Photo of the Day - Parking (4.21.10)

Back in the day I had a car that I could park in a garage. Oh the good times! Anyway sometimes I pulled my car up a little too far. Here is an example of one of those days. I never actually ran into things but just got extremely close. Some days I'd park and walk around the front of the car but most days I walked around the back since I had bags to get out and such.

I miss that red car. I miss parking in a garage.

I did blog about April 21 when it happened but had no mention of this.

5.25

Shirt: Loft (purchased February 2009 and was my favorite shirt for awhile)
Jeans: Express
Purse: Kohl's ($18 and I love it)

Photos taken outside of Double Wide.

We finally carried up the broken down boxes upstairs. They were just sitting on the basement floor for far too long.  We swept the basement.

Then I went and sold my car. I'm sad I didn't take any final pictures of my car. We then took the boxes to the recycle place.  We took Poly with us.  The first Realtor looked at our house to preview it for her out of town clients. Then other people looked at our house.  We were gone during that time.

Dave and I got Wendy's on the way home and ate it while watching Community.  We watched 2 episodes then we both napped.  I set my alarm for 20 minutes but kept resetting that. I napped over an hour.  Then I just sat there for a good 30 minutes in a half asleep state.

I started making collages for my blog. I'm so behind.  After a little bit I went to look up all the results of the NA-YGN runners at the recent 5k.  I took those times and sorted them. Then I looked at race pictures to save all the ones of the people from NA-YGN.  It took a long time because there were so many photos from so many photographers that you had to go through each time frame a few times.

I booted up my work laptop to get the list of 5k teams and ended up talking to Adam for over an hour.  That was nice.

We put one of our Ikea Tables on Craigslist and sold it.  We still have more things to sell.  I don't even know if Dave put everything on Craigslist that we want to sell. He put on a bookshelf but we ended up just donating that to Goodwill to get it out of the house.

We went to Double Wide for dinner.  I ordered ribs.  They were awful.  I can't figure out quite why. But I could barely cut the meet at all. It was not cooked right but also seemed to be fat/meet mixture. I had 3 bites of decent meat.  Bones were going the wrong way too.  The fries were OK but it was not worth $14.  Dave loved his food again though.

When we went in Double Wide they said 30 minute wait and they'd call a cell phone when our table was ready.  They didn't have buzzers. I like the cell phone idea better than the buzzer because we could go out of range.  We headed to Target in that 30 minutes. We bought laundry detergent, raser blades, hair product (for Dave), and a tooth brush. All of those were things we needed.  I wanted to look at purses but I just walked right by them.

I got the peanut butter pie at Double Wide. I wasn't a huge fan but it was OK. It was too chocolatey.  Dave got ice cream after at Dairy Queen since he didn't get dessert at the restaurant.

We got home at 9:30 PM. We keep eating dinner too late anymore.

We got home and watched some TV then went to sleep a little early.

On This Date in History: February 16, 2010

On February 16, 2010, I spun around in my car (the same red Chevrolet  Malibu Maxx that I currently have).  I was on my way to work. I was stopped at the red light on 3 Degree Road. The light turns green and I'm about to move like the red arrow is, when all of a sudden I continue turning counter clockwise and end up facing like the blue arrow.  The roads didn't even seem that bad. I was going what I thought was really slowly.  I guess I was wrong.  Luckily there were no cars because I took up both lanes. Someone was coming down 228 which should have been the opposite way as me but they saw my troubles and kept their distance. A UPS truck was coming down 3 Degree Road to the light on the opposite side of 228 and he stayed at the light and didn't try to turn at all. He had half a rotation of the green light left too.

I then edged over and waited at the light and turned right back down 3 Degree Road.  I turned around in the school and pulled back out on 3 Degree Road.  I was at the light again.  I knew better this time because of my last mishap.

The light turns green and I edge super slowly onto 228.  I start spinning again.  This time I didn' totally flip around because the butt of my car got stuck in a snowbank on the edge of the road. I was at a 50 degree angle from where I should have been facing.  I was good enough to continue on the road the appropriate way.  I continued to work.

Further down 228, a car was sideways.  Another car had it's flashers on but it was mainly facing the correct direction.

BTW my road was perfectly clean and so was Ridge Road. Those are the 2 roads I can see from my house.  I thought it all was good but leave it to the state maintained road to not be in good shape.

My car turned over to 25,000 miles on my way to work but I missed it. I didn't notice until 25,001. I wasn't paying attention it because I was focused on paying attention to the roads and my driving.

Now that I'm older and wiser, if I ever spin around again, I will go back home instead of trying to get to work a 2nd time.

Photo of the Day - Why I need to shovel before attempting to get into my garage (2.16.10)

On February 16, 2010, I was in a hurry last year so I thought I could just get up the driveway and then shovel and get ready for my guests to arrive.

Well, it doesn't work that way.  I got stuck.

I only thought of taking this picture after I started shoveling. But the front and the back of the car got wedged in. Also a neighbor was outside the entire time seeing this happen. (I think he was in high school.) Also while I shoveled and the car was stuck, about 8 neighbors drove by. I came home at the busiest time.

So Lesson Learned: Leave your car on the street, shovel, and then put your car in the garage. It takes less time in the end.


BTW my friends had to cancel so all my rushing was also for nothing.