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Life, Part Deux
Life news:
1) We've found a car! By the end of the week we should have wheels for the first time in almost a year. Being able to buy groceries = pure bliss.
2) Our washing machine broke. Mainly, the agitator isn't working.
3) I only have a few more exchange assignments to finish....maybe 7 was too many? O_O
4) We have a foot of snow ALREADY. Ew. AND a big ice storm - on the biggest travel night of the year (Sunday following Thanksgiving).
5) I got a laptop for $25. It's a Compaq Presario 1200 with a 6 GB HD and WIN98, so I pretty much got exactly what I paid for, but hey, it works. Or it did for a few weeks. T_T Hubby's going to take it apart and try to fix it.
6). The MiL has a serious boyfriend now. She celebrated Thanksgiving with him. It's severely disturbing to me that a year ago we celebrated this holiday with papa, and a year later his grave is fresh and she's celebrating with the new beau. Oh, AND she wants to move with him.
7) In light of that news, we're going to MY parents' house for the Holiday - I haven't been home in 2 years. And listening to them rant about my utter fail-ness as a daughter can't be any worse than some of the things the MiL said.
8) Someone stole our card/bank info and charged $500 in plane tickets to our account. We caught it same day, and informed the bank, but they still let it go through. It was worth a 2 week paycheck to us - why yes, we DO live on that little - it took them over a MONTH to look into it and refund the money.
9) Being poor leads to some interesting things, like eating eggs that expired 2 months ago, and making sandwiches for work with applebutter that expired in *2003* - scary, but it still tasted good.
10) A friend of ours told me to my face that "Adoption was freaky". And whatcha know, I'm adopted??? I told him he better start back=pedaling before I kicked him hard enough to ensure the ONLY way he'd EVER have kids was by adopting.
11) I'd hoped to visit a good friend over Thanksgiving, but he came down with a high fever and was really sick the whole time I was home. So, no visit :(
12) Mom and dad were actually decent - mom more so than dad. I didn't get told I was too fat 3 million times by dad, and he was only a little surly. It was nice to actually get along with them. And mom gave me a TON of felt, so I can do fun crafty stuff! :D Really, I just need a pair of sewing scissors, and a fabric marker or two.
13) During that ice storm mentioned earlier - we were driving mama's jeep back - and even creeping along at less than 10 mph with 4WD, we slid on an offramp and hit the guardrail. Bent the bumper/fender whatsit into the front wheel - the front light plastic stuff was broken too, but the lights still worked. Ugh - I hate that sickening fear, the feeling of the car sliding and knowing you can't stop it and you're GOING to hit, and it's going to be a mess - just before you hit....
14) I hate driving in the city. In the country, pedestrians aren't dumb enough to cross in front of an oncoming car, during an icestorm, when there's no traction, when you're sliding downhill because the whole street is an iced-over steep downcline, and then cuss at you because you somehow just BARELY managed to miss their idiotic bodies.
...life is fun, eh?
Life news:
1) We've found a car! By the end of the week we should have wheels for the first time in almost a year. Being able to buy groceries = pure bliss.
2) Our washing machine broke. Mainly, the agitator isn't working.
3) I only have a few more exchange assignments to finish....maybe 7 was too many? O_O
4) We have a foot of snow ALREADY. Ew. AND a big ice storm - on the biggest travel night of the year (Sunday following Thanksgiving).
5) I got a laptop for $25. It's a Compaq Presario 1200 with a 6 GB HD and WIN98, so I pretty much got exactly what I paid for, but hey, it works. Or it did for a few weeks. T_T Hubby's going to take it apart and try to fix it.
6). The MiL has a serious boyfriend now. She celebrated Thanksgiving with him. It's severely disturbing to me that a year ago we celebrated this holiday with papa, and a year later his grave is fresh and she's celebrating with the new beau. Oh, AND she wants to move with him.
7) In light of that news, we're going to MY parents' house for the Holiday - I haven't been home in 2 years. And listening to them rant about my utter fail-ness as a daughter can't be any worse than some of the things the MiL said.
8) Someone stole our card/bank info and charged $500 in plane tickets to our account. We caught it same day, and informed the bank, but they still let it go through. It was worth a 2 week paycheck to us - why yes, we DO live on that little - it took them over a MONTH to look into it and refund the money.
9) Being poor leads to some interesting things, like eating eggs that expired 2 months ago, and making sandwiches for work with applebutter that expired in *2003* - scary, but it still tasted good.
10) A friend of ours told me to my face that "Adoption was freaky". And whatcha know, I'm adopted??? I told him he better start back=pedaling before I kicked him hard enough to ensure the ONLY way he'd EVER have kids was by adopting.
11) I'd hoped to visit a good friend over Thanksgiving, but he came down with a high fever and was really sick the whole time I was home. So, no visit :(
12) Mom and dad were actually decent - mom more so than dad. I didn't get told I was too fat 3 million times by dad, and he was only a little surly. It was nice to actually get along with them. And mom gave me a TON of felt, so I can do fun crafty stuff! :D Really, I just need a pair of sewing scissors, and a fabric marker or two.
13) During that ice storm mentioned earlier - we were driving mama's jeep back - and even creeping along at less than 10 mph with 4WD, we slid on an offramp and hit the guardrail. Bent the bumper/fender whatsit into the front wheel - the front light plastic stuff was broken too, but the lights still worked. Ugh - I hate that sickening fear, the feeling of the car sliding and knowing you can't stop it and you're GOING to hit, and it's going to be a mess - just before you hit....
14) I hate driving in the city. In the country, pedestrians aren't dumb enough to cross in front of an oncoming car, during an icestorm, when there's no traction, when you're sliding downhill because the whole street is an iced-over steep downcline, and then cuss at you because you somehow just BARELY managed to miss their idiotic bodies.
...life is fun, eh?
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