Karen's Journey

Hi ya

Just another "quickie" from me... had the night from hell last night. Would be lucky if I got 2hrs sleep max! And the rest of the time I was WIDE AWAKE and having breakdowns every couple of hours (bawling, sobbing, crying... however you want to put it) being so frustrated at myself for not being able to sleep! I had gone to bed shattered after a full on weekend and a nice relaxing bubble bath but for some reason as soon as my head hit the pillow my eyes were wide open!!!!!!

Anyway, survived the day at work but am sure that was because I spent most of the day on another floor using a spare computer so being away from the temps and their endless questions made everyones day more bearable as I know that had I had to put up with questions etc I probably would have lost it and snapped at someone real early on! It was bad enough that I spent the last hour up on the floor with them and got stressed to the max in that hour alone!

Had taken the car in today in case I needed to come home early - started ok but it died on me (and my friend Marianne) about 100 metres from work going down the steep hill leading to Boulcott Street. Got some guys to do a jump start for me but no such luck - they said it was probably the starter motor! So rung the AA, waited an hour for them to arrive - wow talk about a gourgeous guy and well worth waiting the hour for! LOL But he managed to jump it ok and said that the other guys must have flooded the engine! So anyway, approx 90 mins after initally leaving work we were on our way at long last!!!

Got as far as Belmont Domain when all of a sudden I lost all power and was unable to accerlate so was able to drift over to the left hand lane and pull over... rung Steph and updated him and then it was back on the phone to the AA again! Another hour to wait - and I tell you by this time this pregnant chick really needed to go loo! LOL Not long after we had stopped there and we were trying to open the bonnet so we could raise it so people would know we had broken down, my brother in law stopped and tried helping us but no luck there... he did however tow us a bit further up the road to the bus stop so we were further off the shoulder of the motor way! And he also left us some chippies as he had just been doing the groceries! So yes an hour later, AA were back there with us and this guy was pretty adamant that the coil has "died" so called a tow truck for us and so about 30 mins later we were home! So our trip home took us 4hrs!!!!! Tow truck only cost me $20 so that wasn't too bad... and Steph is going to go to Repco or Super Cheap Autos tomorrow to get a new coil and will hopefully be able to fit it tomorrow afternoon!

But talk about that being the last thing I needed after such a crappy night on such a crappy day weather wise!!! But the main thing is that I am home (as is Marianne at long last), had a nice simple dinner cooked and ready for me, and now I am about to head to bed for hopefully a good sleep...

Got the hospital tour tomorrow all going well (unless the delivery ward is full) so will try to update after that otherwise I will catch ya all on Wednesday... ok so much for a quick post but now I am off to bed.... catch ya all later