Aaaarrrgghh

I'm writing this post on my phone.  Huh, that's not something I ever thought I'd say.  Anyway,  I'm at one of my favorite coffee shops,  which is pretty much the only good thing about my situation.

I was already having kind of a crappy day.  I saw two pregnancy announcements on Facebook today,  both for friends having their third child.  There was another third child announcement earlier this week too.  So I'm pretty grumpy.  We leave for Washington tomorrow,  and we haven't prepared at all,  since my husband's usual strategy is to wait until the last minute.  I hate waiting until the last minute since I inevitably forget something,  usually something important.  Considering I'm legally blind without corrective lenses,  that's a chance i just can't take.

Anyway,  due to my husband getting sick,  we had a motorcycle downtown where he works and we needed to drive the car in for work today.  I don't have parking,  so we came up with a plan that involved him dropping me off with my bicycle and parking the car at his hospital.  I would then bike to the hospital after work,  load up the bike (which is not easy) and then drive home in rush hour traffic while he left earlier with the motorcycle.  I wasn't thrilled. My main objective in any workday is to avoid traffic,  and this plan ensured i would end up in the worst of it.

Everything was going swimmingly until i finally got on the freeway and i noticed smoke coming out of the front of the car.  I managed to get off the freeway quickly and ended up in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant in a really bad part of town.  The manager of the restaurant came out and took a look and pronounced my radiator cracked.

So now I'm sitting at a coffee shop in a marginally better part of town,  having had the car towed to my favorite mechanic,  waiting for the hubs to show up with my in - laws' truck.

The funny part of the whole story is that i bought an heirloom tomato last night, intending to make a fabulous salad tonight.  I've been looking forward to that salad all day, and i had this funny feeling that something was going to prevent me from having it.  I thought it would probably our dog breaking out of her crate and going on a rampage in the kitchen.  Instead I've got some major car repairs to pay for.

So the moral of the story is that i really want to create an app that removes pregnancy announcements from social media feeds.  Bet you didn't see that one coming.