Why is it that when you’ve sucked it up, vowed to make the best of things and just want to go with the flow, does life then throw yet MORE curveballs at you just to see if you’re REALLY up to the challenge (hint: I’m not)? Are the fates truly that cruel? (Answer: YES.) Of course, any complaint I have here is painfully minor and I am well, well aware of that. But they are complaints. And if a blog isn’t for complaining once (or twice) (or more) in a while, then I don’t know what it’s for.
Item #1: Remember that whole thing where the tan van has been parked for the month because it’s not registered and Kile’s white van that, while older and rattles as you drive around in it, is legal so it has been our vehicle? Yeah. Well, yesterday the tread split from the tire (the tire that was causing the rattling and that we were HOPING and PRAYING would just last through the month and we would replace it next month) and now it is UNDRIVEABLE. Oh ho ho… I couldn’t make this stuff up. And of COURSE Kile doesn’t have a spare to put on because it too is busted or somesuch nonsense and I’m not entirely sure WHY or WHAT. But long story short: Kile had to take the tan van today. We are hoping that he doesn’t get pulled over for driving with expired tags but that would be just like The Fates to arrange that so I’m not holding my breath.
I think the long term plan here is for Kile to see if the spare from the tan van will fit the white van or some such. I’m not entirely sure and I don’t know if I really want to know anyhow (ignorance can be bliss). But, OMG, doesn’t it just FIGURE?
Item #2: Liam’s high chair, apparently, has been RECALLED. What makes me laugh is that the very reason it is being recalled is something that has happened to us (in fact, it happened several months ago) but because we are lame, negligent cheapskates, we have continued to use the chair anyhow. According to the site, we shouldn’t be doing that. OOPS. But I’d like to know how else we are supposed to feed the Tiny Wonder since we have no booster or anything else and this child needs to be RESTRAINED in order to eat. The more straps, the better. If he can’t escape, he has no choice but to eat. (It’s called the Imprisonment Method, look it up.) So we gotta contact Evenflo and get a repair kit or somesuch goofiness. Blah blah blah.
In the meantime, I wasn’t the least bit surprised when Kile told me about this this morning. Of COURSE our highchair is being recalled. What the heck took them so long?? And also: JUST OUR LUCK. (Hint to big PR companies: Now would be a great time to send me a high chair to test out for review purposes. Just sayin’.)
Do I need more items than that? I really don’t think I do, but I know if I thought about it hard enough, I think I could. Or, you know, I could just wait ten minutes for the roof to cave in, the power to go out, the DSL to give up or something. And again? WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED.
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Hey, can Kile use one of the tires from your van, or is that crazy talk?