two very bad days in a row.
what are the odds of that?
oh yeah, that's right. i'm a moron, so chances are excellent.
kerry is NOT leaving me. that's good, i guess. at this moment i don't know if that's a blessing or not. we went north to see the conure, who is still a baby, that i got her for our anniversary. visited. nice visit. the woman has a beautiful cockatoo. it talks and mutters and dances. aaahhh, that was a good part of the day.
ok
shit
driving home in RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC, clutch cable breaks in the car. i'm freaking. my ankle felt tweaked when it went, b/c the pedal went straight to the floor. i'm in traffic, three lanes away from the exit that's coming up. put on my blinker, slowly make it over to the exit in FIRST gear. shit. all i was thinking was that someone was going to hit us. made it through the exit stop light onto 50th, which is BUSY. get to near the top of the hill. light turns red. shit. took it out of first gear b/c i didn't want to do anymore damage to the car. at that point i hadn't figured out it was the clutch cable. just thinking about saving the transmission. i can't get it back into gear when the light turns red. about 20 cars behind me. i'm panicking. turning red. getting mad. freaking. scared. all the feelings rushing over me. kids coming up to the front with their fears. the cars start going around me, but they are all pissed off. i tell kerry to get out and we'll push it up the rest of the hill. as we're getting out in all this traffic, a woman walks up. she's young, blonde and beautiful. she says, ever so nicely, "is there anything i can do to help?" omg. omg. i tell her the clutch is gone and we need to push the car. she offers to help. the three of us push the car up to latona, which is a smaller street. the woman actually moves HER OWN CAR to let us park our car in the closest space. she asks if we need to use her phone. i tell her no, we're just going to catch the bus and go home. she offers us a ride. no shit. in rush hour traffic, this hottie takes us home. plus she's a big flaming lesbian. she was so nice.
it restored my faith somewhat in humanity.
but damn, the clutch is gone and there's no money at this point to fix it, plus it's the weekend, so the car is going to sit there til i can look, make sure it's the cable, and see if i can fix it. if i can't, it has to go to a shop. but actually one of tori's friends knows some guy who fixes cars, so i'm hoping that will come through. hell, maybe we can get it fixed tomorrow.
omg.
i have the biggest headache on the planet. PLUS the fact that right before we got home (as Ally was driving us), i started having an asthma attack. and my inhaler was at home. i'll be carrying it with me from now on. so i'm wheezing like crazy by the time we get home. use the inhaler. i'm ok now.
and i thought i could have a stress-free t day?
ha.
oh ye gods and fairies, i curse thee.
fate? fucka youa.
alex