Humpty Dumpty, Transmission Fluid, Skunks and Fireworks

Last week, we lost three months of computer files at work due to a hard drive crash. I’ve been sitting at my computer for at least 13 hours a day for the past three days trying to put the Humpty Dumpty of data back together again.

On top of working crazy hours, this morning, I found a puddle transmission fluid under my car. Two more days and $400 later, hopefully it will be up and running again.

When I got home from work tonight about 9:30pm, I discovered that Samson, my 115 pound Chocolate Lab, got sprayed by a skunk.

After a rather unsuccessful dog bath to get rid of the stench, I finally fell into bed exhausted. To help me fall a sleep, I was going to play a DVD on my laptop. For some reason I can’t get my nearly new laptop to recognize the DVD player that worked great a couple of days ago.

Striking out with the DVD player, I settled for just going to sleep. Just as I was drifting off to dreamland, one of my neighbors decided to set off a ton of fireworks.

So here I am smelling skunk, listening to fireworks, blogging instead of sleeping, and dreading the fact that I have to go into the office tomorrow on my day off to catch up due to the stupid computer hard drive failure.

Summer Pictures

Breaking the Silence

I've been contemplating writing a post for some time. In fact, I think I've started at least five different times, but I've never managed to actually finish a post. Now I've waited so long that I'm a bit intimidated to break the silence. So much has happened in the last two months, I don't even where to start. Perhaps, I can just summarize my last two months, with a series of bullet points instead feeling obligated to write a post about each not so significant event.

• Our summer season started with training on May 10th, and everything has been whirlwind ever since May.
• Abigail learned how to say "Mama"
• CP hired a new Executive Director to take over for Jason.
• You can buy a red, white, and blue mullet wig in Crossville, TN
• I am hoping to put my house on the market around the first of August (Anyone looking for prime real estate in Crossville?)
• I'm addicted to coffee and Gilmore Girls reruns
• My sister visited for two weeks at the beginning of July. Hurray for time with my sweet sister.
• I hate cell phone companies.
• My job and place of residence after the summer are in limbo.
• Crossville still has one of the best fireworks displays ever.
• My parents have spent four weeks of the summer staying with me, watching Abigail, and helping finish my house and landscaping.
• Yesterday I ripped a six inch hole in the butt of my shorts... Yeah, I'm cool.
• I might be moving to Kentucky this fall
• I need a vacation, so I booked plane tickets to Phoenix and Denver in August. I'm going to spend a couple of weeks visiting friends and fam.
• I decided I'm officially crazy because I'm going to Phoenix in August...Can you think of a worse time to visit?
• I'm trying not to think about the fact that next week would have been Jason's 33 birthday.
• We ended up short staffed for the summer, so we've been pulling all kinds of past staff in for a week or two at a time. Overall, a scheduling nightmare.
• I'm dreading the thought of packing of my whole life and moving...especially because I'm not exactly sure where or when....although I'm guessing soon rather than later.
• Abigail and I might go to Korea in October if we can get our passport stuff together.
• Only two more weeks left of summer mission trips...I think I can, I think I can, I think I can make it.
• I still cry myself to sleep at least three nights a week.
• Every Sunday, I get to spend hours making quesadillas. Sometimes, I even wear the world's largest sombrero
• I'm stressed because the computer system crashed at work, and the person Jason always called won't be able to help us for several days, if not a week.
• Abigail, isn't crawling yet, but she does this hilarious butt scooting thing. She can cross a whole room in about 10 seconds.
• Several weeks ago, I was feeling impulsive, so I chopped off 10 inches off of my hair. It's the first time I've had semi -short hair in at least 10 years.
• It's after midnight, so I should go to sleep. I have to leave for work about 6:30 am tomorrow...actually make that today.

Okay, I guess breaking the silence via random bullet points wasn't too bad. Perhaps next time, I'll fill you in on all the really big stuff that is happening in my life.