One for the Records

Yesterday, was one for the records....

I'm having some medical "issues", I'll update when I'm ready on that, and when I know everything. But for right now we start off yesterday by going down into town for blood tests, I get about 2 hours to work with between the time I drop off Oriana and head to town to the time I have to be back to pick her up. It is NOT much time! lol
So, here's how it went down.

7am - up and getting dressed
8am - yelling at kids to PLEASE hurry UP!
8:30am - drive down to town
9am - get lost finding the lab
9:30am - find lab, get tests done - the only part of the day that went smoothly!
10am - arrive at the tire place that Adrian was just at, getting it set up for me to just pull in and get the new tires put on.
10:45am - leave the tire place, go to the freeway to head to Costco for gas
11am - pulled over on the side of the freeway onramp, gas is GONE, car is NOT happy. I call the school to tell them no one will be there to pick up my daughter! :(
11:15 - still can't find my roadside service information, can't get in touch with Adrian, can't get in touch with ANYONE. Called the place where I bought my car and they have my cars extended warranty listed under some OTHER guys name! Officer arrives on the scene, she was about 3 1/2 feet tall. I found it amusing, I know, I shouldn't have, but I did. She puts a gallon of gas in my tank after insisting that I cancell the tow truck from my roadside assistance. It doesn't work. My car is sitting on too much of an incline and it's not going to start on just one gallon. She leaves. I call the tow truck again and Becca.
11:30 The kids school calls me to tell me that one of the teachers wives with a daughter in Oriana's preschool class would be glad to take her home until I can get there. The alternative is to have her sit in the office. I remembered the woman from meeting her before at school and decided to let her take her. Becca gets there with another gallon (the largest size of a gas can that they sold at the GAS STATION!) It still doesn't work.
11:45 the car battery dies from trying to start it. We girls jump it.
12:15 the tow truck arrives and they pull my car up onto the back of the tow truck until it's level, and put more gas in.
12:30 Car battery dies again - tow truck driver jumps it again
12:45 5 gallons of gas later, the car starts.
1:00 Becca and I are enjoying a margarita with lunch, finally some relief.
2:00-3:00 I go back to the tire store for the incredible shaking my steering wheel keeps doing since getting the tires that morning.
4:pm I'm finally on the road again and I have still not gotten everything done, but I was still on my way home. I had to have Ophelia ride the bus home with Becca's kids because I couldn't get her in time either.
4:30pm I start driving home and get pulled over. I get a speeding ticket, because I must have somewhere on my record "do not EVER let this woman off with a warning" since I've not ever gotten out of a ticket. My spedometer was wrong because of the tires, they are bigger than what we had so it through it all off....
5pm I finally get Oriana
5:15 I'm at home, changing my clothes and getting ready to go out again to get Ophelia, when I leave I back into a boulder in the driveway. Yay. I had only hit it with the tow hitch, so it's ok but man I was pissed.
7:30pm I'm finally home to do the massive loads of dishes, laundry and to make dinner for everyone. Yippee. No wonder I couldn't sleep!
ARGH!