Guess how many miles I drove my car in the last 75 minutes?   14.   

I left my house at 4:45 to make it to a meeting with a 5:30 start time.  I was looking forward to hearing how to keep my life’s priorities while pursuing my dream business goals and I was also given the opportunity to talk about how I was reinventing myself through the latest incubator with Ladies Who Launch.  Somehow this was not to be.   

Normally when I go to my LWL meetings I take the north route, head down Ellington Parkway then to James Robertson and around to Charlotte to get to the Point 3 offices at Marathon Village.  When I got in my car and started to proceed with this route dark clouds, I mean really dark blue gray ominous clouds were forming over the village… and then bolts of lightening!! Yikes!  I decide  to  go the other route, through Hermitage and stop for some much needed coffee.  Well those darn storms followed me.  I pulled into Starbucks and the guy at the window says, “Naw those storms are headed East toward Mt. Juliet”…. whatever!!  I was worried that a bolt of lightening would hit the stainless steel to go window counter!  As I drove off and toward the ramp to 40W I could see what looked like gray smoke in my rear view mirror… it was rain.  Pouring rain and then hail and wind, stuff flying in the air!  The temp drops from 96 to 75 in about 10 minutes.  Okay I am thinking I will pull over until the rain subsides.  By the time I start to merge onto the interstate it stops but wait…. the traffic is at a standstill and this is going toward town at 5 o’clock.  Seems that a tractor trailer is stuck under the Elm Hill Pike overpass, lanes are closed and the truck will be there until 8pm.  Nice.  20 minutes to go from one exit to the next.   

I never made it to the meeting.  Instead I am having a glass of wine!   So I wonder if I had taken the Ellington Parkway route if I would have made it?  Somehow it is an appropriate way to wind down this first Monday of Summer 2009.  It has been a day with some movement toward my reinvention, maybe those storms symbolize all the negative, self doubt, leaving my brain. 

I am leaving with a photo of the white tiger cubs from the Nashville Zoo.   I have a big post in my mind about my latest zoo visit. 

It's so hard to say goodbye to these girls! Today was their last day at the Nashville Zoo.