Entries (RSS)Not too much going on lately. I got out of my funk – as expected. With the freezing cold weather, I’ve had kind of a weird working arrangement. On Wed, I worked from home, not because I couldn’t have gotten to work if I tried, but more because by the time I was getting everything dug out (I park outside) and would then change (cause of traipsing through 4+ inches of drifting snow, my pants were wet from about mid-calf down) and drive slowly to work, I’d have been to work SO late. On Thurs, I did go to work in the freezing cold – I had meetings. On Fri, I stayed home because my supervisor told us all to work from home and stay out of the cold.
I had a baby shower to attend in Chicago on Sat. I had originally tried to go up on Saturday morning, go to the shower, then hang out that night and come back Sun, but that didn’t end up working out for the person I was staying with, so I drove up Fri night and came back Sat after the shower. It was just starting to snow in the Chicago area when I left, so I called Mr. B to find out what the roads were like before I took off. He said there was a little snow starting in Chicago, and nothing the rest of the way, so I decided to come home instead of finding a place to crash.
Just south of Joliet, I ran into some idiot guys. They were hanging out in the left lane, and when I finally gave up and went to pass them on the right, they sped up to match. I then got stuck behind a car and had to slow down behind them. They then dropped down to about 60 in the 65 and hung out there. By the time we finally got around the car, they sped back up where I couldn’t get around them. This went on continually, ticking off another car that ended up behind us, until I finally gave up and just slowed way down. That time, they finally just went past me and the guy in the passenger’s seat opened the window, leaned out and blew me a kiss. If I’d have been closer and it wasn’t already dark out, I’d have flipped them off.
Just after I got rid of them, there were a bunch of police and fire trucks off the side of the road. When slowing down, I realized the roads were pretty icy and it turned out there was a camper and two cars in the ditch. Slowed things down to about 45 mph on the interstate. I called Mr. B again to get an update and he couldn’t find anything anywhere about any weather or bad roads through there. It ended up lasting for about 30 miles or so, which was very not fun. I ended up seeing at least 10 cars in the ditch between both directions of the interstate. Luckily, the jerks in front of me had stopped messing around. The rest of the trip home was uneventful.
Then I tried to just spend the rest of the weekend being lazy. I did end up getting a haircut yesterday, and then Mr. B and I went out shopping. I’m trying to find a new swimsuit since both of my others are pretty worn out, and I want to get one while there’s still a good mix-and-match selection. The stores that did have them out before Christmas no longer had them out. And the ones that still did have theirs out really didn’t have much of any selection. The only thing we could think was they put some out before the holidays for the people who are traveling to the warmer states for the holidays and then pulled them all back until a few weeks from now when they really start pushing them. I’m just going to be keeping my eye out for now.
