anguish

So The holidays are here again and I don't know if I am pleased with this or not. My daughter is almost 6 months now which seems so big to me but she still isn't old enough to really get into the holidays. I got a new job just in time to get paid on Christmas Eve. Was planning on doing all my christmas shopping that day since I didn't have any presents for anyone until then. They let me leave work to cash my check before the bank closed. (this story seems pretty good so far huh?) Well, on the way to walmart, I find that the sleet coming down is getting faster, harder and icier. My passenger side window is currently being held up by chunks of wood shoved down in the door. This means every bump I hit, the window comes down a bit. So at this point I have a good 2 inch gap. This isn't much you would say. The sleet must have seen this and since it's completely out to get me, it decided to fall sideways. Sleet it shooting in the opening of my car and going straight for my eyes. It is now impossible to see. Get to walmart, it's packed, have to park a mile away. Limp all the way to the door while the ice is trying to pierce my jugular. Cash my check. On the way back to work, I try to break, my car does this weird grindy noise thing that you can't hear me doing right now but i am in hopes to explain it better. The break pedal gets hard and I am rolling into the intersection. I do mean rolling and not sliding on the ice. This happens twice on the 2 mile trip. I tried to turn onto the road and almost did a 360. Now do note that before I left work, there was no rain, snow, sleet, or ice. This has only been going on since I left the building and the roads are already covered in ice. I make it back to work. Had a visit with my first daughter scheduled that day but there is noooo way I am making it down the road my ex lives on especially with my brakes (that I later find out are fine and It's just an oversensitive antilock brake system).It takes me an hour to get home and I have to go 35 down the highway. I get home to pick up my fiancee'. A friend offers to watch the baby so we can run and shop without dragging her out. In the short time I was inside, somehow it got so bad, I can't get out of my driveway. Everyone else is still driving around but not my peice o junk SUV. My mom is supposed to come down Christmas day and we're supposed to have dinner and I am supposed to work that morning. None of which are happening. Now it's the 28th, still haven't made it out despite the endless amount of effort put into getting my car SOMEWHERE. Going a little nuts and really need to make it back to work.