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My Christmas break is off to an unexpected start. I was going out to Bristol after work yesterday evening to visit awful_horrid, but had to go to the north side of Kenosha first to drop off serinthia; her car wasn't starting. So I did that, got back to highway 50, and got gas at the PDQ there. I then found that my car had caught what Serin's has; turning the key just made it go 'click'.

I called moiracoon from the gas station's phone, but she was unable to come get me; her car was stuck in a snow bank outside our house. (Though I realized after I got off the phone with her that she hadn't specifically said it was outside the house, and I hadn't thought to ask, so I worried that she was stuck in traffic somewhere until I found out otherwise.) I asked her to all my parents to ask my mom, farm_cat, to come pick me up.

Farmcat showed up as soon as weather allowed to bring me home. She then went back to pick up my brothers to help free Moira's car, a task that turned out to be more than a two person job. While waiting for them (they're only a few blocks away, fortunately), Moira lined up a tow for my Neon. We got her Kia unjammed (thanks again to my family! *bounces* Even though they took one of my PS2 games with them...) and waited a little while for the tow truck guy to call back.

We got a call and went out to the PDQ together to meet the driver and got that all settled. By then it was after ten o' clock, but Moira still needed to go food shopping, so the two of us went to Woodman's, where shopping took 'till after midnight, part of that being because we randomly bumped into someone from the theatre there and talked for a while.

But I was getting hugely tired and ended up sitting on a bench by the checkout lanes and trying t nap while Moira finished up. We got home with groceries around twelve thirty, I think, and I went swiftly to bed. I apologize publicly to Moira for being tired and irritable on the way home. I often don't do very well being out in public when I'm extremely tired, and I was more than half-asleep at times.

I called Hessefort, the mechanic I use, today; to my pleasant surprise, they were open a half day today so I got a hold of somebody there. They're going to be able to check out the car on Friday, so with luck I'll have it for work next week and over the New Year break.

I'm kind of down about not having been able to connect with Awful_horrid last night like I was hoping; I was really looking forward to that. I'm hoping that I'll have a car that works to enable me to meet up with uberhill when he's in town for new year celebrations, and that I can reschedule last night's meet before too terribly long. We'll see when I have a working car again.

In the meantime, best wishes for a wonderful Christmas Eve to everyone! I just helped Moira make cupcakes, and this evening will be our traditional Chinese buffet family Christmas dinner! Yay!!!!!! Though things haven't gone exactly as I would have hoped so far, I'm deeply grateful to have my family and my raccoon close to me over the holiday weekend.