it's getting better all the time...

This week has been really strange. Bad things. Good things. I realize how lucky I am to have such a wonderful husband/best friend.

Sometime last week we realized the Xbox 360 wasn't working. At all. Bummer.

Friday night we took my car to the Tigers game. Kristin ended up coming with us and we had tons of fun, even though Joel and Amanda weren't there. Anyway, on the way to the game I remembered that my car had been making funny noises when I applied the brakes. Jesse took my car in on Saturday and they said the front brakes needed some work. Over $400 worth of work. Yikes. I hate unplanned expenses like that! Especially when they aren't in the form of super cute purses! Jesse took care of my car so I could work on papers. I had two due on Wednesday!

Monday and Tuesday were internship. I ended up staying until about 6:30 on Tuesday night and had to hurry home, eat scrumptious leftovers for dinner and then get to work on my two papers. And then the leftovers staged a coup. One poop attack (at least it wasn't at school! Right, Jan-Jan??*) and three puke attacks later, I finished my papers. I felt awful and at that point, didn't really care if the papers were any good. They were done!

Wednesday morning I went out to my car so I could go to school. My first paper was due at 10:40AM. As I was opening the car door, I realized that a bunch of cd's and maps were on the driver's seat. That was odd because they are usually in the little pocket in the car door. Then when I opened the door I saw the glove compartment hanging open and that was when I realized there was also glass everywhere. DOH!! Someone broke into my car!!! So frustrating. I called Jesse at work and he said he would come home right away. I called the police and they referred me to the wrong non-emergency report number so I called them back and another dude gave me the right non-emergency report number. Jesse got home while I was waiting for someone to answer the phone. I was super frustrated that someone broke into my car and super frustrated that nobody would answer the phone so I hung up and asked Jesse to give me a ride to school. I was only 5 minutes late to class! Yay!! While I was in school, Jesse found a dude to fix my window for a reasonable price so when he picked me up from school, everything was taken care of. The window fixing dude even vacuumed most of the glass out of my car. Once again, Jesse comes to my rescue so I don't flunk out of school.

So here's the thing with the whole break-in thing. I don't want to be too dramatic about it because nobody got hurt (at least I don't think anyone got hurt. I'm assuming the thief was careful when breaking out my window) and they didn't get much of anything. The first thing a few people said to me when they heard my car was broken into was, "Oh I am so careful to not leave anything visible in my car." And I guess that is the first thing I would say to someone else that got broken into. But here's the thing. I DIDN'T leave anything visible in my car! And I DIDN'T really leave anything valuable in my car! Whoever took the time to break the window and rifle through every nook and cranny of my shit-car must have been really disappointed. All they got was an ashtray full of change (mostly nickels, dimes and pennies), a roll of quarters (Jesse had just given me a roll of quarters for parking meters), and the one item worth anything was the fm transmitter thingy for my ipod (I paid $80 for it a couple years ago. It's going for about $35 on Amazon now). But damnit. We just paid $400 for brakes and now another $110 to get the window replaced. If only I knew how to ride a bike, we could save so much money. Just kidding. I know how to ride a bike. I'm lazy. And I'm sure it would get stolen so it wouldn't really save any money. I did think it was funny that they left Jesse's cd's. We're not sure how anyone could pass up Hendrix. And they left my old Polaroid camera that has been in my trunk for a while now because I keep forgetting to give it to my nephew. They were kind enough to leave my maps. And my first-aid kit. And most importantly, my Matchbox car Brady Bunch station wagon and Sister Penelope (squeaky nun toy. She used to be "Penelope the Nun" until my Catholic friends tuned me in to the whole "sister" thing. She watches over me as I drive. She apparently does not watch over my car when I am inside the house sleeping.).

That's the break-in story.

Then last night after dinner Jesse returned the broken Xbox360 and brought home a new one. The best part is that they were able to switch the hard drives so we didn't lose progress on saved games. Jesse is awesome!!

Yup. Weird week. I'm glad it's over. I have a bunch of reading to do this weekend to catch up on the reading I didn't do last week because I was writing papers. Word on the street is that we're getting a new tv really soon so I should probably start reading now. Things are looking up! Jesse is my hero. I don't know what I would have done without him this week. I pretty much don't know what I would do without him ever.




*this is not to imply that Jan-Jan has had a poop attack at school. This is to say that we do not like it when people do have poop attacks at school.

life in the D.

How I found my car yesterday morning:





It was a bad day. I'll write more later.
I love this city.

moments of silence.

The Xbox 360 isn't working. Apparently it can't take Jesse's mad Guitar Hero II skills. Luckily there is a replacement plan.

My car isn't working. Apparently it can't take being 8 years old. There is not a replacement plan so hopefully someone can fix it.

The Tigers aren't working. Apparently they don't care that we already paid for every single post season home game. No replacement plan but we'll eventually get refunded. Thanks for nothing.

September has been really busy. I'm thinking that it would have been a good idea to do some stuff that required thinking over the summer. All of a sudden I have to read books and think about them and then write about what I think about them and it is hard. Really hard. In my defense, I did read all of War & Peace this summer. But I didn't really have to think much until the last part of the book and even then, I didn't think that hard because nobody was going to make me write a paper about it. So, yeah...while the relaxing and having fun this summer was great, perhaps it was too relaxing and fun.

My internship has been pretty good so far. Much of the time I'm not sure what I'm doing but at least I'm doing something. And I've already seen myself on tv a couple times. That's a little creepy but now I always remember to pay attention during meetings and try to not do anything embarrassing. We'll see how that goes.

Today we are getting our bathtub re-glazed. You might not be excited about this but I can't wait! I have spent countless hours (minutes. whatever.) scrubbing the damn thing and it still doesn't look clean. Some dudes are coming over this afternoon to work their magic and then we'll have a sparkling like-new bathtub. The only problem is we can't use it for 48 hours. It's our only shower. Don't plan on stopping by this weekend, especially on Sunday, because we'll be smelly.

Let's see...what else...

OH! Transformers is being released on IMAX for a short time. I thought the makers of the movie were dumbasses for not making an IMAX version. Now I know that they are geniuses because everyone who already watched it at the regular theater will now pay again to see it at IMAX. Damn them! See you at the theater!!

Autobots...Roll out!!

oh! one more thing...

This isn't mean. Just messed up.

A woman in a couple of my classes works at my former place of employment! I haven't talked to her yet but I am looking forward to talking to her about her experience at the agency. Hopefully, for her sake, it is better than the experience I had!

1 week down. a million to go.

I don't really know how many more weeks of school there are. It just feels like a million.

I survived the first week. Of course, it wasn't really a week since there was no internship. But the point is, I survived.

Classes this year are interesting because I have pretty much the same people in every single class. Because of all the time we will spend together, I decided to try to be nice to everyone. It's really hard to do and I'm pretty sure I'll start smoking again because did I mention how hard it is to be nice to everyone? And I decided that I can't write about the people in my class because someone might read it and that wouldn't be nice.

If you need to contact me this semester, don't. I'll be busy reading and writing and being nice.

oh, summer. where did you go?

Today is my last day of summer. Tomorrow I start my third semester of grad school. What have I accomplished this summer? Not much! But it has been fun and relaxing and full of new experiences. Jesse and I went to my 15-year high school reunion and I didn't die. It was actually fun and I got to catch up with a bunch of people that I forgot were super cool. We celebrated our 1-year anniversary! Tradition says first anniversary is the paper anniversary. We decided the first anniversary is the Magglio Ordonez anniversary. Who knows what the second anniversary will bring! Perhaps the Todd Jones anniversary? No. I don't think so. That's just wrong and not only because he will most likely never ever hit a walk-off home run to get the Tigers to the World Series.

Blogging this summer has been scarce because I'm bored with blogging. Blah blah blah. That's how I feel. Maybe school will inspire me to write more. Maybe not.

Tomorrow I will wake up to an alarm clock. The fun is over.

Ugh.