I’m so annoyed right now.  I had a bit of a long week and I topped it off in fine style this morning.  I tried to park in a space that (in hindsight) was a bit too tight.  I wasn’t paying that much attention to be honest, and I ended up dragging the bumper of the truck (also a Tundra interestingly enough…) that was parked behind my spot, all the way down the side of my freshly painted truck.  It didn’t do that much damage to the parked truck (although…enough…), but it sure put a dent in my truck.

Back to the autobody place I go.  And we all know how much I enjoyed that last time…

In my defense (if I had a dollar for everytime I wrote that!), this truck is like driving a bus.  It’s a good third longer than my last truck (which seemed like a boat after my Prelude), and that’s taken a bit of getting used to.  That’s the problem actually.  I got used to it…and stopped paying attention.

Anyhow…just one more thing to pay for.  I should just stand on the street corner with hundred dollar bills and let people randomly take them.  It’d work out to about the same.

On a separate…and yet still connected…note, feel free to pray for us today.  It’s been a week of fairly extreme ups and downs.  Things to be very thankful for…and things that make me want to take off and go lay by a pool for about a month.  The part that’s difficult sometimes is that, even the good moments and conversations where I can really see God at work, still take a lot of you.  It can be pretty emotionally draining.  That’s kind of how this week has been.  And there are a couple of conversations I still need to have, to deal with situations that happened over the past couple of days.  I definitely need some wisdom to know how to proceed. 

But I’ll leave you with something funny…or at least funny to me.  I mentioned a while back how the little guys out at the other home used to call me “Cachorro” all the time.  Then they’d laugh and laugh.  I finally remembered to ask someone one day what it meant.  It turned out to be a street kid term for a someone you could take in a fight.  =)  Made me laugh…

Yesterday I was “discussing” something with Jimmy.  It ended up with him on the floor and me telling him that I’d only let him up if he admitted he was my cachorro.  Which he eventually did.  Later we were working on homework at the dining room table and this hat I got for free (when I bought the battery for my truck) was sitting there.  It’s kind of a funny hat.  So I told him it was the cachorro hat and he had to wear it.  He actually came up with the idea of writing on it….

It got passed around a bit as the guys argued about who was who’s cachorro.  In the end it somehow ended up in my room.  So I put it under Jimmy’s pillow.  This morning it was tied with string to my door handle.

It’s a funny life I lead…