this is gonna be LONG!

I've got a lot running around in my head and this is the place where I let some of it out.
First of all, in case you live under a rock or are deaf, mute, and blind... it's still raining in N. Texas. I personally love rainy days and don't mind this one bit, besides it keeps the air cooler and since I am almost 32 weeks preggo, I'm all for that! My only 'problem' w/ the rain is that my dogs don't like to go 'out' in it. And when it does stop or rather 'pause' from raining, and they do go out then they bring in muddy footprints and I have hard wood floors. Nevermind the fact that there are 5 area rugs for them to wipe their little feeties on before they get into the house, we still have footprints and lots of them. Oh and since they aren't outside as much, there is way more dog hair on the floors than there usually is. So on Tuesday, in an effort to be like the Holly Homemaker that I claim to be... I hauled out the vaccum cleaner... and used it. On every square inch of the first floor. I was almost done when I went to move the coffee table. It's on wheels so no biggie right? Well, since it is on wheels and on hardwood floors, I lost control of it and it totally smashed my big toe! The nail was/is this nice light shade of blue within an hour. It throbbed for most of the night and still hurts today. Let me tell ya, you don't realize how much you use your toes for walking til you hurt one of them!
I don't usually re-read books, well, except for the Bible... but I'm re-reading a book this week and boy is it a kicker. It's called "Having a Mary heart in a Martha world." the concept is that we women can tend to get caught up in the things and busyness of life and forget to just sit and take a moment w/ Jesus sometimes. Like when Jesus went to Mary and Martha's house... Martha was ticked b/c Mary was sitting there listening to Jesus talk and she (Martha) was running around like a chicken w/ out a head trying to be the perfect hostess. It bothered her so much that she tattled on Mary to Jesus! He told her, chill girl, Mary has chosen the better thing.
(um, this is from the 'DRB' translation not available in print or anywhere outside of my head actually) Anyway, the book really gets you to look at where your priorities are and how difficult we sometims make our lives b/c we don't spend a few minutes w/ God before we rush (or slowly enter) our day. Just thought I'd throw that out there for ya.
Ok, now for a vent about fireworks. Yesterday, C and I just puttered around the house, he actually was able to mow the back yard and we washed all the windows and screens on the first floor, then we napped and watched some movies. Well, around 8:30 we decided to go to a majorly announced fireworks display since the one we went to last year (which was great by the way) was cancelled and rescheduled for Labor Day. Our town wasn't doing anything and I think its b/c this majorly announced thing was happening just one town over. So we threw some chairs in the pickup, grabbed a can of OFF! (thanks to the rain we are overpopulated w/ mosquitos!) and headed out about 45 minutes before the show was to start. Now the place where the display was going to take place is only 10 minutes from us, but it took 90 minutes for us to get there!!! Traffic was horrific and people where being amazingly idiotic. The show started late, and we wound up watching it from inside the truck while stuck in traffic. Let me just say this, for something that was announced as much as this was, and for as hyped up as it was, I was expecting one incredible display of fireworks. Boy, was I disappointed! The show lasted about 15 minutes MAYBE one or two minutes longer than that with some major pauses between some of the blasts. What a HUGE letdown. It looked like the whole world had come out to see this display and it was the puniest show I've ever seen! EVER! The small town in IL where we used to go had better displays. Then it took about 45 minutes to get out of the snarl of traffic. Not before we were almost t-boned though. OK, now I've mentioned the rain we've had right???? So, common sense would tell you that the ground would be wet, muddy, and really not driveable. Well, common sense is obviously an oxymoron... b/c it ain't so common!!! This moron decides he wants out of his parking spot from up on the side of the road. So he tries to back up his LARGE SUV into the traffic that is inching its way down the road. (By the way, just b/c you have an SUV does not mean that that you can drive on any kind of surface, you need 4WD or AWD AND the right type of tires. If you primarily use your vehicle to pick up milk and run the kids to soccor practice you DO NOT have an all terrain vehicle. C's truck has 'mudding' tires on it and he even said he wouldn't have tried parking up on the side of the road like some of these COMPLETE morons!) The guys truck was at least 3 inches deep in the mud up there but he proceeds to spin his wheels and spray mud EVERYWHERE just to go nowhere. His buddies help push at least the rear drivers side wheel off the curb and into the street. Do you remember how I said he was 3 inches in mud? Well, guess what he has NO traction back there now. The other 3 tires are just spinning and spraying mud and the one wheel that is on the street is so covered in mud that it is just sliding on the road. So the geniuses get out and give him a few more pushes and boom the other back tire is on the road and now the entire rear of the vehicle is just fishtailing on the road. I'm scooting in my chair to the middle of the truck b/c I'm so afraid that he is just gonna slam into my side of the truck. Since there is so much traffic, C has no where to move our truck and we are both just praying that we don't get hit. The gifted driver decides to 'rock' his car now, putting it in drive then reverse then drive again. Can I just tell you if I wasn't so worried about getting slammed by this man in the middle of deadlocked traffic at almost 32 weeks pregnant, this would have been quite the show and more entertaining than the fireworks we had come out to see! Somehow he managed now to get the driver side tire off the curb and now he really has no control over his slidding truck. Truly its a miracle he didn't hit anyone. He finally spun his wheels enough on the pavement to remove enough mud to get traction and pulled the rest of his vehicle onto the road. Yes, he looked like a moron as he drove 2 inches away with his arms in the air claiming 'victory'! No one was happy w/ him, as most of us now need to get our vehicles cleaned to get his mud spray off.
Speaking of trucks... I'll just mention this and then end the longest post in bloggin history... it seems that we will be saying a sad farewell to C's truck sooner than we really wanted to. Of course, now that it is paid off and we actually have the title, oh and spent the money to have it reregistered b/c we figured we'd use it for a few more months... it doesn't look like it will make it that much longer. We'd rather not put anymore money into it. So we are on the look out for a small sedan for C. I'm really going to miss the truck. I loved having a pick up. It was great for camping and for hauling stuff to/from Home Depot or Lowe's, and getting rid of tree limbs that we've cut down. We had some good times w/ this truck, I will be sad to see it go. The dogs will also miss hearing C come home. They perk up their ears when he is about a block away and go running to the door as he gets closer.
Ok, I promised I'd go now...

~til next time!