7am: Tiff with husband.
8am: Take daughter to dentist. Find out she’s got a cavity in a permanent molar, which didn’t come in that long ago. Dentist believes this means she has unusually weak enamel and will need to be very careful throughout her life. Discuss using nitrous oxide to put the whammy on my daughter while filling her cavity. I tell him I need to do more research first.
9am: Run over chipmunk while taking daughter to school.
Lordy, I’m afraid to do anything else today.
ETA:
11am: Say “screw it!” and go to Original Pancake House. Order gigantic Dutch Baby filled with fresh strawberries, accompanied by bacon, skim milk, and fresh-squeezed orange juice. Eat half, take rest home to drown more sorrows in later.
Take THAT, crappy day!
Ganked from .
Go here.
http://www.fluideffect.com/
Click on ‘portfolio’ from the left side-bar.
Click on ‘before/after’
Select an image and then click and hold down on ‘before.’
Show it to every teenage girl you can find.
I am now 944 dollars poorer. However, my car runs like a dream. This serves me right for not taking care of it sooner, and for not getting the dent pounded out when I got in a fender bender in December ’04. On certain turns that were angled just so, the left front tire would scrape against the wheel well, which didn’t exactly help the alignment. They had to pound out the dent some to work on the struts, with the result that now it doesn’t scrape anymore. My baby, she is purring like a kitten.
These guys were fair with us, and I feel the price was fair. We’re going to look at getting the hubby’s air conditioning fixed. It’s been broken for years, and in the South in the summertime, that is not a car you want to take road trips in.
Thank GOD for that tax refund.
My car’s been running badly for a while, with the ‘check engine’ light being on. The motor stutters when I give her the gas and sometimes she doesn’t have enough pick up. Based on that, I figured there was a problem with the fuel injector. I let it go longer than I should have, but when she started making a clunking sound underbody when I turned left, I realized that I needed to take her in. The cacophony of thuds and groans finally reached critical mass. So finally today I had enough time to drop my baby off and a clear morning to walk home after doing so, so it’s in the shop.
The guy just called and said that the check engine light being on probably means emissions, which probably means there’s a problem with the fuel mix ratio, which meshes well with what I’ve been feeling with poor “get up and go” so I’m inclined to believe that. The old girl’s really due for a major tune-up, since it’s been a couple of years, so I authorized him to do that.
The clunking sound is worn struts. Letting that go will mean, as he says, “poor ride conditions” with bottoming out and increased tire wear and such. It’ll cost about $450 to replace them.
I’ve authorized him to go ahead and take care of all this. I mean, it ain’t getting any better on its own, and this sounds like a reasonable and fair assessment of what’s going on. Bright side? I feel fortunate to have a mechanic within walking distance who is honest and competent.
Well, at least we’ve got that tax refund coming!
I’ve got a LJ buddy who’s trying to lose weight, so I thought I’d post up occasional low fat, low calorie, or at least quick-to-cook recipes.
This is a good one to start in the morning and then pop in the oven when you get home.
‘Italian’ Baked Fish
http://www.gatewaytheater.com/SciFi.aspx
A 24-hour science fiction movie marathon? Including Forbidden Planet, the 1933 King Kong, AND Serenity?
Oh, man, I wish I could get that weekend free. I’d be up to Ohio in a heartbeat, wearing Spock ears, my Blue Sun T-shirt, and shouting “Klaatu barada nikto!”