First off, it’s my 36[sup]th[/sup] birthday. weeee.
I’m skipping work. 'Cause I hate my husband’s truck. (Work with me here, people.)
I drive a mini-van, bought in the long-ago hopeful days of fertility treatments. Didn’t have any kids, but I love my van - it’s big and roomy, with lots of seats and hidey-holes. Hubby has this ancient 4-runner with a lift kit and monster tires. What this means is I practically have to have mountain-climbing tackle to haul myself up into it. Not graceful - no way to do it in a skirt without flashing people.
But the van had to go in for repairs. The key would not turn in the ignition. Not that the ignition or starter is bad. The key PHYSICALLY will not turn. Like instead of a lock, you put it between 2 bricks. NO turning. Waited 4 hours on a locksmith the other day and nothing was wrong with the lock. Seems that sometimes the lock is not getting the message that the car is in park. But the transmission’s OK. Just something between the shifter thingy and the lock is all kerflooey. (Them’s teknickel terms there. )
And Hubby wouldn’t take the car in yesterday. And I didn’t want to parachute out of that dirty nasty truck in front of my office. So I’m home. Pouting. Cause he didn’t get me a present and the van might not be fixed today and we can’t go out to dinner in the Truck From Hell without some major mechanical assistance and I have PMS.
I’m going back to bed.
OK it’s not all bad - my parents just called and sang Happy Birthday to me over the speaker phone.
next… Shame on you for you unwillingness to give the fellas at work a cheap thrill…
oh! a quick note! your steering column is a poor site to store twinkies… it screws up the linkage between yer shifter and the ignition-switch…
It’s my wife’s birthday today … and mine tomorrow. We have no idea what to get each other. We get what we need when we need it and don’t save up for a special day.
I bought the sticks to try to make a wooden spiral ornament thingy (teknickel term) but can’t get the details worked out. She saw it at a Renaissance Faire and we both like those things. If anyone knows what it’s called, let me know.
We tried going to Denny’s one year around midnight but found that they had discontinued their policy of giving you a free meal on your birthday. Just to show how on top of things we were, they said that policy had changed about six years earlier.
I appreciate it but this thread isn’t really worth the bump!
We had copious amounts of take-out chinese food for my birthday dinner. The guys tinkered around with the car all day but couldn’t find anything to fix, so they just cleaned and adjusted stuff. That’s the bad news. Good news is that they didn’t charge us anything. Whoopee!
Hubby has made a mysterious trip to Wal-mart, but he hasn’t given me anything. I’ll let you know how that goes, but so far no presents.
To Wal-Mart?! Surely just to pick up a card, right? I’m sure the real thing will come in a very small package. Happy Birthday from Quasi and Susie The Cat!
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I’m sure the real thing will come in a very small package. Happy Birthday from Quasi and Susie The Cat!