Friday, finally.

So my Wednesday was pretty crazy, it only took 4.5 hours for my tow truck to finally arrive! He looked at my Equisux, and thought maybe it was just the battery, so we charged it a bit, then he thought maybe my autothieft thing was locking me out from starting it due to my auto start being after market. Great, thanks Dad! He tried to reset the warnings with my original key fob thingy and when all these things didn't work he said that he would tow it to the doctors! My heart sank a little as I was trying to calculate how much this is going to cost me to get it diagnosed and fixed.... My tow guy then looks around at the vehicle and all the uneven surfaces and is like well I'm going to have to get this pushed into the street to get the Equisux onto the dollies, AWD, all wheels must be off the ground to tow! So my tow guy goes to turn his big truck around and GETS STUCK! Great, just my luck, my tow truck is now stuck. He all embarrassed is like I have a guy coming that will tow him out. I now thinking how I've gotten stuck and J has made fun of me that I no longer feel so bad, as my tow truck driver can too get stuck on our devil of a street!

How many people have gotten stuck on our street lately? I would guess at least 20 cars! Twice I got stuck, our friends J and B got stuck, and I've seen countless other vehicles getting pushed or dug out of their slippery situations!

So within 5 minutes new tow truck guy arrives, I tell my guy I'm off to the store in Grandma like car and leave it to themselves to figure things out. Just as I am finishing fueling car up, I get a call saying that my vehicle is now started! Started! Seriously!! Huge sigh of relief, Equisux is alive and isn't going to cost me a huge pile of money! I quickly go home and talk to original tow guy and he explains to me how they got it going finally, and how my Equisux made an ass of him, damn you battery!

In short, my battery was dead, and I am so thankful for my tow truck getting stuck and having another guy to look at my Equisux! I guess some things can happen for a reason.....

Next is all the snow we are going to have this weekend... great more sticky situations and my Equisux turns into the Equistucks.

Oh Wednesday, you let me down.

Well the day is still not over but here is what happen up till now.

I wake up early! Go me! I get ready and have time to spare while my Equisux warms up, so I cut my grapefruit and look up and realize that the Equinox is not actually running, so I go back to my remote start and press the button again and watch this time, open the front door and give a little listen and hear nothing. Insert swear word here.

So I get some boots on and jacket and head out to the Equisux, and try to manually start it and nothing, it just clicks at me. Great, J is leaving today for his first day of his away job and the Equisux decides that today it is not going to work!

Return to house, slam door, wake J up and have a little disagreement over what the hell to do with the stupid vehicle. He goes out and comes back in with no better solution, except to get my shoveling snow suit on and dig out the crappy car he bought to sell. This lovely grandma sedan has been under a mountain of snow for over a month, and the thing starts up as if it was driving yesterday.

So new task is to dig the car out of the two feet of snow and drive it to work. 20 minutes later we got the beast free and I happily, well sort of happy, to go to work.

Return home for lunch, call GM to get the Equisux in for an appointment, then call roadside assistance to get me a tow truck, they say 40 minutes and my tow truck should be there! Sweet, I will only be slightly late for work.

Three hours later, I am still waiting for my tow truck. Awesome.

What I have done while waiting; vacuumed floor, did dishes, tidied up a bit, and started making my favorite soup, curried squash. Pretty sure the only thing that will make me happy is the soup today.

So I will continue to wait for my tow truck to take away my disappointment of a car to the "doctor" and await the hopefully not too expensive good news.....

Lite

I have been enjoying a little too much food and wine lately, maybe it was the holiday season, maybe it was stress, maybe it was just to enjoy some goodness.... but I was thinking about how they have light/lite options for many foods and drinks, not all are low calorie or low in fat or low in anything except maybe flavor. Then this not so brilliant thought came into my head about Light Wine. Is that even possible, and if it was, would it actually be good! I am sure that I am not the first to think this and maybe there is such a thing, or maybe it is just that people just have one ounce instead of half a bottle and limit their intake? I probably would try it if I saw it at the liquor store, but I hope that I never see it, I think wine is just too good to make it low in calories/fat or whatever they are claiming it to be. Wine is too good to be changed!

So instead of thinking light wine, I'm thinking that I could substitute wine in the place of water while working out! That way I can still enjoy it and my waistline can hopefully start coming back to me!

Not so much a goal, but more like something I want because I want to look and feel good and to work out more regularly this year. I do have to be a bridesmaid yet again, and would like to feel sexy in my red dress! And well it is good for me, and I would also like to do better on my running times this summer. I am starting out slower this year though, I will work my way up to the half marathon, not just jump in and do it. So look out running shoes, you will be putting some miles on, they maybe inside for a while, as -30 is just not my idea of fun.

2011

So my last post from LAST year was like almost a year ago! And I was pretty excited about 2010 being "the" year! Well it definitely was a year, maybe not "the" year, but I guess that is how things go.... So lets quickly sum up 2010:

January - totally going to get on this blog train and do it!
February - blog train left me at the station! What a jerk.
March - went to Vegas with J, we had a great time.
April - celebrated my birthday with family and friends.
May - start of summer students and cheap labor at work.
June - pretty sure it was a lame-ish month.
July - busy work month, glad it went by fast.
August - end of summer staff.
September - good friend got married.
October - little mountain vacation with J and friends.
November - got some rabies vaccinations for work, had rabies arm for the month.
December - bathroom reno, and Stony Christmas with our families joining us.

So this year, I am going to try and do this more often. And I hope that 2011 is another great year.