Not a picture of my car, but my car exactly.
And to add insult to injury, getting off the highway on my exit in front of me was Jack. I got in front of him coming around the turn though and as I did my car became nothing but a ball of smoke, inside and outside the car to the point I couldn't see anything! He didn't know it was me but I texted him and said, "thats my car smoking!". It just figured someone I knew would have to see it haha.
Tano checked it at the gas station tonight on the way home from taking the kids to Chuckee Cheeses. Said he saw a hole in the radiator hose thats spraying, which explained the oil everywhere I saw when I popped the hood at my house, and that he can fix. He also said that it could be a few other things that we need a mechanic to do. Fuuuck meee! I mean, I knew I would have to put some work into a car bought at auction, its like the sixth car we've bought there and we know the drill, but this one just seemed like it wouldn't need as much and nothing that would incapacitate the car!
Thank God I can drive a stick! Well, the car I'm talking about IS a stick because I LOVE driving stick now that Tano taught me. I had to learn when my pontiac crapped out on me, it was drive my mothers manual Matrix around or not get around. Let me tell you, trying to learn in a parking lot with two people trying to teach you at once is fucking hard! Your husband hopping out on route 702 in Essex just before the highway and saying "okay see you tomorrow!" and being forced to drive by yourself, a MUCH faster way of learning haha. So tomorrow I'll be driving the Matrix and bring Tano back here to check out the Avenger and maybe we'll take it to Exxon to get an estimate or maybe we'll just call our guy.
In other news, yesterday, I came home after being at Tanos for a little bit in the morning because he and his mom were going to clean the house and I was going to do laundry and clean over here. After being home about an hour I got a funny feeling and looked for my phone. It was no where near me. Suddenly I thought that he had been calling and I searched for it and found it buried in my new bag. He hadn't called but not three seconds later, he did. I knew instantly something was wrong. He had lost the dog!
None of these are Puti but it is what she looks like.
Puti (pronounced Poo-tee) is a toy Yorkie, gorgeous little dog. She barks when she needs to be let out and scratches when she needs to come back in if you're not outside with her. She never lingers, does her business and then comes in. Yesterday Tano had gone out with her, she was taking a long time to go, he walked inside to throw a soda can away came back to the door and she was gone! Vanished! He looked for a while cos this has happens a couple other times, maybe twice and she'd always be found in the back alley playing with some kids or chasing a squirrell - shes very brave for her size! But after an hour of walking and biking he called me almost in tears. That dog is his baby! She's a trip, whenever he kisses me she runs over and forces herself in between us and starts to kiss him. If I lay next to him or on him she'll run over and jump right on his lap. She's great though, she loves me, just not on him!
That dog is his baby, she sleeps with him every night, lays with him when he doesn't feel good, cries when he's gone. She's also his mothers dog, thats his mothers baby! By the time I got to the house, she was there and she was fucking pissed! That puerto rican temper came right out! I picked him up and we drove around for about two hours and couldn't find her! We knew someone had her, for her to vanish that quickly and there be no trail. It wasn't like someone saw her here and then someone else saw her a block from there and then a block from there. Some kids saw her on the playground across the street and in the alley and them she was gone!
Tano and his mother by the way, live in a complex of very nice town houses, not like the row houses you see in the city, but very cute little square town homes. Theres a maze of alleys in the backs and across the street in their alley is a little playground for all the kids. Thats where she was seen and then vanished! We knew someone had her also because she is a toy Yorkie and they aren't like a pitbull where people are (needlessly) afraid, that is a dog someone would keep. A few years go she went missing because a woman in the area had stolen her! Shaved her and renamed her! Puti escaped after three weeks and came home. The lady was going to keep her until Miss J threatened to call the police!
Anyways, we looked and looked for her to no avail, took around her picture, asked everywhere. I told Tano that we needed to go door to door and ring the bells because everytime the bell rang Puti would bark and bark. That way we would hear her the moment we rang the bell. We also went to the Fed Ex store to make copies - until we found out it was going to cost $129 and change to make 250 color copies of just the dog! Another twenty dollars to add a phone number! I was confused as to why when I told the guy we needed to make a lost dog poster he didn't assume there would be contact info put on it.... uhhhhh DUH!
Anyway, we came home and I was making a list of shelters to call and putting a flier together that Miss J was going to make at work the next day. On the flier we were going to put that she was fixed (which she was but you're supposed to do for every dog anyway to deter people from wanting to keep your dog for breeding, though it doesn't work as well with male dogs) and I had the idea to put on it that she took seizure medication. Hoping that if someone had stolen her who wanted to keep her that when they saw that on the flier they would think that they instead wouldn't want to pay such bills and deal with such a dog. While I was doing this we heard someone yell, "we found your dog!"
Tano was out the door in two seconds and I ran up to get Miss J. When I said they found her she said, "get the fuck outta here!"
What happened was, Puti had seen two kids walking a dog towards the park and she took off chasing it. While in that back alley across the street and out of eye sight though not even half a block distance away, Puti was almost hit by a car. A woman saw this happen and took Puti into her house. She did this not only because she was nearly hit but because this womans neighbor had a Yorkie and she thought Puti was her neighbors Yorkie! Finally though, hours later the neighbor came home and told this nice woman that it wasn't her dog. They were having this conversation outside and some of the kids said, "hey these people are looking for that dog!" And then the whole neighborhood brought her back! We were so happy and releived. Miss J was happy that the lady had her and none of the kids because she had told the kids whoever found her would get fifty dollars! I guess thats why twenty kids came running from the playground when they were carrying Puti back!
It was quite the event, everyone was so stressed!
Today we wanted to take the kids to the fair but when Tano found out it was $8 for admission plus rides, games and food it was just too much. I had passes for us that would let us get ride all day free bracelets for $20 but it still would have been over one hundred dollars for the four of us to get in, plus food and games. Just too much. We ended up going to Chuckee Cheese instead and we all had a blast. We all got stuck on the basketball games because Tano liked it, obviously he doesn't just look like Mike Bibby, he can play too. I played for years as a kid and Jada was shockingly great for a four year old! While playing someone stole out from under Jada and I a little cup with tickets and tokens in it. How fucking sad, kids that age already stealing! So wrong!
Everyone had fun, well, everyone but Tano. He just seemed in a funky mood all night, depressed or something. I think maybe because he was fighting with his mother about something stupid. I'm not sure. I just get nervous because I always think its something I did when he gets like this. It scares me. When he's mad and angry and loud I can handle that so much better than when he's just so quiet like this! Its scares me shitless to be frank. But he said I love you to me tonight, which he does so often but sometimes he doesn't. He just says that its over used and loses meaning and he's right, and though he does say it five days out of the week, it still means the world to me when he does, because I know that he does.
I had a good time with the kids though, they were grateful for all they won with the help of Tano and I playing basketball and picked out some dumb toys and I bought us each a bag of cotton candy which otherwise would have cost 200 tickets a pop (big deal) and Tano and I got lollipops. I want to do more things like that with Puto so badly. Jada gets to do lots of things with her fathers thats for sure, but I'd love to do shit with her two! Thats my little girl. She went from hiding behind her father when she would see me, to hiding because she was trying to figure out a new way to come running at me and jumping into my arms!
I have to start figuring shit out tomorrow. Whats really going to happen. I'm running out time and scenarios here...... I have to tell him this week. I have to tell him this week. I have to him tell him. I have to tell him.
Soon...
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