Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Let-me-show-ya-somthin!


What a weekend!
I pretty much sat around all weekend. I loved it. Friday I went up to my Aunt's to babysit Connor, we took the dogs for a walk (well I did, and Connor rode his bike). We played at the park and then came home and watched some movies till it was time for bed. Saturday, Im pretty sure I just sat around - I had good intentions, such as: cleaning doing the dishes and putting clothes away - but I decided not to do anything. I watched TV and movies all day long. It was awesome. Sunday - same thing. Still great. Monday - well, I had put off not showering for too long and I finally had to get clean and go get some food- because we were fresh out. So I went grocery shopping and when I got home I made the best pita chips and hummus EVER. It was so good we chowed it down in like 5 mins. nummers.
I was half watching the CSI marathon on Spike TV half drawing in Trav's drawing book when the smoke alarm went off in the house. I looked down the hallway and one of my candles engulfed itself in flames! I went down and tried to blow it out - but it was too big - so I told Trav to hurry up and get me the baking soda "Where is it?" he asked all panicky "Its in the cupboard above the silverware" I said, in my best June Cleaver voice. "I know, but where" He says. "IN THE CUPBOARD ABOVE THE SILVERWARE" I replied, annunciating every syllable. He finally brought it to me and I put the fire out. Then I looked at the charred tin that the candle was in and a tiny flame started to flicker again! So I poured a buttload of the baking soda all over it and it was finally out. I looked everywhere and there was no damage done. The candle had just burned all the way down and started itself on fire. Another candle next to that had melted all over the table they were sitting on - but it picked right off. No biggie. Then I went to blow out the candles in the bathroom. I blew out the ones on the back of the toilet and then the ones on the shelf above. I turned on the light and discovered the tallest candle on the back of the toilet had left a two foot long black mark up the wall! Craptastic! I was able to clean it all off with the help of my Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, though - I'll still need to do it once more - it all came off - but you can still see some wipe marks on the wall. AND while I was cleaning the black soot off the wall - one of the candles on the shelf above fell off and broke on the floor spattering warm wax all over the place - on my floor, on the door, my toes, pants and two towels. Wow.
SO - no more candles for a while. geez.

Too Right! Big ups to Stacy's blog about cars! Ugh! I am PRAYING that nothing is wrong with my car! This morning I was driving home from watching Connor get off the bus and into his classroom for his first day of Kindergarten -YEH! - when I could feel the transmission struggling to get into gear - it did the same thing for 1st, 2nd and 3rd - jolted a little on fourth but after that it was perfect. I stopped at home to pick up Trav and TJ and we headed off again. It did the same thing! After I drove it for a while above 4th gear it was fine - we got to work and it was not doing it anymore. Trav drove it home and said there was no problem.WTF! So I called my Grandpa who told me how to check the transmission fluid and see if it was low - so I did - but it was full - in fact it was over full. So I called a bunch of transmission places and they were pretty much baffled that it was acting like that on full fluid. They said it was acting like it was low or empty. One guy even suggested that there may have been a block in the valve - some thing stuck in there and then it worked its way out into the filter. They just told me that if it does it again to immediately drive it to a place and have then drive it to see if they can tell something different. OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let it just be a fluke thing - that it just acted up this once. I DO NOT want to deal with transmission problems. I might puke.

Well I gotta get going to school now! I'll post picks of Connor's first day when I get home tonight!

Peace.
Posted by Katrina :: 3:18 PM :: 1 Chortles

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