some days you have to laugh...

Today was a doctor appointment day.

I planned on going to the girls school to finally sign Sage up for kindy, then head to the neighboring town for my appointment, come home, clean, pack, do laundry, etc.

Well, I was on the old road. I saw a silver thing on the road, but the truck in front of me went right over it and I thought it was flat. I found out when I was right over it that I was WRONG!!!

I t hit HARD under my van, and when I looked in the rear view, there was not only a big thing but scraps of something else.

I really was clueless. I heard a beeping and saw a light but i thought maybe if I could get to the doc, I could figure out what to do.

Well, I didn't make it. I made it a lot closer, though.

I got in touch with my hubby and he had to get the kids up and ready and call a tow truck and a friend who would come get me and take me to my appointment.

All of it worked out to where I was out of my appointment and had walked halfway back, was driven the other half, to where my van was and it was at that time that Shaun and the tow truck driver were there.

Whew!

So we're following the truck to the mechanic and then we get a ticket for our tag...but thats fixed easily enough.

Anyway, it just seemed for a while like nothing was going to go right today!!

So here we are at home just chilling out.

I'm not really sure what to do without my van, since I had so much to do that involved it today. Of course, I have tons of other stuff I CAN do, but nothing quite as fun....

One good thing about kids...

Today one of my kids had a doctor appointment. I hate taking all three of them anywhere with a passion, because they usually act like escaped wild animals.

I have to say that today they weren't bad at all.

So we did the doctor thing, everything was fine until Sage had to have her finger pricked which made her scream and cry in her own overdoing it way. :) I mean, I know it hurts, but she has a way of letting you know she is more pissed than hurt and that was the cry she had.

So we left the lab and walked to the waiting room and I saw the other two women looking at my son with big smiles on their faces. He wasn't doing anything especially cute at the time so I looked down and saw that after he went potty, he had his boxers pulled all the way up to his chest, over his shirt, and twisted one direction and his shorts barely pulled up and twisted the other direction. I guess in my rush to get Sage finished I left him on his own to fix himself.

Shaun and I laugh at them a lot because they don't have the mindset of being decent, for lack of a better word. If you are going somewhere, they want to go no matter if they still have on their pajamas or just a shirt with nothing underneath.

When we got to the doctors office, i was able to turn on the street, get all the way over and turn left without a problem. When we left, I did good to turn right and get into the first lane. ugh. I hate those situations. So I drove down the street, thinking surely it hits the freeway again. Wrong. I was about to turn around when I found the road the seminary is on. We eventually came to the 405 but it was too packed for me to get over. No worries, i thought, the 170 is close by. When we got to the end of the road I realized I was wrong again, so I turned down a side road intending to make a square kind of to get back to where I was. No go. The street went away from where I wanted to go. I figured with all the main roads crossing, surely I would come across one eventually.

I had little more than a quarter of a tank and I misplaced my card so there was no getting more. Great, I thought. So I turn on this main road and somehow get to the 101. Well, that was better than nothing so I took it. I find it ironic that I live so far away from the coast and yet, everytime i get lost, I find the 101.

So it took us two hours to get home, it took us 30 minutes to get to the doctors office.

I actually love the drive on the 126. I think its so pretty with all the stuff growing and if we would have had money today, we would have bought some strawberries.

For me, our journey was like a pre-vacation. The kids were fine in the car, although the girls were making annoying noises, I had my window down so I didn't hear them, i only heard Jake yelling at them. lol

In just 9 days, we are going to be driving cross country so it gave me hope that they would make it for the long drive back home.

Takes me back...

The movie Fools Rush In is on. This is the first movie Shaun and I saw when we started dating. I remember it like it was yesterday. There were 5 in our group, and Katie always made the girls sit on the inside by her so it wasn't like we were in some weird couple thing.

The theater is gone now that we used to go to almost every weekend.

I remember being so excited to go on a date with him, and be out with our friends. We would sometimes go to the McDonalds that was in the walmart that was right next door, occasionally even emptying our purses and filling them with candy we bought so we could sneak it in.

This movie was the first time he put his arm around me.

I never wanted him to move it.

We met in our high school cafeteria, not the most romantic of settings but I remember being way too shy to talk to him and always staring at his beautiful blue eyes.

Since I tried to sit near him but sually where I couldn't se him or was too afraid to look, my friend Katie and I had a code for when he would get up to go to the trash can across the room.

"The chicken has flown the coop!!!" she would say. Anyone within hearing distance would turn and give us weird looks as I busted out laughing hysterically from being so nervous about going to throw away my trash at the same time as him.

We went on a field trip to Disney world the first week of Feb 1997. We hung out with a large group, hitting all the rides and having a blast. I think that was the first time I got up the nerve to talk to him.

At the end of the day I lent him some money for dinner and he seemed very grateful. He said I was nice. I still remember that.

I had a seventeen magazine with a quiz about how compatible you and your crush are. I told my friend on the neighboring bus that I was going to take it and we got the highest score. To me, that was a sign.

I heard a week later that he was going to ask some other girl out for valentines day. I was upset but I had spent months crushing him so I figured it was time to let go.

We had a half day on V day and he and I had the same lunch. I was sitting alone when he walked in. I was wondering what to do if he started talking to me or anything so I was really suprised when he kind of flung this paper at me and was a beautiful poem asking me to the military ball for jrotc.

I said yes, of course, and floated home on a cloud.