It's amazing how crazy a day can turn.
I woke up an hour late because my alarm didn't go off for some reason, only got 3 hours of sleep, but I was only supposed to get 2! What woke me up was hubby sitting on the bed to wait for me, and instead he got his ... chewed out for not waking me up! He'd been up since 5 apparently! So we ended up leaving an hour late, but I made up for it by driving like a bat out of hell lol! (Not on purpose, I've been driving a car that feels like it's going faster than it is, so I kept driving the van at what felt like the right speed, but every time I checked my speed it was 80-85!) There was some REALLY THICK fog this morning too, when we first got on the road you could only see MAYBE 20 feet. Once we got on the highway it cleared some, but it was foggy the entire 4 hour drive!
While we're driving, I start notice that the van is sputtering when we're going up hills. Oh crap, what now??? We talked some about it and hubbs called a mechanic friend, who said it's probably the fuel filter (which is getting replaced tomorrow for sure!). So we spent the whole drive just HOPING that it won't break down.
Everything was good while we were there, and we all cracked up when my dad was setting up the entire family photo, took 3 tries! First he accidentally only had the timer set at 2 seconds, and when he sat down his chair sank a little in the slightly muddy ground; and the picture had him running. Then on the second shot, my brother went to help him change it to a longer delay time, then they both ran back at once, my brother knocking the chair over while trying to get to his spot, and the camera shows my dad halfway through trying to squat in place of the chair! We're all starting to crack up now, so we get the chair righted and he starts it all over again; and when he comes back almost falls over backwards in his chair that is once again sinking in the mud! Most of the pictures are us laughing with dad looking funny, haha! I had the best view of the whole thing too, since I was right behind him!
Coolest part of my day, finding out that my dad is now a vaper and has been since January! I was following my 3 year old around at the side of the house and vaping along, when I saw him walking towards to me with what resembled a cigar, but I quickly realized was a brown Ego-T PV! He started at 24mg and is down to 5mg! I told him about DIY and how that's the only way I get juice now, and talked to him about the different PV's. He ended up with the same kind of PV that I have; guess we truly are alike lol! So I tried some of his juice and he got a kick out of my dripping lol. I was hoping to convince dad to become a vaper, and here he was one even before I was lol. Then I found out that my brother's girlfriend is a vaper too, turns out I'm surrounded by them and I didn't even know it!
So then we all get ready to leave, and we're heading home, once again just HOPING that the van will make it home. The trip was pretty uneventful other than the sputtering getting worse; the real fun came when we got home. Hubbs took the girls in while I was got all of the stuff in the van together and ready to take in, then came back to get some as I was walking to the apartment. I get to the door, unlock it only to find that it's already unlocked, but it won't open! My 3 year old locked the non-key lock! She couldn't figure out how to get it open either! So here we are locked outside the house, and I'm seriously contemplating breaking a window, while my husband tries to decide if he can ninja-scale the wall to get in one of the upstairs windows. As a last ditch effort I ask him to check the tiny kitchen window, because we forget to lock it sometimes, and I thought I might be able to squeeze through. Thank goodness it was unlocked! So I had to climb on the a/c unit, stick my upper body through, turn around and sit on the sill, and try to get my legs in without falling to the floor headfirst. Right under the window is a toaster oven with bags of flour on top, and I'm trying REALLY HARD not to cover the entire kitchen with flour and destroy my toaster oven lol. I finally managed to get in and get the door open (the lock jams sometimes, it was jammed bad, no wonder she couldn't get it open!); then called my mom to tell her the story.
After hanging up with my mom, I started emptying my pockets, and couldn't find my pv! I spent at least 30 minutes looking everywhere for it, searching the van, searching the ground where I walked with the flashlight, searching the kitchen, and checking anywhere I might have put it down. I was about to cry I swear! Noooooooooooo! Anything but the PV!!! Finally gave up and ate my cold food, then took the flashlight in the kitchen and started looking under everything! Finally I found it UNDER the toaster oven, I hadn't seen it before because it rolled almost all of the way to the front! YAY!!!!!!!! Saved!
So that was my uber crazy, eventful day! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
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