Live Forever or Die Trying

As I am sure my readers have noticed, I have not posted much recently. Well that is due to this crazy semester. This semester is actually 2 hours less than the last one, but the work load is oh so much more! One incident occurred and the loss of that ONE afternoon has had me playing catchup for over a week now.
After the first day of class I got home and got organized for school and was about to begin my homework when Dean said he was done for the day. Lately I have been picking him up from work just because it is too damn hot to be out roller blading and I am worried he will have a heat stroke. So anyway I go to the car to leave and it doesn’t start. I run into the house to see if I can catch him online and let him know, but too late. Call his office, but by now he is waiting out front. Call his boss who is up there which goes and gets him, and tell him about the car an d apologize that he has to skate home

Once he gets here we take a look at the car and in less than 5 min he discovers the problem. The battery effing melted! The positive terminal totally decided to mate with the connection and make some sort of automotive bond! Dean was exhausted after work and the skate home to deal with it so I did. Dean took out the battery and went to bed while I got our friend Grant to take me to O’Rilley (sp?).

click for larger image. The center of the red is only supposed to be a screw, what you see is melted battery!

Grant being the sweetie he was spent 2 freaking hours pulling, knocking, and finally drimmeling the pieces apart; he and his wife Prabha had to leave the next morning for Chicago and had packing to do, but they put it off and gladly helped me with the problem.

For their efforts, we insisted they let us take then to the airport the next morning at 5am. They agreed, and after it was all fixed, Dean woke up from his nap and we went out for drinks at Logan’s Roadhouse.

I have yet to finish catch-up. No matter how much I work, I feel like I cannot get enough done! Have a test tomorrow, have a 20 page paper due Wednesday, need to finish packaging invitations and get them mailed off, need to contact the potential job offers, need to clean the house, need to take poor Athena to the Vet to get more asthma meds, need to go grocery shopping, did I mention clean the house? Heck right now I need to clean myself. It is about 1am and although I know I have worked my ass off today, I feel like I did nothing at all because none of it actually got finished. Even when something does get finished, I don’t have time to to exhale because I have to work on something else! And I start the whole cycle over tomorrow at 8:30 am, if I can even get my brain to shut up about all I need to do so I can even get to sleep!
I need a maid! And a shower, badly…