When It Rains It Doesn't Always Pour...

Sometimes it is just a miserable, depressing drizzle. That's what May has been like... Really it's been that way since the thirtieth of April. That's when we found out Collin would be losing his job, permanently. Then a week later we found out the definite date in which he'd be losing his job. It has been rather stressful, and as much as I try to avoid the stress it's there. It also doesn't help that this last month at work has been almost beyond Hell. It's not that I expect anything to be easy, because that's not the way life is, I just wish the peaceful periods were a little bit longer. Much like the weather here these last couple weeks, it seems to be dark, gloomy, nasty and raining much more than it is sunny and gorgeous. Makes me remember to not take those sunny days for granted.

My hair is driving me mad. I don't know what I am going to do about it. My hair chick is now in Ohio, and I am full of trepidation at the thought of trying to find another person to do my hair and do it well. She set the bar high, and I miss her terribly (not just for my hair's sake either).

Today I had planned on bouncing over to the coast to surprise Kristina with birthday wishes, but that train of good intentions got violently derailed Friday night. I had finished getting dinner ready to go in the oven (homemade supreme pizza with turkey pepperoni, red and green bell peppers, onions, olives, and cheese!) and I heard my phone beep. I assumed it was Collin texting me to let me know he was leaving work. Turns out he had already done that a few minutes before, and he was texting me to let me know the effing car wouldn't start.... Even after one of his work pals gave him a jump it wouldn't start. So he needed me to come pick him up. I brought the voltmeter with me along with all the other tools I knew came from his car, and we checked the battery when I got there. The battery was fine. I had him try starting it while I was there (I am one of those audio/visual people when it comes to some things), and our best guess was it was the starter. We came home and began trying to find a starter for the car. Our best bet was AutoZone and they couldn't get one until Tuesday. Cart before horse, we still needed to make sure that it was in fact the starter that was giving us problems. So we got up at the ass crack of dawn (which sucked all the more for me because I was really looking forward to sleeping in Saturday) and headed up to Wilsonville so we could pull the starter and take it to the nearest AutoZone in Newberg, still leaving time to get Collin back in time for work. AutoZone tested the starter and while electrically-speaking it tested good, the guy could see clearly that it wasn't spinning at all because the bearing had seized (flash back to January when we were having the other issues with the Toyota and we had the starter tested and the guy had warned us that the bearing was going out). It was one of those moments when I was ecstatic that a part was bad in my car. It's much easier to deal with when you know what's wrong with a vehicle.

After that I dropped Collin off for work and went about taking care of things that needed to be handled and then went and got Collin from work at seven. Today he started a new schedule and he just took the truck to work (obviously leaving me without a vehicle; his car is dead at work), as he will again tomorrow. His new schedule (probably for the remainder of his days with the company) is back to four tens Friday thru Monday. Tomorrow the forecast says it should be dry, and I pray that it's right since I will be riding my bike to work. My teleporting skills are a wee bit dodgy still... My luck and I would end up in the jungles of Brazil...

Tuesday Collin is off, so he can ride with me (and Renee) to work, and then take the truck. The part will be in on that day. Due to this I canceled my appointment to get more fillings done and rescheduled for the 1st. This way, after work, we can go up to Wilsonville and put the starter in and (since Collin can't drive both cars at once) we can each drive our respective cars home.

Yay! Oh, to be an adult...

This next week should be a ball at work. Last week of an extremely short month. I am so excited for my upcoming three day weekend (thank you Memorial Day!), especially since Collin will be off the entire weekend with me! Saturday or Sunday we are going to the coast to visit the family. Hopefully we will be popping into town to see Kristina too!

I need to start posting on here again more regularly; it's a good outlet for my stress, and I know my faithful readers have missed me! Just be warned that the next couple months they may get sort of weird; stress does that to me.... OooOooOoo, sunshine! And in the time it took me to type that it went away... Sad, but so very Oregon.

XOXO,
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