Just Another Bend In Journey of Life
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Short week in reviewUgh. What a freaking week! Seriously. The hot tub is STILL frozen. I've been hacking at that trying to get it thawed out. It was 65 the other day and much of it melted but there is STILL ice in there. Of course now it's down at like 35 again. I hate the cold.
So on top of the hot tub, Sat night (a week ago) I kept hearing bump, bump, bump in the bathroom. Could NOT figure out where it was coming from. Sunday morning I was still hearing it but only in the bathroom area... Anyway, after much searching. It was the freaking water lines in the sauna!!!!!!!! Water was SHOOTING from the floor tot he ceiling. That went on for at least, oh about.... 15 hours. Ya, THAT water bill is going to be fabulous. I did drop off a note w/ my payment as to what happened to hopefully they'll adjust my bill. I'd thought that after he fixed the water lines in there that the water was shut off. I didnt' realize it'd been on all winter. WHY it chose to break on a 60 degree day as opposed to when it was -35 is beyond me. Fucker. Most people around here have outdoor saunas. Very rarely do they have the electrical ones in the house. Too many Finlanders up here. We do it old school! :)
Oh lets see, what else??? Car trouble. I had to replace a wheel baring last Friday night. At least my Aunt's fiance fixed it. Got off cheap there. The part was like $57 and then I gave him $50 for fixing it. Then on Sunday as S and I are leaving my Grandpa's house driving down the road my battery light comes on. Fanfuckingtastic. Got home and shut the car off. DUMB. Wouldn't turn back over. Ugh. Finally got it to start after waiting a couple minutes and it started so we took a ride to charge the battery a little bit. Monday morning, started no problem but the interior lights/dash kept going bright, dim, bright, dim on my way to work so I'm thinking my alternator is going. I called the Auto parts place where my cousin's fiance works and the part was $279 NOT including the labor to put it in. I had to leave at 3p to pick up S for skating and my car wouldnt' start. Ended up getting a jump and left it running the entire time we were at skating (I can do that here w/o worrying that someone is going to steal it-- nice perk!), finally shut it off at 5p when we got to gymnastics. No probs starting after that. Tues morning, different story. It was a no-go. I just stood in the living room in tears. Trying to figure out what I can sell at my house to fix my car. S didn't have school and was supposed to go to her cousin's for the day so I called my Uncle and he came and got her and let me use their extra vehicle. That was great!!!! Anyway, my cousin's hubby came up to my house later to look at it and my battery is in a f'd up place. It's right in front of my passenger side wheel well. The well has these "gill-like" slots, which ends up kicking salt etc, onto the battery. So needless it say it wasn't connecting like it should. He jumped it and drove it to his house and fixed 'er up for me. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! Ugh.
I bought a bike w/ the money I saved. Just a WM cheepie but at least Stella and I can go bike riding now. With my luck lately, I'll probably fall off and break something.
So last night my cousin G and I decide to go out since her hubby was gone. After trying to find a sitter a friend of mine called me back to tell me that she was getting a sitter for her kids and S was welcome to go there and spend the night. Thank God 'cause after this week, I REALLY needed a night out. S was ok w/ this and brought her over there. She was fine. She was good for about 45 min and then I get a vm on my cell w/ her basically hyperventalating. UGH!!!!!!!!! I couldnt' even understand her. I drove back up there and calmed her down and got her to sleep. It took me almost 1.5 hrs. I was NOT happy. But w/ the week I had I was NOT going home either. I wasn't giving in to her so that she coudl get her way. I told her I'd pick her sleeping butt up at 1230 and bring her home to sleep in her own bed. IDK what's going on w/ this since she's NEVER had a problem sleeping at anyone's house. Anyway, G and I left the bar and made it to a bar here for last call. (We'd been in the town across the bay.) Oh, and Boston was at the bar we were at too. Nice huh? hahaha. They left long before we did. Anyway, I decided to leave S at the friends house bc she was sleeping and I figured she'd be ok. We stop at the 2nd bar for last call and a fight breaks out. We got clobbered. We were sitting at the bar and one guy threw the other guy into all of us and G's head hit my face. Fantastic! I have a beer at G's house after bar closing and then go home. I get a call at 330am from my friend, S was having a fit and wanted to go home. Now she NEVER wakes up in the middle of the night. UGH. I was too intoxicated to pick her up so friend brought her home. I felt soooooo bad. S gets up this morning and says "Mom you have 2 lines on your face". "Uh huh... ok S". I get up and look in the mirror---
Doesn't that just figure!? Work, skating and gymnastics is going to be SO fun tomorrow!!!
When my dad stopped here before work I asked him to go to the store to get me a Coke. I really didn't want to go out looking like this. Everyone in town will want to know what happened. I told my dad that I'm going to email my mom w/ the pic and tell her that I ran into GNCT last night and called her a giraffe neck to her face and she clocked me so now I'm filing a PPO against HER! hahaah! She'll be so disappointed when she learns that the story behind it is so less interesting.
But how else was my week supposed to turn out? Perfect ending.
