~~the most unbelievable day...so far!~~

Actual date of occurance: Thur Feb 5th, 2009

so...as some of you know, i was planning on leaving portland to head to mississippi today. WELL, you know the cliche of "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong"...yeah, i'm living that one today!!! i've been up and trying to leave portland since 6am....its currently 3pm.

and i'm still in portland....hmmmm.

so, we were running behind anyway...thats fairly typical for me and most of my friends (not ALL, to those who are reading this say "NOT ME!!!" hehe) but i figured being officially on the road by 10am. the first inkling that something was wrong was that my camera wouldn't work...i turned it on and the lens was opening/closing repeatedly. i shut it off and on a couple of times and got it to work finally, once. then it started doing it again!! mind you, it worked fine last night! grrrr...annoying, but not life altering!

THEN, the adapter that i got to play my ipod in my car wouldn't work...and not only wouldn't it work, it killed my ipod. black...nothing, no charge!! my friend mellisa pulls out my computer to plug it in and charge it, but it won't even open!!! AND...then my computer starts freezing up and refusing to open any programs! hmmm...about this time, i hear a commerical on the radio for a car store that advertises an ipod/car stereo adapter for $10. its close, and we need tunes for the road....so we zip over there!! when we get out of the car, i hit my key fob to lock it.....NOTHING HAPPENS!!!! are you freakin' kidding me!!!!!!

so, i go open the door to hit the lock button....but it doesn't work. i then put my key in and try to start it....NOTHING, NADA....dead dead dead!!! beyond dead....the hazard lights won't even work. there isn't even a click! i mean seriously, the door won't even lock!!

we go into the store and tell them whats going on....the guys there were phenomenally helpful!! in fact...a plug for them, if you need any car stuff and you are in the portland area, car toys is the place to go!!! anywho...they play with it for an hour and a half and FINALLY get it started by pulling someone's car over to charge it (their mobile charger wouldn't even work!!). it takes a full 5 minutes of this guy reving his engine and then mine finally, slowly turns over!!!! during this whole time, i'm trying to make my ipod/computer work and its still acting weird too!!! OH MY GOSH!!! anyway, one guys figures out how to reset my ipod thankfully, and they immediately send me over to a car repair shop to get it checked out. they run diagnostics on it and it turns out that i need a new battery....and thats seems to be it!!! crazy drama just for that...i mean, couldn't it have just died when i wasn't heading out of town!!! like, last week...when i was getting work done on it already!!!

so here i sit...waiting on my new battery for my trip that should have started over 5 hours ago!!! at this point, i'm thinking drinks are more in order with travel tomorrow....but we will see!!! hehe...i'll keep ya'll updated!!!! pray for us! ;) we clearly need it!!