R E A L L Y ! ! ! !

So if you read my post from Friday you know that I was heading to the doctor for a recheck on my injury from last Tuesday. Well that didn't happen, I had to cancel.....

Let's start with the morning at 7:00 am when Mark was leaving for work. We had super strong Santa Ana winds Friday morning. He opened the back door to go outside with the dogs and then I heard something crash. 

I went into our bedroom to see what it was and as it turns out the opening cover to our attic, which is in our closet, fell to the floor creating a bit of a mess. The suction must have done it but that has never happened before. So Mark got it back up and taped it just in case and I vacuumed up the mess. 

I was on my computer for awhile, then I got showered and started to get ready for my appointment at 10:00 am. Had a huge blowout argument with Amber which is not a great way to start our day! Then I went into the garage and my car was dead! ($%&#) 

So I called AAA to come out to the house. I also called the Mini dealer to see if they had an idea of what it could be. Possibly the battery or starter. Long story here about my battery but I'm not going to go into that now other than tell you that we put a trickle charger on it often because I don't drive often enough to keep it charged with all the computers on board. 

Then I called the doctor to cancel my appointment. AAA showed up and yep it was a dead battery. Just so you know they can't replace the battery on a Mini. Mini has their very own special shaped battery which is very expensive. So he jumped my car and I headed over the the dealer. 

So after 3 1/2 hours at the dealer I was on my way with a new battery, new wipers and one recall taken care of. I have one more scheduled for November 11th. What a day I had. I actually wanted to stay home on Friday to get ready for our trip to the beach. By the time I got home all I wanted to do was have a glass of wine, Friday night pizza and a movie!

What I did do on the way home was stop over at the Urgent Care and asked if they could do me a favor. I just wanted them to look at my wound and tell me if it was looking okay, healing like it should. I told them about my morning and having to cancel my doctors appointment. They did look at it and said it was looking good. I was so thankful. 

Then I ran over to Sprouts because they have their Home Run Inn pizza at half price and wanted to get more for our freezer. These are a Chicago pizza and truly one of the best frozen pizza's around. We stopped ordering delivery pizza about six months ago and are really saving a lot of money buy buying these at Sprouts! 

When I got home Mark was getting home too. He told me he got an email from Amber with a picture of the pumpkins they carved. They were all moldy and one was leaking all over Mark's lovely cabinet in his office. (I had them on foil) I could not believe my eyes!!! So there was another mess to clean up and no pumpkins to put out for Halloween Saturday night. 

Anyway it was one of those days......but I am thankful for all the blessing God has given to us. Now let's hope things are going well on our beach trip. I'll let you know.......

RANDOM CONTINUED FROM WEDNESDAY HODGEPODGE ABOUT ADAM'S VISIT

It was an awesome visit with Adam. So sad to see him go home Wednesday afternoon but I know his life is in Pittsburgh. (More to share on that later) He won't be back until Christmas but I'm thrilled about having them here for the holiday.

I made spaghetti sauce in the crock pot, homemade meatballs in the oven and pasta on Saturday. We had crock pot black bean chili on Sunday with corn bread. Lot's of great family time watching football all weekend. Adam also carved up a pumpkin we had, old school design. 

Monday they went to Mark's gun club and did some target shooting. Amber and Dylan too! Not my thing at all. Adam went out Monday night to meet up with a few of his friends. They actually carved pumpkins!  

Tuesday we had decided to go to Red Robin and then to the show. We were running late for the show so we ran a few errands and caught a later show. Adam needed to pick up Cheetos Crunchy Flamin' Hot with Limon for Tristen because they can't find them in Pittsburgh. 

We also ran to Trader Joe's for my Organic Wine and as it turned out they have in their Trader Joe's Fall wine so we picked a few cases of that too. It has been so good each year. The kids picked up more pumpkins for carving. 

Then when we got to the show we walked around a really nice pond area that is there to kill some more time. We were going to see Tom Hanks new movie Bridges of Spies. 

It was time to go to the show and I decided to take a short cut to the parking lot on a little incline. Adam went with me and helped me but one of my foot slipped and the other leg came down on the concrete pad. 

That's when I hurt myself which I mentioned on Wednesday. I torn a strip of skin up about 5 inches long and 2 inches wide on my shin. We decided to go to Urgent Care and have it looked at. I will be seeing my doctor today for a follow up to see how it is doing. 

So we missed the show and I felt so bad for making everyone miss it. We ended up back at the grocery store for my prescription. However the day turned out to be fun regardless of missing the movie. The kids carved their pumpkins, we ate pizza and then we played cards for a few hours. It was a fun time! 

Adam, Dylan and Amber's pumpkins.....

(If anyone is interested in seeing my injury let me know in your email. It's pretty ugly)