Horrible commute!

Yup, I know gazilions of people who live in New England will be bickering about this today on their blog. But honestly, though I certainly did not have it the worst, I can't help with the bickering.
So, yesterday I left my work earlier, thinking "what a marvelous idea, I get to beat this crazy weather and get home before the worst of it starts". Ha! Little did I know about it. I was at Ruggles at 1:45 waiting patiently for the 2 pm commuter rail to Providence. Mind you, it was a mob scene on the platform, but I was not too worried since I have taken the 2:00 pm train before and it's mostly empty. Goodness, at 2:08 the train came by, and never stoped at Ruggles because it was too full! Of course there were no announcements about it so myself along 200 other people were left to wonder what has happened! Luckily one woman told us that her husband was on the train that just passed and that indeed it was our train, but that the conductor or whomever made the decision not to stop because it was too full!
The next train was not schedule until 4 pm and by this time MBTA started announcing that all trains are running 30 minutes late!
Long story short... I waited there for over 3 hours, in a freezing wind and snow (there is no "in side" at Ruggles and no heat) and then was told that the next train might not even stop there either because it was too full. Luckily there were plenty of angry people who started yelling at the MBTA employee and somehow the train came and stopped. Getting in was another story, but let's say that the 2 men that were standing next to me (between the cars) got to know me a lot better than I would have liked. But at least I was better of than the 500 people from South Station that were not allowed to get on!

By the time I got to Attleboro I could not feel anything, I barely made it up the hill (if you have been over you know our house is up a small hill) without breaking my neck and started crying of frustration, cold and everything else the second I enter the house. My husband had to take my clothes off since I was not able to even move!

Needless to say, it was horrible, but even so I at least made it home. My sister in law had to sleep at a friend's house after 5 hours in traffic and it took my brother in law 7 and a half hours to get home (a full day of work)

If you worked in Boston yesterday, I am sure you have your own horror stories. All I can say is "I HEAR YOU!"
To a better commute today!

Confused

Last night I went to the work Chrismas party. Each year it's a very interesting experience and this year was not a dissapointment either. I was telling my friend K in an earlier email how I never stop being amazed by co-workers who get completly plastered at work functions. I have nothing against people having a glass of wine or 2 or whatever you can hold, but getting drunk at work parties is really confusing for me. The next day you still need to be at work (I can't imagine the killer headache one might have after that), pretending that nothing has happened the night before. Not to mention that I have to pretend I did not see you fall over the chair last night... (it happened in previous years, not yesterday though)
So, I don't get it, maybe one of you can shed some light into my little mind!

So not ready for Christmas

I realized today that there are only 14 more days until Christmas. Considering that I do work a full time job, I only have one weekend to finish my shopping before the big celebration (by principle I refuse to go to the mall or anywhere near the stores on the 23 and 24th of December). This year, unlike any other, I am so not ready for Christmas. Normally, being the OCD person that I tend to be, I would have been done with all gifts, cards and other stuff like that even before Thanksgiving. For some strange reason, I have not been able to get my act together at all.
I already gave up on the idea of having anything ready for my family in Romania, but in my defense my brother is not coming until the end of January, so no need to really have things until then.
I scrambled around for some things for Alan last week and some for my mother in law and sister in law (the boys are Alan's problem). Keep your fingers crossed that I get to finish this weekend, otherwise you might need to help me... (whatever that might involve!)

First trips alone

Saturday morning, at 6:10am I get woken up by my husband who is in a frenzy that I am missing my train! Yup, I did wanted to strangle him considering that Saturday is not a work day and pretty much the only day that I can sleep longer than the regular 5:30 am time. After trying really hard for about 20 minutes to go back to sleep, I just gave up and decided to make my first trips in the car alone.

After some much need it coffee, I got in and drove (ALONE) to Stop and Shop (we were in dire need of some greens and other stuff) and had a blast. No, not shopping necessarily, but with the fact that now I can finally get in the car whenever I want (provided that I do have the car in the driveway) and drive wherever I want!
Being proud of handling going to Stop and Shop alone, I decided to even go to Target! And I made it there and back with no problems. Even though for about 2 seconds I had a panic attack in Target trying to figure out how I was getting back home (I quickly remembered that I can drive myself now), I had the time of my life. I blasted the heat in the car (goodness Saturday was freezing), turn on my Christmas music (Alan hates it for the most part), sang along with no one to listen to me (thank God for that, I really can not sing if my life would depend on it)!

See ya!