blessings in disguise...

so yesterday, my mom, who was borrowing my car while hers was in the shop, was turning a corner about a block away, on her way home to her loving, perfect, eldest daughter, often mistaken for an angel, when, lo and behold, my muffler fell off. just fell off. are you kidding me?? yeah. my luck, i tell ya...anyways, she managed to get the car home, where i laid hands and prayed...and then cursed it to oblivion in nothing...so, i had to drive my mom to the dealership, and my dad's brilliant idea is to use his old car, the one i'm taking my stereo from...yeah, that piece of...junk...so, i had to drive the clunker. half way there we realize there's something wrong with the tires, but we have to get mom's car. so we keep going, we get to the car place, and i check my tires. there's a bubble each on at least two of them. brilliant. so i have to drive home. i drive about 25 the whole way back, because testing my luck is inadvisable, and finally make it about a mile and a half away, when, oh yes, it starts raining. well, the windows were down because myrtle doesn't have a/c, but i soon realized i couldn't put them up. why, you ask? the wipers don't work, and it's generally advised that you stay on your side of the yellow line. loads of traffic (it's the weekend on a tourist island), a zig-zag way back, and it starts raining while i am without wipers. oyve. so, i'm making my slow way home amongst the traffic and now rain, windows open with the water pouring in so i can watch the line and look for the stop signs, the tires, shady as is, don't have traction because they've been sitting for a year and a half, on slippery roads that are just wet enough to make hydroplaning a likely possibility. i make it home (the trip taking altogether about 3 times as long as it should have), roll up the windows, turn off the car, open the door, and it stops raining. inevitable. i was wet.

but see this thought occurred to me. maybe i needed to get wet. when all was said and done, it wasn't that big of a deal. it only rained toward the end of the trip, the part of the road i know best. it could have rained the whole way, and i think i've only ever driven on harborside rd twice. i didn't have a blowout, and i could have. very easily. but the best part of this story happened this morning. a friend from church came over, for other some reason unrelated, and found out about my muffler issue. and he offered to fix it. just like that. amazing. people like him deserve a metal.

in other news, i spent most of the day trying to find random tools to get my car stereo out and never actually could find them anywhere. it seems they make everything to put them in, but never expect you'll want to take them out or, heaven forbid, lose the thing that came with the stereo. oh well, i'll have to figure out some ingenious way to make it work. at any rate, i'm out for now.

life in forward motion.

oh, oh, 3 posts in less than two weeks. i'm getting better.

so, i've been job hunting. to no avail. apparently to get a job in this town you have to know people. specifically the mob. should i be putting this in writing? if the mob reads this, i do love y'all. you're my favorite. i love italian food. :) at any rate, hallmark is supposed to call me back later today. they look like the best bet thus far. this is getting irritating though. i've managed to get enough between loans and scholarships to have paid for this upcoming semester at school, but my bank account has not yet recovered from this last semester's drive home (gas prices! ouch!!) and vacation (yes, i had to have that t-shirt). and i'd like to be able to buy food when i get back to va, preferably before i go back to work... that would be nice. never fear, the most important has already been paid for (harry potter :)), but if i don't get a job soon, my bank account won't be the only thing suffering; my ears might actually fall off from my mom's nagging -- the downside to saving money by living at home over the summers...

ah well, i'm passing time by doing what i love, reading harry potter. i was reading through all the books before the release of the final, and i'm about halfway through ootp now. i think i'll get back to that in a bit. actually, i was gonna work on my car this weekend (which is a prayer request in and of itself) and switch out the car sterio in my dad's clunker for the one in mine. long story, but the gist of it is that my dad's old clunker was my first car and went to him when i bought my newer car. at any rate, when i was driving ol' myrtle and i didn't know if i'd be able to buy a new car before i went off to school, but knew i needed one, i was fixing up myrtle and i bought a new sterio and installed it (which, incidentally, i don't recommend; pay the money to have it installed. i almost shocked the crap out of myself and i blew out the sterio i'd bought. fortunately walmart didn't ask questions when i brought it back and they exchanged it for a new one no prob :)). later, actually about two weeks before i left for va, i had saved up enough money for a "new" car (it was new to me) and with a little help from my grandparents (which they've never let me forget; i love my family) i bought daisy (i name my cars, yes), my beautiful blue/green 97 cavalier, complete with penguin steering wheel cover and pink palm tree freshener hanging from the rearview. she has had to have work off and on, and will probably need a bit more before i return again to va in august, but she's my baby. enter issue. her sterio sucks. and i paid for the one in myrtle. and i want mine back. my dad says it's his. i might strangle him with his oxygen tube. mom says i should just wait till he's taking a nap saturday and work on it. which i will. he hasn't even driven myrtle in like four or five months. last i heard, she wasn't starting. my sterio. oh well, that's my plan for the weekend. pray i don't electrocute myself. because i would. anyhoo, i'm out.

HARRY POTTER!!

one month till the seventh and final installment of the harry potter series is released, deathly hallows!!

yay!!


ps - this is my attempt at posting more regularly and less sporadically...i need help...

alas, vacation is over...

just got back from branson, mo! here's some pics.




me and my cousin, patience. :)




adhd does not even begin to describe it...




she honestly thought she could take me. obviously, i couldn't let her go on, operating under such delusions. sisters today...




so, is everybody else humming the theme to titanic?...