It all started 2 weeks ago I guess. We went to Kroger, average morning, we were getting a few things. On the way out my husband yells at everyone to shush, listens, then pulls over. "What's wrong?" I ask. The tire is flat...
So we head across the street carefully to the gas station to use the air pump... it's broken. We find out later that our tire is beyond just flat, there is a gaping hole in it about the size of a large nail. So Joel opens the trunk, digs through the usless crap we tow in it and yanks out the spare and the jack. Then he scratches his head, looks at me and asks where the wrench is.. Ugh!
So we call our awesome friends Sara and TJ, and it just so happens TJ was on his way out the door to Kroger when we called so he brought us what we needed, and we drove carefully home on the donut tire. When we checked out the rest of the tires later we noticed they really all needed replaced, and one had a bubble in it that looked like it was ready to explode. Great, the car's broke.
So later that week I am trying to use the computer, and it just randomly shuts down. I don't mean it powered off, I mean it closed all my programs, did the little hourglass thing and said "Logging off.... Shutting down....". WTF? It does this for three days, and I give up. I was mad. Great, the computer's broke too. No computer to do my school work, and no car to get myself to the campus office to use theirs.
Then a few days later I am eating dinner. I have a bad tooth, I have been neglecting it forever, and suddenly part of it crumbles off and I accidentally eat it. Fantastic, now my tooth is broken. What else can we break?
Don't ever ask that question aloud! The next day my husband asks "Did you turn on the big TV?" Why yes actually, I did. "Well its stuck on a blue screen and keeps turning on and off and none of the buttons work." So we fiddle with it, and decide its futile. Terrific... The TV is broken too.
By this point we had just paid the nearly $400 bill for tires, so at least the car is back. But it gets better, a couple days later despite the fact the heat is set to 70, and the thermostat says its 63 in the house, the heat won't come on! We waited hours for it to click on while it got colder and colder, and it never did. NOW THE HEAT IS BROKEN! What the heck else can break!?!?!
This is where God smiled on us, just when I am wrapping my head around the bills to fix all this stuff, and I am balancing how much we need each item to prioritize things start going my way. I decide the computer and TV can wait, we have more than one TV and computer, I can just move my school work to dads temporarily. Dad went and bought a new thermostat, that fixed that, then I learned that I could fix the TV and the computer for free!
Turns out the computer just had something spilled in the keyboard, we only have like 12 keybaords laying around. Done! Then I called Samsung about the TV, appearently when ours was manufactured some bad parts came through Quality Control and we got them. Free repair! Awesome! (well almost, because the free part wasn't the only thing wrong with it, but they are coming back to fix the rest and theres a chance it might just be warranty work and also be free). Woot! Check one more enourmous repair bill off my list!
Now all that's left is my tooth. Whew! I don't even want to stress about that one until its time for the appointment, maybe we'll have a blessing there too. Life threw us a whole darn bushel of lemons this week, but we managed. Now we have an excess stock of Lemonade, anyone interested?
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