A Day Worth Recounting...

Sunday. Ah, Sunday...
I missed my alarm... or maybe I didn't set it... I was out cold until near 11am. I was supposed to be at work at 8:10am. Oops.
They say that the average head cold lasts for 7-10 days and ought to be no more than 14... I'm going on... let's see here... 18 days... yeah, I that's about right.
So I got up and frantically made a call to my supervisor's answering machine apologizing for not having showed up.
I cleaned my room. It hasn't been clean in a while... well, it has, but it get's messy pretty fast.
My phone rang. It was J-pie, was I coming over? Oops. I was supposed to go over for some ping pong and a movie, I forgot. So I took my Mom's mini van and drove over to her house.
We played ping pong. We have mad skills. I mean that in a lunatic sort of mad way. :-) It was fun. :-P J-pie's Mom came out and asked her to put gas in her truck, so she could take it on the road, so I offered to drive behind her to the station, just in case, because it was driving on merely fume's.
The van wouldn't start.
Put the key in, foot on the brake (just in case), turn key... *click, click, click* nothing. Nada. Very quiet.
Uh oh.
So J-pie made it to the station on her own and came back. I asked for a jump, so she pulled the Lexus out into the street and I hooked up the jumper cables.
I have done this before, quite a few times actually.
There were four of us 20ish year old girls standing there. I felt so brave dealing with car engines and electricity... but only because I had a worried audience... on any other day it would have been no big deal. Like I said before, I've done this before, quite a few times.
Red on positive of dead car. Red on positive of running engine. Black on negative of run--- *scream!!!*
Thank you Nat. That was really funny. I'm laughing so hard. Well, actually I was laughing, but not that hard. :-D
I finished hooking the jumper cables up without incident and my engine started up with a bit of a groan and cough. Cables unhooked and put away. Lexus returned to it's place. I took the van down the street, Mom said the battery was just dead and if we jumped it and took it for a ride on the freeway that the alternator would bring back it's life.
We made it half a block.
She coughed and sputtered and died. No lights, no engine... nothing.
Fail.
So Nat and I get out and call J-pie on her cellphone and she and Taylor come running down the street. Nat's never pushed a dead car before. Glad to have broadened her sphere of experience for her.
Did you know that when there is no electricity, there is no power steering? I like power steering. I'm so glad we normally have it. My arms are sore and tired.
Let's just pull it off to the side and Triple A will come and get it tomorrow, we say. So we push it to the side of the street. Well, they push, I steer (which was almost just as difficult, I think :-P). But the sign above our heads says "No Parking Mondays 12noon-2pm - Street Cleaning" Oh. But the sign across the street says Tuesdays. So we say, "Let's push it into that driveway and then back it up and park it on the other side of the street in front of Gladys' house." But the power steering isn't working... so it was a pretty intense K-turn. Over a speed bump. I think I had the easier job for sure. Sorry Ladies.
Job done. Car locked. And we walk away. *sigh* well... that was interesting...
So we go back to J-pie's house and watch The Princess and The Frog. Because we're so growed up like that. It was cute. I will never kiss a frog. A basketball maybe, and only if it's wearing a Stetson. But no frogs.
After the movie we all drove over to the church in J-pie's Lexus. Because my car was kaput. Nat and I stayed and Taylor and J-pie went home. We were late, so we sneaked in quiet like.
I didn't feel very good. I made it through two and a half baptisms and then I sneaked right back out. Mom was in the nursery, so I stole her keys and drove home in the Camry. I sat down on the couch and then woke up an hour later to the smell of chicken burgers. I went back to the church to get Mom and then back home to sleep some more.
It's 11am again... I think I need a nap...
Samia