I woke up this morning running a little behind for work and HAD to go get gas. I rode around town with my fuel light on all day yesterday, and there was no possible way I'd make it to Bartlett. So, I open my garage and get into my car but there is a big cement truck blocking the quick road to the highway (which I would take to get to the gas station) because of construction behind my house. So I have to go the long way around to get out of my neighborhood basically running on fumes. Not cool.
Fast forward. I have time to run by Starbucks before work. So I order a Hazelnut Frappe with a shot of espresso. This is just a side thing that didn't bother me, but it adds to the day. They did a white chocolate mocha frappe with a shot of espresso instead. Like I said, didn't bother me but its another part of the day that didn't go "right"
I get to work and go in and set my room and can't find my craft stuff because I left it at home. So I set out on an adventure for some supplies. Usually I can come up with stuff pretty quick, but I wasn't in a creative mood and couldn't find any materials I was looking for, so I settled for letting the kids color white balloons. (Which I think they loved more anyway)
A close friend of mine walked into work after that happened but before the day began crying and really upset about some stuff which kind of threw me off.
My kids start to arrive and they were super hyper today. Not being bad, I have a really awesome group of kids!!! They were just being loud. Which was kind of new because we have a pretty laid back group.
I didn't have cash on me so I had to run over to Subway for lunch, and then when I came back one of my kids had fallen and hit their nose on the hard floor. Swollen and purple and really pitiful. I felt so bad.
After work I went upstairs to paint for Kidzkamp. A couple of weeks ago I got some paint on the carpet in a few spots, so I brought some generic normal Resolve carpet cleaner today to get it up. (Directions said 'shake, sprinkle, vacuum, cleaned') totally harmless right? No. I'm pretty sure I ruined the carpet up in one of the rooms because the cleaner left big blotchy white spots all over where the paint was. Bad. Idea. I was just trying to help and look what happened. :(
So I was SUPPOSED to be in Arlington at 5 to help out with childcare for a womens ministry event but because of the carpet fiasco I was leaving right at 5. The good thing about that is that I was able to grab my cousin on the way out to come help :)
Last night I lost the back to one of my starter earrings so since we didn't have to be there until 6:30 now we had time to go by Claire's at the mall to buy me some new ones. The lady was superrrr rude, the store was dirty and crazy crowded, and these stupid earrings cost me $20!!! I leave that store after fifteen minutes of standing around and my cousin and I head out to the food court to grb a bite to eat before going to the church for the next few hours. We had about 20 minutes so we scarfed down a chicken sandwich from Chickfila and chugged our sodas. Then on the way out the door we shared a pretzel bite order from Auntie Anne's.
**note here that for the past 30 minutes or so up to this point I had been complaining to my cousin about how awful my day has been and how I can't wait for it to end, yada yada yada**
So we pull out of the parking lot by J Alexander's heading north on what I guess is Germantown Parkway? I don't know roads well. We were at the intersection by Barnes and Noble :) My light turns green and there is one car in front of me and for whatever reason I didn't go right away. Maybe I was fiddling with the radio, maybe I was laughing or sneezing, I don't know. I didn't go immediately though, and it might have saved me from a lot of damage.
I saw a lady swipe the side of a white car and then slam into the drivers side of a different black colored one. The driver of the black car that was hit launched himself out of his car and pretty much was lying in the middle of an extremely busy intersection. Scariest thing I've ever seen. I pull over into a parking lot and call 911 but I'm totally wigging out. I've never seen a "serious" wreck like that, especially not that close up. The dude ended up being fine, besides a couple of broken bones I believe. So then I have to stay and give a statement to the police and I got super nervous and panicky. I'm already kind of shaken up, and I guess standing on a street corner of a busy intersection talking to a cop about what I had just seen was kind of a lot. Well then, the best thing that had happened all day happened and a really good friend of ours from church who I babysit for shows up! He's also a cop and I felt a billion times better knowing someone there older than me who's done this a thousand times. Haha! But I saw him and just seeing a familiar face made me totally break down and have a hysterical come apart right there. I felt pretty dumb. I wasnt in the wreck, just behind it. Then when I calmed down we went to Chickfila for a milkshake and I ended up going to see Despicable Me 2 with him and his daughter.
So, it was a long day. But I realized that no matter how bad things may feel in the moment, they could always be worse. I was also reminded of Gods perfect timing for sure!! If we had left a few minutes earlier from mall I could've been car space ahead and been the one Tboned. If I had left the church a few minutes earlier I wouldn't have grabbed my cousin and I'm pretty sure I would've stayed shocked at the intersection for a while instead of pulling over to the parking lot because she was yelling at me to call 911. Just a crazy day, but I'm thankful for it! :)
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