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It’s just a bunch of hot air

So I took my car in to get the A/C fixed. The guy said it was out of freon and needed a refill. So 90 bucks later it was filled and I took it home. He said it worked and blew cool air.

I drove it back to the station–around 3 blocks roundtrip. It did NOT cool. I took it home, it still was blowing hot air. Story of my life. Lots of hot air around me! Oy.

So I took it back in this morning and informed the mechanic that it was just blowing hot air and he was surprised and said he would look at it.

When he called me this afternoon he finally had an explanation!
Apparently, it blew some sort of valve in the tube after he tested it. It then proceeded to leak out all the freon again!

He’s not going to charge me for the new freon or the labor and the part will be in tomorrow. And that will only cost me $12-$14.

This had better work!

“A car is a hole in the road that you pour money into.”

That quote comes from my dad. He’s said it my whole life about all car repairs and even just putting gas into the cars in general.

Friday night I noticed when I accelerated my car was super loud. Like something was wrong with the muffler. I called my mechanic (the dealer) and they said I had a cracked tailpipe. They told me to call this other guy to fix it because it would be cheaper.

As I was leaving the dealer I tried to turn my air conditioner on. Cold air would not come out of the vents. I took it to the mechanic right next to my station today.

His diagnosis?

Cracked tail pipe: take it to a muffler shop-it will be cheaper.
A/C needed a recharge: $91.70 later I’m good to go for the rest of the summer. It’s much too hot here NOT to have a working air conditioner. So I will bite the bullet and do the A/C recharge. I seriously hate spending money on car repairs. Oh well. It can’t be helped. And I can’t take it with me!

Have a good Tuesday friends!

That one hurt a little

I was just scrolling through my Facebook feed when I saw a photo of my first serious boyfriend and his current girlfriend. Yes, we are still Facebook friends. We don’t talk and frankly I don’t care. It’s been years since I last saw him so it’s no big deal. I’ve also seen pictures of the two of them on Facebook before. They’re cute and I’m happy for them. He and I just weren’t a good fit.

That being said, the photo was tagged by someone else and she said “only a few more months until Tyler and Erin are married!”

That stung a bit. Especially since he is 3 years younger than me, and the way things ended was with him disappearing on me. (why does that seem to happen to me a lot? He was the first to do it, while I was sick in the hospital, no less! He came to see me and then that was it. He quit calling or answering texts. When I finally did get ahold if him he was ‘busy’. Jerk.)

I’ll admit it just makes me sad. Sad that I’m alone. Just sad.

Sigh.

Also, my lower back is killing me. It’s also making my hips hurt. This sucks. And I haven’t run in 3 days and I think I’m going crazy! Ugh!

Enough complaining! Night friends!

I think everyone is playing a joke on me…

Starting the first of the year I began getting “Baby Talk” Magazines. Then my insurance company sent me fliers and newsletters about how “Now is the time to stay healthy” because its time to get pregnant!

Then, I started getting Birth Announcement order forms in the mail from ShutterFly and some place called “Tiny Prints.”

If my biological clock wasn’t ticking loudly before it sure is now!

I suppose I’m the target demographic: late 20s to early 30s, but seeing as I’m alone AND I’m not 100% sure I even want to have children, this unwanted mail is just annoying.

Oh well, they always make me laugh when I open the mailbox!

Spending a perfect sunny Saturday working on my tan! The weatherman called for rain and we’ve got wall to wall sunshine! I love when they’re wrong! And don’t worry, I’m wearing spf 50 and I’m going in soon. Got the pool up and filling, now I’m relaxing! Happy weekend friends!

I’m having a good body day. I had to meet my sister-in-law at her place of work in downtown Lincoln before I went to work this morning to pick up some things she had for me before I leave for Fargo tomorrow. As I was crossing the busy street, I noticed a couple of guys standing next to the building, smoking. The one guy was staring at me, and then nudged his friend to do the same. They both just stared at me, smiling! It was fantastic! I stood there talking to her for a minute and they were still both looking at me and checking me out. I’m feeling pretty good about myself, not gonna lie!

Then, when I came into work, there was a guy in the lobby filling out a job application. As I came in, he turned and looked me up and down, smiled and said ‘hi’. I said ‘hi’ back and went into the newsroom.

And to think I couldn’t decide what to wear this morning! White jean skirt and green tee FTW! 🙂

Pardon the bathroom-non-smiling selfie! I just about got caught taking the photo! Whoops! 🙂

Happy Hump Day friends!

The End

My Match subscription ran out today. I honestly felt a mixture of relief and oddly some sadness. The relief because, deep down I know that I need a break. And sadness because I think I feel like sometimes its the only way that I will meet someone or get asked out on dates. Its this feeling of power too. I honestly like getting the emails and the winks and the “likes” on my photos. I like the compliments. Who wouldn’t? 

I haven’t heard from Monday’s (broken) date. I honestly don’t know that I care to. Whatever. His loss. I’m awesome. 😉

The guy I went to lunch with last week texted me last night. It was a very funny text message exchange. I liked it. He seems to be a slow mover. I like that. All of the recent guys have been in a hurry (which translates to trying to get me into bed on our 2nd or 3rd dates! Not gonna happen. Sorry.) This guy and I just chatted. He is also going out of town this weekend so we talked a bit about that and about some things that happened in the news. We didn’t even try to make plans to do anything. Just talking and getting to know each other. I’m comfortable with that.

In other news, I got a part time job! I will be bartending at this place where you can paint pictures and drink wine. It’s called The Corky Canvas. I start training next week. The money is good and eventually, if I want, I can learn how to teach people how to paint. Pretty cool gig. Also, check out their website. My friends and I are on it from the first time we went to paint there! We are in the bottom right corner of the webpage. Good stuff.

I’m off to bed. I woke up at 1:30 this morning and couldn’t fall back asleep for an hour and a half so I’m spent! Have a good night friends!

Monday, Monday

  • We got our bib #’s for the Fargo Marathon today. Apparently, I can’t type because I entered my birth date at 1986 instead of 1982. So they think I’m 27 instead of 31. Score one for me! However, that means I’m in the wrong age group. My bad! I think I can fix it at the packet pickup.
  • Bailee and I are driving 7 hours together to Fargo Thursday/Friday. I like to sing along to the radio when I drive/road trip. Poor, poor Bailee. She’s gonna have fun! 🙂
  • Remember I double-booked myself with dates on Thursday? Yeah. Well, date number 2 was a no-show. He texted me, saying that his ex-wife hadn’t show up to pick up their daughter. 45 minutes later she still hadn’t and he texted me again, apologizing all over himself about it. I told him it was fine, in fact, I was in the middle of the Glee finale so I wasn’t that upset about it! We made plans to go out tonight.
  • On a whim, I texted him earlier today to see if we were still on. His reply? He said that he was home, sick in bed and felt so awful about ditching me again. Do I believe him? I’m not sure. He says he still wants to see me, and I told him I could maybe do something Wednesday night. We shall see. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I’m certainly not holding me breath about this one.
  • My co-worker that is friends with Thursday’s lunch date emailed him today. He said he thought the date went well and that he wanted to go out again. I have yet to hear from him. We shall see on this one too.

To reply to a few replies to my canceling my Match subscription:

robbsrunning said: Perhaps joining a running group, may get you a nice running guy? 😉

This is a great idea Robb! Someone with similar interests would be great. I will look into it!

trivialbob said: Just don’t go get a dozen cats as a substitute.

No worries Bob, I’m quite allergic to cats! 😉

baileerunsthroughlife said: But I’m going to miss all your stories! 😉

Sorry Bailee, I will try to find other dates to give you great stories. Plus, there are some stories that I haven’t shared with you all! Those are some gems! I will post about those later.

This is one of my favorite pictures from this weekend: me and two of my three nephews after church Sunday morning. The oldest one, Jon, is my buddy. He and I are pretty tight. The younger one with his tongue sticking out in the picture is Nick. He’s 3 and I like to call him my brother and sister-in-law’s “willful child.” He is ornery! But their faces are priceless to me in this picture! Love those kids!