It never stops.

Life has been handing us lemons lately. On Friday on my way home from work the car breaks down in the middle of the road. Yeah, I pull up to the stop light and when it turns green my car won't move despite having my foot all the way down on the gas. Well to put a very long and stressful story short. I called 911 (because I didn't know who else to call at that point) they dispatched a tow company to get me stat and then luckily a nice stranger pushed me into a bike/turn lane so I wasn't blocking as much traffic and people who couldn't didn't have the eye sight to see my hazard lights wouldn't keep honking at me. I also had this wonderful girl, probably no older than 18 pull over and check and make sure I was okay and see if I needed to be taken anywhere. It was so sweet, I could have hugged her I was so emotional and stressed out. She said she could imagine what it was like and she would hope somebody would pull over for her. I thanked her and thanked her as the tow truck drove up and I couldn't believe two perfect strangers could be so nice and caring when I had been yelled at by 3 angry patients just hours before. Where ever they are right now I hope they get some extra blessings poured over them for being so sweet and kind to the girl on the side of the rode who looked like a wreck. Thank you!

So now we are guessing our poor car won't make it back from the shop. It's probably the transmission and it is not even close to being worth the money to fix it. Dj got very discouraged as he looked at cars both new and used last night because it looks like we'll just have to go sans car for awhile until we have the money to actually use on a down payment. Which will be possible it's just not ideal, with me not feeling good lately (and no I'm not pregnant!!) and starting school in January, where I have to have a car....it's just ridiculous.

Anyways lets talk about something happier. I made a pumpkin cheesecake last night! It cracked unfortunately but only a little bit and it smelled really good so I'm hoping that it turns out yummy and that despite the issues I had with the crust it will actually be good. We also helped out at Pumpkins on the Pier yesterday morning. A service project through the Institute where we help the city of Pismo put on a little carnival for halloween, run the booths and the bounce houses, welcome the families, and judge the costume contest. It was really gorgeous out at the beach yesterday and I even got to see dolphins swim by the pier. My face got sunburned and that made the rest of the day a little miserable but it was fun to run around and make sure all the volunteers had water and snacks and enough prizes for the games.

What's going to be really fun is us riding our motorcycle to church this morning. And going to Brad and Shanyn's for dinner to share our cheesecake with. Dj finished his most important homework so we'll be able to just relax and kind of enjoy the day which I'm looking forward to a whole lot.