Today has been such a long day. I had planned on going and staying with my Grandmother tonight. However, those plans changed this morning when it was discovered that my mom's cold is not a cold, it's the flu. So, I scrapped my plans. Instead I went to Hickory Hollow Mall. Found a skirt and jacket and some shoes for church. I lived in Nashville til I was 10, and since my Grandparents still live there, I am pretty familiar with the streets. So, maybe it was the rain, but I had a hard time getting anywhere I was trying to go today. I left Hickory Hollow mall, turned on the road that I knew would take me to Murfreesboro Road so I could run by my grandparents, drove a little ways on that road, hmmm, this doesn't look familiar, so I turned on another road, gave a small cry of suprise when I saw the home depo sign, indicating I had just made a complete circle through Antioch and ended up back at the mall. So once again, I turn on another road, same thing happens. So much for my short cut, I get on Bell Road and stay on Bell road all the way to Murfreesboro Road. Drive down Murfreesboro road, see the road I had turned on the first time when leaving the mall (If I had just kept going another minute on it, I could have avoided circling around, twice) I turned off Murfreesboro Road onto Donelson Pike, past the airport, down to Lebanon Road. I'm finally all most there. I'm in the right lane, about to go over Briley Parkway, when oops! Thanks to all the road construction, this lane only goes onto Briley Parkway, not straight like I need to. It's raining and there is traffic, so I'm forced onto Briley. Drove through the road construction, exited Briley at Two Rivers Park, luckily I lived by the park, so I know where I am. Drove down Two rivers Parkway, to McGavock Pike, back to Lebanon road. This time I stay in the left lane and finally get to my grandparents house.
Normally I don't have adventures like that, although I am good at making maybe one wrong turn, but I usually get back the right way with no problem.
I left my Grandmothers and thought it looked like the rain was letting up. About the time I got on I-24 I glanced ahead of me and thought it looked awfully foggy up ahead. It wasn't fog. It was rain. The kind of rain where you can only see the car's tailights in front of you and basically nothing else. That lasted from Donelson until Lavergne. I never got above 40 and people weren't passing me. As I got closer to home the rain let up. Traffic was at a standstill after I got in Murfreesboro because of a wreck. I finally got through that, stopped by my house for a few minutes, then headed across town to my sisters to watch my nephew while she worked. I just got home from keeping him. There are storms heading towards us, so I have a feeling it's going to be a long night also. I can't sleep when it's storming.
I forgot to mention, I got in the 91'st percentile on my test. Hopefully I will be one of about 50 called for an interview and then one of 24 accepted into the program.
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