Clueless...

I still don't have my car back...it's currently being held hostage by the car place, at least through tomorrow...
It's been quite fun getting around town...
My sister-in-law has come to pick me up every morning, we take my daughter to school and then she takes me on to work...
My mom comes to pick me up at work and takes me home...except Friday, because D got off early and he wanted to pick me up instead...
Tomorrow, I have a dentist appointment in the middle of the day, so my grandma will come pick me up at work early and take me to my dentist...
I REALLY like not having to drive, I could totally get used to being chauffered around town and having this door-to-door service!
But what I like even better is the fact that I have this wonderful family and these wonderful friends who are helping without hesitating, because that's what family does...
In this period of my life, it took my car breaking down to remind me that I am not alone...SO MANY people are here for me...I wish everyone could be as blessed as I am.  What's $819 and a little less freedom compared to this kind of assurance?
:)

Ugh...

I opened up the door to set out some garbage...
turned on the porch light...
and on my front porch there were AT LEAST eight baby slugs scattered around...
Gross! Ick! Ugh! Yuck! EWWW!
Maybe they appeared because of the rain?
I hate this house!  I hate the crickets, and the slugs, and the mold...and did I mention the crickets?
At least now my cute little kitty can protect me from the crickets that get in the house...I love my kitty...

Tagged...

I was tagged by Levi1023...here's my 23rd entry, 5th (whiny) sentence...
"The two of us sat down at a table alone since her six classmates were sitting with each other, and, as usual, they hadn't left any room for her."
Whew...so glad I'm not back there again...

Locked in a vault with a TV and my favorite shows...

Could there be anything better?
Patrick's Sunday Seven, Episode 3:
You will be locked in a tape vault for six months and you can only have seven choices of television programs to watch.  Name the seven shows - present or past - that you'd want to make sure were accessible by your remote control.  Don't worry about listing them in any particular order...just pick seven you wouldn't want to be without for six months.
Here's my seven:
1.  All the different incarnations of Star Trek...is it cheating to list them separately, or is it cheating to lump them all as one show?  Regardless, give me 'ST: Deep Space Nine', 'ST: The Next Generation', 'Star Trek' (the original series), 'ST: Voyager', and 'ST: Enterprise', and I am one happy girl...
2.  'Buffy'...
3.  'Charmed'...
4.  'The Pretender'...(ssshhhhh! Don't interrupt my fantasy, please...)
5.  'MASH'... this is my most recent discovery...I avoided watching this when I was growing up - I was an Army brat and I already had quite enough of Army life, thank you...I only started watching it in the past couple of years because of D's addiction to it and, wow!, why didn't I know before what a great show it was?!
6.  'Survivor'...don't you like to record the whole season and then, after the winner is announced, go back and watch it from a different perspective and see masterminds at work? ... What, no one else does this?  Oh...
7.  I don't know what to put for #7!!!  So, when the time comes and I'm put in the vault, I will close my eyes and pick between 'Alias', 'CSI', and 'MacGyver'...I'm thinking 'MacGyver' will win!

Fuel pump...

Fuel pump gone bad...
$819...
$819 to fix a car that is three years and one month old...
$819...
The mechanic gives me the price like it's no big deal...
Like I HAVE $819 just lying around in case my car needed to get fixed!
My sister-in-law took me to work yesterday, and my mom picked me up.  Maybe in about a month, I'll have saved enough on gas to be able to pay to get my stupid car back...
:(

!@#$%^^&*!

My car broke today.
Of course, right AFTER the 3-year/36000 mile warranty goes out on it...how do they plan that? 
D came and rescued me of course (my hero, my knight, my love), but my poor car was towed off in the opposite direction to the dealer.  I don't even want to think about how much it's going to cost to get it fixed...
BUMMER!
I have lots more to discuss, but my throat hurts and I'm depressed and I really just want to go to sleep...
At least my kitty is still. so. sweet...

Adolescence (sigh)...Can I hang on?

We're late for school and work in the morning because my daughter can't put the kitty down.  She's late going to bed at night because she can't put the kitty down.  The poor kitty has to grab her sleep where she can...the minute C leaves the house, I swear I can see the kitty heave a big sigh of relief...
But seriously, my daughter at 13 is sooo much harder to deal with than she was at 12.  How many more years of this do I have to survive?  I looked in the mirror the other day and nearly died, I suddenly have WRINKLES, thanks to her...
For the last month all I've done is work, get into arguments with my teenage (oh. my. goodness) daughter, and play with my sweet adorable kitty...at least MY KITTY doesn't talk back to me!
Here she is:
  
My innocent little kitty, who NEVER gets in trouble... :)

I've been tagged...

The wonderful Anna tagged me, so here goes...

7 Things I Plan To Do Before I Die (in no particular order)
1. Visit where I used to live in Germany...
2. Go to Disney World...
3. Go to Alaska...
4. Learn to speak Spanish...
5. Get married (someday...)
6. Watch my daughter grow up into a beautiful woman...
7. Act the way I want to act instead of how I'm expected to act, and do what I want to do instead of what I have to do.

7 Things I Can Do (in no particular order)
1. Read really fast...
2. Type really fast...
3. Hike in mountainous terrain...
4. Play the piano...
5. Edit papers...
6. Swim...
7. The Vulcan 'Live long and prosper' salute...

7 Things I Can't Do (in no particular order)
1. Lose gracefully...
2. Admit when I'm wrong...
3. Face conflict and confrontations...
4. Be around any type of insect or spider...
5. Stop myself from blushing...
6. Act normal in a social setting...
7. Return phone calls...

7 Things That Attract Me To The Opposite Sex (in no particular order)
1. Sense of humor
2. Kindness
3. Intelligence
4. Thoughtfulness
5. Humility
6. Hands (they must be MANLY...)
7. Sports affiliation (e.g., Team preferences MUST be compatible with mine)...

7 Things I Say Most Often (in no particular order)
1. Cool...
2. Wow...
3. Huh.
4. My goodness...
5. PLEASE get in the shower / go to bed / go to sleep / wake up / brush your hair / clean your room / clean up your mess...
6. I love you...
7. Where's the kitty?

7 Celebrity Crushes (in no particular order)
1. John Cusack
2. Ed Harris
3. John Cusack
4. Ed Harris
5. John Cusack
6. Ed Harris
7. John Cusack

7 People I Want To Do This (in no particular order)
1. I don't think I KNOW seven people who haven't already done it!
2. Um...
3. This particular tag might have to stop with me...
4. How about, anyone that reads this that HASN'T done it...
5. just go ahead and do it?!
6. And then leave me a link to it...
7. Yay!

Your turn ...... Tag!  You're It!

Katrina's...

Our city has currently taken in about 1,100 people from New Orleans...I live in a wonderful place, but, to those people, it won't be like home. 
     "Say this city has ten million souls,
      Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:
      Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us." 
I can't imagine what it would be like to have everything taken away, and, even worse, not knowing where my family is... I can donate goods and money, but I so wish I could do more...
     "Dreamed I saw a building with a thousand floors,
      A thousand windows and a thousand doors:
      Not one of them was ours, my dear, not one of them was ours." (W.H. Auden - March 1939)
I wish I could give them back their place in the world, and take their pain away.