Since I'm having a discouragingly difficult week at work, I decided to take my friend Sam up on her offer to meet her and her husband at EC's tomorrow (Friday 4/24) after work.

I really need a little cheering-up and I'm hoping this will do the trick.

This weekend cannot come fast enough.  I just want to enjoy not "having" be to be someplace that I'd rather not be, LOL!

The city started about three different morning construction projects on my side of town, all of which are on my routes to work.  Besides making it difficult to get to work on the streets with construction, all of my alternative routes are now heavy with traffic.

Wilshire in the Miracle mile has construction, Wilshire, between San Vicente and La Cienega has construction (the San Vicente on my "home" side of town, not the San Vicente on my "work" side of town), plus there is something going on between Fairfax and approximately Orlando on Third that requires these HUGE trucks to line both sides of the street.

I've tried biting the bullet and taking Wilshire all the way (45+ minutes), I've tried taking Wilshire to San Vicente, to Burton, to Little Santa Monica to Wilshire (60+ minutes), I've tried Beverly to La Cienega to Burton, etc. (60+ minutes).  It's crazy.  My morning drive is usually around 20 minutes, give or take.

I may have to try going down to Olympic or Pico to see if they're any better, but from past experiences, I doubt they will be.

I think I saw a sign this morning alerting us to the fact that Wilshire is going to be closed tomorrow at one point.  It's not the city this time though, it's for a march.  They're also closing other streets on my way to work, so I guess I'm going to have to leave really early, which kinda sucks.  Thank goodness I have EC's to look forward to!

Weird thing lately, going home hasn't been too bad the past few weeks.  It's only been taking me about 50-60 minutes, instead of over an hour and a half.  The only real back-ups have been on Wilshire, East of Beverly Glen through to about La Cienega.  I know that sounds like a long way, but it's a dream compared to how the drive was before.  Plus, there are a lot of things to look at, especially if you're like me and you like to drive in the left-hand lane cruising through Beverly Hills.  Only drawback is that you get stuck if you're caught behind a tour bus that wants to make a left up Rodeo Drive and they end-up blocking both the lanes because there's not enough room for them.

If the commute home continues to be fairly good (and I didn't just jinx it), I should be able to be at EC's before 6:30pm!  Because of the previous horrendous traffic on my work side of town, in addition to the regular bad traffic on my home side of town, I was averaging 7:15 - 7:30pm the last 8 months or so.  Not that I go all the time!  It's actually been a few months for me.  I think the last time I was there was before I went to my parents house for Christmas.

Anyway, one more work to go!  Not counting today, that is.