What an amazing adventure today turned out to be! And I had such a wonderfully productive weekend to top it off!
So let’s see…
Saturday - I ran a bunch of errands and stopped off at Ludek’s to check out his completed house. He was moving some equipment from the lot to his workshop so that it would be more protected from the natural elements when he’s gone, he’s going to be out of the country for a few months. He was getting help from Sam’s dad Chuck. I, of course, brought my camera so I got practically moving pictures of the progress. Ludek was happy I was taking them and I was more then happy to have the excuse to play with my camera! But I did get teased mercilessly by Chuck. Hehe As I ran some of my errands I noticed something rather unusual, I had a lot of strangers talking to me throughout my many stops. They were pleasant conversations. When all was said and done I wondered to myself if something deeper has changed and is showing through, is it possible I am more approachable now that I’m out of my depression? I really think that must be the case. I was really happy to see this big of an example proving something really did change in me for the better. After all of my running I got home and relaxed the rest of the evening. I went and uploaded more pictures to my album. Now that I’m getting the hang of it I’m really happy with the Jalbum software and how easily I can update it.
Sunday - It was interesting because my dad wasn’t at church; he and my mom are in North Carolina visiting my brother Shawn and his family (where I will be this Saturday!). My dad does quite a bit to keep the flow of the church service going smoothly. Amazingly enough we were able to pull it off without a hitch! It was quite enjoyable and I was really proud of us for being able to work through all the technical and organizational issues for a smoothly flowing service. I always have a fun job on Sundays because I’m the one that runs the PowerPoint, the words for the songs, recording the worship and service and burning a CD of the message for those that were in the Sunday school or nursery. Anyways, after church I cleaned my kitchen, dining room, living room and straightened my room. My room has been feeling confined for a while now since it was so cluttered. I am glad to feel freedom in it! I still need to clean my bathroom and vacuum my floors but I was quite pleased with how much I was able to accomplish.
Flat Tire, Darth Vadar, Etc. - Now back to my adventurous day. I got to work at a fairly decent time frame considering all the construction on the 15/215 interchange. Apparently people haven’t figured out that they have a full three lanes open and they all make their way to the far right lane way too soon. I got to work, parked; I had my starbucks, grabbed my bag and went up the stairs to my work. As I walked up the stairs I noticed my moms back drivers side tire was *really* low. (I have been using my mom’s car since I took them to the airport.) After about an hour or so I wanted to see how bad it was so I went back downstairs and sure enough it was completely flat. I sigh, noting to myself how surprisingly well I am handling this debacle, go back upstairs and asked my supervisor Hector if he knew if any of the guys would be willing to help me change my tire to the spare doughnut. So he and Keith decided to help me out. It was quite a comical sight! Keith joked that he doesn’t do this kind of thing because he’s gay. And Hector admitted that he hadn’t changed a tire in quite a few years. So we fumbled through the process. First challenge, figuring out how to make the jack work! No joke! It was quite the oddity. I was the one to finally figure that out, while Hector tried to figure out how to get the hub caps off which Keith ended up mastering. This not being my car I felt of little or no help. With a few more jokes of how odd it was that it took all of us to change the tire, and a few references to Keith being gay, Hector being large and well they were nice enough to keep me out of it, we were able to get it done. Haha I was laughing pretty much the entire time. And as classic as this picture already was I look and see Keith on the ground with his plumbers butt showing. It was quite a memorable event and I really enjoyed myself!
I made an appointment to get the tire repaired at America’s Tire and took a late lunch to do it. I guess with all this going on it made the day go by rather quickly and before I knew it, it was 3 pm. But oddly the next two hours crawled by!
Darth Vadar - Hector’s fiancé called to have him go on the CHP incidents page to find out why the 10 freeway was backed up. Suddenly I heard Hector start cracking up because they had, NO JOKE, a reporting of a “MALE WEARING DARTH VADAR OUTFIT ON RS” on the 215!!!! I had to see it for myself. What makes this so comical is what happens next. First and foremost imagine driving down the road and see Darth Vadar walking on the roadside! It’s not Halloween yet! I mean Hector and I are laughing and refreshing the page every few seconds. It goes from Officer on the scene to “PED UNDER BRIDGE, REQINGADDTL UNIT”. So what the heck did this officer see that he needed backup!?! But even better they call like 3 units on the scene! We’re rolling! Next thing they are hoping to “SANDWICH THE PED”…. I’m giggling so bad at this point trying to imagine this going down. What? Does he have a light saber and he’s not afraid to use it!?! Hahaha Sadly it just drops after the last detail of “HAS VISUAL, IN CD ON EAST SIDE OF WASH” and so I was not able to find out what happened to this crazy character but it looks like he ran! But I took a screenshot to prove I’m not making this up! And seriously it made my day! I needed a good laugh. And it made my final hour of work go by so fast!
After work I see my mom’s lug nut/hub cap cover is missing but *not* from the tire I just got fixed. Of course! So I go back to America’s Tire just hoping it might have fallen off while they were working on it. Sadly I think it’s just an odd coincidence and the manager at America’s Tire was nice enough to hook me up with a replacement. He said he would call me with more information.
Etc. - I had to drop off a cd of the pictures I took for Ludek on Saturday and was able to hang out with Doug and Sasha for a little bit. It was nice to get caught up. Sasha has been a big supporter of me getting a job at the school district and she still has her eyes open for anything promising. I was there for about an hour but then realized I should probably get on the road. I had made plans to meet my friend Ludek for dinner Friday night since I was leaving Saturday for North Carolina and he would be deploying and it was the only night our schedules meshed, at least we thought. I can’t remember how it was brought up, I think I was invited by Sasha to come over again Friday night for dinner but I told her I already was going to dinner with Ludek. She told me that I must have been lied to because she already had plans that included him that same night. Apparently Ludek double booked himself and got himself into big trouble with his sister! HAHA It was quite funny and so it looks like I’m going to be going to their house Friday night for dinner. Everyone wins, except Doug and I... TThey are making a meal with mushrooms so Doug said he'd make something different for him and I since neither of us like mushrooms. hehe
As I drove I felt like I hit ever green light, everyone seemed to move out of my way or leave the lane I was in open even though every other lane was full. I rarely had to brake. The only thing that made my drive home bad was my stomach. I’m still sick and not sure what’s wrong. I feel like I need something to settle my stomach. I thought something fizzy would do the trick but it hasn’t seemed to help. I’m not quite sure what’s wrong. I hope it will pass and by tomorrow I will be fine.
Well it’s about my bedtime, so that’s all for now. Goodnight.
posted by Charity at 10/02/2006 10:06:00 PM 
