Not quite what we planned...

When we planned our weekend....it went something like this:
Depart B City around 6....get to the C Village around 7:30....make some dinner, read....sleep...Get up Saturday....visit O Town and get my ring fixed and cleaned up, make a payment on our bands...venture to A Village to pick up K and her boyfriend....venture to W Village or H Town to let teens be teens....take them home....visit dad and fix my sax....venture home...dinner...sleep....get up Sunday, clean the house and "lock down"....venture to H town to hug people....venture back to B City.....sleep.

Went more like this:
Friday...Eye worked until 6....Bug until around 7....got to C Village around 8:30-9ish....scratch penne, garlic, olive oil, three kinds of peppers, asparagus and mushrooms....instead...have macandcheese....sleep....go get ring fixed....make payment...pick up K and best friend...stop in S Village for some food and arcade games...Head to W Village....let them shop at two stores in plaza...try to bowl...but it's tournaments.....go to B Village for another bowling attempt.....tournaments again....so we take the girls back to mom's and end up making a stop at brother J's house (saw flashing hazzards by his house and being....well...me....had to make sure everything was alright ...it was. flashing lights were the tractor coming home with hay.......shush....I know.... :-P)
anyway, that ended up being cool because Bug hadn't seen J's house yet (he's building it himself!) so we hung there for a while which was cool....then to dad's to fix the sax...had a "gut busting" moment when dad was checking the sax and Dad's austrailian shepherd mix decided to sing along....
head home...order food...have a happy conversation about maybe possible potential interest in the house by the nice man that delivered the food....eat...sleep....
wake up to snow and yuck on Sunday...talk to one of the ones we wanted to hug and discover they're all sick and the weather is nastiness....and the other ones can't make it...so we decide to postpone the visit....take care of some things around the house....head back to B City....without our power steering....yeah. fun adventure.
We left and Bug says "steering is a little stiff." I tell him to kick the ice out from behind the wheels. he does and says it's a little better.....but still stiff. I tell him to pull over at the gas station and I'll check the power steering fluid...it's dry. so we add some and venture off...stopping halfway to put in more fluid....now, I know it needs fluid, but have no idea how much so, no, it didn't occur to me that it was leaking since it was dry again half way...I thought it was just funneling down to where it needed to go. yes. laugh at me. silly girl.
so anyway. we get to W. S. Town and we stop at an auto store...I get a can of stop leak and more fluid.....we put it in and head to Bug's house....steering still not playing nice. so we put in more fluid...I work the wheel to see if it's working....take the car around the block...add more...we do this a a few times...and then....on our last trip back around....I see the puddle of pink snow....yep. leaking right back out.
So of course, I handled it like a mature, responsible woman.
I cried. then I called my daddy, my mommy/stepdad and then my brother. My brother was kind enough to tell me it was going to be alright, don't cry, I'm not going to die....I can drive the car without the power steering, it's just going to be hard (yeah you should see my biceps today...strong like bull!!)...so I stop blubbering....Bug comes back out and says that his dad said the same thing as J brother...so I pull myself together and venture back out with the sweet offer from my brother to call if I get shaken up again (awwww! what a good boy!). So I kiss Bug goodbye, pray for safe travel and venture out....man alive, I will never take power steering for granted again!!
Got it to the shop yesterday....apparently the power steering fluid filter froze and cracked. yep. that was all. So the wonderful mechanic replaced it and around 8:00 last night I once again enjoyed the beauty that is power steering...
I think I've had enough adventures for this week......