Look out mom, there's bad words in this one...

Damn baby, whad-joo do to yo hair? (a la seance scene in "Ghost") I ripped it out in chunks 'cause this week frigging sucked! I don't even know where to start; I should have blogged more this week. Guess I suck too. Anyway, we'll start with Tuesday. Took the car to the dealer (big mistake) to get the heater fixed and see about getting the windows (I just typed winders in case you were wondering...random redneckness) fixed because the front two are screwed. Driver's side will go up and down, but there's a funny grinding noise once it gets to a certain point, and when I close the door something inside the door bangs. Passenger's side will go down but not up. Fast-forward to Wednesday, when they tell us it will be almost $1,000 to fix everything. Buh-bye. Just fix the heater, you money-sucking whores. Thanks. Pick up the car Thursday, the passenger side window (dammit, did it again!) is not closed all the way so there's a lovely whistling as I'm driving and I HATE that. They've shoved some cardboard in at the bottom of the window, presumably to keep it from sliding open, but it didn't work. It moved, and now there's a little gap letting all the snow in. I will be taking the car back to the dealer and demanding that they at least return the window to the position it was in when I first took the car in. Mr. Findlay Ford/Lincoln/Mercury fat cat better hope I don't ever run into him.

So I get home from the dealer, watch some soaps, try to get hold of someone at the Western Reserve museum (I was going to do a story on a nifty exhibit there), then prepare to head to the mall to get a wedding gift for a friend of Dave's. I was also going to get a dress for the wedding, because I got my Christmas bonus Wednesday. I call the happy bank 800 number to check the balance on the checking account, and learned that I really fucked up. We had less than $150 in our account - after my paycheck was deposited, which was almost $600 - and we had four insufficient funds charges of almost $30 each. I was in total shock! I've never done anything like that before, and I still can't figure out how it happened. So then I freaked out and curled up in bed and cried for about an hour. Freaked Dave out when he got home. I felt and still feel like an ass, but sometimes when you start a cry-fest, you start thinking about other things and cry more and you just can't stop.

Luckily Dave got paid Friday, so it's all OK now.

On a lighter note, another dilemma this week was what do you get a millionaire for a wedding gift? He doesn't need your money or a gift card, and anything they need he can buy. I trudged through the mall Friday, and found the holiday kiosk of an area family-owned gift basket business, and they made up a basket with a wedding time capsule. I think it's pretty nifty myself. My parents got us one of those when we got married, and it was fun to put stuff in there. Trouble is, we're not going to the wedding now 'cause it's today in Cleveland, and we're afraid a big ol' lake-effect storm might blow in. It's a little snowy here in O-hi-o. So no wedding, and no museum trip, so no fun staff-written travel story for next week's paper. Thank god for the Associated Press.

I'm thinking after a fun-filled day of cleaning we may rent the first "Lord of the Rings" movie. They seem interesting, and everyone seems to be crazy about them, so I think I'll give it a shot.

A nice thing happened this week though. I found out that I amuse at least one person other than my friends and family, who have to at least pretend I amuse them. The good RevSpork discovered this here ass, and linked it on his page! Woo-hoo! I'm going to have to return the favor, whenever I get around to making changes on my page.

*BURN UPDATE* General consensus in the Haus-hold says that bitch is gonna scar. I can't believe I'm so estupido!