I just finished my Christmas shopping, thank God. I don’t know what I would have done today if I didn’t have my good friend right there with me. I am not much of a shopper and I can’t stand to shop for more than an hour, I get totally uninterested in the task at hand. If she hadn’t been there giving me ideas for people, really good ones at that, I don’t think that I would be done (thanks Aminallady for all your help). Now all I have to do is wrap all the presents, we bought presents for 22 people (this includes buying one present for all the kids that are under 16, which is five children) and some of them got multiples. At least I have a week to wrap all the presents before I leave for North Carolina. We got the Explorer back yesterday. That is another stress that is done with, I didn’t know how we were going to get to NC with all the presents and the two dogs in my truck. Now I don’t have to worry about it because we have the Explorer back. I am so happy that the transmission guy found out that our warranty was still good! The total bill for rebuilding the transmission came to a little over $2,200 and we only had to pay our deductible. I love my truck to death and I wouldn’t trade it for the world but we really need the larger vehicle to get places.
Work this coming week is going to be busy, busy, busy. We try to get as much done before the holiday’s hit because we all know we aren’t going to be motivated the last week of December and first week of January. So, I have something planned for every day next week and that means running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Work yesterday was totally nasty, I came home smelling like fuel oil and I didn’t get what I wanted to get done, done. Which means that all that work has to be put off until next week, hence why my schedule is CRAZY. Anyways, back to what happened yesterday, one of our fuel oil companies that uses us as their environmental consultant had a fuel oil leak in their yard and it was just disgusting. We spent all day using sorbent pads to get the fuel oil out of puddles, keeping the fuel oil from getting to the neighboring creek and getting the leak stopped. When I got home, every time I closed my eyes all I saw were red puddles (fuel oil is dyed red for tracing purposes), it was quite disturbing.
I don’t understand why people have to be so grumpy when they are out shopping, it’s not my fault you waited until the last weekend before Christmas to finsih your shopping. I wasn’t grumpy today because I knew that I did this to myself and the quicker I found what I wanted the quicker I got to go home. I was on my way home today and I was sitting at a light, I happened to be the car that would block the intersection of people turning left into the strip mall on my right. I however did not block the intersection while my light was red, people were turning in and out of the strip mall just fine. When my light turned green I pulled up behind the car in front of me and lo and behold someone came and wanted to turn left into the strip mall and at that point I was in his way, even though I was at that second moving up. He turns to me and says “you know, you aren’t ever supposed to block intersections”. So what does he proceded to do??? He pulls in front of the car behind me, which happened to be my friend, and blocks her from proceding to the light. Would those five extra seconds that he had to wait made that big of a difference? I think not…hello people its the holiday season, you know the season for giving and holiday cheer! Again I just don’t understand.
