has just NOT been working in my favor
This morning I woke up at 4:52am, and couldn't fall back to sleep for the life of me. I don't normally get up til 5:30ish, so I just laid there while Rob peacefully slept! Then I get to work and realize I left my badge at home, which gets me in the building and whatnot. And I left my cellphone at home too, so I cant call anyone to let me in! Luckily after 5 minutes or so a girl I knew showed up and let me in.
Got frustrated with some of the stuff I was doing at work, as well as frustrated with the girl who I was training, because the first words out of her mouth were "I'm gonna learn everything I can so I can take your job!" (Um, WHAT? I dont think so!!) She got pretty 'tudey right before leaving, whatever.
Make my way to Rob's work to bring a late lunch, then notice our tire is slowly going flat again. I just filled it up 3 days ago, so it was losing about 3psi a day. Borrowed a pressure checker from the guys next door and filled it back up. Then Rob was getting frustrated with a van that worked fine, then wouldn't start. Got it to start, and the transmission fried itself. So now he has to build it again. The van has all sorts of wiring messups it seems. Lights randomly coming on, flashing, etc.
We finally leave to head to my parents' house. Got a late start, boo. We were looking to make it here by 9-9:30pm. We were about 50 miles away from their house (and about 170 away from ours) when our car stopped running. It said goodnight. A BIG goodnight. Our timing belt snapped in half. It's just under 212,000 miles ... so we've been procrastinating for 12,000 miles!
We were just talking about it in the car on the way there too. Go figure!
$175 later we were at my parents' house. The tow guys were super-nice and had an awesome truck ... they really didn't need to stop
I was cozy just cruising in the king cab of the truck! Apparently we got a great deal ... my brother drove into a ditch and they charged $150 to tow him out of it! (Their truck got stuck too lol). Now we'll just fix the car. It is time anyway, no biggie to us, not worried about. So the part that should have been the worst part of my day actually made it funny.
The best part of all was the two guys we saw at the gas station we walked to after the car broke ... one guy was listening to a rap/dance song, and was "poppin'" in the gas station while his partner was giving the cashier money, swaying along. Oh my
Even the gas station attendants were cracking up when they walked out, and then the dance guy was outside at the pump doing crazy moves! It was almost worth the car breaking just to see that!!
Now we're stranded in NC technically. My dad said we can use his truck to get home if we want, but we're trying to see if my BIL will drive up here with the truck and tow dolly so we can bring the car back. If not, we might cough up the cash to rent a car too, but that's unlikely (seeing as it'll be ridiculously priced - we're under 25!) I wonder how the rest of the weekend will go ... I HATE baby showers and that's the reason I came up here ... since it's my cousin's, I feel sort of obligated to go instead of bail like all the other ones. And it's supposedly gonna take 1.5 hours to drive 38 miles tomorrow to get there ... AND I have to shop for "nice pants" to wear since I of course couldn't find mine.
This morning I woke up at 4:52am, and couldn't fall back to sleep for the life of me. I don't normally get up til 5:30ish, so I just laid there while Rob peacefully slept! Then I get to work and realize I left my badge at home, which gets me in the building and whatnot. And I left my cellphone at home too, so I cant call anyone to let me in! Luckily after 5 minutes or so a girl I knew showed up and let me in.
Got frustrated with some of the stuff I was doing at work, as well as frustrated with the girl who I was training, because the first words out of her mouth were "I'm gonna learn everything I can so I can take your job!" (Um, WHAT? I dont think so!!) She got pretty 'tudey right before leaving, whatever.
Make my way to Rob's work to bring a late lunch, then notice our tire is slowly going flat again. I just filled it up 3 days ago, so it was losing about 3psi a day. Borrowed a pressure checker from the guys next door and filled it back up. Then Rob was getting frustrated with a van that worked fine, then wouldn't start. Got it to start, and the transmission fried itself. So now he has to build it again. The van has all sorts of wiring messups it seems. Lights randomly coming on, flashing, etc.
We finally leave to head to my parents' house. Got a late start, boo. We were looking to make it here by 9-9:30pm. We were about 50 miles away from their house (and about 170 away from ours) when our car stopped running. It said goodnight. A BIG goodnight. Our timing belt snapped in half. It's just under 212,000 miles ... so we've been procrastinating for 12,000 miles!
$175 later we were at my parents' house. The tow guys were super-nice and had an awesome truck ... they really didn't need to stop
The best part of all was the two guys we saw at the gas station we walked to after the car broke ... one guy was listening to a rap/dance song, and was "poppin'" in the gas station while his partner was giving the cashier money, swaying along. Oh my
Now we're stranded in NC technically. My dad said we can use his truck to get home if we want, but we're trying to see if my BIL will drive up here with the truck and tow dolly so we can bring the car back. If not, we might cough up the cash to rent a car too, but that's unlikely (seeing as it'll be ridiculously priced - we're under 25!) I wonder how the rest of the weekend will go ... I HATE baby showers and that's the reason I came up here ... since it's my cousin's, I feel sort of obligated to go instead of bail like all the other ones. And it's supposedly gonna take 1.5 hours to drive 38 miles tomorrow to get there ... AND I have to shop for "nice pants" to wear since I of course couldn't find mine.
