Current events

I got my nails done a couple of weeks ago.  My nail guy does nothing to dissuade my obsession w/ purple.  He's an enabler, people...this color was HIS choice.  When I show him what I want he says, 'Wha color?'  I say, "Uhm, oh - I don't know."  He says 'Puh-ple!'  

Ok, ok...if you INSIST.  

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I saved up money to buy my MacBook but I am going to sell my iMac to help recover those funds.  It won't make up the difference totally (only really about half...) so I decided to sell some of my purses on Ebay to help make it back up as well. (That will also not recover it totally but I figure every little bit helps!)  I've sold my old purses on Ebay before & had success at it so I figured I'd try it again.  The bags are just in my closet in a basket & I'm such a brat not gonna carry them anymore.  It's what I DO, people...  They're not making me any money in the closet so anything I get for them is extra in my pocket.  It is kind of a pain in the ass to take pics, measure everything, do the listing, waiting & answering questions...then ya gotta box them up to ship them - it's a whole thing.  I had 5 bags listed & one sold less than 10 min after I posted it.

(Look who learned how to take screen shots on her MacBook....)

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Car update - the dealership determined that the only damage to my car was in the engine.  They are putting in a brand new engine, but we have to pay $600... $100 for our deductible & $500 for the depreciation of my engine that had 32k on it.  DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY BAGS I COULD BUY FOR $500?  (ok - it's only like 2 {3 on a sale day} but STILL.)  I'd rather buy 2 purses than pay $600 for a stupid engine...

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I broke down & got my hair colored yesterday.  Its been a long while since I did it (maybe almost a year?)  It's one of those things I hate to pay for - don't ask me why.  Plus my hair is so fine I don't want to fry it by doing it too much.  (I'd rather spend $200 on a bag than pay $75 to have my hair colored... I know, I KNOW {priorities, people!})

  Like I always say - you find money to do the things you WANT to do & I want bags more than I want highlights...

I told you the story about my car to tell you this:  When I was waiting for the color to set in, there was another guy there getting his hair cut.  He had on like a work uniform but I didn't pay much attention to where it was from.  She started asking him how he liked it at John Jones. (That's the car dealership where MY car is...) He said he liked it & they had just moved into their new facility.  (I knew the new place opened in Salem & that's the one where MY car is!)  I said, "Hey-do you work at the one in Salem?"  He said, 'Yes'.  I said, "OH - MY car is there - maybe you've seen it?  A Chevy Cruze getting a new engine because my husband drove it through water??"

He said, 'UHM, I'M working on your car.'

OH HAPPY DAY.

He was a very nice guy & said it should be done Wed or Thurs.  I asked him if it would be 'ok' after they put the engine in it (because all anyone does is tell me horror stories about cars w/ water damage...sigh...) & he was like, 'Oh yea - it will be good' just like I was crazy for asking.

(Disclaimer - it was 'in' the water for less than 30 seconds.  B-rad got out & pushed it so fast it didn't have time to get up in all the electrical gizmos or interior - it just got sucked up in the engine.  Easy, breezy huh?)

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B-rad's had a LOT of bad luck lately... first & most importantly my car, then he & Brady were taking the grain table to the farm (they've been running wheat & they had to work on the head) & when Brady was hauling it to the barn it fell off the trailer.  Sigh... It's upside down here, people...the long, black pointy thing goes against the ground...

Then when I got home yesterday I noticed the tire on his truck was flat.  He bought an older, small Toyota truck to drive back & forth to work because his diesel truck uses a ton of fuel & diesel (is usually) more expensive than gas.  The tires are dry-rotted & now we need to buy 4 new tires for that truck.  (Again- NOT fun things to spend money on!  Hmph!)

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Farming has gone on...& on...& on this season.  Normally he's 'done' this time of year w/ planting & side dressing.  We've had a lot of rain (but we NEVER curse the rain) so that put him behind, plus we had wheat out this year.  You harvest the wheat in the summer & then you can go back & plant another 'short season' seed behind it.  That's called a 'double crop'.  

Side dressing was behind so running wheat got behind... then the head fell off the trailer.  We had talked about seeing the new Terminator movie a couple of weekends ago but it never worked out because he had other things to do.  (Story of my LIFE.) This past weekend I worked Saturday & B-rad was working on the wrecked grain table but he texted me & said that when he was done we would go in town....

Fast forward to 6:15 - he comes home & I think, "ok-we're going to the movies!" but he starts to fill up his water jug instead of getting cleaned up... I said, "What are you doing?"  He explained (in a not so nice tone {not towards me, just because of the situation}) that 'Brian wants me to go side dress because it's supposed to rain tomorrow.'  

SIGH.  

No movie for me...

But I made it up to myself...

Chocolate & peanut butter help heal hurt feelings...

 

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When B-rad went out Sat night to side dress he wasn't home by 11:00 when I went to bed.  He called me at 11:20 & said he had gotten the tractor 'stuck'.  I'm like, "What do you mean 'stuck'?"  

(It's a 260 horse-power tractor, people.)

He was in a new-to-us field & there was a lower area w/ a ditch that was holding water.  When he took the tractor through it he didn't realize how deep it was & the tractor sank.  The weight of the applicator & the nitrogen in the tank made it too heavy for the tractor to pull itself (& the full tank) out.  B-rad had to walk a hella far way back to the truck that night in the dark.  

(Are we noticing a theme w/ B-rad & water here?)

He thought by last night the ground might be dry enough to pull the tractor out.  There was a strong little storm that went through right before he got there & sadly - it got wet again & the tractor is still stuck.  Now the plan is to wait until the weekend for the ground to dry a bit... if that doesn't work they will have to take another tractor to pull it out.   That's bad because that means they will run over a lot of crop doing that (there are no 'roads' to the field...you just gotta drive through it & over the corn...)

I told him, "Well-you wouldn't have gotten stuck if you had taken me to the movies...)