Do you ever think nothing will ever go right again?  I’ve definitely had one of those weeks, and it’s only Wednesday.  So much stuff has gone wrong this week it’s unbelievable.  At first we thought Hubby would be out of work for 5 weeks, but at least that turned itself around somehow.  Now we know he’ll only be out 2-3 weeks at most, and that’s a big relief.

Now I’m working on making sure the window motor gets replaced in the driver door on the Blazer since it went out on us yesterday, the window is stuck in the down position, and there’s rain on it’s way.  There’s a way to manually raise the thing, but it’s a royal pain to do.  Then again this is why mechanics charge outrageous amounts to fix it.  The part is relatively cheap, but just getting into the door is a task.

First of all the Blazer has one of those alarm systems that disables the ignition if anything is tampered with in any way. It’ll also screw things up if you disconnect the battery without disarming it, but it’s not as simple as just hitting a button to disarm it like most alarm systems. You have to do all kinda stuff in a specific order or you’ll screw everything up. I don’t even mess with it as that’s Hubby’s domain.

Then actually tearing into the door was a nightmare. Hubby’s done this twice now so at least he knew what to do, but it’s a pain trying to pop everything apart without messing anything up. After he got inside the door the manual totally contradicts itself. The procedure for raising the window tells you to lower the window fully then to disconnect the regulator by following the directions in another chapter. When you get to the directions for the regulator it tells you the window much be raised all the way up and taped in place before you can drill out the rivets to remove the regulator. It’s like how the heck am I supposed to raise the window when you’re telling me I have to have it already raised to remove the regulator, but you’re telling me to remove the regulator to raise it!

Yeah this is why I’m just as confused as you are at this point, and if I could afford to there’s no way I’d be sitting there reading Hubby the directions on how to do this when I could just pay someone else to do it. Unfortunately that’s just not an option right now, but neither is leaving the window down with rain headed this way.

Today totally hasn’t been my day at all.  I guess I can say it actually started last night because I didn’t sleep hardly any at all.  Hubby tossed and turned all night, and that coupled with some wicked pregnancy heartburn kept me up, so needless to say I was already grumpy this morning.

Then what happens?  I wake up to find my cable is completely out.  Did I forget to pay the bill?  I checked my receipts and I had paid it like I suspected, so my next option was to make the dreaded phonecall to Charter.  After an hour of making the call, getting disconnected by the system, and making the call again I finally got through to someone to find out there was something going on in our area that I just had to wait out.

Waiting it out was ok except for the part that I couldn’t get any work done online, so I was stuck doing the offline stuff I’ve been putting off all week.  Oh well at least I got the stuff done before Hubby got home, and I don’t have to deal with it again.

When Hubby got home and offered to go get Chinese I thought things were looking up.  Oh boy was I wrong.  Our usual Chinese spot was packed, so Hubby suggested we try this new place downtown. First the waitress sloshed hot Wonton soup all over the table and us.  Of course she apologized, but it was hot!  Then I went to the bathroom to wash the mess off my arm only to find that none of the hand dryers worked. When I came back my egg roll had arrived, but it was cold like it had been sitting under a heat lamp that didn’t work for hours.

That was my breaking point, so I had a talk with the manager who apparently didn’t speak much English at all.  She kept giving me a puzzled look and saying “I sowwy I sowwy”.  We left that place and called in an order to our usual place so we could still enjoy some decent Chinese just at home this time.

Honestly now I’m glad to be back home, and I’m glad this day is almost over with.  We’re  supposed to meet up with some friends around 9 to do some bowling, but I don’t think I’m going to be much in the mood for it.  I may just sit this one out and tell Hubby he can go if he likes.  Honestly all I’d like to have right now is my nice warm comfy bed.