IT DIDN'T MATTER THAT....

I started my day at school, before the bell even rang, with my hands FULL of blood.   I hadn't seen that much blood in a long time.  All of which I had to wash off before starting my day of work.

It didn't matter that driving home, my roof antenna was encased in a chunk of ice, bent completely forward and banging AGAINST my front right windshield, ready to SNAP off!

It didn't matter than when I got home from work, the town plow had blocked my driveway NOT with a foot high wall of  lovely white, fluffy SNOW, but with chunks of ice and more HUMONGOUS BOULDERS!

WHAT DID MATTER?

The little fellow in Kindergarten will be fine. He fell on a piece of playground equipment, and hit this forehead smack between the eyes.  He was kneeling in the snow gushing blood, by the time I reached him.  Dabbing at the geyser with a tissue did N*0 good. It was immediately saturated with blood.  While trying to him lead out of high snow banks, into school and to the office, AND yelling for help, blood continued to pour out of his wound.  Out came out a THICK wad of tissues I had fortuitously shoved into my coat pocket that morning.  It was actually the entire BOTTOM of a kleenex box. I held that to his forehead, all the while continuing to now YELL an EA's name.  She finally heard me and another EA arrived as well. The latter immediately took the Kindergartener to the office.  I had to stay outside; I was still on duty. The little one will have stitches, but the wound was not a HUGE V- shaped CHUNK out of his head, as it had appeared to me, but rather a straight little line between his two eyes.  The snow is piled so high, that the upper parts of playground equipment which normally WOULD NOT be at a child's eye level, now are.   Dangerous!

I was driving on a busy thoroughfare, when my antenna started banging on my windshield.  I decided to pull into the closest parking lot, and DISLODGE all that ice TOUT DE SUITE!  I had already broken ONE antenna.  I didn't want to spend $75 to replace another one.  How FORTUITOUS again, that I happened to be right in front of the NBLC.  I had been debating earlier whether to stop in and buy some wine on my way home, and had decided, "NAH!", but .... S-I-N-C-E I was right there in their parking lot, WHY NOT?   I thereby killed two birds with one stone right there!

I parked my Jiminy in the street, and by shoveling for twenty minutes, was able to clear a space wide enough for him to squeak through into my driveway.  Vimy romped around while I was able to have some great cardiovascular exercise.  It was wonderfully mild, ( a balmy +5 degrees Celsius, as opposed to last week's -35C).  That's ONLY a forty degree difference.  My neighbour came along and dislodged the ONE, GIGANTIC boulder of ice and snow, that I had not been able to budge!  AWESOME I SAY!!!

All in all... another GREAT DAY!