Lucky Me

Have you ever had a commitment to something and every time you needed to work with that commitment something got in the way?  I really hate when that happens.

A couple weeks ago I got doused with gasoline. I think I blogged about it, I know I tweeted about it. Anywho it was alot and I ended up with gas vapor in my lungs. Fortunatley it was not as serious as I thought it was. I felt like I was struggling to breathe and basically had to cough up the vapor. This all happened right around a meeting for an event I am helping with.  So I ended up missing that meeting that night so I could literally cough up a lung. Well last night was the next meeting. I am on two committees, head of ticketing and on the hospitality committee. The head of hospitality could not be there and I am the only other one on that committee so now it became extremely dire I be there and rep both the committees. So you know what happens? My car died. It DIED!!! I almost died! I tried calling people, twittering people, anything to let them know that come hell or high water I would be there. Finally I nabbed a friend bored enough to drive me to this meeting and arrived just 15 min after the meeting started. WHEW!

During the time of realizing the car wasn’t going to start and thinking “can I really walk 5 miles in 20 min?” I also asked “WHY?!?”. Why couldn’t it happen another night? Why did it have to be on the night where my attendance was vital? I needed to ask questions about certain things so that the committees could move forward and here I sat in the daycare parking lot about to cry. I thought about my actions over the last couple of days……while not known for being a “good girl” I couldn’t find anything I had done seriously wrong to receive such harsh retribution. On the drive to the meeting it dawned on me what the problem was. I hadn’t done anything bad to anyone to have it come back on me 3 fold. I was just a dam moron. I had left my phone charger in the lighter thingamajig  and I wasn’t charging my phone so it drained the battery. Not one of my finer moments!

The car was ok as of last night. We get to try and start it again this morning. We never did get a jump, apparently letting the battery rest was enough for it to recharge itself. And if we end up replacing the battery at least it’s more affordable than say a transmission!