adventures

whew, what a day. it started at 7:48am with a delivery from my lovely auspost man (he always seems to deliver my packages between 7:30 and 8:00am, which would be great if i wasn't trying to sleep in). i wasn't expecting anything and so was quite pleased to find an easiyo home yogurt maker that i won in a competition that i completely forgot i even entered! i never enter contests and i can't even remember how i came across this one so i'm quite surprised i actually won. not ten minutes later our plumber showed up to connect the gas lines for our new central heating system so i gave up all hope of heading back to bed, hoped in the shower, grabbed the dog and headed into footscray to run some errands. i was waiting at a green light, popped the clutch in, heard a "crunch" and suddenly realised that my clutch pedal had disappeared into the back of my dash. yep. uh-huh. so the hazards go on, i call shane, he calls RACV, some very lovely people try to help me to no avail as we can't get the car out of gear to move it, RACV comes, calls a tow truck, tow truck with the most unhelpful driver EVER comes and takes my car away, leaving me standing on the street corner in footscray with baxter as he won't let the dog into the cab of his truck. seriously. 38 weeks pregnant. cold and windy. small, sweet dog. luckily there was a cab rank around the corner so after waiting 10 minutes or so for the taxi that the jackass tow truck driver said he was going to call for me, i found a lovely cabbie who would let baxy sit in my lap while he took me home. and i arrived just in time to meet the fisher & paykel man who was there to fix our washing machine.

like i said, whew! so we got a lot accomplished today, really - fixed washing machine, fixed car and a much-needed service to top it off, shane and i went for a lovely, cheap vietnamese dinner in footscray after picking up my car tonight and then came home to share a (very, very small) glass of red wine while enjoying the amazing, beautiful warmth of our central heating. aahhhhhh. hopefully tomorrow is a little less exciting.

in other random notes, i've been to the osteo twice this week and have another appointment tomorrow, we're making slow progress on the back pain but i'll take any progress after it flared up again big time on sunday night. 12 hour heat packs are my new best friend. also, i just saw on tv that we're finally getting costco here in aus? will wonders never cease...