I was playing around online today, and saw a remark my friend Meagan has posted, it was about the Oprah show today, abot 14 years olds who were "ready" to have sex
Someone please tell me that's not true!! That's not only gross, but religion and marriage aside, who's honestly really going to admit, they know what they're doing at that age! You simply and flat out don't know what you're doing, I"m sure it's not healthy for a 14 year old to be "playing married" at that age. I think even f you're a legal adult at the age of 18, it's still TOO YOUNG! Me, personally, married or not, think it's a damn good idea to wait til you're 23. Just because of the face you know the risks and consequences, and it's not "unhealthy" if you do choose to wait til you're 23.
I can't say I blame the mom on the show for buying her son a box of "protection", she wasn't promoting it, but you can only stop your kids so much. So, with that said, she bought him some. I mean, I get it, but why would you put that much temptation into his own hands? Riddle me that!
Here is the link to the site to take a read, I'm nto trying to blast my views on here, but it's not cool. http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090326-tows-teen-sex/1
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
In the house!
We are on day 5 of living in the new house. The downstairs is finally getting organized, yay! Seems like moving in was a little less stressful than moving out, if that's possible. There were delays with the escrow company, pushing our close date back, and leaving not only ticked off mortgaged brokers, but homeowners as well. Jeff didn't get home from FL til the 27th, leaving me to make several trips here solo, to do things like, paint. Which, I have discovered I don't mind doing, but it sucks cause my height. I had a friend come over and install the new faucets I got and a microhood (Thanks Darren!!) and he looked at me on the step ladder while pianting and did kind of giggle because it is fairly straning, but I was being so persistant about it. (wanted it done, man!)
My parents made the drive down from Redmond to help unpack. THey were pretty surprised with how "big" it was. Alot bigger than their first home. Times have changed, and now with the crappy foreclosing market, you can get a good deal on a house, such as we did.
We've gone to Home Depot about 75 times it seems like! Ugh! I'm finally figuring out the layout of the closest one so I can actually find what I'm looking for when I go. I don't want to know how much we've spent, I'm guessing well over a thousand by now. Insane what little things you need, add up so fast! Paint, $20, spackle, $7, stress of a new home, not priceless!
Next on the "to do" list, is purchase Leenas new bedroom furniture. I found one that I LOVE, but we'll see about getting it here. It's so cute and won't age as she will. She's picked out her bedding, which is...wow. Orange, brown, fuschia, white and dark pink. I vetoed the zebra print. I tried to talk her into polka dots, but she wanted the funny looking orange and brown flower thing, so I said ok, it's your room. We've got paint picked out for an accent wall.....which is dark pink. I said she could do the wall that her closet and bedroom door are on, less of an eye sore! She had these rediculous particle board shelving things in her walk in closet, which is HUGE for a 7 year old. Or just in general. Well, My dad and I tore them out. And now we're filling in all the holes from the screws and boards and will touch up the paint.
So far, ALOT of work has been done, alot more to come. We're been kinda poking our heads around and doing homework on a few things. We have funny colored counters. Jeff would like granite put in, so we'll see what happens in time. We're just more focused on getting settled. The living/dining room area is pretty closed to fully settled, and we're just going room by room to not stress ourself out.
We attempted to have the cable set up...I say attempted because the poor direct TV guy came, and we have a defective dish and a bad DVR.....(*cancel, cough, cough* Jeff) However, he came on his day off and spent literally about 5 hours here, figuring that out. He'll be back again Friday. Guess he came on a day off to avoid being behind on a regular work day. The no cable thing is fine, we're ok without it. The other problem that has arose, mailbox. We don't know which one is ours, there is no key left behind, meaning we're screwed. We have to call the postmaster, to figure out which one is ours, and then we have to contact the supervisor of the route. Not coimplicated at all, right? Have to then get it left unlocked (for all to steal our mail of course)and get teh lock replaced. That goes ontop of the dishwasher not working, and then the fridge installers not knowing we have a broken water filter upon install, as well as a freakin flooded interior of a fridge. As well as a broken water valve. But, we got the filter fixed, cleaned up the water, and the valve is being ordered. So, as long as we don't use the in the door water and ice, w'ere fine and it won't happen again.
Whew!! That's alot that's happened!!
Landon has a mysterious CONSTANT fever, usually between 99.3-100.5, nothing higher than that. It's so weird. He just last week has the sniffles a little bit, poor thing, he was miserable. He made it miserable for us to sleep as well. But, he was horribly difficult alot of the time at my parents, diagnosis: Missing Daddysyndrome. Now that Jeff is home, he's been a pretty good baby. Other than fighting his naps with a fierce fight, he's totally happy, and Jeff gets all the smiles, all the laughs, you name it. Ugh! Not fair! Oh well, he was a mommys boy for the 5 weeks at my parents, it's ok if he loves his dad :) Jeff is eating it up. Jeff has some time off from work, so he's spending some good quality time with Landon, and loving every minute. He's crazy about that little boy!
We have Leena this weekend, I'm excited because she hasn't seen the house yet! She's excited to come hang out with Landonand Jeff, she reeeally missed Jeff too. She told me many times she'd count the days til his return, aww :)
Battery is going to die, and I need to go back to bed!
My parents made the drive down from Redmond to help unpack. THey were pretty surprised with how "big" it was. Alot bigger than their first home. Times have changed, and now with the crappy foreclosing market, you can get a good deal on a house, such as we did.
We've gone to Home Depot about 75 times it seems like! Ugh! I'm finally figuring out the layout of the closest one so I can actually find what I'm looking for when I go. I don't want to know how much we've spent, I'm guessing well over a thousand by now. Insane what little things you need, add up so fast! Paint, $20, spackle, $7, stress of a new home, not priceless!
Next on the "to do" list, is purchase Leenas new bedroom furniture. I found one that I LOVE, but we'll see about getting it here. It's so cute and won't age as she will. She's picked out her bedding, which is...wow. Orange, brown, fuschia, white and dark pink. I vetoed the zebra print. I tried to talk her into polka dots, but she wanted the funny looking orange and brown flower thing, so I said ok, it's your room. We've got paint picked out for an accent wall.....which is dark pink. I said she could do the wall that her closet and bedroom door are on, less of an eye sore! She had these rediculous particle board shelving things in her walk in closet, which is HUGE for a 7 year old. Or just in general. Well, My dad and I tore them out. And now we're filling in all the holes from the screws and boards and will touch up the paint.
So far, ALOT of work has been done, alot more to come. We're been kinda poking our heads around and doing homework on a few things. We have funny colored counters. Jeff would like granite put in, so we'll see what happens in time. We're just more focused on getting settled. The living/dining room area is pretty closed to fully settled, and we're just going room by room to not stress ourself out.
We attempted to have the cable set up...I say attempted because the poor direct TV guy came, and we have a defective dish and a bad DVR.....(*cancel, cough, cough* Jeff) However, he came on his day off and spent literally about 5 hours here, figuring that out. He'll be back again Friday. Guess he came on a day off to avoid being behind on a regular work day. The no cable thing is fine, we're ok without it. The other problem that has arose, mailbox. We don't know which one is ours, there is no key left behind, meaning we're screwed. We have to call the postmaster, to figure out which one is ours, and then we have to contact the supervisor of the route. Not coimplicated at all, right? Have to then get it left unlocked (for all to steal our mail of course)and get teh lock replaced. That goes ontop of the dishwasher not working, and then the fridge installers not knowing we have a broken water filter upon install, as well as a freakin flooded interior of a fridge. As well as a broken water valve. But, we got the filter fixed, cleaned up the water, and the valve is being ordered. So, as long as we don't use the in the door water and ice, w'ere fine and it won't happen again.
Whew!! That's alot that's happened!!
Landon has a mysterious CONSTANT fever, usually between 99.3-100.5, nothing higher than that. It's so weird. He just last week has the sniffles a little bit, poor thing, he was miserable. He made it miserable for us to sleep as well. But, he was horribly difficult alot of the time at my parents, diagnosis: Missing Daddysyndrome. Now that Jeff is home, he's been a pretty good baby. Other than fighting his naps with a fierce fight, he's totally happy, and Jeff gets all the smiles, all the laughs, you name it. Ugh! Not fair! Oh well, he was a mommys boy for the 5 weeks at my parents, it's ok if he loves his dad :) Jeff is eating it up. Jeff has some time off from work, so he's spending some good quality time with Landon, and loving every minute. He's crazy about that little boy!
We have Leena this weekend, I'm excited because she hasn't seen the house yet! She's excited to come hang out with Landonand Jeff, she reeeally missed Jeff too. She told me many times she'd count the days til his return, aww :)
Battery is going to die, and I need to go back to bed!
Monday, February 9, 2009
Blech!
I have a marathon of things, going through my head right now!
Jeff ran a 15K marathon this past saturday in pensacola, florida. He made it in 1:13:16, pretty good honey! I'm really proud of him, it was so last minute and he's in alot of pain now, but, he says it's a good pain? whatever the case, He had a good day!
Leenas expanders are on, and in the works. Poor girl, she cries when we tighten them. Makes me feel horrible! So, I'm ok with my mom tightening them, so I'm not the one causing my daughter the physical pain of her teeth moving. I really hope that it's really over in 4 months like the orthodontist has said.
Landon is my little snuggle bug. I love him soo much! He's my sweet little boy! I give him some solid ffod off and on, cuase he's eating sooo much, it's hard to constantly feed him. So, if we give him some baby food, he's not onl fairly clean eater, he likes it! Of ourse. He's so cute about it too.
Me - my mind is still racing even after getting all the basics out. I've come to this conclusion, and I really hope it doesn't offend people. I haven't gone to church on a regular, active basis in several, several years. I'm ok, I think it's kind of shape my views in a sense, and learn a little bit more of what I feel, religion put aside form all of it. Anyway I've got no problems wih people expressing their loe of god and christ etc. But, when it is constant, like to the point, that you can't go to the store to get popsicles without talkng bout god and linkig it to the popsiles, drives me insane. I know it may sound like it's not possible, but I know someone who does it all the time. Like I said, I have NO problems with church goers, people who are chritians, catholics, all that. But, if I can't talk about my radiator and water pump problems without you somehow quoting the bible and talking about the almighty, we have a small conflict. Of course I'm too nice to say anything, but this is my way, of saying, I don't like it.
Last thing. I have a friend who in 2007, probably had the hardest time in life. And regardless of who it is, I'm glad that in my friends case, I was the one person who didn't pass judgement, and coud call up, tell me everything that had happened, and essentially been the one they went to for support. I feel bad that I was out of state, but sometimes that's a good thing. It's sad to watch people hit rock bottom, not know what to do, or where to turn. But, it's even better when they can climb out of that hole they were in, take a look aroun and say "I'm out of there, let's do this again!" And, they don't revert to the old ways, they learned the lesson the hard way, and decided to go about life without the problems they had before.
Make new friends, and keep the old, one is silver, the other is gold. Be sure to be the friend that defines that word though. If we all just have acquainances, that's nice, but it's even more soothing, to have someone you can call up, and unload to, and no judgements are passed, dedication.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
And, we're back!
It's been a while since I've posted something, so I changed and fed Landon, put him in his swing while I get a little caught up on things.
We left Bremerton a couple of weeks ago, and sent Jeff off to FL for training to be a Navy recruiter. I'm so glad that he's OFF THE SHIP! The Stennis is going hither and yon, and not going to be back until August. All those new dads who don't get to see their kids until then, I feel bad for them! Part of the job though, especially if you're stationed on an aircraft carrier.
Jeff left the 24th of Jan to Pensacola, FL. We moved all day the day prior. I will be honest, I wasn't much of a help. Moving is not my forte. I get so overwhelmed, that I don't know where to start. So, I do the basics like clean the bathrooms, pack them up, and pack up Landon's things. We chose not to keep paying the outrageous rent at the house we where in, when we had just bought a house. Didn't make sense. So, I'm with my parents until Jeff gets back, which is a day or 2 past the original date, but that was miscommunication part on the Navy's side. Jeff handles moving alot better than I do, he's done it so many times, he has a certain way of doing it. And, he's efficient.
Either way, all that's left with the house, is all the signing. We had to get a power of attorney to make sure that I could sign them all without Jeff having to be there, or fedex'd something overnight. I've asked many times, and been told it shouldn't be a problem. Just waiting for the escrow company to all and set up an appointment, and we're good to go!
Leena got about 3k of dental work done, poor girl. A "normal" mouth, is supposed to be 38mm, hers is 30mm. Which is abnormally small, which will cause horrific problems in the future. So, she now has expanders and 4 small braces. 2 on the top front permanent teeth, 2 on the bottom permanent teeth. You have to crank these big ol' metal things in her mouth, we went to crank it, and poor thing she was in tears, it was rather painful for her. Needless to say, I'll be making grandma tighten them, and not me...I don't want to cause my daughter pain, even if it's just for her teeth. Maybe in a few weeks. She's only supposed to have them on for 4 months. She's getting slowly better at eating and speaking. She's been rather diligent with her fluoride, flossing etc. Just hope that it all works, and we don't have to have her in braces in 4 years, like I did!
Landon is growing, but he's still "small", and that, I'm OK with with! We went to the Dr 1 week ago, and at the time, he was 11lbs, 12oz, 23 3/4" long, and in the 10-25% range. Not too surprising, his dad is 5'3 and 115lbs on a good day. I'm 5'2 and 108, so this shouldn't shock people that he's still able to pull off some of his 0-3 clothes. Doctor told me not to let him eat solid food yet. What did I do? I gave him some anyway, just because he's eating NON-STOP! It holds him off a bit longer, and it's not like I'm giving him cereal, 5 times a day. Maybe once every other day. I mix it up with some pears and he's in heaven. He's not as messy as Leena, but the kid can sure eat alot more than her when she was his age! Landon is getting really good at tracking things. He LOVES baby Mozart! He's taking a love of his sister. He cried when I took him from her today. I handed him back to her, he stopped. Took away again, and he really wasn't happy, til I gave him his Binky. He "talks" up a storm, and is so much fun. He still hates tummy time, but he's just gonna have to deal with that for now!
Landon loves to stand up!
My matching little kiddos!
Landon loves pears!
My little talker!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Family and sibling update
I meant to post this in my last post, but I was distract by a person, by the name of Jeffery, sticking his head next to me, then startling me. So, I finished there.
There is so much going on just within the first few weeks of the year! Oh my gosh!
-Jeff and I bought a house, I'll wrap this up and do MORE paperwork to be faxed.
-Hillary leaves for China for 10 months, starting tomorrow.
-Dad and Mom are going to Bermuda for a job interview, for 6 days.
-Mikelle won a trip to Mexico, and was here for New years with Mouse. (her daughter, Maleah)
-Seths spanish is so good, he's been asked how long he's been speaking eglish for!
-Cody is in Southern California, and still loving it. Still as tenderhearted as before.
Briefly: My dad unfortuately lost his job in September, he's spent hours online looking hither and yon for a new job. No luck. Until December, he FINALLY got a call from someone about a company in BERMUDA that needed a CIO. (Chief Informations Officer, and he was CIO at his last job. So, he's obviously qualified. He basically does super advanced C++ and IT stuff. He Spent 18 years in school getting degrees). My mom is a prayerful person, she prayed about going. She felt like she needed to wait, when they'd just seen airfare for $300 roundtrip to Bermuda. Lo and behold, they get back to my parents a few days ago, and they'd booked my moms plane ticket for her to accompany my dad! And, they'd set them up with a realtor when they get there to look at rental properties. Look up Bermuda real estate, you will poop your pants it's more expensive than Hollywood. So, they leave the 15th for 6 days in Bermuda!
Hillary! She's taking off to Beijing, China, to teach english! AGAIN! I don't know why she'd want to do that, but I'm thinking she must have really liked it enough to go back a 2nd time. And, this time, she's got a friend from the singles branch, Drew (female actually), is going with her. Her contract is up in June, but theres a large possibility they'll extend her until October. It was bittersweet saying good bye to her. Over the years, she's become a friend to me, being that she's my ONLY sibling nearby. I was over at my parents house, and saw she'd literally packed up her whole room. It was sad in a way. Oh well, she'll be back right as Cody is home!
Cody is loving California, of course! He's away from the rain! I talked to him on christmas, and he's extremely happy, and loves teaching people. Cody is a very loving person, soft spoken when he's speaking of something he loves, which at this time, he's extremely passionate about his love of god, being on a mission for church has made him so sweet and loving. He gets home 2nd week of October.
Seth is surving a new england winter! I talked to him o christmas as well. He's really good at spanish! He said a few things, and I was left clueless! My mom confrenced him in to my Elledge Grandparents, and spoke to my step grandma, who's 1/2 mexican and she was incredibly impressed with how he sounded. (she's fluent in spanish) He was snowed in for 3 days, and hada new copanion and he didn't know him that well, so they just played game for 3 days straight. Oh how fun! JUST KIDDING! Seth is a very proud uncle. He adores his 2 cute little nieces, but oh man! He was ecstatic to have a nephew! He even announced it at church, haha.
Anyway, all is well, all is well!
There is so much going on just within the first few weeks of the year! Oh my gosh!
-Jeff and I bought a house, I'll wrap this up and do MORE paperwork to be faxed.
-Hillary leaves for China for 10 months, starting tomorrow.
-Dad and Mom are going to Bermuda for a job interview, for 6 days.
-Mikelle won a trip to Mexico, and was here for New years with Mouse. (her daughter, Maleah)
-Seths spanish is so good, he's been asked how long he's been speaking eglish for!
-Cody is in Southern California, and still loving it. Still as tenderhearted as before.
Briefly: My dad unfortuately lost his job in September, he's spent hours online looking hither and yon for a new job. No luck. Until December, he FINALLY got a call from someone about a company in BERMUDA that needed a CIO. (Chief Informations Officer, and he was CIO at his last job. So, he's obviously qualified. He basically does super advanced C++ and IT stuff. He Spent 18 years in school getting degrees). My mom is a prayerful person, she prayed about going. She felt like she needed to wait, when they'd just seen airfare for $300 roundtrip to Bermuda. Lo and behold, they get back to my parents a few days ago, and they'd booked my moms plane ticket for her to accompany my dad! And, they'd set them up with a realtor when they get there to look at rental properties. Look up Bermuda real estate, you will poop your pants it's more expensive than Hollywood. So, they leave the 15th for 6 days in Bermuda!
Hillary! She's taking off to Beijing, China, to teach english! AGAIN! I don't know why she'd want to do that, but I'm thinking she must have really liked it enough to go back a 2nd time. And, this time, she's got a friend from the singles branch, Drew (female actually), is going with her. Her contract is up in June, but theres a large possibility they'll extend her until October. It was bittersweet saying good bye to her. Over the years, she's become a friend to me, being that she's my ONLY sibling nearby. I was over at my parents house, and saw she'd literally packed up her whole room. It was sad in a way. Oh well, she'll be back right as Cody is home!
Cody is loving California, of course! He's away from the rain! I talked to him on christmas, and he's extremely happy, and loves teaching people. Cody is a very loving person, soft spoken when he's speaking of something he loves, which at this time, he's extremely passionate about his love of god, being on a mission for church has made him so sweet and loving. He gets home 2nd week of October.
Seth is surving a new england winter! I talked to him o christmas as well. He's really good at spanish! He said a few things, and I was left clueless! My mom confrenced him in to my Elledge Grandparents, and spoke to my step grandma, who's 1/2 mexican and she was incredibly impressed with how he sounded. (she's fluent in spanish) He was snowed in for 3 days, and hada new copanion and he didn't know him that well, so they just played game for 3 days straight. Oh how fun! JUST KIDDING! Seth is a very proud uncle. He adores his 2 cute little nieces, but oh man! He was ecstatic to have a nephew! He even announced it at church, haha.
Anyway, all is well, all is well!
Starting over
Well, it's finally happened.
We bought a house!!!!!
Jeff's about to leave to recruiting training on the 23rd in Pensacola. So, getting it to close this month, it's possible, so long as we get the ball rolling on things. We're in the middle of packing things up, putting them in storage, and all that lovely stuff.
We'll be living about an hour and fifteen minute from where we are currently. In the long run, it's about 50 miles from my parents. Seems far, but when you're going up and down it on freeways, it's not too bad of a drive. Somewhat scenic if anything.
The house in in the city of Puyallup. Come visit us in September, and we'll all go to the fair! It's the biggest in the state.
The house itself, we got an AMAAAAAAZING deal on. It was foreclosed. We'd seen several that were, and in very poor condition. This one was in perfect condition, just needs a few spots on the carpet cleaned, and it's good to go. It was built in 2004, is a 3 bedroom, 2.75 bathroom. We'd really wanted a 4 bedroom, but this has a massive bonus room, so if needs be, we'll wall it up in time, and voila, there's our 4th bedroom. it's 2295sq ft. We will need all new appliances. That's not fun, but oh well. That's one thing we kind of expected.
I've been doing my homework on the school districts and all that, looks good. Espcially that the school is LESS than 2 miles from our house. I'm going to pay a visit to the staff to see the 2nd grade teachers, being that I want to be sure that everything is "right", for Leena. She'll be with us full time in June, we're transitiong her slowly. It's in a gated community, so makes it feel safer in an aspect. It's in a huge development.
Either way, I'm happy to be out of Bremerton come the 23rd, and closer (Sorta) to family. For those of you who want the address, let me know! Pending if we have cell service out there or not, we'll set up a landline in time.
I'm excited because all of my experiments with interior decorating, will pay off. I've got the layout planned on 3 rooms. Our master bedroom, formal living room, and living/dining area. My friend Julie has offered to help me, so I'm excited for that!
We're excited that Jeff isn't going on deployment, more time with the kids, and a regular work schedule. So far, the year is off to a good start and 2 months of house hunting has finally paid off!
We bought a house!!!!!
Jeff's about to leave to recruiting training on the 23rd in Pensacola. So, getting it to close this month, it's possible, so long as we get the ball rolling on things. We're in the middle of packing things up, putting them in storage, and all that lovely stuff.
We'll be living about an hour and fifteen minute from where we are currently. In the long run, it's about 50 miles from my parents. Seems far, but when you're going up and down it on freeways, it's not too bad of a drive. Somewhat scenic if anything.
The house in in the city of Puyallup. Come visit us in September, and we'll all go to the fair! It's the biggest in the state.
The house itself, we got an AMAAAAAAZING deal on. It was foreclosed. We'd seen several that were, and in very poor condition. This one was in perfect condition, just needs a few spots on the carpet cleaned, and it's good to go. It was built in 2004, is a 3 bedroom, 2.75 bathroom. We'd really wanted a 4 bedroom, but this has a massive bonus room, so if needs be, we'll wall it up in time, and voila, there's our 4th bedroom. it's 2295sq ft. We will need all new appliances. That's not fun, but oh well. That's one thing we kind of expected.
I've been doing my homework on the school districts and all that, looks good. Espcially that the school is LESS than 2 miles from our house. I'm going to pay a visit to the staff to see the 2nd grade teachers, being that I want to be sure that everything is "right", for Leena. She'll be with us full time in June, we're transitiong her slowly. It's in a gated community, so makes it feel safer in an aspect. It's in a huge development.
Either way, I'm happy to be out of Bremerton come the 23rd, and closer (Sorta) to family. For those of you who want the address, let me know! Pending if we have cell service out there or not, we'll set up a landline in time.
I'm excited because all of my experiments with interior decorating, will pay off. I've got the layout planned on 3 rooms. Our master bedroom, formal living room, and living/dining area. My friend Julie has offered to help me, so I'm excited for that!
We're excited that Jeff isn't going on deployment, more time with the kids, and a regular work schedule. So far, the year is off to a good start and 2 months of house hunting has finally paid off!
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Poor car!
I wrote in the blog below, that I'd explain the chain story. Well, here it is.
It snowed last week, and Jeff had said, he'd leave the mazda and take the other car to work, that way if I needed to go anywhere, I'd have the 'safer' car. It had literally about a half inch on the ground. I realized I needed a few things, and I probably could get them at the corner store on the highway nearby, which is less than a mile from our house. So, off we went, well. It wasn't easy getting there, and was going to be worse getting back. While I was there, a jiffy lube employee was there also. I asked him to help me put our cables on. Well, Jeff forgot to stick the tightening rubber cables in with the metal ones. (so they don't fly off, I didn't even get the stuff I needed to get!) So, as I'm driving home, I hear this horrible noise, I knew they were loud last time, but not that loud as they were at that moment. They were coming off. @#%$! Landon starts to cry. I'm about to go up a huge hill...do I stop and get stuck, and maybe go into a ditch or hit another car? Or, keep going and suffer potential body damage to the car. I'll take the last option. I kept going. I get home and our driveway has about 3 inches of snow at this point. I decide to leave the car on the street. Our car isn't a good snow car. (mazda 3) I then see all the damage that ONE cable flying around, has done. Oh my hell! I am in SOOO MUCH TROUBLE! it's pretty bad. If you're staring at the driver side, you'll see the wheel well torn apart, the lights scuffed, a dent in the very bottom of the door (size of a tennis ball) The hood has tiny dings in it, the whole side next to the lights, and below, are totally torn to hell. Oh, I'm in for it.
What do I do? I come in. And immediately call Jeff at work. He was on duty, so he'd be there for at least 24 hours, and if I tell him now, it'll give him time to cool off and not be mad at me. And, if I tell him he forgot to put the rubber parts in there, that keep the chains on, he can't be totally mad at me. I call him and tell him. His only reply was "why did you go anywhere?!" I just said I didn't think a half inch was going to cause so many problems, and he left the car for me to use if I needed to. he came home, assesed it, and we think it's going to cost about $1200-1500 to fix. It's almost all cosmetic, with the exception that the lining part of the door got pried off a bit, and the last part of a wheel well cover got shredded pretty good. Just say you don't notice it until you stare at it. So, it'll be fixed after the house closes.
Oops. I'm just glad he's realized that car do get dinged up. Never on purpose.
It snowed last week, and Jeff had said, he'd leave the mazda and take the other car to work, that way if I needed to go anywhere, I'd have the 'safer' car. It had literally about a half inch on the ground. I realized I needed a few things, and I probably could get them at the corner store on the highway nearby, which is less than a mile from our house. So, off we went, well. It wasn't easy getting there, and was going to be worse getting back. While I was there, a jiffy lube employee was there also. I asked him to help me put our cables on. Well, Jeff forgot to stick the tightening rubber cables in with the metal ones. (so they don't fly off, I didn't even get the stuff I needed to get!) So, as I'm driving home, I hear this horrible noise, I knew they were loud last time, but not that loud as they were at that moment. They were coming off. @#%$! Landon starts to cry. I'm about to go up a huge hill...do I stop and get stuck, and maybe go into a ditch or hit another car? Or, keep going and suffer potential body damage to the car. I'll take the last option. I kept going. I get home and our driveway has about 3 inches of snow at this point. I decide to leave the car on the street. Our car isn't a good snow car. (mazda 3) I then see all the damage that ONE cable flying around, has done. Oh my hell! I am in SOOO MUCH TROUBLE! it's pretty bad. If you're staring at the driver side, you'll see the wheel well torn apart, the lights scuffed, a dent in the very bottom of the door (size of a tennis ball) The hood has tiny dings in it, the whole side next to the lights, and below, are totally torn to hell. Oh, I'm in for it.
What do I do? I come in. And immediately call Jeff at work. He was on duty, so he'd be there for at least 24 hours, and if I tell him now, it'll give him time to cool off and not be mad at me. And, if I tell him he forgot to put the rubber parts in there, that keep the chains on, he can't be totally mad at me. I call him and tell him. His only reply was "why did you go anywhere?!" I just said I didn't think a half inch was going to cause so many problems, and he left the car for me to use if I needed to. he came home, assesed it, and we think it's going to cost about $1200-1500 to fix. It's almost all cosmetic, with the exception that the lining part of the door got pried off a bit, and the last part of a wheel well cover got shredded pretty good. Just say you don't notice it until you stare at it. So, it'll be fixed after the house closes.
Oops. I'm just glad he's realized that car do get dinged up. Never on purpose.
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