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Hey, guys...

So...many..cough drops...

This cold/allergies/virus/energysuckingplague is kicking my butt...I've been steadily losing Round 2 with what I thought was the same 'bug' that I had about a week or so ago...but now I'm not positive that it's the same bug at all. I'm starting to think that it's some ridiculously mutated version of itself and it's been running amok all over my respiratory system.

I finally gave up and bought some Day-Quil yesterday, and it seems to be helping a little bit...but I'll be glad whenever I finally get over this crud! Crossing my fingers that I can get well without giving the bug to my kiddo...

Some awesome news! My college roomie, and one of my dearest friends, had her first baby! I'm super excited for her, maybe even ridiculously so...she's the first of my friends to have a baby (I don't have any nieces or nephews either, yet...but that's really okay, I'm the oldest of my siblings anyway!) and I'm genuinely stoked!! I got a pictures of the little darling yesterday and I can't wait until I have a chance to go visit them! Road trip to Louisiana sometime in my near future? Yes, please!

Speaking of road trips...

I guess a car is a rather necessary component of a road trip to anywhere...I'm still dealing with an unresolved lack of car, but thankfully the battery issue with my borrowed one seems to be handled. I've come to the conclusion that the battery died due to the interior light being left on...a rather /facepalm sort of situation, but at least I don't have to replace the car battery just yet.

Okey dokey, I'm going to find some sort of hot beverage that will, hopefully, make me feel a little bit better...happy Friday!

I've Got Terrible Neighbors...

So, I've had a rather eventful day!

This morning, the kiddo and I were on our way to his school, as usual...and I was greeted with a humorously dead car battery. The battery was so dead, the radio didn't even so much as flicker when I tried to start the car. [Remember, it isn't even my car!]

In a quasi-panic, I called up my sister and asked her if she could take my son to school [my sister is not really a morning person...not at all!] and then I called my parents to see what they suggested I do to remedy the situation.

My dad suggested that I try to jiggle around the cables on the battery, thinking that maybe one of the cables had lost contact with the battery...he even recommended using a hammer to 'improve contact' if necessary...all this was being said as my dad was putting on his shoes to come to my rescue. [My dad really is the awesomest!]

So there I was, in the parking lot in front of my apartment building...hood up on the car, wailing on the battery cable connection with a hammer, and trying to assure my kiddo that everything was fine and 'no, you don't have to stay home from school just because the 'car is sick.'...

Here's what bothered me:

The whole time this scene was playing out, there were people all around me! Right before the hammering of the battery cable connection started, a young couple parked their stupid beige Camry right next to my distressed car...the girl went inside to fetch her friends, and the guy stayed...right by his car, which was less than 5 feet from where I was futilely attempting to resuscitate the poor car's battery.

Not once did said d-bag guy offer to help. He never even asked if I might need some help! Instead, he kept his eyes trained on his stupid phone probably losing at candy crush.

When the soccermomcamrydriving girl came back with her friends in tow, not a single one of them offered help or gave me even so much as a glance of concern over my vehicular distress.

They weren't the only ones, either. There were at least 5 others who merrily [or grumpily] got into their cars this morning and didn't even bat an eyelash at me and my car troubles this morning.

What a shame! What's the matter with people? Since when is it alright to not help someone when they're visibly in need?

Ugh.

Anyway...my sister stepped up and helped in a huge way by taking my son to school and my dad brought jumper cables and brought the car back to life...all in all, the drama was relatively short lived. So, that's a bit of good news...

But seriously. I've got some a-hole neighbors, don't I?

Car Replacement Saga w/ Anime Emotions (Dattebayo!)...

Know what's really, really annoying? 

When you're talking to someone about a topic that is very important, to both the talker and the listener, and the listener obviously isn't paying attention. Even worse than that, they are feigning paying attention, making it all that much clearer that really, they don't give two s***s about what is being said. 

ただ注意馬鹿を払う！

I thought that Fairy Tail's Natsu would do a pretty darn good job of demonstrating how aggravated I am right now...

(I should probably mention that this isn't how Natsu always looks...he's all fired up, Anime style!)

I understand being distracted (I am a rather distractable person my...what was I saying again?), but there's a distinct difference between being distracted and just plain having a DGAF attitude about the farce of a conversation. 

Trogdor! Burninate!!

Yep, that's Trogdor going all burninate on people who do a bad job of pretending to listen to conversations. Burninate, pretenders, burninate!!

HomestarRunner - Trogdor (Just in case you have no idea what the Trogdor is...)

KnowYourMeme - Trogdor (For those who have no idea what the Trogdor is and don't want to play the awesome Trogdor game found at the previous link...)

But yeah...if someone is actually taking the time and effort to talk to you about something important, the least you can do is attempt to listen...or do a decent job at faking it.

Elsewhere in Gotham City, I'm planning on going to see about my options for getting a car loan today. /sigh I really don't want to add another monthly expense to my already strapped budget, but I don't think I'll be able to avoid it. 

私が悪いんだ助けて

I'll be updating as the Car Replacement Saga develops...

In the meantime, is anybody looking to hire some help? I can do lots of stuff and can be lots of fun to work with!! 

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