Hours of entertainment

So we just discovered Photo Booth on the mac. And it has provided hours of entertainment! Here's a few of my favorite shots from the "booth"...can you identify my little cuties?

And the blog gets forgotten...

Okay, I have to admit. For the past 3 weeks I have forgotten that I have a blog. Kind of like I forget that there is laundry to do...or beds to make...or lizards to feed. Luckily, I have not yet forgotten that I have children. They somehow remind me on a regular basis that they are there, making their presence known in a variety of ways. So, since I sometimes run out of clean clothes, the lizard starts climbing the walls of his tank, and the kids start complaining of hunger, the one thing that doesn't make itself known (the blog) gets forgotten. Perhaps there is an automatic email reminder that can be sent..."hello, this is your blog. Did you forget me?"

Truthfully though, the real stressor consuming my life so far in 2009 is my lovely car. Yes...car trouble. I hate car trouble. And even worse, I hate car trouble that only causes ME trouble. Nobody can seem to figure out what is wrong with it. I've taken my car in to be looked at 6 times now! I have a new battery and a new starter. And still, I have car trouble. It won't start. But it's random. Actually, not so random...its favorite place to NOT START is right after I've filled it with gas and there are 3 cars behind me waiting for me to get out of the way so they can get gas. That seems to be a surefire time that it won't start. Or if I have somewhere that I REALLY need to be. Like Zach's LAST soccer game of the season. Then, the car won't start. Some days it takes 5-10 minutes to get it started. One day it took 2 hours.

So today I took my car back in AGAIN to be looked at. Actually, took it in yesterday, but got it back today. They said everything checks out and it runs fine. Can't find anything wrong with it. I should bring it back when it is having trouble so they can see what's going on. Um...did I mention the problem is that it won't start??? Yah, I'll be sure and bring it in the next time it won't start. That'll work.

So I leave the service department today and stop to do an errand on my way home. Come back out 5 minutes later and yes...the car WON'T START! It's been about 30 minutes since the "yah, it runs fine" speech at the service dept. It won't start! So I decide, I'm calling them on the phone and making them listen to me sitting here struggling to get my car to start. Oh, is my luck just perfect or what...I called 3 times and NOBODY answered! Lunch hour! Are you kidding me???

So, tonight I am surfing the net, car shopping. I've gone from loving my car to loathing it. And I'm finding lots of things I could definitely give my car love to...oh, if only their price tags loved me, too. :)