I think I might be a nerd

I was watching the news yesterday and there was a story about the release of the video game Halo Reach.




Now, I'm not exactly what you might call a gamer. I don't have an xbox, I have Wii. I play games like Mario Galaxy and Wipeout (and I suck at both) I don't even understand the concept of some of these games.

But I know to gamers games like Halo are HUGE.

So the news story was about the people who lined up for upwards of 8 hours to be the first to get the game at midnight.....so they could go home and spend all night playing it.
One guy even went on to say "This is like my dream come true!"

Wow. Just....wow. Really? Your dream come true is to line up for 6 hours to buy a video game so you can stay up all night and play it.

Dream big my friend.

So while I sit in my chair, and blog and judge about the sheer nerdiness of these people we reflect upon one Saturday morning in August in 2008 in which I made Sean line up with me at Toys R Us to get a Wii Fit. Only 30 were available at the store and I wanted one for my birthday. So we lined up for an hour and a half and got one of the last units there.

I'm thinking I may have to come down off my high horse. I did line up for a video game.

I'm not coming down all the way though, I only played it for a few hours.....not all long.

I need a foot rub

I was late for work today.

For those who know me well (for those who know me even a little) you understand that this is a monumental thing.

I am NEVER late. For anything. The only thing about me that's ever late is my period.

I leave my house at 7 am. I work in Toronto, roughly 35 km from home. I take the highway, I get off in a neighbouring city to take Connor to daycare, hop back on the highway and head to work. Most days I get to the Timmies next to the school by 7:45. That gives me time to get my coffee, get to school and be in my classroom for 8:00. School starts at 8:30 but I like to be early to get things ready.

So this morning, as per usual I left at 7:00. The highway was backed up as soon as I got on and I basically stayed about about 40 km/hr until got to the daycare. Now it's 7:20. Now I realize I need gas (note to self, from now on get gas at night!) but the gas station next to the daycare is closed so I have to drive a few blocks over. It takes two lights for me to turn into the gas station because traffic on this street (which leads to the highway) is so backed up.

I get gas, I'm back on the highway and flying. I get to my exit and see cars backed up again. But - I do know there is construction for about a km on this stretch. It does usually slow me down a bit but not much. Today however, we're crawling, even past the construction. Then I hear it on the radio, the traffic lights are out at the intersection where my school is. This is roughly 5-6 km from where I am. And we are not moving.

Now I'm panicking. It's 8:15 am. I'm not moving. And this stretch of road there is no where I can get off to find an alternate route for at least 3 km.

I sent a text to the other ECE asking her to tell my teaching partner that I might be a bit late.

It's now 8:25 and I can see it. The street I can turn down to get off this road and get to my school.

I turn onto it and lo and behold there is construction at the intersection ahead and it's crawling here too.

By the time I got there I was raging, near tears and 10 minutes late.

This combined with the stress of switching kids around in our classes so I had 11 new ones today and didn't have their desk tags or cubbie labels up yet (which goes against all of my anal over preparedness) I was a walking stress ball.

I decided today would be a great day to wear my high heel boots. I don't have trouble with them, I can wear them all day and they don't bother me. But this all day usually consists of some sitting. I sat for 10 minutes while I ate spring rolls and samosa (my teaching partner brought them in....they were soooooo yummy)

So now my feet are swollen - they look like sausages. They hurt. My muscles hurt from stress.

But I still had a great day!!