This past two weeks have been a wild ride from start to finish and my brain is gone and I have so many things broken that I’m not entirely sure where to start.
So I’ll start with the dog. The dog who is shedding. The dog who is leaving black hair all over the carpet.
So I get the vacuum and go to clean up the carpet. But the vacuum isn’t working. It’s a dyson, and several years old, but I know how to take that sucker apart and fix most of it. I can’t figure out what’s wrong, so off it goes to the repair shop.
Toilet in the second bathroom is continuously clogged. I’ll plunge, it clears, it clogs again. Time to call plumber.
Last Friday, I’m heading home from work and a weird light come on my dash and my car goes rrrRRRRrrr….rrrr? I get it to Grease Monkey, who tell me that a real mechanic will need to look at it, as they’ve literally never seen this error code before. Awesome. I head home.
Saturday, the plumber is coming, no mechanics are available to do diagnostics on my car today, the dog has a groomers appointment.
Load family and dog into car and car. doesnt. start.
Unload family.
Neighbor attempts to jump the car. Attempt fails.
I sit in the front seat and laugh, because what else can I do?
I cancel groomers appointment.
Plumber arrives. Cannot fix toilet. Need new toilet.
I call roadside assistance for help with car. Call a friend to take us to rental place for rental car. Tow truck and appointment at mechanics for Monday.
Monday comes along and I call to make sure mechanic knows that my car was dropped off, but…they can’t find my car.
Tow company does not answer. Multiple times.
Tow company finally answers after seventeen phone calls. Oops, they say, the car is in our lot. We’ll deliver today.
So! New toilet, car found, dog shedding, rental car, vacuum still at repair, CAR PERMANENTLY BROKEN. The oil was somehow leaking into the gasoline, so 9 year old car needs new engine.
….No.
So, this past Saturday, I spent an entire five hours at a car dealership with both kids and a tic in my eyelid that developed around hour three, but I have a new car! And I only cried once!
And now my to do list looks like this, because brain cells:
-SNL- Stefon – wiki??
-groceries where is any and all food help
-put gross dog in pretty new car
-why vacuum place why
-Super Mario Bros movie because plumber
-pectineus?