The Day I Slept In

Time: 10:53pm
Mood: Exhausted
Song of the moment: John Mayer - Slow Dancing In A Burning Room

The day started out great. I had decided to meet Jimmy downtown for lunch. I figured, it's a Saturday, it's probably quiet at work and he would probably like some company....

I suddenly wake up. I think it's Saturday. It's not Saturday. It's Friday morning. I have to head to Detroit. It's 7:15am. SHIT it's 7:15am!! This normally wouldn't be bad but I had a meeting in Detroit at 11:00am and I had set my alarm to wake me up at 5:45am so I could leave by 6 and make it for that meeting. I jumped out of bed and I swear I managed to dash out the door in 5 minutes. As I'm driving I'm caculating in my head "ok, it takes 4 hours to get there.. it's 7:20am, so that would mean I would get there at 11:20am... 20 minutes late is not bad!" Then I hit the rush hour traffic. I quickly realized there would be no way in hell I would make it to Detroit in 4 hours (I had also failed to take into account the fact that crossing the boarder with test parts in my trunk would not be a whiz considering it took me 1h to cross the boarder last time). I quickly called up the customer to tell her I couldn't make it. She was fine with it and we had planned to reschedule the meeting. She couldn't tell me which day she was free - at the time I called her she was in the process of buckling her kids into the mini-van. She told me she would call me later and confirm a rescheduled date and time. So crisis adverted. Luckily for me, I was actually pretty close to my work place, so I drove into work.

Every time we go to Detorit my company rents cars for us to drive. We usually park and leave our cars at work while we are away. If our meetings are on a Monday, we usually rent the car on Friday and drive it for the entire weekend. Because I did not know when the reschdule date/time for my meeting was, I wasn't sure if I had to return the rental. If I had to I would have been screwed. Why? I left my car keys at home. So I freaked a little. I was praying to God my meeting would be rescheduled for a Monday instead of a Tuesday. Luckily for me, my customer said Monday was ok, so I get the car for the whole weekend.. and my company pays for the gas!

Oh I'm SO glad my day worked out!!!