Friends: I need your help. Nothing major - I promise!

Friends:  I need your help.  Nothing major - I promise!

I've decided that I need a car.  I have $2000 (in the bank - not on me!  Don't came at me in the alley) that I can spend.  No - not on a down payment.  TOTAL.

I realize that's not gonna get me a shiny new perfect car, but it will get me something that I'm not scared to be in.  Something that might give me a little bit of my freedom back.  Nobody wants to let me go anywhere because they worry that I might get stranded.  Shaun won't ride with me anywhere because if I do get stranded then who would come and get us?  My mom (most likely), but she's farther away and I hate doing that to her.

REQUIREMENTS:

MUST HAVE at least 4 doors and a MANUAL transmission.

WOULD LIKE TO HAVE what I will happily refer to as a "dog compartment."  I do not want a trunk.  I'd like a hatch or a wagon or tiny SUV.

I have found a few things that are OK (meaning they are sticks, but regular cars - no dog compartment) by searching Craigslist and the Buy / Sell Bulletin.  Seems like manual transmissions are hard to come by these days.  🙁

I will continue to keep an eye on the internet and buy / sell, but I would also like for you to keep your eyes and ears open for me.  It's NOT an emergency so I will give it a few months before breaking down and buying just an ok, regular car.  I thought that maybe if I was patient I could find something with a dog compartment.  I've only been looking for about a week so I am far from discouraged.  I am, however, pretty sad that almost everywhere I look the cars are automatic.  LAME.  😳

I am not a stylish girl...

I am not a stylish girl, but I have the best accessories, no? 😃

Finally, I am heading to bed.

Finally, I am heading to bed.  This had been the longest damn Monday.  I don't think I was ready for my weekend to be over.  😐  Also, I haven't felt great all day and that hasn't changed yet.  Blegh.

On a brighter note - I made a gallon of water crystals for my roaches today.  Poor things were stuck eating the last of my cricket jelly and they did NOT seem fond of that.  I definitely have babies which is AWESOME.  😃  I feel like they do a lot better when I'm not fussing over them, but they are just so darn neat.  😳  I want to look at them all the times!  😍

Dumplin' is doing great and getting bigger.  I feel like he's bigger every time I look at him.  😳  I ordered him some big boy food today so I should have that in a few days.  I gave him some sweet potato to nibble on, but he doesn't seem very into that yet.  I suppose with time he will come to enjoy it.

Aside from critter stuff I guess the only other nice thing about today was dinner at Los Arcos with Shaun and Shadow.  I love the food, but I really hate it when Eric isn't working.  Eric just waves us over to a table and writes down what we want from memory.  Eric always makes my day.  😃  The guy we had tonight walked by us several times when we were out of drinks or chips or whatever and stopped to watch the wrestling match on the TV for several minutes at a time rather than pay attention to us.  I feel like one of those crotchety old ladies for complaining, but dang.  It's annoying as hell.  I didn't complain to management or anything - just to Shaun and whoever is reading this.  And we did leave him a tip.  I really felt like writing something snarky on it, but I didn't.  I'm not mean enough for that.  I just avoid that guy and ask for Eric every time we go in.  Unfortunately, Eric was off today.

Only other noteworthy thing is that I did my nails today.  They are doggie themed.  I guess they are cute, but I'm not impressed.  I have been too tired / crappy all day to be impressive.  Oh well.  Pics tomorrow, I suppose.

Sleep tight, internet.  ❤

So far I haven't done much of anything this weekend.

So far I haven't done much of anything this weekend.  And it has been WONDERFUL.  😃

I did clean my house - just enough that it allowed me to relax and not worry about it constantly.  I also took a nap, which was pretty great.  Other than that I've taken care of the fur-kids and spent the rest of the time sitting on my butt and hanging out with Shaun.  Shadow is with his grandmother so I've taken the opportunity to be stingy with my lovely Shaun and it is just what I needed.  ❤

When we first got together we had summers full of 4-day work weeks, Shadow wanting to spend a lot of time with his grandmother, and not a whole lot of other stuff going on.  There was a lot of "us" time, and relax-y time, and somewhere along the way, work, Shadow staying home and wanting friends over, and other outside commitments have taken away from that.  I've been missing the "us" and "relax-y" part a whole damn lot.  🙁  So this weekend has been pretty nice.  🙂

I apologize to any of Shaun's friends who have been missing him.  I know he's damn awesome, but he was mine first.  😛

I still haven't found some of the stuff I've lost over the past few weeks, but truth be told I haven't been looking.  I am tired of stressing over it and I haven't lost anything that I really need right now.  Hopefully, things will turn up at some point, but if not - onward.  Ain't nobody got time for that!

I also decided the other night that I want to change my bedroom around.  I already have the flooring I want to put down.  I bought it last year, but haven't had a chance to do it yet.  Shaun took a really girly fan / light down from one of his rooms (it came with his house), and he said I could have it.  Mom has a smaller bed frame that I can have (I've got a huge queen sized frame in my tiny ass room - it's kind of redonkulous), so I think it will all come together quite nicely.  AND I don't have to pay for anything else except for maybe a can or two of spray paint.  Now I have something to look forward to and be excited about!  🙂

All in all, I think I needed everything that this weekend had to offer.  Generally speaking there are a lot of things in my life that stress me out so just sitting the hell down sometimes is a really good idea.  I need to remember that and make it so - much more often than I do.  You all feel free to remind me of that ANYTIME.  ❤

Hey friends:

Hey friends:  If you care about Alabama's wildlife, please consider making a donation to the North Alabama Wildlife Rehabilitators.  It's baby season.  Money will help keep the hotline on so we can continue to respond to calls for help.  No amount is too small!  Please contact my friend Vicky Garcia for details!

Sweet baby face.

Sweet baby face.  He actually wasn't too happy with me.  I got fussed at for wiping him under the chin and on the arms with a warm damp cloth after dinner.  Messy boy!

He's so fabulous. Even when he sleeps. 😃

He's so fabulous. Even when he sleeps. 😃