Wednesday, February 24, 2010

HOME EARLY

I am home early today... been cruising the music videos and found this fun one.  Enjoy!


Today I woke up with hives.  I do not mean little red dime sized hives.  I mean great mother of all time hives.  Half of my forehead is one big one, another closed my right eye.  At least this time I don't have the parrot lips that sometimes go with them.  Sometimes they itch.  Sometimes like today they don't. Good thing I wear clothes... I've got extra lumps where no lumps should be.  Ha.  They will be gone in a day.  Until then I can pretend to be Igor or maybe even a suitable Quasimodo.

Good news too.  The Aspire lives and moves again.  Yay!  Yay! Yay!

When Just brought it back to me and I drove it home, I shut it off, got out and happy danced into the house.  Later when it occurred to me that I could hop in my car... without calling anyone to drive me... and go to the store.  I did exactly that.  I hopped down the steps, opened the door, belted in and stuck the key in the lock, gave it a twist and NOTHING.

Hahaha... I laughed at myself.  Silly woman, you have to put the clutch in or it won't start.  I jammed my foot down, gave it the twist and MORE NOTHING.  Odd.  It always starts like a champ.  I looked around and there it was... the lights were on.  Well crap.

You see the last car I was driving for about a week was dabear's old subaru.  Its lights are automatic.  The Aspire requires a person with minimal brain function to turn the lights off.

Fortunately one of the things that I did for myself for Tax-mas was purchase a nice Black and Decker battery charger... being a person who has had the unfortunate experience of making this same mistake in the past.  

Less than an hour later I was back behind my own wheel and tooling on down to the market.  This morning when I got up, showered and went to leave for work... VAROOM.  I am back in business again.  Man it feels good.


Today Just is coming back to bleed the brakes.  They got some air in the line when they put in the clutch, which I gather was quite an experience without an axle puller... whatever that is, though I can guess it pulls out axles.
I have to hand it to him, his minion and his grandfather... they did a much better job than the last fella who gave it a shot.  He worked most of the night to get it in so that I did not have to bum any more rides.  What a hero!


This weekend I'll be off to Sanctuary.  But I am sure that you could have guessed that eh?  The tires I have on my Aspire now are not the good ones that Billy B. got me.  Those were loaned to the now dead in DH's driveway Prism. So that is on the agenda.  DH will switch them back on for me and do a compression test on the engine.  We can decide how to rid myself of the Prism best for optimum cash.

I'll also have a job interview. Yikes!
With luck, come June... I will be moving close to Sanctuary.  Less wear and tear for the car. However, it occurs to me that the very act of moving will remove the need for Sanctuary.  I'll have my own little piece of peace.  Cool beans!  Not that I will stay away from there either.  No chance.  But the hours will change to smaller doses.  

My life will expand in other directions.  I have four friends there... five if I count the nudest.  But, I am not crazy about visiting him at the nudest colony.  My body likes clothing.  Yikes!  Nor do I want to put my butt where naked butts have been.  Eeewwww. Maybe, just maybe I'll even get in to see a Ducks game next season at Autzen. 


Despite my very unattractive look today, I am feeling lighthearted and positive.  Things are looking up.  Brighter days are ahead.

24 comments:

  1. Ooh, I'm first! I'll second the Yay! Yay! Yay! about the working car. Yays also for your trip to Sanctuary and the frogs. You do sound very happy and I'm glad of it.

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  2. But, I meant to add, sorry about the temporary Quasimodo thing. Yikes! What did you get into? Hey, maybe it was cuddling up with all those frogs? If so, the hives are worth it in my book.

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  3. secret agent woman-- Thank you. Yes, I am happy and getting happier. Been a long road. But I can see the end in sight.

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  4. secret agent woman-- Hahahaha! No, not from frogs. From an apple with spray on it I think. I usually wash them with soap and water at home. I am hypersensitive to it. But I took a chance on one at school.

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  5. Hives: An itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs.

    Hum, I've never had hives, maybe they are afraid of me.

    Everyone should own a battery charger, I have three and one is a big one on wheels like they use in shops, it'll start a car ten seconds after you hook it up.

    I hope the repair to the engine won't be too costly but I didn't have a compression gauge with me when there so of course I couldn't check it.

    I don't recall which cylinder I told you wasn't firing, #2? Anyway, whichever one it was, that's the suspect problem, if compression is the problem.

    And it must be, I suspect a bad exhaust valve but that's just a guess.

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  6. Billy B-- Thanks! I remember... I wrote it down. I will share that with DH when he does the compression check.

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  7. Yea! for you. Things do seem to be looking up. I have a Subaru and if I had to remember to turn my lights off everyday, I'd probably have a dead battery everyday. Good luck on the interview.

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  8. Churlita-- Thanks. I am crossing my fingers and toes.

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  9. Oh, I buy the kind of batteries that if you leave your lights on for hours the rig will still start.

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  10. I was starting to worry about you a bit. You haven't posted anything yourself since Sunday, and you haven't commented on my last two posts, and you live in the freaking cold middle of nowhere and who knows what could happen. Glad everything is okay now.

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  11. Hooray for the car. Boo for the hives.

    Good call on the charger. It's always good to be prepared for the times when we know we will show no foresight :-)

    My uncle buys "Happy Belated" cards in advance. Really.

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  12. Laughing-- You are correct, I have not been much of anywhere the last few days. Things got crazy for a bit. I will post about that later. Thanks for your concern. I will be by as many blogs as I can today.

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  13. Cricket-- I would love your uncle! My grandmother would buy a huge box of "cards for every occasion". On New Year's Day she would sit down with her calendar and the box and write the cards for the entire year, stamped and sealed them. These she put in a large recipe file box indexed by month. On the first day of every month, she would mail that months cards. I used to think it was eccentric. Now I feel I have been remiss... like your uncle, I should prepare for the birthdays I screw up. Its gonna happen.

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  14. between work and illness and such i have missed a lot here. two kids moving out and funny valentine's transitions and your toughest thing. now i come here and find you covered in hives! i guess you're sucking down lots of benadryl until you are unhived, huh? what on earth caused them?

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  15. lime-- I think it was an unwashed apple from the cafeteria. I am unfortunately allergic to many, many things... including benadryl. I get hives fairly often and have to figure out what causes it, then avoid it. Kind of makes life exciting. My body does many strange things. I can get hives from being too happy... and sometimes if I am very, very happy, it will turn bright red. ;-)

    I once explained all this to an emergency room doc. He looked hard at me for a moment and said... have you thought about seeing a therapist? He could give me the name of an excellent one.

    My response was that my therapist might get jealous.

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  16. lime-- Oops. That was supposed to read; if I get very, very happy, my entire body will turn bright red.

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  17. Well, I was going to ask what caused the hives, but I see that's been answered. Geez. Sounds horrible.

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  18. Things got crazy for a bit.

    In your world? Na...

    Ha ha ha ha ha

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  19. Billy B.-- Go ahead and laugh. I do.

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  20. Glad you have your car back, but the hives sound like a royal pain in the butt. You're sure they weren't caused by some unwashed hands touching the 100 day candies? *shudder*

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  21. Cube-- hahaha I'm sure. I would not have put one of those in my mouth! Not after they had counted by 1s, 2s, etc. All those little coughing faces and snotty noses. Ick!

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  22. What a relief to have a car again. Even when I have nowhere to go, I feel extra stuck without my own transportation on hand.

    Sounds like the things are going great! (I am overlooking the hives...they will be gone very soon, right?) You sound happy :-)

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  23. laura b.-- Yes, the hives are already gone now. Yay! Things are dandy at the moment. Well, except that my cell phone server seems to be down and I am addicted to it. But if that is the worst that can happen, then thank God. All is well and happy.

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