WHAT LUCK..................

A hurricane, tropical storm.....whatever Edouard calls itself hits land on MY birthday.  That sucks.  I had planned to go out and celebrate, but it is expected to rain all day, and everything is closed.  I had taken off today, and now I wish I hadn't.  I'm on what is called a floating holiday, which I had to schedule a MONTH in advance in order to use.  Naturally, I scheduled off for my birthday well in advance of the 30 day deadline.  Who knew what was going to happen then?

I did manage to prepare for this storm well, though.  I had taken care of Mom yesterday morning, filled my tank with gas, purchased storm staples, and SQUEEEEEEEZED my car inside our tiny garage.  Well, thank God for a garage to squeeze a car into! LOL  I don't know what this storm will bring, so I didn't want to take any chances.   

I thought that Matthew forgot my birthday.  I mean, I don't even have a birthday cake!  But he did buy me a birthday card.  Nothing inside; just a card.  A beautiful card.  It's the thought that counts, I guess.  And I haven't heard from the kids yet.  It's still early, though; they will probably call later.    

Speaking of parking garages.........at work, many of us who had access through our badges were parking on the third level (covered parking) for awhile.  Sunday, we weren't able to get on the third level.  They blocked ALL of our names out, which means that now we all have to park on the roof.  Many of us were perturbed, but I took it in stride.  By right, we shouldn't have been parking there anyway, and they let us park there for a long time before doing anything about it.  So I am grateful. Besides, I still have free parking, and they haven't taken away our parking privileges.  Plus, I already sensed that something like that was going to happen, because one of our bigwig supervisors sent an e-mail out to us earlier in the week as a friendly warning.  Yesterday, however, we found out that they are using BOTH parking levels to park ALL of their fleet cars to protect them from possible storm damage, which is why our badges were blocked.  My co-workers were instructed to park in the customer parking area, at any level, pull a ticket, and they will validate it for them.  That says a lot to me about how early they knew about this storm; it caught me off guard!  I wonder if we will be able to park on level three after the storm?    

Adrian