'nuff said.
really. (okay, not really)
And it's still not over!
Just a week or so left till the craziness slows down...
and just a few weeks until I start to fill it up again!
The thing is I really like being busy. I feel like I get a lot done. I feel productive and useful. I enjoy having at least one "planned" activity everyday, even if it is just going to the grocery store.
BUT. But every now and again I really enjoy spending an entire day in my pajamas, in bed with a good book or two and maybe a tv show or 3. ( I watch tv online cause I don't have cable so I can watch all my favorite shows without having to leave the comfort of my own bed! I even have netflix for movies and stuff too!)
my point is, that I got none of the every-now-and-again-stay-in-bed-all-day days at all this month. I am tired and I want one! (imagine me pouting pitifully, lip stuck out and everything, and you'll have an accurate picture of what I look like right now.)
In other news... I was given a blog award! Thanks Jess! Jess Byam (aka: The Coolest of Jest Kept Secrets and the Thursday Chronicles) nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award... or she awarded me with it... one of those...
How cool! I never thought that my blog would win an award... well it did... and as soon as I figure out how to post it here, I'm gonna! Thanks again Jess!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Memorial Day Madness
It seems as though patriotic holidays attract car problems. Last year on the fourth of July, Chris, Amie (Chris' sister) and I were driving to Raft River to celebrate the holiday with family. On the way out there, Amie's car started overheating. She had a coolant leak and we needed to replace a gasket of some sort. (I am not a mechanic.) We ended up stalled on the side of the road and Amie and I hung out at the car while Chris went into town to try to find a mechanic that was open. Thank goodness that a kind man pulled over and took Chris to the only mechanic open on Independence Day.
We got the car fixed, got to Raft River and enjoyed the rest of the holiday no worse for the wear. The real Irony comes when, yesterday, we had a very similar experience.
Chris and I were invited to go with some friends to the Opal mines in Spencer, Id. Chris and I drove and they paid our entrance fees. Great deal. On the way up though, the car began to die slowly.
Let me back up a bit. For the last two weeks we've had the "check gauges" light flashing on and off and the battery hasn't been getting off enough power. Chris took the alternator in to get tested when it first happened but the mechanic said it was fine. Chris cleaned all the connections and checked to see if it was a wire problem but nothing seemed out of place. The problem persisted but nothing had died just yet. (I thought that maybe it was a short in a fuse or something, causing the gadgets to go haywire... but like I said, I'm not a mechanic!)
Enter Memorial Day. On the drive to Spencer, we took I-15. At about Idaho Falls the lights on the dash and the clock dimmed, then went out. Then all the gauges died. By that time I had just barely convinced Chris that we should stop at a mechanic in Idaho Falls, instead of getting stuck in the-middle-of-nowhere Idaho. As we pulled off the highway, the whole car stopped working and we coasted down the exit as far as we could.
I called my parents (who live in Idaho Falls, about 10 minutes from where we got stuck) and my dad and little brother, David, came to the rescue. We parked the Jeep at a garage (no one was open) and borrowed my dad's car to finish the trip. All went well in the end and we have since found out that the alternator was the problem (some mechanics just don't know what they are talking about!).
I just have to watch out this Independence Day. I don't want to start a tradition of car troubles on National Holidays. That could get expensive real fast!
ps. Do you remember a few posts ago when I mentioned that I am going to be doing some free lance writing? Well one of the companies that I write for allows me to have a gadget showing what I have published. I only have one thing published right now, but there will be more to come. Check it out on the right hand side of the blog... it's the Associated Content thingy...
We got the car fixed, got to Raft River and enjoyed the rest of the holiday no worse for the wear. The real Irony comes when, yesterday, we had a very similar experience.
Chris and I were invited to go with some friends to the Opal mines in Spencer, Id. Chris and I drove and they paid our entrance fees. Great deal. On the way up though, the car began to die slowly.
Let me back up a bit. For the last two weeks we've had the "check gauges" light flashing on and off and the battery hasn't been getting off enough power. Chris took the alternator in to get tested when it first happened but the mechanic said it was fine. Chris cleaned all the connections and checked to see if it was a wire problem but nothing seemed out of place. The problem persisted but nothing had died just yet. (I thought that maybe it was a short in a fuse or something, causing the gadgets to go haywire... but like I said, I'm not a mechanic!)
Enter Memorial Day. On the drive to Spencer, we took I-15. At about Idaho Falls the lights on the dash and the clock dimmed, then went out. Then all the gauges died. By that time I had just barely convinced Chris that we should stop at a mechanic in Idaho Falls, instead of getting stuck in the-middle-of-nowhere Idaho. As we pulled off the highway, the whole car stopped working and we coasted down the exit as far as we could.
I called my parents (who live in Idaho Falls, about 10 minutes from where we got stuck) and my dad and little brother, David, came to the rescue. We parked the Jeep at a garage (no one was open) and borrowed my dad's car to finish the trip. All went well in the end and we have since found out that the alternator was the problem (some mechanics just don't know what they are talking about!).
I just have to watch out this Independence Day. I don't want to start a tradition of car troubles on National Holidays. That could get expensive real fast!
ps. Do you remember a few posts ago when I mentioned that I am going to be doing some free lance writing? Well one of the companies that I write for allows me to have a gadget showing what I have published. I only have one thing published right now, but there will be more to come. Check it out on the right hand side of the blog... it's the Associated Content thingy...
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