surface rust go *boom*

My husband and I spent the better part of the day working on our vehicles – his is a 1963 Thunderbird, mine is a 1968 Falcon. I finally touched up all of the surface rest that was down the whole driver’s side. We then taped her up, covered all chrome, windows, and lights.

Then he painted it with a dark gray primer.

After we went to Bangor to puick up Aaron, we came home and took off all of the trimming. It came out AWESOME! I can’t wait to work on the passenger’s side door and driver’s side door – if I get it all detailed, Kev said that he would paint that side for me too.

The most amazing thing happened on Saturday night. My sister called me, she is a truck-driver, so she is away a lot of the time. This time she wanted my brother’s phone #, because my mother was broke down in Bangor and didn’t know what she was going to do.

Turns out that my sister couldn’t get ahold of my brother, so they asked me and Kev if we could go down to Bangor and see if we could figure out what was wrong with Mom’s car.

Just a little aside here, my mother has not spoken to me in the past 12 or 13 years – something stemming from events that happened during my childhood, and her blaming me.

When she first saw me, she smiled and said coming over here, I want a hug. Do you know how long I have waited for that hug? Oh my god, nothing else could have given me the happiness that I was feeling at that moment.

Long story short, I’ve grown up, the past doesn’t nearly have the hold that it had on me for the past 2 decades, and I find that I no longer NEED for my mother to explain herself, or find myself looking for her approval.

And on her side, well, it’s all water under the bridge, and let’s just try and make a go of this relationship free from all of the baggage that we have been carrying around for so damned long.

I bought myself a birthday present. It is soooooooo wonderful. It’s a black leather purse "the SAK" from Macy’s. The price tag said that it cost $129.99. Whew. Then there was a 40% off sale going on, and I got another 10%, so the final cost was $75.

I love love love it. It’s soft and it smells good (I periodically stop what I am doing just to get a few sniffs in), I really would sleep with it if I could get away with it.

Anyway, it’s more than I have ever spent on a purse, and it is gonna be my birthday shortly, so I treated myself.

Okay, it’s one o’clock in the morning, I guess that I should be getting to bed. I want to work some more on the Falcon tomorrow–my goal is to have it all primered before the end of this week.

I also have a new book that I want to read "Twisted Ladder" – it looks pretty good.

Just had two Eggo waffles with a maple sausage patty in the middle, and now am just finishing up my hot chocolate.

Autumn is here. This is the second night that Kev has had to start the fire to take the chill off, and I have a nice cold taking route in my lungs. Eef.

Night all……….*kat