This particular entry is just an expression of joy. Today was starting out and looked from the onset to be one of those days that your mother warned you about, but I have to say that even if you’re feeling cranky and negative, occasionally good things happen anyway.
My wonderful husband had a slow leak in a tire. The slow leak turned into a fast one, so we went to the tire place to have them look at it, and the moral of the story is that screws and nails can damage a tire beyond repair, if they go through even to make just a dent in the side wall. A happy camper I was not, for on top of not being able to fix it, they wouldn’t even put it back on the car as it was, and they didn’t have the right size tire to replace it. Even if they had, the one tire would have cost us like $100. Tires are way to damn expensive. So they put the donut on the car, and we mozied over to another tire place that had the right size tire in stock. It was still close to the $100 so after a conference, we decided instead to replace the two tires on my car that needed it, and to leave his car on the donut in the driveway for the time being. My car uses cheaper tires, and is a better option for driving long distances, and we need to go to California next week, so that was what we did. I was feeling iffy about the amount of money the tires would cost though, and wondering how all of that would come together. Well, magically, as we were cleaning out his car, we discovered some unopened mail that included a check from the insurance company. Voila! And the tires were covered.
After that fun extravaganza, we came back home, where my husband opted to fix an inflatable splash pool that I’ve been harrassing him about for a few months to get patched. He wanted to inflate it with an air pump, rather than the natural way. He went searching through the busted SUV which hasn’t run for about 8 weeks because he had tried to drive it through an inland ocean in the construction zone behind the house. He jumped it, to get the battery to let the doors open and the SUV actually turned over and caught. About 3 gallons of water came out of the tail pipes, and the inside is covered with a mossy looking mold, but it runs. It’s alive! It’s alive! The battery will probably need to be replaced, but on the plus side, we can drive it to move it around, rather than towing it.
Today is shaping up much better than originally hoped for. I don’t know if your mother ever told you there would be days like these, but mine sure didn’t talk about them much. I’m thrilled they exist.
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