June 20th, 2008
Comes in Three’s
When it rains, it pours. You can it so many different ways, but it really seems like when one bad thing happens, more follow. To start with, this weekend is mondo busy. We have a wedding that Andy is standing up in, my friend’s rummage sale, my friend’s going away party and my sister is in town. Let’s just say, we don’t have much time to spare. Last night, Andy and I loaded up our car with stuff to bring to my friend’s rummage sale–basically stuff I just want out of our house. My parents stopped by to help us bring some tables over and we were just about ready to go. I realized that Andy had forgotten the hangers, so I ran back to the garage and opened the garage door. I grabbed the hangers and hit the button to close the garage door. That is when it all went to crap. Something happened with the garage door that caused it to go up and then down and almost collapse on itself. Andy came running and stopped it, but the damage was done. We got the garage halfway down, but then couldn’t anymore. We decided it would be smart to get my car out too.
So we took the rummage sale stuff to my friends and Andy left me there while he looked for someone to help him with the garage. (I actually requested to stay because he was a bit cranky–plus my friend is moving back to Cali in 2 days, so it was nice to spend time with her.) Luckily, Andy does have a really good friend in the groom of the wedding because he took time out his busy schedule to help Andy close the garage door. It is closed now, but we now have to get a new garage door.
This morning while Andy showered for work, I searched the web for garage door prices–which aren’t easy to find. But a garage door is expensive–well actually its more the installation–but it’ll hit us a little in the pocketbook–almost a grand. I want some fractional ownership in that. It’s about the same price to put up the door as the actual door.
Then, to make matters worse, the arm rest in the Prius broke. We already called and made an appointment for that for Monday. But I am hoping the dust on the sensor was the first of the three, so now our bad luck is gone.
