The 'Snooze: May 2008

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Itch, Itch

Some time over Memorial Day weekend I realized my itchy eye was the beginning of a poison ivy outbreak. By Sunday morning half my face was swollen, fluids were draining into my eye, my cheeks were rashy, and I didn't really feel like going to church. By Monday (when we began our garage sale), I looked like I had either been punched in the eye, or been in a car accident. I got very odd looks from our buyers.

On Tuesday I decided I should go to the Dr. But he was completely full for the day and sent me to urgent care (cha-ching!). Yeah, the Dr said, poison ivy in the eye really isn't a good thing. "You need a shot!" "And pills for 10 days." "More cha-ching", I thought.

The drugs helped with the swelling, but next I looked like I had been burned. Then the skin started coming off, and I looked like I had leprosy. Then my neck started breaking out. And those spots grew. And tonight the other side of my neck started breaking out. And this all comes from being the only one in this house who will weed the back hill.

When will it ever end, when will it eeeever end? (That was a 60's song).

Friday, May 23, 2008

New Carssss

For a brief six or so hours today, we owned four cars. Yesterday we finally found a 1999 Camry for the college kids' commute. That put us up to three cars. Today we found a 2000 Accord to replace our 15-year-old Aerostar. That put us up to four cars. This evening, we sold the Aerostar, which brought us back down to three cars.

Here you see all our cars filling our driveway. It looks like we run a used car lot.

It took the Professor three months to learn how to buy used cars. First he had to train himself to have a critical eye. Then he had to learn to be fast to beat others to test driving the cars advertised in AutoTrader and Craig's List. For a couple of weeks, good cars disappeared from the adds. Then suddenly two showed up within 5 miles of our home. After buying both, we listed the Aerostar, as decrepit as it is. We had 20 inquiries in less than 24 hours. We sold it to the first looker.