Friday, July 12, 2002

Fri
12
Jul
2002

He’s Almost Home!

Current mood: Excited Bear excited
I talked to Marcus about 2:30 and he was about 30 miles from the Kansas/Colorado border, so I'm thinking he'll be home in the next couple of hours here. Yippeeeee!!!! Dork Boy got a speeding ticket in Kansas, though. I even told him to watch his speed as he left last week. *sigh* He has to have the rental car back at the DIA rental facility by 8 p.m. tonight, so I get to drive to town again. I'm so thrilled about that. I'm going to try and con a dinner out of him or something, though.

I haven't written about this because I know he's been reading my blog while he was gone, and I really wanted to surprise him. I've been cleaning out my car all week. He's always making fun of how dirty it is. Since I've spent most of my adult life as a pizza driver and keeping the interior of my vehicle clean was next to impossible, I've really let the inside of the old Subaru go. I took out the seats, took apart the center console, took apart part of the dash. I've had several pop explosions in there and there was brown, sticky stuff everywhere. I've been trying to steam clean out 4 years worth of ground in dirt and soda out of the carpets. I'm still not done yet, but it looks a heck of a lot better than it did at the beginning of the week. I've also got 4 screws left over that I have no idea where they came from. Why does that always happen? Do they reproduce in the bowl I threw them in? Hmmm. I should be done before school on starts up again on Monday. I even bought stuff to wash and wax it on Sunday. Of course, highway driving and living on the plains will have the outside filthy again in no time, but hopefully I can get on some sort of regular cleaning schedule for her.

Skippy is such a major dork dog. I was outside putting the passenger seat back in and I look up to see Skippy running down the street in front of our house. He pushed the screen out of the bedroom window and jumped. I started chasing him and he jumps into the car and gets hair all over my newly cleaned seats. I was so mad! I grabbed him by his scruff and pulled him out of the car and chased him into the yard. Argh!!!!

Dang, Marcus just got home. He must've been a speed demon through Colorado. Gotta go!