Sunday, February 14, 2010

Tax time Blues

So, we go to file our taxes because we have plans with that money this year.. plans to pay off Brad's truck, switch our van payment to the second half of the month to balance out the bills better, and buy new tires for the van...we can't file the taxes yet.. because we need a form sent to us which we haven't received yet. SOOOOO in the meantime.. my van cannot be driven because it has 2 bald tires on it (Brad drives it, I just will not) and today (Valentine's Day!!!) Brad gets a phone call to go to a job, so we stop reading the tail end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (he's been reading the entire series to me even though I've already read them, it's something we've begun to do as a couple) and he goes to start his truck and his truck won't start...He calls his dad and his dad tells him it sounds like it's the catalytic converter-200 bucks, but since it's SUNDAY nothing is open to get it fixed.. In the meantime, he's gotta go to work so he puts his truck in reverse hoping to get it outta the driveway to be able to pull the van out and LO and behold if we don't live on a FREAKING HILL and his truck goes the opposite way he wanted it to, and even with me trying to help push it we couldn't move it to where it was completely outta the way, so ya.. its sitting mostly off the road, but a smidge is still on the road. AS IF THAT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH he accidently locked the keys in the truck so we had to break off the plastic knob on the window in the cab of the truck, stick Ben in there to open the door.. and after five minutes it was clear Ben didn't know what the heck we were asking him so we had to get Samuel to finally open the door and get the keys out. AS IF THATTTTTTT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH we're all pretty sick and the kids have been running fevers as well as myself (which is probably one of the reasons I couldn't push that truck at all.. I'm kinda weak from being sick for the past week) and I've been struggling with trying to get Ben to eat/drink/nap as often as possible because last night his fever was like 103.5. It's gone down a bit since last night, but he still has a mild fever...I think its time to try to ENJOY today...maybe a nice hot steak will do the trick..