Hey, here's my great day...
I had to have my pickup worked on yesterday, picked it up late last night, drove it to work today (it ran great) and found that the air conditioner was blowing hot air. Great. But that's ok, just another thing and calling my dad on the way home he said maybe the mechanic disconnected something or forgot to put the ac belt back on or something... ok, good. Went by to pay mechanic anyway and had him look at it. Not the mechanic's fault, a valve broke (faulty design according to the mechanic) and leaked all the freon. Beautiful. "I'll give you a break on it, $10 for the part and $50 total to replace valve and refill freon." Terrific. And my dad's pissed because I spent money on the mechanic for stuff he could have done; when?? and I have to get parts and drive to Canadian and hope we CAN fix it and have the right tools... Then my mother is having a family BBQ on Friday, lots of pressure to be there... "if you and Jim both cancel then I'm just going to call everyone that I invited and cancel". So, after finding out about the ac, I call my folks and tell them I'm not coming. They offered to pay for gas and I said no, didn't want to come w/no ac, bad enough to drive to Vega everyday with no ac. So, Dad offers to let me take his Nissan pickup for a few days if I come this weekend and pick it up, he'll get it back when he comes up on Wednesday. That was nice of them, very thoughtful. But I just don't want to go! Especially not when I'm frustrated and upset, the horses need more time, I don't want to spend ANY more money, and I'm going under duress (can there be more pressure??). So Dad's mad that I spent too much money and won't accept his offer of barrowing his truck, Mom's mad AND hung up on me ("I'm sorry, Mom. I really would like to be there." "Whatever. Goodbye." Click.) and I have to spend more money on my truck. I'm glad Ty took time to stop by and say hello. And thank goodness for Blake. He's so understanding and considerate, he made my day so much better just by listening for a few minutes. Nice to know someone cares.
Someone dumped kittens in the driveway this morning!
