Knock, Knock, Whine-Wheeze…Crunch!

My car finally broke down.  I was on my way home the other day and I barely made it into my parking spot at home when it gave a whine and wheeze.  The  CV axel on the right side has been knocking for a while and I just didn’t have the money to fix it.  So when it gave a final crunch I wasn’t surprised.  Oddly, I was relieved.  I’ve been waiting for it to do this for so long.  The last couple of days have been light and happy.  Like there’s this huge weight off my shoulders that I didn’t even know was there.

It was funny, really.  In retrospect I see myself pulling into my parking spot and hearing the car give a whine and an awkward crunch just as I put it into park.  I threw up my hands up and hollered “SAFE!”  with a huge grin on my face (even though the act of throwing up my hands resulted in some bruised fingers since the roof of my car is not that far from my head…)  I found amusement and relief in a situation that would usually cause alarm or stress (no, I’m not always the “glass is half full” type.  In some matters, the glass is rather empty and maybe cracked so any liquid leaks out the bottom when you least expect it, leaving you looking like you’ve wet your pants…or since it’s my glass, maybe it leaves me looking like I’ve wet my pants.  That would be embarrassing.  For someone else.  That’s actually happened to me before and I couldn’t stop laughing).     

Anyways, luckily, I live close to work and within walking distance of everything I need.  I’m really in no hurry to fix the car.  That doesn’t mean I won’t fix it.  This actually gives me the time I need to really fix it.  I’ll get to spend some quality time under the hood this summer (though someone else will have to replace those CV axels cause though I’m pretty awesome, I’m not awesome enough to lift my own engine block…I know, sad is the world). 

Lets see…so how’s the writing going?  Well, slow.  I’ve been feeling particularly uncreative lately, which is actually kind of depressing.  I think I need some sunshine.  A good friend at work has this sunshine lamp and I always feel so good around it.  I want one.  I’m not saying that I think it will improve my writing or anything, but I did write more than 15 pages while sitting at a desk near my friends sunshine lamp, all the while keeping up on all of my work related duties.  Then again, I always come up with loads of good material while I’m at work. 

Well, I’m watching V on ABC now.  I loved the old one when I was a kid and I love the new one now (Go reptiles!!) J