Things go wrong and life goes on...

Yesterday, I called hubby on my way home from work, as I do most evenings. When I leave work I go the couple blocks to Ashley's preschool, pick her up and hit the road to get home. It's about a 30-40 minute drive. In my opinion, not too bad... I don't mind cause there really isn't any traffic involved other than the occasional slow driver going down the 2 lane "highway" (they call it a highway but it really doesn't look like one too me). Hubby was also on his way home, which was good news to me - knowing that he was gone all last week - I've been pretty worn out from my turn at being a "single" working mom. Getting Ashley ready in the morning as she chooses to look at me and tell me "I need time out Mommy". (She really is cracking me up these days - apparently she watches other children at school get put in time out and thinks its such a cool things, perhaps a privilege. I've confirmed with her teacher that she herself has not been put in time out as of yet) and then to get home and do it all over again plus getting the "chores" done was really taxing me.

So... there I was, excited that hubby was also on his way home from work and that he would be there to help me. We live about 15-20 minutes from his work, however, in the opposite direction. I let out my usual "yay" and told him we'd see him at home. Not even 5 minutes later hubby calls me and tells me "I'm kind of broken down". The nightmare of all nightmares seeing as we still do not have our "emergency funds" built up - to say the least - we can go ahead and say they really don't exist and won't until Christmas Bonus time (another huge yay). He explained to me that the car was still running but that the gear shifter was loose and was all but ineffective. He called his friend at work, who he thought might know something about the car. His friend came to get him and somewhere in that time he/they (I'm not sure which) managed to disassemble the console to figure out what was wrong. Apparently some rubber piece that holds the gear shifter to the transmission cable has broken. His friend took him back to work and his boss told him that he could use the company vehicle (don't get excited - its an old Explorer) so he/we wouldn't have to worry about how he was going to get to work (praise the Lord for that). Today hubby called the Saturn dealership to find out how much it would cost to fix. Apparently they choose not to fix the rubber piece that is broken, but instead, the whole damn contraption. Estimate for parts and labor: $500.00. Tonight hubby found the part on Ebay for $22.00 (including shipping). Please keep your fingers crossed for us that this works.

Second part of the story of things go wrong and life goes on picked up tonight. Around 10:00 p.m. I was walking into the bathroom and stepped on a wet patch on the carpet. I paused, looked down, nope, didn't look like muttly Kyle had pissed on the carpet so I thunk it to be even more odd and puzzling. See - thing is this... the bathroom door is right next to the closet that contains our heating/air conditioning unit. That's right - you guessed it folks. Air conditioner is freaking leaking and the carpet is WET. Hubby wasn't feeling like investigating so I got online and got the number for the home warranty company. Looks like we are going to get to add another item fixed/replaced (to be determined tomorrow) to our Wonders of the Home Warranty List. The lady on the phone told us - duh - that we needed to shut the air conditioner off cause that was the only way to make it stop leaking. Check that box - already done. So... we sit and wait w/ no air conditioning, at least it's not F-ing blazing hot this evening, we have ceiling fans and its only supposed to be around 81 tomorrow. I'll let you know the deal of $55.00 trade fee for the home warranty gets us tomorrow.

My boss told me today that he feels sorry for us for all the stuff that has happened to us - it's been bad here recently (however, I know it CAN and WILL probably get worse). Hopefully he will decide he feels sorry enough for me to give me a raise. What do you all think - ha ha - yeah, I'm laughing too. Until next time - here's to days when live goes on when things don't go wrong.