The good, The bad, and The ugly.

THE GOOD-

Going to Oakland and hanging out with my amazing friends. I loved seeing everybody, and I had such a blast hanging out at Kitty's Wednesday night. Gawd, it was fun! Just being surrounded by friends, many of whom I hadn't seen in years. I really appreciated everyone who came tramping out that night, especially those who drove far and then had to be up at the butt-crack-o-dawn the next morning. I can't believe what efing cool friends I have (snif, snif...)

THE BAD-

Only an hour and a half from Tucson. Cluck, cluck. Clunk, clunk. Our car dies. Out in the desert. No call box, no cell phone, hot as hell. I force the kids to stay out of the car, just in case someone hits it. I know, long shot. The cars is on the shoulder, but one of those paranoid mama things. The kids entertain themselves for a little while excavating old pottery chards, etc. But then they are just hot and cranky. Ari's fear of ants kicks in, Teagan's whining gets to an all time new level... Finally someone stops (okay it was only about 30 minutes, but it seemed like forever.) They have a cell and call the Highway Patrol for us. 10 minutes later they show up. We tried to call our insurance, but after about 15 minutes of listening to crampy music we hung up and let the copper call us a tow. We are near Gila Bend 110 miles away from home. Long story short, we get a tow to Tucson for a bit under $500, and we're finally back home. Hey, it always could of been worse, right?

THE UGLY-

The mechanic called today to give us the low down on our vehicle. It's the engine. This is a car that we just bought. It's not very old, and well cost us a pretty penny. It also took us like a month to find. So, yeah... that sucks. A new engine, they say is about 10 G's, a rebuilt one around 4. But, in the meantime we have no car and it will be a while before we have one again. We live in the desert and it's hot and just going to the grocery store now is a big deal.

Curses.

Aug. 3, 2006