uh....the weather.... wow!!! totally classic nurse.
the saga: drove into work at 6:30am on v-day, wednesday, slipping and sliding like a mofo. i was only supposed to work 8 hours. they asked me to work 4 more hours for double pay(!) since people weren't making it in. of course i said SURE...and they let me take 4 hours off thursday (today, the 15th).
4:30pm wednesday i slog through the snow to clean off my car in the parking lot - people are NUTS on the roads, nothing is cleaned off. there's a guy in the parking lot with a shovel, and they are *just* starting to plow the lot. the guy with the plow literally plows me out, and the other guy shovels me the rest of the way out. huzzah!
i drive my car to the parking GARAGE (nearly getting stuck in a snowback on the way) but i am back at work by 5pm. i call moose & x and they offer to come pick me up when i'm done at work.
7pm comes and two nurses call in - they couldn't make it on the roads/out of their driveways/etc. the rest of them are here. i leave two day nurses at the hospital getting set up to spend the night in an empty room and ordering dinner from the pub down the street, grab my change of clothes and sleeping bag from my car, and get a ride to moose and x's in their monster grand cherokee thing - no issues with the roads!
eat, shower, watch something on TV about bonobos (yay!!) and pass out on the couch. yay. up at 6:20am today, thursday, to rinse and repeat, but only an 8 hour shift and most of the roads when i left were decent....
so i picked up mark's drycleaning, got my car washed (the deep snow got stuck in my wheels and totally unbalanced them - :grr: - it sucks on the highway!!) and headed home.
hah. 5th ave is a playground. they ran the plows ONCE. it's a one-way street, with one lane and about 8 inches of snow and deep ruts. someone's headed the wrong direction coming out the street when i want to head up it, and there are a half-dozen cars buried. parked in the church lot across the street (already plowed, thank goodness!) and proceeded to get stuck in the middle of the street, with all the drifts and plow mountains. haha. found a lower area, and walked home. yay. and here i sit, surrounded in wedding things! grins. and mark's here and so is my own bed!
ps - i DID have a change in scrubs!!
