Rain, Rain...GO AWAY!!

Hey, today marks the 23rd day of rain for the month of March in area where I live in.

I am sooo sick of rain!!  I especially don't like to drive in it either!!

Yesterday, my car overheated.  I discovered it while driving my mother to her doctor's appointment.  At first I thought the smoke was the exhaust coming from the car in front of me, but then I looked at my dashboard, and noticed that my coolant monitor was at the big thick line before the H for HOT!!! 

You know, there just isn't enough full service gas stations around.  After dropping off my mother at the clinic, I went searching for one, but without luck.  I went back into the clinic's parking lot and let the car cool down.  I discovered that AAA will not and cannot put any type of liquids in my car except gasoline.  Lovely.  They offered to send a tow truck to tow it to a place that could fill my water gasket.  Yeah right..  I'm going to stick my mother in a tow truck, with the baby to get water!

By the grace of God, I made my way as far as the parking lot to my work downtown, making all the green lights.  My car was smoking, and smelling like rubber, and the gauge was already past H!  Husband met me at work, with a jug of water, and with the help of a nice neighbor that happened to be walking past, he was able to tighten water hose with a borrowed screw driver.  My husband is sooo wonderful--he can fix almost anything!! 

I was also lucky  to get one of my son's friend's parent to drop off my son to me at the parking lot.  He had promised to call me of course, but my son "forgot", so for about 1 hour I didn't know where my son was.  He was either at school at the library with his friend, or waiting for me to pick him under the pouring rain. 

All that time waiting in the car to be rescued by husband, gave me and my mother some time to chat about our summer plans.  With much thought and consideration, we have come to the conclusion that we will be postponing our summer trip to the Azores until next year.  We are both happy with this decision, and although I may be going on a "guilt trip" this summer, I do have WITNESSES that my mother is totally against going this summer.  End of that story!  I feel like a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders.  Although I had mixed feelings of really wanting to go this summer, the way things are going, everything is going against us.  Being wait listed, having conflicting schedules--it's all saying, "No, don't go this year." 

Things or good..  Life is good...

I've also had to block this blog from afew people--to remain unknown.  Seems like I have some noisy people, who have been reading and reporting to a 3rd party of my comings and goings...  Crazy, huh?  This person won't talk to me, but has no problem reading my blogs and telling everyone about my life.  Weird, huh?  Maybe I should watch what I write in here, but at the same time---why?  What's the point of having a journal if I can't express myself the way I want to? 

Oh well...  Life is good...  I hope it stops raining very soon.