perspective

well my trip to connecticut certainly was interesting!

i left hoping alex was going to get some work done on the house in my absence as i was really starting to get stressed out about it...

i arrived wednesday and i was pretty busy on the project i'm working on through friday. friday the rest of the company (including my team) started arriving and that was really great. it's the first time all four of the people in my group were all together and it was really nice to be able to talk to everyone together. one of my coworkers got to see just how crazy the PM i'm working with is so that was also a bonus. generally it was a nice time. everyone went out partying after our reception at the hotel but i took my pregnant self to bed!

saturday was the all-day meeting which was about as thrilling as an all-day meeting can be. i realized in our division of the company (about 65 people) there are FOUR women total. that was kind of surprising to see, but i guess i shouldn't have been that shocked.

after that i packed up and headed over to my friend's house who was hosting my mini-shower. i was very excited for it and to see her and my another good friend who was driving down for the party from new hampshire. both of us were arriving early so we could spend time together before the rest of the people came.

M (the host) had just finished setting things up and we were hanging in the kitchen chatting waiting for T to arrive. she had called about 15 minutes before so we knew she was close. shortly thereafter the doorbell rang... which we thought was odd, no one really uses the doorbell, they usually just come right on up. of course we expected T but it was actually one of M's neighbors from across the street. telling is that we needed to come outside.

turns out the T was turning left into M's driveway and didn't see the SUV coming right at her...

by the time they had come to get us, the neighbor, who was a pediatric nurse, had pulled T out of the car since it was smoking badly and she didn't appear to have head/neck injuries. her car was completely totalled and she was sitting on a chair witha blanket and a cloth for her face (she had gotten cuts and burns from the impact/airbag.)

all in all it could have been much worse! but wo much has happened to T in the last few months that this was just completely unbelievable. ii ended up riding with her to the hospital in the ambulance while M contacted everyone to tell them the party was off and them et us the ER.

they ended up keeping her for a few days, she did have some internal injuries but should be just fine. i ended up rescheduling my flight so i could stay longer. it was just insanity.

when alex picked me up that airport he finally told me that while i was gone, he had worked on the floor.. and had accidentally punctured a water pipe which resulted in water going through all levels of the house. he fixed the pipe amazingly and the other real damage was the giant hole in the ceiling on the first floor he had to make in order to drain the water and get to the pipe. at that point, all i could do was laugh. really in the scheme of things? not that big of a deal. not after what T had gone through over the weekend! i can't imagine why he didn't want to tell me while i had been calling him from the ER with updates.

funny how your perspective can change so drastically in such a short time, isn't it?

and in the end, this is what i got to be surprised with!