What a week it's been.
Last Sunday night was a typical Sunday night. I went to play hockey, scored my first goal of the season, and we won a thrilling game. I was pretty excited, happy, and went home feeling pretty good. I was facing a busy week at work and that was going to help me start it off right.
Then Monday morning hit.
I was sitting at my desk catching up on some e-mails when one of the managers walked up. Normally when he does it's something funny or he's got a problem. Instead he came with some news: a co-worker at another office had died in a car accident Sunday night. I was shocked and somewhat devastated. Tori was one of those people that would walk into a room of 100 people and come out with 100 friends. She just had that kind of personality. She was always very helpful, smiling, and just a great person to be around. Every time I saw her she would at least stop and say hello and see how I was doing. It was quite a shock to find out that I'd never get that opportunity again. Then I found out that her accident happened about a mile from my house. That made it even worse. Tori was only 27 years old. She had a bright future ahead of her. She will be greatly missed.
That set the tone for the remainder of the week.
Tuesday through Thursday I was in a class in addition to my normal duties. Class was interesting, but it was hard to concentrate. Then came news that another co-worker had been involved in a serious car accident and was in intensive care. Now within a week we've had two co-workers involved in two serious car accidents, one fatal and one very serious.
By the time Thursday afternoon rolled around, I was looking for a rock to climb under and hide. But that wasn't going to happen. Thursday was busy day at work - we were doing some maintenance after hours. It would require some attention. I left work to get my daughter from day care, take her home, wait for my wife to get home, then go back to work.
I made it to Friday without too many issues. Luckily the maintenance went better than expected and we didn't have a lot of issues.
Saturday I went to Tori's viewing, then we had family portraits. The portrait gallery was an hour behind schedule. We were lucky that our daughter didn't have a meltdown during the entire process. We survived long enough to get some really good pictures.
Sunday was hockey game #2 for the week. For whatever reason I didn't play well. My head just wasn't in the game. I missed several good opportunities and didn't have a lot of energy. We still won the game, but it just didn't feel as good. I felt that it was my worst game of the season. It probably wasn't, but when you don't play that great after a week of lows, it's hard to see the highs.
I'm ready for some more highs. I'm done with lows for a while.
Last Sunday night was a typical Sunday night. I went to play hockey, scored my first goal of the season, and we won a thrilling game. I was pretty excited, happy, and went home feeling pretty good. I was facing a busy week at work and that was going to help me start it off right.
Then Monday morning hit.
I was sitting at my desk catching up on some e-mails when one of the managers walked up. Normally when he does it's something funny or he's got a problem. Instead he came with some news: a co-worker at another office had died in a car accident Sunday night. I was shocked and somewhat devastated. Tori was one of those people that would walk into a room of 100 people and come out with 100 friends. She just had that kind of personality. She was always very helpful, smiling, and just a great person to be around. Every time I saw her she would at least stop and say hello and see how I was doing. It was quite a shock to find out that I'd never get that opportunity again. Then I found out that her accident happened about a mile from my house. That made it even worse. Tori was only 27 years old. She had a bright future ahead of her. She will be greatly missed.
That set the tone for the remainder of the week.
Tuesday through Thursday I was in a class in addition to my normal duties. Class was interesting, but it was hard to concentrate. Then came news that another co-worker had been involved in a serious car accident and was in intensive care. Now within a week we've had two co-workers involved in two serious car accidents, one fatal and one very serious.
By the time Thursday afternoon rolled around, I was looking for a rock to climb under and hide. But that wasn't going to happen. Thursday was busy day at work - we were doing some maintenance after hours. It would require some attention. I left work to get my daughter from day care, take her home, wait for my wife to get home, then go back to work.
I made it to Friday without too many issues. Luckily the maintenance went better than expected and we didn't have a lot of issues.
Saturday I went to Tori's viewing, then we had family portraits. The portrait gallery was an hour behind schedule. We were lucky that our daughter didn't have a meltdown during the entire process. We survived long enough to get some really good pictures.
Sunday was hockey game #2 for the week. For whatever reason I didn't play well. My head just wasn't in the game. I missed several good opportunities and didn't have a lot of energy. We still won the game, but it just didn't feel as good. I felt that it was my worst game of the season. It probably wasn't, but when you don't play that great after a week of lows, it's hard to see the highs.
I'm ready for some more highs. I'm done with lows for a while.
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