Silver Lining

When it rains it pours. I mean like buckets. Thrown down on top of me.
It's like the rain clouds are like: "Look over there Fred, it's the Waldrons." "Ha let's get 'em Johnny, knock 'em off their feet!"
....not funny Johnny and Fred. Not funny at all.

So I had just a little break down yesterday. Yeah both literally and figuratively. We're driving around town, running errands, and before we leave the last place we decide to check the radiator fluid because the car had made weird noise while leaving Target. We add more because it looks like it needs it and hop in the car to head home to do some cleaning. Half way home the car starts smoking! Yeah, like a smoker in a run down bar kind of smoking. We pull into a parking lot as the temp is climbing. We have to walk home, since I decided to leave my phone at home like a dummy because I like to intentionally forget it once in awhile, I'm in flip flops and it's hot and I'm freaking out because while watching the car smoke all I'm seeing is our money burning away like a cheap cigarette. And since I'm soon to be jobless and Poly starts and all I'm just raving like a lunatic as we walk down the street. And on top of all of that (not to give tmi) I'm having cramps! Yeah, cramps! Let's just say that I was on the fence about whether to just stop in the middle of the side walk and sob my poor pitiful eyes out or go and attack the car with a baseball bat. I had a really rough day yesterday at church and so I was still recovering from that before this happened so I was definitely at my wits end and Dj tried his best to pull me out of the dark.

The first silver lining is that we got on the phone with my cousin who replaced our radiator and we were able to kind of figure out what might be wrong over the phone. Before Dj hung up with Brandon his wife asked to talk to me and we talked a little, me giving her the run down about our current life situations and all, and then she tells me about some of the things that they've gone through and talked about her kids and made me laugh and let me forget for just a bit all the stuff that was going on. It was nice, Bre and I are pretty similar in some ways and we relate really well, I miss her a lot, I've been friends with her before she married my cousin like 9 years ago.

The second silver lining is that around 4 I got a call from my brother who has been in NY the past few months. He was like, Hey sis, I'm at the SLO train station. So Dj and I walked to meet him and brought him back to our apartment where we were able to visit and feed him a homecooked meal. He spent like 3 days on the train coming out here and his ride to Paso flaked on him and didn't come so he's asleep in the living room. It's weird having someone else here in our tiny little studio, we've never done that before, but I miss him and I know that having me around is comforting to him along with Dj, who he really likes, he's never had a brother before. Only real negative thing about it is that he's starting smoking and light drinking again so I'll have to get on his case about those things lol

Long day. Forever of a long day. Dj and I talked about how Heavenly Father is stretching us (me in particular) pretty far right now and that we need to try our hardest to look for the reason and learn from it so that we can get the blessings that we may not even know that we're in need of. Today is a new day, even though it's busy I'll do my best to make it positive about whatever comes my way.