For the last two years my husband and I have been having car troubles.  Our car won’t start, right now and this happens to be a very random event. 

For a while I would wake up, get ready for work and when arriving at the car it wouldn’t start.  You’ll get a kick out of this, it thinks that it is being stolen.  That’s right the security light is on. 

So, I would truck my pissed off butt into the house and call work letting them know that I may not be able to make it in to work, but that I would continue trying to start the car up.  In turn hope that I would just be late.

My husband thought I was loosing my mind, he really thought that I just didn’t want to go to work.  So as the day went on, he would go downstairs and put the keys in the ignition and low and behold it would start.  To my dismay once a gain I felt like a fool.  He started the car, just like that.

I had become very negative about the car, then my husband and parents were like, “Lynn if you continue having a negative attitude about the vehicle then bad things will really happen.”  Well they are happening, that’s the thing, and it has only ever happened to me.

Just two weeks ago my husband was going for a job interview, and guess what……..the car didn’t start.  Woohoo, now it’s not just me.  It has finally effected him. 

So when someone asks me what is wrong with my car I just say that I have an Alero GM.  You would think that they would recall this car, because it happens to do this to everyone that has this make of vehicle with the year 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003. 

There is absolutely nothing that can be done about this problem, our car didn’t start for a week, two weeks ago, so we had it towedto Moncton.  Well $120.00 later, the mechanic put the keys in the ignition and it started.  Our car went for a $120.00 joy ride.  For nothing!  It’s just a jinxed vehicle.

What can you do when you have junk.  Grin and bare it.

My husband put some quick fixes in the comment box, so if you have been experiencing some of the same difficulties then this might help you too.

Do you ever get in the mode that you just don’t want to do anything?  Well I do, all the time.  I have two children, I mean a four year old daughter and a husband, and it seems as though the house work doesn’t stop.

My husband and I use to fight all the time about dishes, so I bought myself a dishwasher.  I come from a very large family so when supper was over my dad would call on his dishwasher as well, Lynn, that’s right it was my job to do the dishes.  Now let me tell you, there’s nothing more that I hate to do now…….that’s right dishes. 

So is it wrong for me to be finished with cleaning.   I need to hire a maid.  I just don’t want the maid, or I think (the politically correct word for them it is housekeeper), to see what I live in.  A mess!  Laundry, dishes, cleaning the bathroom, bedroom, toys….oh my goodness the toys, they have multiplied in the last four years.  I am pretty sure that I could open a toy store.  hhhhmmmmm that’s an idea. *giggle*

Do you ever wonder what a housekeeper would say when she got to your house?  Would she think to herself, “what’s this ladies problem.”  Well I do have a problem, I don’t like to clean anymore.  I want someone else feel what it’s like cleaning here.

And it’s funny as I am cleaning, my daughter seems to make a trail, now that things are back in order she can find the things that she wasn’t able to find before……yeah for me!!!   More mess, more toys!

I think that my husband would be thrilled if I consulted him about getting a “housekeeper.”  He would automatically think that it was a TV maid, that we were hiring.  You know one of those thin,sexy little things with the maid get-up on. 

Well, he will be flabbergasted when I get an older not so attractive lady.  Maybe I will pay her to put on the sexy get-up and flirt with him.  Wouldn’t that be funny!!

So back to cleaning, do you ever feel like you are doing it for nothing, it will just be a mess tomorrow, I think that, and then the cycle will begin again tomorrow.  This way everything is out already. 

And then I get in this tunnel and I want to clean everything, walls, stove, fridge, behind the fridge and stove, that really excites my husband and daughter.  They look at each other and say, “maybe we should leave, so that we’re not in her way.”  That is a code people, for let’s go to McDonald’s.  Isn’t that nice of them, leaving so that I can get around and clean their mess better.  Aww, how sweet.

Thanks for making my work easier!!  What is your least favorite chore? 

I don’t know about anyone else but I am so addicted to my television.  I am a a huge TV junky.  It’s to the point that Tuesdays and Thursdays stress me out because there are so many of “my” shows on at the same time. 

I watch everything, my TV day seems to start at about 1 in the afternoon.  I am however not glued to the TV at this time, I am still going about my daily life and still able to multi-task TV and house hold chores. 

I am absolutely a consumed by reality TV though.  I can’t get enough of them.  I watch them all;survivor, so you think you can dance, dancing with the stars, amazing race, bachelor, bachelorette, American idol, Canadian idol, big love and intertwined with the reality I watch 90210, Melrose place, law and order SVU, all the CSI’s, cold case and without a trace. 

I know what you are thinking, that’s a lot.  Just writing it down is quite overwhelming.  But I love TV……..

My husband is constantly on the computer and he isn’t really into too many of the shows that I like.  He thinks that they are a bit desperate and too girly for him.  But let me tell you as soon the music changes to a lower sexy music, he’s right on top of it.  He turns around so fast you would think his favorite fast food was in front of him.  Or the word sex, it’s like a radar, like a dog marking their territory in the park.  

So, when I am watching these shows, my husband turns around because they have earned his time.  If he hears a sexual word or hears that it is a fighting/sex scene he all of a sudden needs to ask questions about these shows. I think to myself, why do you really need to be caught up on the show when you don’t watch it.  Stop asking me questions…..my show is on and I am probably missing a good part.  It doesn’t matter, it’s not relevant to you, you don’t watch the show!  Just watch your making out scene (with the hopes that it might end up being a sex scene) and then go back to your computer.  Stop bothering me. lol

On the odd occasion he will end up sitting with me to watch a show, and then when it is over he will slither his way back to the computer and say that he just lost so much valuable time getting his work done……WHAT playing games, give me break.

I catch myself saying all the time, ”why did you stay up all night on the computer,” he responds, “because I can’t get any work done in the day”………….well stop playing games all day!  Really!  That seems easy enough.

I am also blessed and cursed at the same time.  See I have Bell TV, so that means it is feeding my addiction because I can pause live TV.  Can you picture it, I can pause my shows.  If I need to go to the bathroom, I can pause my show, or I can record more than one show at a time.  This is really a blessing for most, but it just encourages me to watch more TV, because really, I have absolutely no excuse to miss it.

So let me know what some of your favorite shows are?  I am sure we could talk about any of them.