were open (i work in a montessori school, helping out with 6 month old to 6 year old) and of course we were open... they have a never close for the parents' convenience policy there. So i leave and the wheather is already going crazy: looks like there is a sand storm except with snow, 0 visability, 40-50 miles an hour winds and more, snow falling all over and huge drift already forming 2-3 feet. So i start by skidding around some ice and then just freaking out on my way but i make it all the way to school (aka work), woohoo....
And of course there are already lots of kids in the classrooms and everything and parents keep on dropping them off, while the weather is still acting up outside. Yet from inside it doesnt seem so bad until about 10 am. By 10 its decided that we will close by 3 so we have to call all the parents, and we hae about 10-13 kids in our class and same with most of the other classes.
Around 11 i m told i can go home, but (stupidly) i decide to stay and help the teacher at least until nap time at 12:30, by 12:30 when i go it is HELL outside.
I get in my car, the radio is on telling us to not go out except if its a life or death emergency, and i laugh. Until i go towards the end of the parking lot to get onto the street and my car just stops.... hahaha who is laughing now. so i m stuck, about 1 foot of snow surrounds my little tiny not 4X4 car and there is no moving what so ever. great!
so i go back in, but just walking across the small parking lot i m thinking i m gonna die, it is sooo cold and the wind is so strong, i have snow all the way up to my thighs and i am frozen, ears/fingers/eyelashes everything. and I see that lots of parents (only here for a few minutes to pick up there kids ) are stuck as well, wonderful!
so i go back into work the directress is freaking out a bit, we hear sirens all over, and parents start to come in. so i start helping out other teachers, we discuss the situation, we all think it was a HUGE mistake to open today, and that some parents are just plain stupid to bring their kids in on days like this (i m serious some of those parents will go to any length so as not to have to take care of their kids its unbelievable and really sad)
so i call my dad to see if he can pick me, dont really want to spend the night at work. right after calling him i start freaking out because i m hear more and more about accidents and getting stuck and how bad the roads are.... half an hour later my dad calls and says he is turning back because he cant make it and cannot see anything whatsoever, he barely made it to a third of the way (a 15 minute drive total) so now i really dont know whats gonna happen...
all the other teachers are looking for rides, but i cant ask anyone to drive me home because its so dangerous and i live pretty far compared to most.
finally a coworker says that i can go home with her and spend the night if her brotherinlaw can make it there (they live about 3 blocks away) but he is stuck as well. ends up one of the moms pick her child up is their neighbor so we hitch a ride, and man it is SCARY out there, very SCARY!
so now i m at a coworker (whom i barely know seeing as i started working there only 1month ago) 's home were her sister and her family live, and her parents and another sister are staying for the holidays. they we were all super nice and tried to feed me every half hour (Mexican family) we watched tv and well just hang out. it was very nice but i so wanted to be home in my own pjs with my family, snowdays like this is how they should be at home with your family, so i was a bit sad that i didnt get to be home.
so watched a bunch of tv, the mi3, slept on the couch and got woken up at 7am by the 2 year old niece, who only spoke spanish but was just adorable, and so was her sister. problems were that i had nothing for my contacts (they did find a little solution in they had left thank god for me, man they were jsut really nice) no pjs change of cloth, and my periods started.... whooohoooo! just so you know i didnt feel all that confortable the whole time, felt a bit like a burden, but they were just great and doesnt look like i was too much of a pain but man they did so much for me in 24 hours!
in the morning i tried to see if my dad could come and pick me up, he was able to make it by 2:30pm, there was a 3ft drift in front of our garage.... then the sun came up and started to melt everything little by little so it was a bit better.
so i got home safe and sound but in desperate need for a shower and my own pjs as well as my teddy bear and home! lol!
it was a CRAZY 40 hours, and the roads are still bad with hundreds of cars along the ditches, some totally ramed in. we did learn that we didnt have work today (Thank God, it didnt seem like they would take a day off until 10pm! and we will most likely be opened tomorrow, and well we only will have monday off too, sucks) but hey thats life right!
so i hope i can get pictures and apparently in denver they turned parks into sledding parks with hot coco and stuff (everything was closed in the whole state, colorado, im in colorado springs) ooo and yea and the whole state was under a disaster emergency or something....
yea this truely was the Mother of all Blizzards and Snowstorms, and it will go down in History!
so many people are stuck at the airports too, man and just before the holidays, i did think i might not be able to be home for xmas....
here you have it all (well almost i m sure!)
also last sunday we saw eragon and it wasnt as bad as i thought it would be but not the bst movie ever either, the kid was cuter than i thought too and made the movie better, some of the characters were off but some were just right, all in all it was a pretty good/ok summary of the book
and the next Harry Potter book is gonna be "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" not sure what i think of that just yet....
