Um hello. Today was crazy. Crazy!!

Oh yeah, and this just might be the longest post ever. So, either skip reading here or get comfortable! By the way, if you make it through reading this long, rambly post, you get rewarded with a picture of a gorgeous girl! And, if you wanna cheat, and just scroll down and get a peek, well, I’ll understand. In fact, I wouldn’t blame you!

If I began to explain to you our current luck with vehicles you would laugh because you thought I was exaggerating or you would run away from me as fast as you could because I am cursed. Let me tell you, I’m not exaggerating, so you might wanna lace up those running shoes!

We currently have two vehicles in the shop. My minivan with cracked head gaskets, and my husbands jeep with a messed up clutch. In January, my husband’s truck (not the one in the shop now, the one this one replaced) had a motor go out in it. In February, my car had the motor go out in it. Bleck. Dumb cars.

We are currently, while we wait for the very, very, very, very, very, very, very slow mechanic to fix our vehicles, driving my sister-in-laws car (because she is a very nice person). We have seven people in our house right now. Her car seats five. Needless to say, we are saving a lot of money on gas. Which we will need to pay the mechanic, so that’s good.

Well, my husband and brother-in-law, David, had a softball game tonight. David stopped by and picked up a few of our younguns and so we were all able to go to the softball game. After the game tonight, another team was short a few players and asked Josh and David if they wanted to play with them. They enjoy playing, and like to play as much as possible, so they were eager to play.

I however, had five, very thirsty, very hot kiddos. But it was getting dark and cooling off. I didn’t mind staying, I just wanted some liquid refreshment before I had five cases of dehydration on my hands. Neither Josh or I had cash and can you believe the concession stand doesn’t take a debit card? What’s up with that?

So, I take the babies, leave Josh the big kids, and go after drinks. The closest gas station has suspicious characters loitering outside, and poor lighting, and bars on the windows. I didn’t relish the idea of hauling the littles into the gas station to get drinks. So I decided to go to Sonic and order drinks, so I wouldn’t have to leave my car with the babies. I’m such a genius.

I order my drinks, and they come, all cool, and refreshing, and dripping blue coconut juice all over the place. I put the key in the ignition, turn, and…nothing. Not a dang thing! No lights, no noise, no nothing!! I try over and over again to crank the car with the same results.

I get my cell phone. Hit the power button. Nothing. It’s as dead as my car battery. Blek. No one knows where I am. I have an eight month old and a three year old and I’m not exactly in walking distance of home or the baseball field or anything.

Fortunately, one of the carhops at Sonic is a member of our church. She lets me borrow her cell phone…but since everyone I call is on my speed dial, I know no phone numbers! Except my mom. So I call my mom. Not home.

Er…? I start asking the girl from church which numbers she has on her phone. Aha! One is my brother’s wife! Teenagers are great. Their cell phones have virtually every number imaginable in them. I call. No answer. Argh! She doesn’t have any of my brother or sister-in-laws numbers but she starts calling some of her friends who might have them, hoping that they would, in turn, be able to get David on the phone. One big, enormous game of phone tag. Isn’t this chick great? Teenagers are in the know. Let me tell you. Resourceful things! Too bad we had no luck.

The baby begins wailing and the three year old needs a bathroom. I need a bubble bath and an aspirin. Maybe some booze.

But, my brother ends up calling us back. He shows up to save my life jump my car off. Except it’s not the battery after all and he doesn’t know what it is! Ack! But at least he brings me home. And I am able to call my husband at the baseball field and tell him what’s going on.

Luckily, it’s an easy fix. My hubby promises. He says he’ll have the car running tomorrow and for not a huge amount of money. This is good!

But is that not crazy?

Talking about crazy, I have to tell you what happened to my brother at work today.

Cade, my brother is a lineman. He and his crew were working on a pole today (imagine that!). Two guys were in a bucket working on the pole while he and another guy were working on the ground near it. Their backs were to the road when a car hit the pole. Hard. It had been going incredibly fast. The pole cracked in three places.

After my brother checks on his guys in the buckets and sees they are (miraculously) okay, he checks out the driver. The guy is freaking out and crawling out of the passenger side door. My brother (first aid certified or whatever) is trying to calm the guy down. The guy is running around and my brother keeps telling him to take it easy and slow down.

The guy runs around the car, reaches in to get a shoe he lost while getting out the first time and pops the trunk. Cade says that he ran to the trunk and started stuffing tons of money in a garbage bag! He fills the garbage bag and takes off running toward a mechanic’s shop across the road. The crew of linemen start chasing him, yelling at him that they weren’t gonna let him leave.

The guy yells back, “Oh, I’m not leaving. I’m cool.”

He returns and fills two more garbage bags with money and runs to the shop with them. My brother said there was still tons of money in the trunk of the car. When the police showed up they found a very large amount of money still on the guy and another garbage bag full of money.

Come to find out, they think he might be a guy that’s been hitting up some ATM machines around here! Isn’t that the craziest? Like something from TV. So exciting! (Okay, I have no life…I’m a mom, ya know?)

Anyway, that’s enough rambling for tonight. It might be enough for several nights. I just thought I’d share!

UPDATE: The car is fixed. It cost $1.37 to fix. Thank goodness!

After all that, I think you truly deserve to see some serious cuteness! Here’s my little rock biter!

Hey, and if you like my adventure stories, all my other adventure stories came up in the related posts, listed below! I have an exciting life!