Here it is...Late I know...Oh well...lol....I thought about skipping it all together, but I'm coming to like writing this :) So without further adieu.....
1. Thursday Sucked....I had to be in Lake Charles at 9am for a conference for work...Something I cannot be late for because, well that's rude to walk into a room with 100 people listening to a lecture...Not to mention embarrassing when the speaker stops to see what asshole can't show up on time...Anyway, I make sure my lazy ass stops hitting the snooze button and gets up so Brodie and I can be out of the house in time for me to drop him off at school and in time for me to still make the important runs for work that I needed to that morning...All is going exceptionally well, my son is even cooperating...Sitting on the potty...Engaging in a little pee action...Getting dressed without acting like I'm asking him rip out his toenails...It was pleasant...UNTIL...We get out to the truck...I drive an Envoy...I love my truck...I have since the day I saw it...I get Brodie all buckled in...Get myself buckled in...Turn the key...**Tick Tick Tick Tick**....F@#! Me!...My truck won't start...Like an idiot of a woman, I think, hmmm...Maybe I should just try again...SURELY that was a fluke....Turn the key...again....**Tick Tick Tick Tick**....F@#! F@#! F@#! F@#! !!!!!!!!!!!!!....I am a very adaptable person by nature...UNLESS...something is wrong with my vehicle...The reason is because I am a closet control freak...in normal crisis, I find a solution for the problem, execute, botta bing...crisis over....Vehicle Crisis is a completely different story....I don't know SHIT about Vehicles...Well, aside from the whole driving and putting gas in it...Since I don't feel like I can control the crisis, my immediate reaction is to Freak the F@#! out....Luckily, my husband was still home....So, I come inside and try to calmly tell him that my truck won't F@#%!* start...He is as cool as a cucumber...This pisses me off...Can't he see I am rattled beyond belief???...He walks outside with me, tells me to try to start it...again **Tick Tick Tick Tick**....He says, "Yeah, your battery is dead"....Ummmm, how the F@#! is my battery dead...Nothing was left on...He tells me to calm down...Then tells me that he threw my jumper cables away....W. T. F. did he do that for?...I had a nice little set of jumper cables in the back (not that I know how to use them)...they even had a cute little case to roll them up and store them in....Well, that didn't matter because that shit was gone....I asked him if he had and jumper cables in his truck...Nope...I'm really on the verge here of a breakdown...I feel the tears...(I cry if I'm pissed, stressed, annoyed....etc)...I control myself because I'm not trying to look like a complete neurotic mess...Calmly, I asked if he could maybe CALL SOMEONE to let us borrow some jumper cables so we could get the F@#! out of there...He did call his step-dad....He lives about 3 minutes from us....Ok, I felt relief...Until my husband said that he said he would be over in a little while...Ummm, I don't have a F@#$!* little while...I needed to leave 15 minutes ago....
His step-dad finally shows up...They jump my truck...I ended up having to skip my runs that morning...but I showed up at the conference at exactly 9am!...They hadn't started yet....Thank Goodness!...and all is right in the world again...
Until we break for lunch at the conference...My husband told me when I was able to get away from the conference for a few minutes to go and see if the truck would start....So, I walk out into the parking lot...Honestly believing that the truck was going to start...**Tick Tick Tick Tick** F@#! Me....I called my husband to tell him...He says, you definitely need a new battery...He said to call him when I was done and he'd meet me there to jump it again...Even though I didn't need to go anywhere...The feeling of knowing that I couldn't if I wanted to nagged the hell out of me...
He did come give me a jump and Brodie and I did get home safe and sound...That evening, he called a couple places to price my battery and such...And, he went and had a new battery put in..YAY!.... I thought...Problem solved!...Just Sayin'
2. Friday Sucked worse....So, the problem is fixed right?...Nope...When we were leaving Friday morning...Yes, the truck did start....but that bitch died on me 3 times backing out of the driveway!!!...It's not an issue with the battery, but apparently something else is clearly wrong!...We do have a long drive way, but as far as I knew, your car shouldn't die...Period...End of Story....I do a lot of interstate driving during the week...I was beyond nervous to get on the interstate....My husband wasn't home and his phone was going straight to voicemail, so I just decided I was gonna give it a go...Once I got the speed above 35, it was running fine...just like normal...but I'll be damned if that truck didn't die on me at several red lights when I got off the interstate...The afternoon was the worst...Heading home from work...Traffic is always worse on Fridays...My truck died 2 times in traffic before I was able to get onto the interstate...I cried...I did...Like a little baby...I sat in my truck crying saying "Don't Die, Don't Die, Don't Die, Don't Die" every time I would have to slow down...I called my husband when I finally got on the interstate to tell him...He felt like shit because he feels responsible to take care of these things and here he was getting a phone call from his crying wife about more issues with the truck...He apologized over and over....He said he would have it fixed immediately...Not to worry...The funniest thing about this conversation was at the end he said "Just be careful getting home...if you need anything call me...and don't worry about cooking anything tonight...I'll pick up whatever you want." :D So of course, I wanted Crawfish :) I have never been so happy to pull in my driveway...It was a relief...He took it yesterday to have the oil changed, oil filter and air filter changed, a slow leak in one of my tires that I had been telling him about was fixed...he had the tires balanced...Then he came home and changed all the spark plugs and something else that I don't remember...I drove it for the first time this morning, and it's purring like a kitten ;) He's my hero...Just Sayin'
That will do it for this week's Friday's Just Sayin'...On Sunday...I hope it was worth the wait...Now I must get back to my wifely duties and fold some clothes...Hopefully, I'll have some extra time to catch up on my favorite blogs!...Hope everyone has a great week!
