I'm sitting here listening to Mopmonster's "Serious Business" MP3 and find myself bopping my head to the beat as I'm typing. Rather catchy beat. ;)
So my car was fixed Saturday! Praise God. My car broke down Wednesday night if you hadn't read my prior posts. And was just fixed this Saturday by some awesome guys at the church. In all it costs $87.00 for parts. One person in particular was working on it, but we had a work party at our house to work on a trailor we're setting up for people in the church with emergency housing needs. The trailor needed a lot of work but when there's a car being worked on the men seem to gather. hehe I didn't mind. Apparently I had really bad spark plugs that caused the coil to go bad as well as blowing a fuse. I also was not necessarily scolded but pressed to check my oil on a more regular basis. I guess I was a quart and a half low. The sad part is I've been on empty so I thought that was pretty good! hahaha I know I'm the reason girls have a bad name for car care. But with all my driving I actually check it more regularly then most. Anyways, my car's all better and I am no longer dependent on others! YAY!
While people worked on my car or the trailor on the side of our house I was actually at the church working with the youth girls with our "Hands On Mission Work". We're making hand puppets for the kids in Africa. We did pretty good on our first try and finished 1 complete puppet, have to sew the head on another and have everything cut out for the last 2. :) So my guess is that these won't make it out as Christmas presents. hehe oops!
So I finally finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! I had read a good portion on my forced day off Thursday, then read for another 5 hours Saturday night, and then finished the last one hundred or so pages this evening! Now unfortunately that means I have to wait until she comes out with the next one before I can go on. :(
OOOOOOH! oh oh oh I totally forgot! Friday night I was working late because I was forewarned that traffic was a nightmare because the shortcut I normally take was blocked off due to mud slides! Well the weekend I went to my brothers out in Oxnard I rode with his roommate Mike who has a
Subaru WRX and well he showed me the power of the car. I told him about the owner of linkLINE having an
BMW M3 and they started talking that car up. I told them I hadn't been offered a ride though I had heard he was good with the car. My brother had told me that if I wanted a ride I needed to go up to him and tell him something like he didn't know how to handle a car like that. So I did just that... "My brother says if I want a ride in your car I need to let you know that you don't know how to handle a car like that." And sure enough an offer was made but I never had the opportunity all week. So finally friday he asked if I wanted to go for that ride! So here I am in the owners BMW and he's squealing around corners at 80 mph! And we took a straightaway at 125mph!!!! He said that was a record for surface streets and having someone in the car! I was laughing hysterically the whole time! It felt like I was in a racing game. Everything flew by unnaturally fast! It was a blast and before I knew it he pulled over and said "ok... your turn." At first I wasn't sure what to say, but I was bold and decided to go for it! When else was I ever going to drive a BMW!!?!? So I got in and looked down and said "uh oh, you don't want me to drive, this is a stick, I can't... Nevermind." And of course he protested and I just decided what the heck and went with it! I had a blast! It was an awesome experience. I was laughing and giggling and out of breath it was such a rush! I was screaching around corners. Poor guy! He was being tossed all over the place with my inability to shift the gears smoothly since I've not regularly driven a stick shift EVER! He was kind and said I was doing fine and if there were any real damage happening to his clutch he wouldn't let me drive anymore. But it was a blast! Now I didn't go anywhere near the speeds he did. But I was racing around this corner and I seriously felt like I was at Dave & Busters riding in the racing cars!!!! NO JOKE! It was the most fun I've had in a long time! I couldn't get over the rush. I finally was tired of screwing up the driving and pulled over and let him drive back to the office. But that was an experience I won't soon forget! :D
So now it's my bedtime and I have to get up early for work in the morning.
Goodnight
CD/DVD Player: Mopmonsters "Serious Business" MP3
Mood: Refreshed
Link of the Day:
Mopmonster "Serious Business"
posted by Charity at 10/24/2004 10:05:00 PM 
