Choo Choo Trains

As if yesterday morning wasn't bad enough...

I must not be getting a deep enough sleep at night. Even though I seem to sleep for a good amount of hours i'm still pretty tired when I wake up. Which, of course, means I stay in bed for far longer than I should. But, I managed to actually get up and get ready on time to catch the train this morning.

Let's talk about my morning train ride for a second. I catch the 7:42 train from Westfield to Newark. I'm not a morning reader, I don't want to talk to anyone, I just want to sit and listen to my IPod. Unfortunately, my headset broke this morning as I went to pull it out of my bag. So for 20 minutes I sat and listened to the guy next to me cough without covering his mouth (nasssssttttt). I get to Newark at 8:04. Now, there's two trains in the morning that go to New York. One that goes straight there and one that stops at Secaucus and then goes to NY. I have to catch the Secaucus one. This is what it looks like on the screen:

NY-SEC

There's normally an 8:05 that stops in Secaucus but I usually just miss that one so I catch the 8:13. Most of the NY & NY-SEC trains arrive and depart on track 1. Sometimes the NY-SEC trains arrive on track 2 if it's a backed up morning. Well, I get there at 8:07 and the screens aren't showing any track numbers. So I wait and wait and then the 8:15 train to NY says track 1 so I conclude that "well, that means the 8:13 NY-SEC train will be on track 2 because there's not enough time in between". Sure enough I get up to track 2 around 8:09 and the screen finally shows the 8:13 NY-SEC train arriving on track 2. I give myself a pat on the back for thinking smart and I wait. 8:14 the train pulls up, I get on, settle into a seat where I can actually put my feet up, and I relax for the 10 min train ride. Right before the train pulls out of the station the ticket lady comes by to check my monthly pass and says, "you're going to Secaucus? This train doesn't stop in Secaucus, it's going straight to NY." Well, I leap out of my seat and she attempts to open the door before the train pulls out but no... just miss it. I'm now confused since I read the screens properly, the train arrived the time it was supposed to, and it said NY-SEC. SEC = my stop! It's now 8:17, I sit back in my seat, and take the train into NY - pissed off. We arrive in NY Penn, I bolt through the station to get back to the NJTransit trains and nearly miss the 8:38 train back to Secaucus. Finally arrive at my final destination at 8:47 and wait for the 9am shuttle to take me to my building. But, my wonderful friends from work came to pick me up instead since I was running late and had a hellish commute. I know I read everything right this morning so Newark's train information must have been all jacked up. And, I did this entire commute without my IPod. I wanted to slit my wrists.

Anyone watch "Dancing with the Stars" last night?! I couldn't believe my eyes when Marie Osmond fainted after her dance. It was pretty crazy! I must have rewound it and watched it like 5 times on DVR. But, I'm rooting for the Cheetah Girl - Sabrina. She's AMAZING! Probably the best dancer ever to grace the "Dancing with the Stars" stage.

Every Monday night we have a meeting at work from 5-6pm. You know you always have those 1 or 2 people in the meeting that require way more attention than necessary and therefore make the meeting highly unproductive. Well, we have those 1 or 2. And every meeting we take way too much time explaining things, getting off topic, or waiting for them to finish there pointless tale that they think has some relation to whats going on but really doesn't. I hate it. I zone out. I don't mind meetings as long as they are productive and done in a timely manner. But when you have those people that disrupt the flow and do it constantly it becomes highly annoying and frustrating. Last night was no exception. Good thing for text messaging. Yes, I did it during the meeting and I didn't care.

Tomorrow I have a gyno appointment. It's been 3 1/2 months since I last got my period. No, i'm not pregnant. I've been putting this appointment off because we don't have insurance nor the money to spend but I have to go. So, hopefully after $100 doctor visit they'll figure out what the heck is wrong with me. Good thing my R&R day is Thursday.

"And we break and we burn
and we turn it inside out
to take it back to the start
and through the rise and falling apart
we discover who we are"

--Lifehouse "Who We Are"