Ugh! Traffic!

So my carpool friend and I decided since we were 40 minutes early to work yesterday, that we would leave 10 minutes later and hope we weren't so early today. Well, I picked her up and we got onto US-36 and took the HOV lane. Everything was going swimmingly and then we got to almost the end of the HOV lane and there were a lot of cars stopped in the lane (which I've never seen in the HOV lane. So we waited a while and merged into the fast lane. It was slow all the way to Santa Fe. (Sorry if you don't know the street names but let's just say it was a long stretch of highway. We finally see what is slowing down traffic and it is a huge dump truck just sitting in one of the middle lanes of traffic with his hazard lights on. I was in the lane that was behind him. I go to get out of the lane and the car in the lane next to me is waving me on and a guy from the lane on the other side of him decides he wants to get into the lane I'm getting to also (because he is soooo impatient and wants to get into the very left lane). So we are both halfway in this lane and I stop to let him go and he has the dumbest "what are you doing" look on his face and he just sits there starring at me. I can't go until he does so I motion him like Dane Cook would and say "Fuckin go!!!" Excuse the profanity. He finally goes and then I'm able to go. At this point we still have 40 minutes to get to work so I'm not freaking out too bad yet. We are just praying that nothing else goes wrong because we still have about half way to go. As we pray the traffic slows down again. In the right middle lane (5 lanes) there is a Scion stopped on the highway with 2 cop cars on the sides of her and I don't even know what happened there but the traffic ate up another 15 minutes. Then things are good for a while I hear on the radio that someone ran into one of those cop cars we just passed and was in pretty big trouble. As we are laughing about that traffic starts to crawl again. We are just thinking, "What now??" when all of a sudden one of the signs that usually tells you about construction or weather on the highway now says, "Car on fire ahead, Smoke visible!" and I look and I realize that the big cloud in front of us is smoke from a burning car. When we finally get up to the car, it's pulled over to the side of the highway with 3 fire engines, an ambulance, and a ton of police cars sitting in the middle of the highway. The car pulled over has it's entire front burned to ashes. By this time we are gagging from the fumes. Traffic finally thins out again and we book it doing 80 (sorry cops) to work. We run from the car into the building and clock in at 2 minutes late. By this time both of us realize we had forgotten our potluck items at home.

We sat down and took the assessment. I got 2 wrong answers out of 74 questions. While I was taking the test I realized that one of those questions was wrong but once you answer it and hit submit it takes you to the next question and you can't go back. It doesn't really matter though because I passed and that's all I needed to do. The rest of the day was easy, peasy. Potluck and hanging out.

I pumped all 3 times today and was able to get 13 oz. I ran out of breast milk bags this morning though. I put all 4 oz from lunch into one bag. Then at my last break I put it all into one of the pumping bottles and put the lid on it. When I got home I just transferred it into one of my sons bottles. I just figured out that that would make it easier for my husband in the morning if he didn't have to defrost the milk at 7 am. So I will do that last part from now on.

When we got out to Andrew's car after work we discovered the Pepsi that she had left in the car by accident in out rush to be on time had exploded all over. I don't care who you are, when it is 97 degrees outside that is a hot day. I don't even know what it was inside the car but it smelled really sweet when we opened the doors! :)