Chilled straight to the core

[wahinejo]

Again with the dead battery!!! Why do I do this again and again?!?!?! Was dumb enough to leave the lights on this afternoon and went back to the car a few hours later and BAM... no vroom. I came back inside, muttered, sputtered, and so on. Chilled out with a hot shower and then got my hands on some cables. Think it's time to invest in a charger or at LEAST some cables? Ended up outside in the freezing wind, with wet hair, rolling the car in neutral and slipping all over the road -- me slipping, not the car. The thing I don't understand is, we hooked up the cables (yeah, I hooked them up right) and when we got the cars in the "on" position... SMOKE! Oh dear GOD it smelled sooooooo wretched!!!! I thought we'd blown up the cars or something! Heart was racing thinking I was stuck in town from here on out with a dead car and no way out. We tried again and all was fine. But I had to sit in the car while I let it run and the smell was the worst thing I've ever inhaled. And... my hair froze. I'm not kidding. I actually forgot that it was wet and when I touched the pony-tailed mass on the back of my head I thought, "Why does it feel like there's glue in my hair? Huh? Oh my god it's ICE!!!"

The upside to it all is that while I was out there was an Erika leaving a message on my machine. It's sad as hell that I missed her call, but, it was worth it to hear this message. Oh my. It was at least five minutes long and sooooo funny. Also got a snapshot from her today of Tejah that I really really really wanted.

Now the bad thing is I have a wicked chill settling in from being outside in the cold for so long. I mean, reeeeeeeeally really bad chill. Heat's up, wool fisherman's sweater, window shut, the works. STILL freezing.

I want to stick my feet and face in a big bowl of hot...