I Don't Want Any More Adventure

I am not going to get out of bed tomorrow.

This morning i had to take the kitten to Ohio to get fixed. I left Grove City around 5:30 and took the kitten. I didn't even get lost!! Well, kind of. I took a wrong road, but fortunately every road in Ohio is laid out in a grid so the road i needed to turn onto still went across the road i was actually on. In fact, I got to the APL before i really realized that I was "lost"

I feel bad about leaving the poor kitten for surgery. Meghan picked her up and Fidget won't be home until Micah comes back on Wednesday. He is in Ohio to drive his dad to Cleveland for eye surgery.

On the way home, i was passing a convoy of bucket trucks and heard a sound like something fell off and hit the road, I looked back and didn't see anything. I figured worst case the gas tank cover fell the rest of the way off. But since I didn't see it on the road, I figured it was best case and one of the bucket trucks dropped something.

A few minutes later a light that looked like a battery lit up on the dash. I called Micah to make sure that It was not really a light that was supposed to look like dynamite.
Dynamite might have been closer.

Fortunately, I was close to an exit and I was able to get off the highway. Unfortunately I did not really understand that the car was just going to literally stop. I was at the top of the ramp thinking I was going to turn and look for a parking lot and let the car die a peaceful private death. It was not to be. The engine Just STOPPED! Dramatically and publicly. With smoke pouring out from under the hood and everything.

A number of people stopped to check that I was Okay. The first car I think stopped because I was looking under the hood of a smoking car in tears. Micah called Ben to come and get me. In the meantime another car stopped and pushed the car off to the side they told me that the thing that was smoking in the front left corner was the alternator, commented that it was definitely burnt up, mentioned that the belt looked bad too, and also, quite helpfully, pointed out that the rear passenger tire was flat.
I cried some more.
Then I turned my iPod on and sang at the top of my lungs.

Ben drove to pick me up off the side of the road. I got all my sceaming out before i got in the truck. Ben drove me home to PA and then took Micah and his tools back to Ohio to fix the car.
They left me home alone and I finished the rest of the chocolate cake.

The list of good things:
I almost didnt take the cell phone this morning, but i remembered and came back upstairs for it.
I was wearing my wonderful new boots and so my toes stayed warm and when Micah called three times to ask if i was warm enough, i was able to tell him he didnt have to worry about that.
The car broke down closer to Jefferson than Grove City.
Micah was going to Ohio this evening anyway.
The car did not break down tomorrow morning at 5AM on the way to Keith's eye surgery.
Ben had the day off to help.
Ben has a SuperDuty dump truck and a trailer that is good for hauling broken down cars.
The keys only got locked in the car once (and I didnt do it!)
And they got the car fixed.

"He giveth more grace..." But i'm not sure i'm going to risk getting out of bed tomorrow!

Apartment Bathrooms

Last April, I walked into the bathroom and saw this:


Later in April, a large portion of the log was in the form of shaving on my Living room floor.


Saturday our Bathroom door went from looking like this:

(note the "cat door" in the bottom right corner)

to looking like this:


But in between, it looked like this:


And I Didn't photograph the kitchen!

This is why if you have a husband like mine and an apartment as small as ours, you need a shopVac in your life.

What Sunday Afternoons are for

This could only be better if I could have taken this picture while I was asleep on the couch and if there was football on the TV. I miss it already.

YAY STEELERS!! I am celebrating a week late because tonight Ben is coming to cook for us. Silly Ben, he bet against the Steelers! I am extra glad because this means that we do not have to clean out Ben's truck. I will try and get a picture of Ben's truck so you will understand just why I am extra relieved on top of WOO HOOO!!!! 6 SUPERBOWL RINGS!! GO STEELERS!!!!

YAY

good news, the problem is not the camera! YAY! The problem is not the Computer! YAY! The problem is not the cable! YAY!
By the process of elimination I was able to deduce that the problem is with the card reader!

so now, i can load photos from my big camera. But I don't have the right cable to load stuff from the little camera.

Let's Roleplay

Imagine you work at the local drug store. A customer walks in and purchases: A box of Pepto-bismol, 2 liters of ginger ale, and a bag of cough drops. What is the appropriate comment.

I'm guessing your first thought was not,"Enjoy your evening!"

:)

Other news

In other news, i can not load photos from either of the cameras to my computer. It distresses me. I am not sure if hte problem is with the reader, the cable or (the worst option of all) my computer.


If that was not the case, i would insert a photo of our new kitten or the pretty sunrise this morning or the allegheny river valley covered in snow.

instead i will post photos of what i already had on my computer

the time i forgot i had a loaf of bread rising and it went out of control


the time micah dyed his hair and part of his beard black with 10 cent leftover halloween spray dye


Micah and Ben painting each other and our kitchen


A sign that says "quitting business". I do not know why that phrasing intrigues me. Also note the small sign that says "10% off Beer"


And two photos of my mom and the dog jumping that will probably get me disowned

Happy Birthday Miss Brenda



I better stop now.

Hi.
i am not dead.
Im at Judah &meghan's Apartment on Their laptop. I do not like thier keyoard. it is different frommine and I can't make it work right. and the space bar only works if you hit it with your right thumb.not the left Also i am a stinky typer. how woudl you spelltyper...oh wait it's typist isn't it
there is a lot of snow here so we are holed up with the simpsons and the playstation. Meghan and I also have books. Meghan baked brownies and while the boys were out getting some fresh air we cut them out of the pan and hid them and then we told the boys we got hungry.I thougth Micah might explode :)!

there is not much more to tell. We are still in grove City, my sweaters are stil in Slovakia, beter luck next winter I guess. third time's a charm. Micah and I ar e tenatively plannign to return to Europe in the Spring.

So tha'ts the story.

i am toying with teh idea of selling some prints of my photos in the gift shop of ben's hotel or some like place. it seems like it might b complicated but myabe worth trying.

this is a long and incoherent post. my most sencirest apologies for sounding like 6th grade girl.I never really liked 6th grade girls and i hated being one