Yeah I know I have been pretty much MIA on LiveJournal these days. Been in such a shitty mood the past couple of months and hadn't felt like writing too much with the exception of a few memes and rants about the weather. The fucking weather is REALLY getting to me, we had about 8 inches of snow last Thursday and had gotten another five on Sunday night. I'm REALLY getting sick and tired of this bullshit! We had gross rain, but warmer temps on Monday and Tuesday which melted a majority of the white stuff, then about four more inches on Wednesday night!
Speaking of Wednesday night here's a love letter to the City of Chicago:
Dear City of Chicago,
WOULD YOU FIX THESE FUCKING POTHOLES ALREADY????
No love,
An Angry Countess who spent $186 on tire and wheel repairs
Oh yeahhhh...Wednesday night into Thursday morning was about twelve hours of Hell On Earth! Went to take
count_gregula to work as usual, but when I got onto Lake Shore Drive off the Belmont ramp our car hit not one, but two HUGE FUCKING POTHOLES! These were teeth-rattling-in-your-skull potholes, yes they were. I don't notice anything is wrong so I continue on to drop off Greg. I needed to go shopping for a few items, so I drive over to Walgreens on Diversey and Halsted. After getting off on Fullerton and turning onto Cannon Drive, I notice the car vibrating a bit and sounding louder as I accelerated and I'm thinking "oh shit I got a flat" but I didn't want to park in the middle of the road so I slowed down and drove over to Walgreens and parked in their lot. Checked and seen that my tire WAS flat as a pancake, so I gave Greg a call and he was naturally none too pleased to hear about that. Well I figured, I'll give AAA a call but first I will do my shopping at Walgreens since I was there anyways.
After I finished my shopping I give AAA a call only to find out that their membership department is dicking me around again, somehow my coverage got busted down to Basic and I friggin paid for the RV-Plus Gold membership back in December! This is the third month in a row I am dealing with their BS *grrrrr* so I have another fun-filled call to the membership department to look forward to on Monday :|. Anyhoo, I still was eligible for free assistance so I had them send out a guy to change my flat, no way was I gonna change it MYSELF in the slop and slush on the ground! The guy came and when he went into my trunk to get the spare we found out to our dismay that the friggin bracket holding the spare was RUSTED! Obviously the spare hadn't been used in yonks, I haven't used it before and I have had the car nearly two years. Took the poor guy about half an hour to loosen the damn thing and I was nearly crying from the stress of it all. Or was it because the trunk lid hit me on top of my head as I was moving stuff around in the car so he could get to the spare??? OUCH!!! Well after what seemed like 8675168780 hours, the AAA guy finally got the spare on the car and was on his way. I went across the street to Dunkin' Donuts to get a hot chocolate and a donut (hey I needed the sugar to calm my jitters lol) and the dude actually put THREE donuts in my bag and I had only paid for one, teehee! I get back to my car and started off to bring the stuff I had bought at Walgreen's to Greg. As I get back onto Cannon Drive, I notice that the car feels funny as I am driving, but when I checked it didn't appear to be anything wrong so I went back to Greg's work and checked out the tires on the car. Turns out the fucking SPARE TIRE was ALSO no good! It was soft and falling off the rim...SHIT SHIT SHIT. Well there was nothing I could do about it because it was nearly two am so I had to stay over by Greg and wait til morning when the tire shops open up.
Next morning I had to get up early and move the car so the morning crew at Greg's building can park their cars, so I moved the car to the front of the building and sat in nice warmth :). I was thinking "at least the car RUNS" heh. After Greg got off of work we had to decide on where to fix the tire, we chose the Firestone on 909 North Ave. because it was the closest. So I called up AAA to get a tow truck out to our car to take us there. The first thing the tow truck driver said to us when we told him what was wrong was "Pothole?" and then he mentioned that on the radio he heard there was a whole line of people on Lake Shore Drive pulled over due to flat tires from the potholes heading into downtown! At the tire shop we had gotten a quote of $88 for the new tire and installation, which wasn't bad. The guys at Firestone said it would be about two hours until they could even look at our car so we sat down and eaten some of the donuts that I had bought the night before. They finally get to our car and then we find out the damned RIM was bent and they couldn't repair it! So this adds another $70 something-ish or so upping our total to $186 *grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*. That wasn't even the worst part! It turned out that they didn't have the new wheel in stock and that they would have to order it and it would take a few hours for it to get there so they could repair ol' Jack! I didn't know what I was madder about, the money spent or the time I would be spending waiting to get the car fixed, especially since we were stuck in Lincoln Park without a paddle, several miles from home. Fortunately it seemed like the time went by quickly (I napped while Greg watched TV) and after spending next to four hours sitting in the waiting area our car was ready to go...hurray!
We then headed out to Niles/Glenview because we wanted to get something to eat at
Pita Inn. Greg got the Business Special and I got Chicken Shewirma with Hummus because I, in my infinite wisdom, had given up red meat for Lent...and this year I'm planning to stick with it...hoohah. We were originally gonna go home because we were both tired and hadn't been back at the house since 10:30 the night before, but we decided to take in a movie over at Golf Mill. We we thinking of
Rambo but I really needed some comedy so we both agreed on
Meet The Spartans, which even though it was silly, had some pop culture humor that actually made me laugh my ass off. The humor was what we needed to lift our spirits and we headed on home to enjoy the rest of the evening and enjoy a lil bit of "quality time" because Greg was off work :D.
Now we gotta deal with the friggin below-zero shit (10 degrees with below zero windchill) tonite AGAIN! I swear, if God had meant for me to be THIS cold I would have been born a penguin :P!!!