all this fun before sparky's plane even landed in sunny florida:

let's say that you had a fancy new(ish) car and because it was under warranty you decided to take care of a pesky little leak. now you've already taken it in for this leak before and you aren't as happy to bring it in a second time. but the dealership gives you a fancy sports car that goes vroom!vroom! and you have fun zipping about town so you let it slide.

then tonight, you leave older child home for a few minutes alone (he is very big and responsible and proud that he can be alone for 15 minutes or so!) while you zip! and vroom! over to the lazer tag place to pick up littlest son from a b-day party.

on the way home the car starts going flap!flap!thwack!bang!rattle! which is definitely not vroom!vroom! now you know that this would be the night you forgot your cell phone, right? so now littlest son is going sob!sob!we're going to have to sleep here! and you are trying not to go AAAAAAAH! but you pull it together and get the car to limp across the road to the mall parking lot so you can ask the pleasant and friendly security ass for a phone.

you wouldn't be happy, would you?

yeah. me either. but then...very nice car dealership calls me back late in the evening and apologizes for inconveniencing me and offers to pick me up in the morning to give me an even zippier loaner car. they didn't give me a hard time at all.

so by tomorrow morning i will once again be zipping about going vroom!vroom! i just wonder why this happens every. single. time. hubby goes out of town.

oh, and i have to take my tiny, hard to find, yet insured veins in for bloodwork tomorrow. ewwwwww. nasty bloodsucking vampires.