Seriously????? "Irish name" Auto store????

I swear if I walk into another "man" store and get treated like a stupid girl I am going to SCREAM!!!  The orange hardware store, you know the one is bad, but I just walked into an auto store and I should have just turned around and just walked out!  They were SO helpful, NOT!!!!  Here's the thing, if a woman walks into an auto store with her manual in her hands, she probably is a smart cookie, considering that she took the time to LOOK at the manual before she came in to ask her question!  So my fuse for the front auxiliary power was out, let's all be honest here it's the cigarette lighter that we all use for our cell phones and other contraptions to plug into our cars... ANYWAY.  I tell the guy, that the fuse is blown, but I don't think that it is in the fuse box inside the car it might be the fuse box under the hood near the engine.  He says, "there is no way the fuse is in the engine fuse box."  I BEG TO DIFFER ass wipe, so I say to him, "I looked in the manual and the only fuse that is labeled the front auxiliary power fuse is in the front/ engine fuse box." again he says, "there is no way"  Do you think the joke of a sales man would even come out to the car to help me, I mean there was NO ONE in the store with him but the other guy sales man who was leaning on his counter and the girl worker who was sweeping the floor.  DON"T EVEN GET ME STARTED on that!!!!  So I go out and check the fuses INSIDE the car, none of them are broken.  OH wait... He told me that I would have to purchase a fuse extracting mechanism, again, I BEG TO DIFFER, it's called a fingernail and a key my friend, Oh and that doesn't cost $5.00!!!  I pull the fuse that he thinks is the cause of it from the inside fuse box, GEE it isn't broken,  So then I go outside again to look under the hood in the "no way it can be in the engine fuse box" FUSE BOX and gee low and behold I pull the fuse that is labeled the front auxiliary power fuse and it is broken, I walk it back into the store go the the fuse aisle get a pack of fuses, take them to the guy who is STILL leaning on the counter, purchase them, and the guy says, I KID YOU NOT, your welcome!  For what shall I be welcome for Jack of NO TRADES, the fact that you scanned the fuse box and took my money?  I did all the work, I found the problem, even when you said that it couldn't be where I wanted to look in the first place.  OH MY GOD I will never go in to your store again and I will tell all my friends not to go in there, because I know more than the sales people, WHY you ask? Because I can read a car manual and ACTUALLY find the problem and fix it MYSELF!  So moral to this tidbit, when a women walks into your store with her manual in her hand, listen to her and try to help, don't just blow her off because you are not smart enough to read a car manual yourself.  Just because you are a male, you were not born with car knowledge from birth!  Ugg!  Thank god my dad brought me up to do things myself!  The guy at the store told me that I could take it to a car dealership and they would be able to replace the fuse for me for a charge, Oh thank you Oh wise one, but I'd rather do it myself for $5 then ask ANOTHER man to dismiss me and charge me $127 an hour at the dealership.  What's up with that anyway?  $120+ an hour to work on a car?  And they charge that even if it takes them LESS than an hour!  What is this world coming too?         

Why have it?

So the car is in the shop AGAIN!!!  First time cost $300, now they want $127 to diagnose the problem that I told them it had BEFORE!  So when we bought the car I bought the extended warranty so that if anything went wrong we would be covered.  I am telling you if this is not covered I will go APE S*^% on their booty's!!!  I'd say the real word on here, but my kids might read this one day! :)  not likely, but who knows.  Why is is every time I take this car in I could repeat what they say to me, "that is not included in that warranty."  really?  what the heck IS covered in the extended warranty?  certainty not anything that has gone wrong with it!!!!  ARGH!   Did I happen to meantion that I do not do "poor" well?  I DON"T, I don't need to be ungodly weathly, although that would be nice for a change!!! But geez I'd like to be able to not have to worry about bills.  The porter had to drive me back to my house and then take my car, of course the low gas light came on, my daughter in the back says, "hey mom, your out of gas again!"  she has heard that sound so many times she knows exactly what it is!!!  Slightly embarrassing with the young porter next to me, so I have to pull into the gas station with him in the car to not only find that I only have $6 in my wallet to fill up the gas tank, but HE has to drive it back to the dealership, god help me if that isn't enough to get him there, with the little gas that I could put in there, because I didn't have any more money to fill it up more!  I ask my daughter to hold my wallet for me, while I try to hide my embarrassment and get home quickly, she goes through my wallet and says, "hey mom, you have this green card in here!"  I think to myself, oh you mean the green card that has no money left on it for the past Oh I don't know decade it feels like, the only green on that card is the color of the card itself!    I keep this thought to myself because seriously how much embarrassment can one take in a day?  Apparently God Loves to keep me on my toes because my embarrassment level is seemly higher than most people I know, thank god I have a sense of humor for myself that deep down I know that tomorrow will only bring new and embarrassing incidents!  Yes I ramble, but it's my blog and I can ramble if I want too! (seriously working on that)  probably won't get much better anytime soon...

"one day in my life and you'll be loving yours!"

Never be without them/ men should Never wear white

So I haven't had a baby in the house in 6 years, but I am telling you I will never live without baby wipes in my house!  They clean everything!!!  I am not joking!  Faces, hands, counter tops, stains out of clothing, walls, eye buggers out of dogs eyes, human eyes, wipe down your car, wipe down anything.  They are quite amazing!  Who knew!  The getting stains out of clothing is brilliant when you are at a restaurant with children, and a husband who insists that he can "handle" wearing a white golf shirt.  NO man should wear a white golf shirt it is a guarantee (shall we say OMEN) that you will get something on it.  So my husband bought a white golf hat, seriously why, I say to him, "that will be dirty by the end of the day".  Of course I have no idea what I am talking about, so he says.  I tell my girlfriend who also says that I am being too harsh on him, seriously wondering who's side she is on, ANYWAY.  I text her a photo of his hat, let me say that it was 3 hours later than when we had last talked, and low and behold there was 2 huge fingerprint dirt marks on the hat.  WHO"S LAUGHING NOW???   Honestly, just stay away from the white anything.  When I met my husband he had a linen white suit, (GASP) he was NOT John Travolta.  That quickly went to goodwill, I should have learned from that, or rather he should have.  I swear every now and then he looks for that suit, like it's ever going to make a come back... We don't live in Miami thank you.  The only way you should wear a linen white suit is if you are going to be a extra in a remake of Miami Vice!    

offically the first

So here we go, or rather I go.  I have wanted to do a blog for a long time now, and just never had the guts to do it.  New day, new way!  Just ran up to OakBrook mall.  Geez why do I feel like I have to dress up every time I go there?  You should see what people wear there, all dolled up!  I would say that it is an elite mall, yet I am surprised by some people that I see there.  Why?  I don't know I guess it just makes me feel like I do fit in, sort of! 

Why is it that I think of all these funny things to say in the shower, yet when I get ready to write them down here I am at a loss, Oh wait maybe it's like when I sing in the shower, I sound so awesome and then when I sing in the kitchen I am self-conscious.  One of my son's friends said, "you should sing on American Idol!"  such a nice boy!!!  I didn't have the heart to tell him how many, many years away I am from the cut off age!  Let me just relish that comment!  I find it crazy to think that those kids, on American Idol, can truly know that that is what they want to do with their lives at that age.  I am still floundering around on what I want to do, don't get me wrong I have tried many things, and I am sure those experiences will make their way into this blog.  I love to sing, I'd love to be a background singer in my next life!  How cool would that be?  The outfits, the cool dance moves and traveling to all the different cities!  WHAP! ok enough of that...

So this blog will be my voice, on what I think.  I won't skirt around the things I want to say, I will just say them, because in the end it is what we want to say not what we should say, that seperates us from blending in with everyone else.  "I don't blend" 

I have these people in my life that constantly "quote" movie quotes.  One time at dinner they made an entire conversation out of movie quotes, and my 5 year old back then, kept up with them.  Now sometimes they are out right hilarious in certain situations, but SOMETIMES they are so blatantly annoying that I could pull my hair out!

Off subject AGAIN!  See, the voices in my head need an outlet.  Hopefully this will teach me to focus, I serisouly doubt it, but there is always hope!

I hope today brings you laughter, we could all use a dose of that daily!