[Previously posted on MySpace]
Sooo.. I got a single-parent-friend's emails to the group of us who were still living back home, while she'd gone off to school, asking for our help!! .. and when I realized no one had responded, I figured I could!! .. I started my Thursday night by breaking up with my boyfriend and my Friday morning by calling the friend to arrange to come down with my daughter and watch her kids so she could do whatever she needed!
plenty of lighting... knowing that generally my car doesnt fit in
underground parking (it being a Ford Explorer, for anyone who doesnt
know!) .. and paid the $20 deposit and then thought nothing more of it ...
I spent the evening with my friend, who I hadnt seen since the end of summer, catching up a little ... and the kids played... I knew my daughter missed her daughter, as they were close in age and used to play together quite frequently, so they had lots of fun that night.. and then my friend went out just before 8pm ... her youngest was down by 8:40 .. her daughter was asleep by 9pm .. and mine.. well.. mine never goes to bed for me.. so it was closer to 10:30 by the time she was down .. and then I crashed, too!!
I think my poor friend rolled in around 5am :) tossed her coat, boots
and keys somewhere near the front door and crashed in her bed w/ her youngest ...
unfortunately, my daughter is an early-riser AS WELL as a late-nighter ... so
she was up around 7am .. and I TRIED to keep them quiet and playing in
the livingroom so my friend could sleep off the hangouver .. but eventually nature took its course and I had to go peeeeeeee .. and her little one managed to head in and wake mommy up while I was off the scene ...
Soo.. my friend and I got to spend a great morning chatting.. I know I
enjoyed it and I hope she did too!
Around 10am I headed out to my car w/ my daughter .. and my friend, apparently, rounded up her two to go meet up with her mom ... well! Lo and behold! Overnight someone had decided to smash in my car window :(
At first I didnt think they'd taken anything .. but this morning I
think it dawned on me, there was more glass outside the car than there
should have been if nothing had been pulled through, so I went back
out and did an inventory and discovered that my daughter's school backpack
was gone ... I suppose there is poetic justice -- I was slightly more
upset that nothing had been taken and that it was just violence for
the sake of violence ... but now I know the poor sucker obsconded with
a size 2 pair of snowpants and an empty lunch bag and a couple kids
toys -- I hope he felt like an IDIOT .... I think, worse than the
damage to the window, is the loss of my daughter's "piggy" which was a gift
from my dad and step-mom when she was only 4mos old and we visited in
Kansas... its totally irreplacable and has been with her for her whole
life... and the one toy she almost always took back and forth to
school ...
Anyhow.. I had a tarp in the back of the car and some packaging tape
left over from when I'd sent my dad a package a couple months back
(see? having a messy car pays off!) .. and I managed to patch up the
window enough that my daughter wasn't getting too much of a draft ...
While I was doing this, my kid asked me "mommy, what are you doing?" and
I told her that someone had been mean and broken our car window.. and
she asked if the car had an "owie" and I said it was something like
that.. so she leaned over from her carseat and started petting the car
door nearest her, saying "its okay car.. I'm sorry you got hurt.. but
my mommy will fix it.. you'll be okay.. dont worry" It was SOO fckn
adorable!!! Oh to be 2 and a half again!! :)
Once I'd patched it well enough, I told my daughter it was going to be noisy
.. and that she should tell me if she got too cold or too windy ...
and that we were going to have an adventure! .. I used her blanket and
my PJ top to cover the driver's seat (which still had small shards of
glass ALL over it) .. and headed home ....
My little one was a total trooper, in fact, she even fell asleep after about
half an hour... it only took me an hour and a half to get home (taking
lesser roads than the highway, so as not to have to drive 100kmph ..
cuz that was fckn LOUD) ...
and .. I dropped her at her dad's ... called the cops.. left a report.
called insurance, they told me my deductable is $300 and that it'll
cost "slightly less" than that, so they can do nothing for me.. and
then crashed at my mom's place around 3pm for a MUCH needed nap ...
Sooooo .. although my weekend didnt exactly suck, cuz I'm actually
pretty proud of myself for not falling apart in that parkinglot... (my
cell phone was dying, my friend wasnt home anymore.. and .. wtf was I gunna do w/ this open fckn window to be able to drive ALL the way home?!) ....
I still certainly hope you all had MUCH better weekends!!
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.. Monday I took it to the shop and it cost my $222 with tax to get it all fixed and cleaned.... *sigh* so much for xmas savings :(
