December

The last month was fairly crazy, but let's see if I can encompass it in one lj post. I have a fresh cup of tea, so let's do this.

( Jessica's magical Disney wedding )

( After Wedding Adventure )

( The Most Magical Place That Ever Did Magic )

( In which I reduce Tara to tears at Epcot )

( The parents arrive. )

( Magic Kingdom part 2 and Hoop Dee Doo )

( Wrap up and then home to bed. For two weeks. )

( Ho Ho Hobbits )

( The end )

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On to January, so I don't have to type up an entire month all over again.

Also, forgot to mention one thing in December: the final for my programming class.

It was written by someone other than my teacher. And was not very clear at all. My teacher ended up having to explain the directions for every single question on the test because the wording was so poor. I freaked out a lot during the test. I knew the stuff, but the wording of everything made me make stupid mistakes. In the end though, I passed the class with an A. Go me!

Ok, now January.

After new years, I got a lot of sleeping done. Then a lot of cleaning. And cooking. Sooooo much cooking.

It felt good to put away the christmas decorations. Freedom from the most depressing holiday of the year.

Maggie's eye cleared up right away. She was back to her old nonsense in no time.

In other news, noname seems to have developed a uti and is alternating between dribbling on everything and directly peeing on everything. I called the vet, but they couldn't squeeze her in until monday. So we bought noname a pack of diapers to get by until then. Poor smelly puppy.

And then speaking of diapers, on thursday ben and I drove up to baltimore to drop off food to our friends who just had a baby. (Hence all the cooking.) We brought spinach and mushroom lasagna, roasted veggie and kale soup, chocolate chip ice cream, pumpkin spice rice krispy treats, and chocolate chip zucchini bread. It was a mighty bounty of foodness.

I'm not really into babies so I mostly just found the creature to be moist and loud. Maybe it'll be more interesting when it's older and does something other than scream. (So I guess when it's 21?) I mostly just spent the time feeling awkward and trying really hard not to say something stupidly offensive.

Afterwards we stopped at ikea because ben needed a new office chair. We also got a new closet organizer and a shoe rack for me. Which meant a wild and crazy friday night organizing my socks. It may sound like I'm being sarcastic, but I'm actually unbelievably happy about having my socks so organized.

Today was completely destroyed by typing a huge lj post about december. But now that I'm caught up, that won't happen again. Oh who am I kidding....

Hit and run

Did I seriously forget to mention my car???

Wednesday morning, before we set out for Baltimore, I went to take my car to the auto shop to get my check engine light issue fixed. Well, it was good I had made that appointment, because sometime during the night someone had decided to crash into my car.

Luckily they somehow managed to not completely destroy the car. The worst damage was the drivers side mirror, which they snapped off. They also managed to crack the drivers side rear hub cap and slightly bend the rim. Also a little bit of scuffing on the side of the bumper.

Honestly I was more upset that they didn't leave a note than I was about the damage to the car. Accidents happen. But running away from your mistakes is the worst thing ever!

So yeah, I was taking my car in anyway and didn't want to deal with my insurance, so I asked them to fix the mirror but leave the rest unless they thought the dented rim might damage the tires. Luckily the dent is minor and they felt it would be good in the long term to fix it but it wasn't an immediate issue.

Between the check engine stuff, the mirror, and a state car inspection, it all came out to about $1,400. That was a lot of money. I told him so and asked if it was possible to find any discounts. He only knocked $100 off the price. I guess it's better than nothing....

Hopefully no more disasters happen to my car for a few months. I can't afford the repair bills.