Awesome!! We are going to chill and of course I’ll do homework because I have an entire day to do so!! Kind of cool for us What sucks, UWM waited until 6 am to cancel classes. I started to drive to school and turned around. I said to myself, they can have my professionalism points, I’m not going to die today.

I got just outside of J-Town and almost went into the ditch due to the drifts on the road and as soon as there were no street lights, I couldn’t see a damned thing!! Honestly, I could see like 5ft in front of me. Best part, a big diesel truck flew past me and I had to almost come to a dead stop before I could see the road again. I turned around as soon as I could!

Milwaukee is having a snow emergency and they waited to call off school? WTF are they thinking? Some of us commute to classes every single day for crying out loud!!

I even tried to call my teacher on her cell and her phone said, “The caller you have just reached is not accepting calls at this time.” Nice. Oh and then it said the same thing in Spanish? Maybe she’s fluent? I’m not sure. Anyway. She probably knew it was canceled and was sleeping tight in her snuggly warm bed! UGH!!

Tonight I went bowling with my son, Mike, Sadie, and her boyfriend. It really was a good time. None of us are all that great at it. In fact, a 3yr old beat us. Granted, he had bumpers up but he totally beat us!! It was hilarious though, watching a child that young toss a ball weighing about 1/3 of what he does down the lane.

Oh and it was cosmic bowling too. I sort of have a headache from the lights whirling around n’ stuff.

Now I’m off to bed. I am so tired and I have a big day tomorrow!

It sure is amazing how much you miss your car when you don’t have it. I had to give my car up another time last May when I hit a deer. She was in pretty bad shape and was gone for about 3-4 wks. It was tough. Anyway.

My transmission went out on my car Monday night. On Tuesday, I got the news that I need a new transmission and that it would be about $2200 for a used (not rebuild, used) transmission and $3200 for a new one. Only a tard would buy a used one. Rebuilt is fine, but used? No, not so much. They did offer a 60 day warranty on the used one. WTF? You do the math on how stupid that would have been. In my distraught state, I remembered Sadie telling me about all the articles she saw online about bad Honda transmissions, so the Google search commenced. I too found a million articles. I left a complaint at Car Complaint.com or something like that and actually contacted someone who had had a similar problem in November. I then found a site that said Honda had extended warranties on some cars that fell within the year my car was manufactured, so I got on the horn with the nearest dealer.

I wasn’t expecting much, but figured if I could save some money, hell yeah. I called Wilde Honda down in Waukesha and spoke with the most wonderful service manager ever, Jim. He told me that he was about 99% sure he could get Honda to replace my transmission at no cost. The only thing was, I had to get my car down to him and it was in West Bend. I will make this shortish. I called the place that towed my car and said no thank you to their $3000+ transmission and told them Honda would take care of me. Much to their dismay. I ended up calling Jim back the following day to get some more reassurance that Honda would take care of me. He was SO freakin’ kind to me. He said that he wasn’t trying to take my money, he would get paid by Honda and he would rather they pay for the repair than me, and that he just wanted to take care of me and do whatever he could. I was shocked Seriously, when does this ever happen? A few hours later my car was at his place and he called and told me that Honda would cover the repair.

I am happy to say that I now have a working transmission with a 36,000 mile warranty and some of the best service I have ever received in my life! When Mike, his daughter, and I walked in to get my keys, we all got bags of cookies and a bottle of water. How awesome is that? Either way, Honda has a customer for life. They stood behind their product and took care of me, their customer. What more could I ask for?

Thank you Jim for being a wonderful person and taking care of your customer. Thank you Honda for standing behind your cars!!

Actually my day was going well and that should have been a sign, right? On my way home my car took a big ol’ shit. I had to call the bestest boyfriend ever to rescue me, get the tow truck out to take the piece of shit away (thank you baby Jesus for AAA), and bum a ride to school tomorrow. What a fucking stressful time! I hate when shit like this happens. Lord only knows what is wrong with my car. I am just praying that it won’t cost me thousands of dollars UGH!

And thank you Sadie for keeping me company while I waited for Mike. Your Google searches rocked!! My car is in WB and I won’t have to pay anything for the towing service. That’s a bonus. Again, thank you AAA. I think that will actually pay for my membership this year!! First time in the last 5 yrs that I’ve actually used the roadside assistance.

I will accept donations if anyone is willing. You know, to pay for my repairs

Update: it is my transmission but they are going to flush it, put some additive in, and see if that fixes the problem. It could have been a fluke thing they say. I am praying that is the case. If not, I will be needing $2500-3000 for a new transmission

I was supposed to have a meeting today at school starting at 12. That meant me leaving early (duh). This meeting promised pizza and soda since it was being held during the lunch hour. Well, guess what? It is rescheduled and I’m hungry. I came here to the computer lab right away and checked my email. Sure enough, they sent out a notice about 15min before I left my house. I guess I should have checked one last time. Of course, the man leading the meeting was stuck in Detroit with a broken wheel on his plane. Who woulda thunk?

Not a happy girl right now. I needs my food and get a little cranky when I don’t have it. All I packed was a snack for after lunch I sure hope I don’t waste away before 5 o’clock. Riiiiight, but I will get crabby…fo sho!

I am getting so much done today! By noon I already had half of the items on my list crossed off. Now I am baking some yummy cookies for my awesome Fish watching friend Dave.

Did I tell you that my laundry was stacked a good 3-4 feet high in my hallway? Yeah, not kidding. Monkey and I were joking that we should try and stack it to the ceiling. That’s what happens when you come back from vacation and go straight back to school. Whoops! I assure you my laundry is getting done as I type. Please do not call child protective services, the rest of my house is up to snuff

I got my extern application all finished and mailed out, my checkbook balanced (yikes), laundry is rolling, got some groceries, and now I have a shit ton more to get done. I don’t think it will end until….well maybe things will slow in May. Of course I plan on working full time this summer. I still think working is way easier than going to school, but that’s just my opinion.

At Monkey’s request we will be making some root beer this evening after dinner. For dinner, homemade chili. Yummers! That was also Monkey’s idea. Have you ever made root beer? It really is a cool process and it tastes pretty good too. I got him a kit 2 years ago for Christmas. Yeah, we’ve used it once. I guess we are due to make some more

Well that was totally scatter brained and a mess of words!!

I almost died again today on my way to school. A big truck in front of me slammed on his breaks, I did the same. When I did, my back end sort of slid and not because it was icy, it slid because I was going 70mph when this dude hit the brakes. Luckily I’m not an ass pirate and had time to stop my car semi safe like. Unfortunately for the mini van behind me, he was either too close, had bad breaks and/or tires, or wasn’t paying attention and he spun out behind me when he slammed on his breaks. My heart leaped out of my chest when I looked into my rear view mirror. I am still not sure if he got nailed by the car behind him. It was not a good time. Oh and we stopped so abruptly because there was a couple of cop cars and two regular cars parked on the shoulder. Not sure if maybe there had been an accident or what. Either way, didn’t seem necessary to almost cause an accident for that!

Then I get to school and some stupid girl comes whipping around the corner in the parking lot, at me, and then got pissed when she had to slam on her breaks because she was going to hit me. The rows have traffic going both ways and she simply was not paying attention to what she was doing and was going way too fast in a snow covered parking lot. Yeah, she slid all crazy like and gave me the look of death. Hey, beotch, I was on my side of the lane and you were the one driving like a stupid beotch!!

Honestly, when the snow falls, people turn into complete turds and drive like tards! I am ready for spring.

Lucky me, I have no class tomorrow because labs don’t start till next week. Good, because I am already behind on my readings

I was late for my ‘meeting’ today on my first day of school I couldn’t help it. The roads were shit and when they weren’t, people were driving like they were. It was a mess this morning driving to Milwaukee. I was a half hour late, but there were 5 of us walking in late together so I didn’t feel super bad.

I got my PDA today and I’m so….not excited about it. This semester is going to be the toughest one thus far. Oh well, I have my big girl pants on, right?

My clinical is much further away than we thought, I hear my instructor is no fun, and I think that was all the disappointment that I got today. Gosh, I hope tomorrow is a much better day

Oh and the plow lady hasn’t plowed yet so my lovely tenants called my manager to bitch about it. UGH!! I called her and her plow is broken. Isn’t that some shit? With any luck she will have us plowed out by tomorrow morning?

Seems like today was supposed to be Monday or something.

Nice. My first full day back in the states and it snows a shit ton. I have no clue if they are going to close any schools because it is too early right now. Of course I’ll be on my way before they actually decide if they are going to close anything down. Near my school they got like 8in of the beautiful stuff and I think we got pretty close to the same here, but it is hard telling. I’m going to go and shovel it right now.

How I love WI weather!

From London last night. It was a good trip, saw lots of awesome things, and got to experience some very different cultures. Okay, not super different but for sure different from what I am used to. Saw the main tourist things in London and Paris, experienced their food, etc. Paris is just like the pics you see on TV and while in London, Sadie and I didn’t feel like were were out of the country so much. Of course people drove on the wrong side of the road, they had crazy phone booths, and stuff like that but just not super different. Oh and we could understand what they were saying.

Paris on the other hand, felt very foreign to us. Not in a bad way thought. We didn’t understand what they were saying, the streets were amazing to walk down, and there were sex shops every where. Oh and they really do kiss each other’s cheeks

I will likely drop off the face of the earth for the most part starting tomorrow as I am back to school. I will do my best to keep something posted on here once in a while but not like I have been. I know, you’re all crying right now.