I Can't Wait for What Tomorrow Brings!

Half Empty:

After a restless night of tossing and turning, I woke up this morning only to realize that I had overslept by forty minutes. I usually leave for work about thirty minutes after I wake up, so needless to say I was running a bit late.

Off to work!

While rushing to work, I noticed that my car was sounding a bit funny. The engine seemed to be working really hard, and a slight “tick-tick-tick-tick” sound was coming from under my hood. Oh well. Must drive on. As I took a curved off-ramp, my check oil light lit up on my dashboard. Oh well. I’ll just buy some oil on my way home and top off my car.

I was about three miles from work when all of a sudden, my battery light turned on. Then off. Then on. Then off again. On. Off. On. Off-on-off-on-off-on-off. It stayed off.

What the hell was that?!

I arrived at work eight minutes late. If anyone knows me, they know that I HATE to be late. Ever. For anything. Hate it. Oh well. I continued to my desk to trudge through a fairly uneventful day at work. Eight hours later, it was time to go home.

I got into my car, put the key into the ignition, turned the key- nothing. My car wouldn't start. I guess that’s why the battery light went on. A couple of my co-workers were outside by my car, and one of them had jumper cables in their car, so they jumped my car, and voila! We have power! I thanked my hero of the moment and drove off. My original plan for after work was to drive home, pick up my camera, and head over to Brook’s house to work on an art project. I decided to give Greg a call to give him the heads up about my car acting up. He said that my battery may just need to be cleaned and he had the tools in his car, so I could meet him at his work and he could clean up my battery. This sounded like a good idea, so I gave Brook a call to reschedule our art date, and headed downtown to Greg’s work. That turned out to be quite an ordeal.

As I was heading into the tunnel towards downtown, my car decided to act like it was possessed by the devil- which, by the way, I wouldn’t put past the lime green bastard. This car has tried to cut my arm off with it's window, and it’s locks have actually drawn blood from one of my passengers! But I digress…I was heading into the tunnel when my ABS light went on. Then off. Then on. Then my airbag light went on, my screen that shows what gear my car is in turned off, my radio turned off and my speedometer kept jumping from fifty to zero to twenty to five and back to zero mph’s. Now, I don’t know much about cars, but I suspected that this was not good.

I made it to Greg’s work, parked my car and let my husband work his magic. I guess he needed his top hat for his magic to kick in, because after a couple failed attempts to jump my car (again), it started up for a little while, then let all of it’s lights, bells and whistles flare up (again)- and die. Greg let me drive his truck home.

I swear to God my car knows whenever I make a large purchase, because every single time I spend a lot of money (or come into a good amount), no more than three days later does that crappy bug have some kind of problem that puts me deeper into debt! This time the purchase was plane tickets. Ever since I’ve paid off my car (which was in November), I have been looking forward to having one less monthly payment, but I have probably put more money into repairs over these last nine months than monthly payments would have cost me. Stupid bug. I want to keep it until it dies, but that time seems to be creeping closer and closer. Or I just may drive the blasted thing off a cliff- that is if I can start it.


Half Full:

After an active night of finding the perfect sleeping position, I woke up this morning about forty minutes after my alarm was supposed to go off. It was so nice to wake up naturally for once! I got to work a little late, so yay- I got to work eight minutes less today!

On my way to work, my battery light and check oil light went on. It’s so reassuring to know that the safety features in my car still work. Thank you, car, for reminding me it’s close to oil changing time!

Work was fun today! I started making GIANT boards that say CHEESE, MEAT and DELI. They’re going to go above the cheese, meat and deli sections in the store. It’s so wonderful to be able to let my creative juices flow at work and use my imagination!

When I got out of work, I headed towards my car and was greeted by my friendly coworkers. They’re so nice. Then, I tried to turn on my car and wouldn’t you know it- the darn thing wouldn’t start! I guess it was just fate’s way of letting me spend more time with my nice coworkers. Luckily, one of my favorite coworkers had jumper cables in his car, so he gave it a quick jump and voila! We had power! As I made my way home, my dashboard decided to put on a show for me! It flashed all of it’s pretty lights and made it’s fancy speedometer wave hello to me! I thought it would be nice to share this experience with Greg, so I met him at his work and showed him all the lovely tricks my car could do. He thought it was nice, but he had to go back to work, so he jumped my car again and it started up! Then my car decided to do an encore performance and let the lights go off again. Hooray! I guess Greg thought this was a nice show, so he told me he wanted to keep my car, and he’d let me drive his truck home. I love driving his truck- it makes me feel tough!

All in all, it was a wonderful day!