all my situations

The house fixers were scheduled to come Monday. They called at 7:30 Monday saying they were delayed by another job and would probably be here Wednesday. Baker B stayed home Wednesday morning and when they hadn’t appeared by 9 he called them — still delayed, it will probably be NEXT Monday. Yesterday they called and said it will be Monday for sure. Hahahahahaha. This really wouldn’t be that big a deal, other than I’d like for this to be over with, except that Stella is still in Asheville and I miss her and it’s TERRIBLE!!! And now I don’t know WHEN we’ll get her back. I want her back NOW!!! It sounds like she’s doing fine, at least. When I called Kim tonight (yes, I call nightly and I also leave her messages during the days if Kim is working) she was sitting in the window. Not hiding under the chest of drawers. Or in the closet, where she’s been hiding too. She’s also been rubbing on Kim’s legs occasionally and looking at her upside-down when she’s under the bed. Which is always a sign of affection and playfulness with her – the upside-down thing is.

I am at least getting to go visit her tomorrow. Our Civic, Situation #2, is still at the Honda place. It will be Thursday or Friday of NEXT week before they get the part. Which apparently is being shipped via covered wagon. I called my father last night to tell him that yet again I won’t be coming down for the weekend due to being carless. I haven’t been down there in… over a month. A long time for the Spoiled Parents.  I said I’d actually thought about renting a car but it would be kind of pricey just for the weekend, and he says, "RENT A CAR. I’LL PAY FOR IT!!! COME DOWN HERE!!!!" The house must REALLY need cleaning. And I know the bills need paying. Why can’t he get my brother or my sister-in-law who live right beside him to write the checks??? Why, they’re too busy!!! My brother has said repeatedly that he’ll be happy to write the checks for them if I can’t make it down, but no. He’s too busy. Oh, WELL. So I said fine, I’ll rent a car! No problem!

And surprisingly it wasn’t a problem- Enterprise has some three-day weekend special so it’s just $19 a day, and they had cars available. I’ve become a car-rental-pro and got them to pick me up and everything. They bumped me up again, from the economy car that the special involves to what I guess is a compact, but seems enormous. It’s a Chevy …. Caliber? I think. It’s very very very ugly. It’s brand new and all fancy-smancy, but looks like one of those transformers that morphs into a robot and then stomps all over everyone in the city. It’s kind of smushed-looking, and it’s a little hard to see out of – the windows are way too narrow, thanks to the smushed-looking design. Ugggggggly!!!! But, whatever. It’s a vehicle, and now I can go to Asheville tomorrow. And see poor little Stella!!!

I’m lying here practically falling asleep over the keyboard, so looks like this is going to be a short entry. Minus all those interesting situations I was planning to write about. My dialup is also being weird – what a shock!! So I’ll have to catch up reading later. And writing. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….