We have made a decision on what we are going to do about the Explorer. Boo-Boo took it to the transmission place our friends father recommended for him to give us a quote on what it was going to cost. He asked Boo-Boo to bring along all his paperwork from when he bought it because he said sometimes he can find a loophole in warranties. When Boo-Boo bought the Explorer he got a 24 month or 2,400 mile warranty and we have put well over 2,400 miles on it since we bought it. Well the guy called that evening and said to Boo-Boo “do you know that your SUV is still under warranty”. Boo-Boo was like what are you talking about, the guys said you bought it with 47,000 miles on it and you now have 63,000 miles and your warranty is for 24 months or 24,000 miles. Apparently from the get go Boo-Boo just totally missed a zero, I saw the printout it is easily missed. Now we have our answer, we are going to rebuild his transmission. Heck it isn’t going to cost us anything so we might as well. Plus we had looked into the blue book value for it and there was no way we were going to get what we owe on it if we traded it in. Thank goodness for small miracles.I LOVE BEING A WOMAN! I have had this conversation with my boss multiple times. He says that he would never want to be a woman. I ask him why and his response is always “beside the obvious, the world is my urinal, I pee when and where ever I want”. My response to that is always well at least I don’t have a little soldier running my life and pitching his tent whenever he pleases. Well yesterday my boss called me and my female co-worker and said that we needed to get dirt to a site because the contractor we had hired had yet to do it and the homeowner has been waiting for weeks for the hole in the ground to get filled. He told us to go to the construction site across the street and see if they would give us half a dump truck load of dirt and to let them know we would accommodate accordingly. The guys on site made a bunch of calls and we were told to come back at 4 and the truck would be ready for us. When I called my boss to let him know the dirt would be there late afternoon he asked how much it was going to cost. I told him we didn’t discuss that and they didn’t seem concerned with it but I would offer the driver money (normally in these situations you just pay the driver what he would make to haul the load). We came back, took the driver to the site and he dumped the dirt. I asked him what we owed him and he said “nothing honey, following two beautiful ladies was enough for me.” He then proceeded to offer to bring more dirt and gravel for the driveway if we needed it, again at no cost. This morning the boss man asked how much it ended up costing us, I told him NOTHING. He wanted to know how we got away with that, the answer is simple because we are women. I told him OK, you can pee when and where ever you want but I get shit for free, I think my deal is better.The finale of The Amazing Race-Family Edition was on last night. I was overwhelmed with joy because the Weaver’s
did not win. However, I found myself torn at the end when the Bransen’s and Linz’s were neck and neck doing the North America puzzle. I thought that I was completely set on the Linz’s winning…just so you know I have compared that family to what it would be like if me, Boo-Boo, child #3 and child #4 decided to run TAR together…but the closer it got to them finishing the puzzle I really just wanted Wally to pull out all the stops and beat the Linz’s. Wally was hindering his daughters at the beginning of the race but in the later legs he really starting pulling his weight, there were some challenges that they would have struggled to finish if it wasn’t for him. I got over it though and ended up very happy for the Linz’s, does the second place team get a lesser prize like in Survivor?
Has anyone else noticed that it is cold as piss outside? I was collecting samples from groundwater monitoring wells today and while I was bailing the twine was freezing and my tools were frozen to the ground.
