My Week In Review
I’m not complaining, but these last few days have been challenging, so I thought I would share my week in review….
For starters, I’ve been rather cranky this week…at least four people called me on my attitude, two of them being my boss. I felt awful for showing my second head in public and apologized. I wasn’t feeling well and after getting some rest, the monster subsided. I need more than 7 hours of sleep too.
One morning I was sitting at my computer and the power went out in two rooms, one being the kitchen. I flipped the circuit breaker switch, but nothing I did restored power, so what did I do? I went into the living room and prayed for a “let there be light” miracle. I asked God if he could please turn the power back on because I had to go to work soon and didn’t want to leave my ‘fridge without power. Now I’m not one to pray only when I need something, I pray everyday, and I don’t know what made me think I could call in a favor, but I did…power was not restored, there was no miracle. A few minutes later it hit me… since only two rooms lost power, I could run an extension cord from the kitchen to a live outlet. Bingo, my refrigerator was working. Before I started to pat myself on the back for being so smart, I smiled and realized that could have been his miracle and I remembered to say thank you. A fuse was replaced later that night.
Came home one evening to find Cheeks, our hamster missing from her cage (a glass aquarium). Not only was she missing, but she stole food we had on the floor next to her cage. I’m only impressed because at least she was smart enough to take food with her on her trip, the last hamster we had escape I found him chewing on a plastic bag. We found her in the living room and lured her to another cage with food. Cheeks is available for adoption.
My daughter has been sick off and on for the past three weeks, digestive problems. No sooner than I get to work one day I get a call from the school nurse who says she needs to be picked up. Daddy was out of state this week so that left me. I sat for a few minutes before I thought of what to do and then I called Mom and she was able to pick her up. Later I took her to a friend’s house and she played all afternoon with no problems. Hard to believe she was the same sick child. I sometimes threaten to put my daughter back where she came from, fortunately, she knows her mom is kidding and we don’t expect her to suffer any psychological damage from my musing. However if she does come out with a tell all book, please support her work as I’m sure she will need the money to pay for the nursing home she’s going to put me in.
I put in a little more than a 1/2 tank of gas in my car and almost cried at the pump because it cost me $24.00. It used to only cost $13.00 to fill up my tank. (How much does it cost to fill up your car?) I sometimes take my car out of gear and let it roll down hills to save gas. I don’t know if this works, but it makes me feel better.
This was my week in review and I’m kind of glad it’s over. Now that you’ve peeked inside my week in review, how was your week, did anything exciting happen?
Hi Natural.
That was pretty ingenious about the extension cord.
Now I have heard it’s not safe to “coast” in neutral. Don’t know if it’s true, but seems like I’ve heard that.
To fill up my car (a Blazer) costs $45. I try not to get it go below half so my heart doesn’t start palpitating from sticker shock. I also limit my driving and run my errands in circles, so I’m not backtracking.
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Barbara I would like to take the credit for thinking of an extension cord as a temporary fix, but I’m not that smart.
Really, I pop my car in and out of gear quite often. If my clutch dies, I’ll know why. I need to learn how not to drive in circles. I get lost a lot, so I kind of have to stay on my path…
I hit an all-time high with $61 to fill our minivan. I guess the tank is very mini, is it? In the good old days it cost about $40 to $50 to fill it.
Like Barbara, I prefer to play the game of filling it at half empty to keep my adrenaline in line.
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After a week like that I certainly see why you’re glad it’s over!
The H and I drive a Camaro, it’s costs $50 to fill up. And we both drive fast
My week? I’ve started my schoolbus lessons. I have to learn to drive a bus AND drive a stick at the same time. The first day I got behind the wheel the instructor takes me on a busy street with cars honking and pulling around me, etc etc. I was SO nervous and a little upset that he couldn’t find somewhere with a lot less traffic. So that sucked.
Also, I’m having trouble maintaining my speed when I need to push the clutch in and shift. I get nervous and wind up going to slow. But I think I would learn faster if I didn’t have the added stress of cars on the road and all the other things that come with that. Argh. I felt very discouraged after the first lesson.
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CardioGirl - $61 american dollars? O–>–< (that’s me passed out). I hate putting gas in my car and usually ride until it’s passed E, but I was right there and said let me stop. i’m assuming a full tank would have cost me 35$-$37$. I do think I will start having it filled at 1/2 tank instead of on empty.
Jillian, it was a long week and I’m due for another Vegetate Day. 50$ bucks? How come gas stations don’t have a lay-a-way plan. Rent to own? This is crazy. I remember when, well, when gas was cheap! Wow you’re learning to drive a school bus and a stick, cool. You’ll get it..took me 10 days before I could drive w/o the car cutting off and yes I held up traffic several times, but it’s a pleasurable experience, I love shifting. Just want to try out a faster car. Yeah the first lesson will make you want to rethink driving at all…do not despair! Thanks for sharing your week with me…its nice to see what goes on behind the blog.
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Now I understand why you needed to do the same thing I did for the past few weeks - disappear! Okay it takes $70 to fill up my car, well NZ$ (NZ$1 - US$0.80) and it keeps going up every week. I hope next week will be a little better
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Wow… That’s quite a week! The hamster thing made me laugh… They’re sneaky little things, aren’t they? lol…
And it costs me about $30 to fill my tank. At least it did the last time I bothered. I have mini heart attacks when I do that, so I don’t anymore.
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I’m sorry you had a tough week. <:( *hug* Mine wasn’t so bad. It costs me about $35 to fill my tank these days, but that’s what I was paying in Canada, so I guess I’m used to it.
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Yeah Tondy, disappearing acts. Good for the soul every once in a while. 70$ sounds like a lot of money in any currency.
Corrina, I dislike the hamster..she’s not friendly either. Still haven’t found the food, no way she ate it all. $30 bucks, you too. I can go 10 days w/o refilling, which is not too bad.
Well Lana, it wasn’t that tough..probably had more to do with the timing of things..like what next. I like my boring so called life. $35..I’m about where you are.
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I need at least 12 hours a night to NOT be ‘moody’ but since thats impossible….i think people are used to me being so um…grouchy.
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That’s what I probably need Meleah Rebeccah..I’m Oscar the Grouch without my sleep. It’s past my bedtime now…someone will pay.
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