Bad Weather Turned to Good Mood and Being a Part of It

Today I woke up in dimay over yet another blizzard. You'd think after so long of non stop snow throughout my life and extremely short summers that I'd be used to this. However, everytime I wake up to 8 inches of snow and snow still coming down it puts me in a mood to just know that I still have to go out in it anyway. God forbid Laramie cancel anything when it's dangerous to have high school students and people who's cars are covered in snow out driving. After checking email, the news, and my mom's knowledge I found school still wasn't canceled and began my journey.

My car decided it was too cold to start and wouldn't have gotten over the mound of hard snow the city created anyway (Shane says I probably locked my wheel and my ignition wasn't frozen). Last night Shane told me I could take his car, so I started it hoping it would warm. However, I forgot that his truck doesn't get warm unless moving and none of the snow on it melted. It then took me 10 minutes to get the snow off his truck because it's too tall for me to reach the center of the windshield and I was slipping and sliding EVERYWHERE!!!! I finally got to class just on time to be given the worst retake exam of my life!!!!! Open book doesn't count when I can't freaking find the answers! I've never been so mad at a professor in my life and being soaking wet probably didn't help the situation. After much frustration I decided I was finished with school for the day and went home.

Got home and decided that my house and boyfriend were much better than being outside in the snow. Shane made it better by taking me to work. So now here I am in the warm shop waiting for the day to be over... Needless to say I have an awesome boyfriend and have gotten into a much better mood!!

Add on from yesterday. While at work I got a call from a kid in California who needs a tux for a Cathedral Home reunion. I talked him through everything then told him I could order it all over the phone and all would be well. I asked for his name and told him I'd call him with some more details today! When he told me his name it clicked that I knew this boy from when I worked at LYCC. He quickly realized who I was as well and got all excited to tell me what he's been doing. He said he's going to school and getting ready to start football. He seemed so happy to have a familiar voice to talk to. The situation made my day to realize that I was part of that. I was part of him coming out on top and being able to overcome his problems.

I don't think I could ever work as a Social Worker and do all that again because it is really hard the things you hear and see. It's a big reality shock to know that those horror stories you hear on the news really do happen to kids that are closer than you think. I never saw much of a reward in it, but now that these kids are growing up and I'm hearing how much they've changed the reward has come. It's awesome to know that you helped someone who was at the point in their life where they had no one else left or just didn't seem like they were going to change.