birthday and adventure

today is david's birthday! he is 24 now. unfortunately he had to work tonight, but he had the morning off with me. we made french toast for breakfast and watched more LOST season 2 episodes! it is fun to watch them again...we're picking up on things that we didn't the first time around. then his present came by way of UPS (to see what it was, visit his blog, he posted about it) and by that time he had to get ready to leave for work. i made a carrot cake for him yesterday and put the cream cheese icing on tonight. we're going to eat it when he comes home! yum yum. can't wait!

yesterday was a bit of an adventure. since i could make it a really long story, i'll do my best to make it short. the car broke down. now it's fixed. the end. ok not really. well, i mean it broke, but i really won't make the story that short. i had to work yesterday, and dave worked at 2. that meant i had to leave work with enough time to get to wegmans to buy the ingrediants i needed for the cake and get home so dave could leave. well...i got to wegmans, and as i was just pulling into the parking lot, i heard a loud snap and then very loud flapping noises. i thought the tire had blown and the rubber was hitting the ground. which would stink b/c we just got new tires! but it wasn't. so i called dave in a panic. he was home with no way to get to me and i was at wegmans with no way to go anywhere!! well, my mom was in the area so she went and picked dave up from our house and they both came to meet me. meanwhile, dave called our mechanic, who was too busy to look at it until next week, but he set us up with another place. then he called a tow truck and we waited. got the tow, they said it'd be a while to look at it, so we hung out at a donut place and started calling rental car places. we thought for sure that was our only option. well, about a 1/2 hr. later, the car place called back and said our car was fixed! apparently, it had blown a spark plug. dave started laughing and asked them if by chance it was the back left one. it was. you see, 2 yrs. ago, dave was replacing the spark plugs and it was taking too long and this one was too hard, so he shoved it in there. well, it cross-threaded and impossible to get out, so he left it. our car has been running on 5 spark plugs instead of 6 for 2 yrs!!! and it finally blew. so now we have all 6 working and the car is running better than ever! except for the transmission that slips on first gear, but it still runs better! so dave got to work 2 hrs. late, i finally got home to make the cake and my mom was the hero of the day! (we would've really been in a jam without her chauffering!!)

so our life continues on with one adventure after another. i hope the next adventure includes something for free. i don't like all this unexpected expenses. oh well. dave's almost home and i want cake! have a good night!