Wrenches in my spokes

Ah, the messes life throws at us. Aren't they grand! Broken down cars, the kids being sick, the dog needing to go to the vet. You know the problems. The ones that always happen when you least expect it. Yep, that's been the story of my life, especially this week.

This week alone I have had a broken down car, a dog with a bum leg that needs a doctor's help (not a homeopathic mom) and just today came to the realization that I paid one bill twice and another was not paid. That's my fucking life! Never a dull moment let me tell you. Thank god I'm good and juggling bowls and spinning plates. I'm actually getting quite good at it if I do say so myself.

The car situations were rolled over from last week. I thought I had fixed the problem, only for the car to pull the old "I'm not starting" trick on me once again. I know that I have had the car for 10 years (bought new) and it is time for stuff to start breaking down, but this is ridiculous! I had the mechanic just put a new air conditioning pump in it last month, then a new sensor a week or so ago. Then I take a day off work when it breaks down again, put a new alternator and battery in it, take it for an oil change and give it a new air filter. Very next day "I'm broke again. How about you?" Yep, I'm broke allright. The new air conditioning which I have to have in the hot ass Arizona desert cost me $650. The new sensor $160, the alternator $158, the battery $65, air filter $14 and oil change $30. So how much now? $1,077.00 in two months? Isn't that like a car payment for a new car, with a warranty and free oil changes? And yet I had to make arrangements to bum a ride to work once this week and take my hubby to work early so I could take his car another day. Then go back and pick him up after work. WTF?

Now the dog has a bum leg and needs to see a vet. I usually can treat most animal illnesses at home naturally and rarely, if ever, have my dogs been sick or needed 'professional' care. Not this week. Of course, shit always rolls down hill and it has to happen the week everything else does. So he goes tomorrow. Office visit $48, X-Rays (Which I am sure he will need) $160. Treatment? Who knows how much that will cost.

Oh, and did I mention that not only did my car breakdown initially last week AND this week, and the dog is sick, but I also cut my finger with a knife and the dryer took a shit. I spent my Saturday morning going to get another one at a garage sale. Of course that can't go right either. Bring it home and it does not work. For $20 what do I expect? I thought the $20 was at least worth the short trip over there and if it worked, alright then. Thank god the dike bitches that were coming to pick up my old one (for free) offered to fix it for free since I was giving them the old one. And she fixed it! Thank god for dike bitches ay?

Anyway, always with the bad, there is some good. So let me reflect for a moment - Allie got 4 A's and 2 B's on her report card. She bought a beautiful dress (which by the way did I mention I only had to pay 1/2 of this year? Nice boyfriend!) for homecoming this week and we get to watch her cheer at the game this Friday (we missed homecoming last year). Oh! And work has been real busy, so time is flying. Flying so fast our vacation is only a week away!

Yay! There is a light in sight! Get to go visit my Aunty Brini for my birthday next weekend. Four days at a destination we have never been to - Missouri! Yeah, I know, WTF is in Missouri you ask? Well aside from the fact that I have not seen my Aunt in 11 years and she is there....nothing. BUT I have never been to the mid-west nor seen the changing of the seasons and I am hoping to get a good glimpse of that and have something fresh and new to talk and write about. Plus the bonus feature of getting some new scenery to photograph. And Aunt Brini lives right on the Lake of the Ozarks, so we will get to do some fishing and rock hounding all while they have some other planned activities to show us around their little town. It should be fun and I am really looking forward to it.

Man, in looking at this post, all I can think of is these are the makins' of a country song right here. I got the bills, the broke down washer, the dog, some (rock) huntin' and some fishin'. What else is there? Oh...heeheehe...I forgot Mama. And maybe a train.

Hey...that gives me an idea. Maybe I should take the train, because I am tired of getting wrenches thrown in my spokes :)