I have not blogged in a while and honestly there is no reason other than I got lazy. I think I go in spurts with this blog. There are times when I am all gung-ho about writing and then other times where the task seems so daunting. Anyway, I am trying to get back to being gung-ho about my blog so we will see how I do.
This past week my mother-in-law, Laura, was in town. It is still weird to say mother-in-law as for more than 7 years I am used to saying "Andy's mom," but now it's mother-in-law. Weird! Anyway, she arrived on Friday the 5th and left yesterday. We did plenty of eating out while she was here. We were able to check out Prime Bar in Scottsdale Quarter as well as other yummy restaurants that Andy and I haven't been to because we don't get out much anymore. Also, she was able to experience how much AAA sucks!
Last Saturday morning when I got in my car to run errands my car wouldn't start and since I live on the equator I knew it was my battery that was dead. For non-Arizonan's your car batteries only last about 2.5 years and you can find yourself stranded in this heat. I have had the car about 2.5 years so it was my time for a new battery. Luckily I was at home and not somewhere else. We contacted AAA to come out and change up my battery and of course we told them my car is an Audi so there were very aware of the car they were coming out to do service on. After they spent 45 minutes on my car the guy knocked on the door to tell me he doesn't have the right tool to take out the battery because it's a foreign car. No shit its a foreign car and you knew this before you came so I don't understand how the guy didn't have the right tool. Then he proceeds to tell me his boss can't send anybody else out the rest of the day to help with the battery so I need to call the next day and schedule AAA again. Really???? I was pretty annoyed, but it was the weekend and the Audi dealership was not open so I didn't really have any other choice. The next day though when Andy contacted AAA he explained the situation so when the guy came out he has experience working on foreign cars and had the right tools. As soon as the guy arrived I confirmed with him that he had the right tool and he got me a new battery.
Once the car was fixed we all went on some errands and went to see the movie Horrible Bosses. Funny movie by the way. When we came out of the theater my rear view mirror was on my dashboard. Really?!?!? What the hell is going on with my car and how does that happen. I know it was extremely hot out, but I don't think it's normal for your mirror to fall off. Well, this week I stopped in at Audi to put my mirror back on and the reason for it falling off was I had a new windshield put in recently and the company didn't put the mirror on correctly. I was glad to know it was not my cars fault, but instead this windshield company who I will never use again.
Besides my car problems we also saw the movie The Help on Thursday night. By "we" I mean Laura, Karen, Melissa and myself. Andy of course did not go. I had read the book a few months ago so I was pretty excited to see the movie when it came out. I just knew Andy wouldn't go with me so when Laura and Karen suggested we go see the movie I was all in. It was a great movie and if you liked the book you will love the movie as well.
Good times with my mother-in-law this week and looking forward to seeing her again in about six weeks for a Badger football game.
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