That Was My Day Off???

Talk about one hell of a day!

I had made arrangements to drive out of town to pick up this adorable little kitten that a couple were giving away. Just so happens that the only day I can do this on, is the same day that my daughter has an appointment with the pediatrician.

Well, since LeeAnna's appointment wasn't until 3, we leave the house right around 11:30. We have more than enough time to make the drive out of town and come back before her appointment. It's an hour there, and an hour back.

Before we can head out of town though, I have to go get money from Dave, then go and gas up the van. Not even thinking about how it's the week before 4th of July, so everyone is out and running errands. By the time we are all gassed up and ready to go, it's 1:30. No way am I making out there, it would be 2:30 by the time we got there, and making it back in time for her appointment.

Although, in hindsight, maybe I should have gone anyway.

We came back home for an hour. I jumped on the computer, and while checking my email, I hear this story playing on Headline News (I watch that ALL the time). I turn and see this picture and story playing... http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/30/thailand.catfish.ap/index.html

Now, my dad, being the fisherman that he is, is gonna LOVE this story. So I have to print this out and take it to him at work. I get there, and everyone wants to see this fish. We leave the gas station, and try to head towards the doctors office. Traffic is SOO bad at this point, that by the time we arrive at the doctors office, we are 15 minutes late. But they say us, so no biggie there.... Here's the real kicker....

The doctor goes to look at the x-rays of LeeAnna's foot (remember, she broke her foot), and when she comes back in, she tells me that the ER doc was wrong, that LeeAnna didn't break her foot. Excuse me? You mean to tell me that my daughter has been hobbling around for a week on crutches, and milking it for all the sympathy it's worth? All for nothing?

Yep. Nice.

Well, we leave the hospital, all ready to head out of town to get this kitten. Along the highway, there is an apartment building that is on fire, and all these absolute geniuses are stopping to gawk, and in turn they are not only blocking traffic, but also preventing the fire crews from doing their job. EVERY single radio station was announcing to people NOT to stop and stare, but to go about what they were doing and allow fire crews to do their jobs.

Then we get to the outskirts of town, and there is a car that is on fire on the side of the road, which in turn has set the brush on fire. Traffic is once again slowed to a crawl.

Finally we get out of town, cruising on the highway, going at a good pace. Then I glance in my rearview mirror, and there is a semi truck ON MY ASS!!! And I mean, if I even tap the breaks, this guy is going to slam into me! Finally he goes around me. Then we come around a curve in the highway (About the halfway point from when we left the city to where we need to be), and the traffic is at a stand still. No movement on the hgihway. Apparently there was a 3-4 car accident on one of the bridges up ahead, and it had both lanes of the northbound highway blocked. As soon as I manage to get close enough to the old highway exit, I take it.

Now keep in mind, that they built the new highway to replace the old one because the old one is WAAAY longer, and it's only one lane. And extremely curvy.

As soon as we get on the old highway, it starts to pour. I absolutely HATE driving in the rain, especially in a minivan, since my worst accident ever was in the rain, in a minivan, while coming around a curve in the highway.

Well I finally get to the town just North of where I'm supposed to be, and instead of taking the connecting highway between the two, I decide to take the main highway, where they have been doing construction for the past year. Smart, I know. I get to that highway, and traffic is moving at a whole 10 MPH. No kidding. Then, as I'm sitting there in this traffic, Dave decides to call my cell phone when I have like NO reception. I answer the phone, no reception, so I hang up. He calls right back. No reception, I yell into the phone, give it ten minutes and call me back, then I hang up. He calls right back. Right about the 4th call, I'm starting to get really irritated. Finally I get to a point where I have reception, and he calls back, and I just let loose. I'm sitting in my van, yelling into the phone, completely irritated. Doesn't help that Dave is being an ass about the kitten, he didn't want me to get it in the first place.

Thank god that when I got to the house, the kitten is just ADORABLE. And what a lover! I pick him up, and he starts just purring, and loving on me.

He does the cutest thing too, when I get home from work. He'll follow me all the over house until I sit down, then he "grabs" my hand with his paw and starts rubbing his face into my hand, and licking me, almost like he's giving me hugs and kisses.

I don't care what the kids say, that cat is MINE!

And that was my day off.