Hey ladies.  I know this update is a week late but it was such an interesting/entertaining week that I just had to share.

It started Monday morning.  I work on one of the bases here in VA so after I get through the gate I'm driving back towards my building, which is in the back of the base by the water.  I see this guy on the side of the road trying to flad down the truck that was a little ways in front of me.  The truck didn't stop so when I get up to the guy you can tell he is upset and just about jumps in front of my car.  So of course I stop (didn't feel like running any one over that day) and put my passenger side window down.  The man is begging me to drive him to the nearst building so he could get to a phone (he had been out running doing his PT so only  had on shorts & t-shirt).  As he is telling me what happened he is reaching into my car to unlock the door so he can get in.  I finally make out what he was saying and come to find out a sailboat had hit the power lines on the river that runs beside the base.  It took down the whole power line and this guy was screaming for the people on the boat but couldn't get a response out of them.  This part of the river is marked telling boaters not to access.  This is the 3rd boat this year that has ignored the signs and hit those power lines.  The last boat to do actually blew up.  Luckly the people on the boat ended up being okay but it knocked the power out to the base almost all morning.

Then later that afternoon I was outside with some of the guys and saw the local news helicopter.  When I came back in I pulled up their website to see what was going on.  Well apparently some idiot decided to try and jump the bridge while running from the police.  The bridge was either in the process of opening or closing and this guy thought he could jump his car to the other side of the bridge.  Of course he didn't make it and ended up in the Elizabeth river.  The police pulled him out and he only had minor injures but come on now.  What was going through his head.  This is also the same bridge I have to go over when I leave here in the afternoons so I had to go a different way which was bumper-to-bumper also and it took me 1 1/2 hours to get to daycare (usually only takes 20 minutes). 

The rest of the week wasn't too bad until Friday afternoon as Sarah and I are on our way home.  It was nice and sunny out but I noticed that there was one black cloud.  Well as I got closer this is what I saw:






What you can't see in the pictures is there was a really pretty rainbow off to the left.  I felt like one of those storm chasers... LOL  Except I stopped to see which way it was going and once I saw that it was going the opposite way then what I was going I started driving again.  I tried to get Sarah to look at it but she was more impressed with the rainbow.  LOL The real funny thing about this is there was one other car a little ways in front of me and they stopped also.  We were the only 2 on this road.  Later that evening I watched the local news and no one ever mentioned this and of course I don't have a signal on my cell phone where I live so I couldn't send them the pictures.  So now I think me and this other lady that was in front of me are the only ones in this whole world who saw this.  LOL

So that was my interesting week last week.  Nothing interesting so far this week.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day and week!

Michelle said she would try & check in aroud 3:00 this afternoon, after the appointment & 6 hours with her eye patch.  Her appointment is around 10:00.

Well wishes to you, Michelle!!!!  Hope you fel better this afternoon & maybe have gotten some rest too!!
-Jamie

Hey Michelle,
I just remembered that you have your eye appointment today (at least I'm thinking it is today).  I wanted to sneak on here real quick (at work) and let you know that your in my prayers.  Let us know how everything goes when you get a chance.


Hugs
Teresa

Well, you are a big ahead of me.   I haven't dug out the winter stuff yet but will be doing that really soon.    Every day is cooler and cooler. 

I had a rough weekend......my cold kicked my behind.   I spent a lot of time between cleaning and sleeping on Saturday.   Sunday I went to the mall for a bit and got Sadie her monkey costume for Halloween.  Other than that I cleaned again....I went to bed early because I ended the day with a horrible migraine.    I got up at 5 am to work this morning only to keep getting kicked off my internet....without that I cannot work at all.   I finally got back up and running at about 10:15am...I have to make up the lost time.   What a way to start the week.  

Tomorrow is my next eye treatment.   This one will be a bit different than the first.   I have to wear a patch for 6 hrs afterwards.   I also could possibly end up with blurry peripheral vision from it.   I'm a bit nervous about the whole thing even though I never have been before.   This is a bit different treatment.   If I'm feeling ok I will post an update tomorrow afternoon.   My appt is at noon so I'm sure I won't be back till 3 or so at the earliest.  

You don't even want to ask about my Thursday.   I've been sick all week...Sadie was a beast...no nap all day hubby was a jerk...nuff said!!    Anyway today is a new day!   No plans for this weekend but my hubby was told that he's on Sadie duty so I can rest and kick this cold I've got.   I refuse to take care of them all weekend.   Sunday will be church but otherwise we have no plans.