Choo, Choo...No, Don't STOP!!!!

So, yesterday on my long drive into work (my new subbing position), I had the brilliant idea to take hwy 13 in order to avoid the traffic/snow delays on 494W. Ahh, that was NOT a good plan. Everyone was trying to avoid the 35W/ Burnsville problems and took 13 also. Needless to say, my 45-50 min. drive took me 1hr and 45 min :-0 I squealed into my room 15 min. before my first session. I felt like a complete fish out of water! No time to collect my thoughts, plan for my sessions, review what on earth the kid's names were, WHERE ANYTHING WAS!!! So, I started out kind of with my hands tied behind my back... My sessions went ok. One was not so good, but I survived and no kids or therapists were injured in the process.

So.....that brings me to today. Today I was bound and determined that I was going to be early... I had a meeting at 8:30 and sessions at 9, so my plan was to be there at 7:30. Everything was going well until I got stopped behind a train. What, a train???? Ok, hurry up I thought, I will NOT be late today too. So, I waited, and waited, and waited...until the train just stopped in the middle of the road!! I'm sorry, but trains just don't STOP in the middle of the road, needless to say during rush hour on hwy. 5!! Thankfully there was an opening for me to turn around and I backed up and got the he@# out of there! As I was driving alongside the train (heading away from work) I saw that cars were back up for miles and LOTS of people were going to be terribly late, and probably even miss planes (the airport is close by).

Well, after some creative driving I got to work and had a great day. All the sessions went pretty well, and I felt prepared. I was told by the gym teacher that the Jr. High kids really liked me. I surprisingly said "really, how do you know??" and she said they kept talking about how great I was. Pretty amazing considering only 2 out of the 8 sort of participated and the rest complained constantly about my choice of songs...maybe it was just the 2 talking? Phew, now I really need a weekend and time with my Elle. I really missed her, and I only worked 3 days this week :-(