Interesting Weekend...

We had a really nice weekend (for once). Friday night we went to see "Click" which was really good. On Saturday the Chinese group had a cookout. And in true JW fashion, there was tons of food!!!

Everyone has been asking, and yes....that was our Kingdom Hall that you have heard so much about. The Hickman Rd Kingdom Hall in Columbus was broken into and they tried to start a fire in the basement. The Hall is the home to three congregations, Forest Park, Spanish East, and our congregation, Worthington. We are going to be going to the Westerville Hall for at least the next week. We were on CNN!!! I haven't heard too much yet...you have probably heard more than us. But the brother who did most of the interviews, Tom Wiley, is the P.O. of our hall and our bookstudy conductor, so we will know much more tomorrow. I did include some pictures (what really makes it hurt) and some links to local news coverage.

Luckily, our literature servant had just gotten a shipment that he hadn't taken to the hall yet. So we have two boxes of Bible Teach books in his garage. The room that was set on fire was where they kept the extra literature and there was a computer for research. Most of the literature down there was for the Spanish cong. so they are going to be hurting more since there is only one other Spanish cong in Columbus. The other sad thing is that there was a lot of older books and volumes down there. Like all the one name books, Salvation, Jehovah, all those...I think though that most of them had been taken by people. Chris and I were able to get Vol 1 of the Watchtower Volumes...it's pretty cool....

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=195124

http://www.nbc4i.com/news/9423572/detail.html

Ouch....

Well, I just came back from the chiropractor. It was pretty bad. We looked at my xrays, and my neck is all messed up. From the back you could see where one of the bones was twisted sideways. From the side was just plain horrible. The spine in your neck is supposed to have a curve, a normal healthy neck curves in towards the chest. If your spine is straight, that is bad. Basically because then the weight of your head gets put on only one or two bones instead of all 7. My neck....curves back towards my back. That's very bad!! It's basically the beginning of cervical spine degeneration. All the pressure is being put on one veretbrae which would eventually create a bone spur in my neck. THAT'S BAD!!!! So today we took xrays of my back to see just how messed up it is. So now, not only do I get to go to the doctor....I get to go 3 times a week for 3 weeks!!!

At Least I Get to Go to the Doctor.....

Even though we don't have health insurance, luckily our auto insurance covers any medical costs caused from the accident. I got a coupon in the mail for a free consultation, 10 min massage, and xrays for a chiroprator, so I jumped on that. I went yesterday for the consultation. He said that I have a couple of ribs out of place (not dislocated, just not where they should be), and that I have about 3-4 vertebrae out of place in my neck. On of those is pushing on a nerve in my shoulder, which is making my arm go numb. Another is pushing on a nerve that is giving me headaches. So I have an appointment to go back today to look at the xrays he took of my neck and to get an alignment....HOORAY!!!!! I'm so excited!!

It was funny though because he had me lay on my back and he crossed one of my legs over the other and kinda lifted it at the same time (if that made any sense) and asked if it caused any discomfort in my lower back. I told him no, but that it made the foot on my straight leg go numb. His reaction was hilarious!!! He had this look like, 'oh, no!' and he looks at me and he says, "really..." real serious. I laughed alittle and told him that I had been have problems with my sciatic. So hopefully while he twisting me very which way he can take care of that too.

Well, that's about as exciting as it gets right now. Later.

Worse Than I Could Have Imagined.....

I'm to the point now that anything could happen and it would not phase me a bit. I knew my weekend was going to be horrible, but this is ridiculous....

I went to Chinese bookstudy Saturday morning after taking Chris to work, but I felt horrible so I just went home and didn't go in service...maybe that was my mistake...so I got a shower and got things ready to go to Mom & Dad's. I lost track of time and was like 20 minutes late picking Chris up. Grr....So we go on our merry little way. Half way down I-70 the cruise on the Honda turns off and the gas petal just drops. So we coast ourselves to the side of the highway. The minute we stop Chris just yells, "Get Out!!!" Before we even got out of the car smoke is coming in through the vents. So we walk away and just stand on the side of the highway watching our car smoking like crazy from the hood. We were there forever and it just kept right on smoking, even after Chris put the hood up. Grr....No one stopped or anything, but after probably 10 minutes or so we hear sirens, and can see a fire truck. Chris says "Maybe that's for us..." As they drove by the driver but his fingure up to say, "One minute." So after they went up to the next exit and turn around they came to us. Someone had called 911 for us. They basically looked at it and said, "Yep...something's wrong." They let us use their cell phone to call Mom and Dad who didn 't answer the first 3 times I called. We were only a mile and a half from Flying J (because it would be too much to ask to break down next to it). So we got the ride in the fire truck...woohoo...(that's a non-excited woohoo by-the-way) and the took us to Flying J. Grr...

So there we sat in the truckers lounge watching "Starship Troopers" and feeling our I.Q.'s drop while doing so (.....rent it.....you'll understand...). We then realize that we are poor....not that we didn't already know....and could not afford a towing bill, especially to Zanesville! So instead we have to buy a calling card, then put minutes on it, so that we could call Mom and Dad again. We had them rent a tow dolly so that we could tow the stupid car home. Grr... So after retarded movie #1 was over, retarded demonic movie #2 came on, so we couldn't even sit in the lounge. The only other place to sit was right in front of the pizza and chinese restaurants. We were hungry. Hungry and Poor. We were supposed to have dinner at Mom & Dad's (can we say free food?!), but after what we figure would have been at least two hours of waiting we needed food. So we spent almost $9 on the worst "Chinese" food that we have ever had. And, of course, before we even took our first bite....Mom & Dad came walking in....They hadn't eaten either so they just got some food too and we ate. So we went and got the piece of sh-beep (ode to Adam Sandler) car and took it to Chris' parents house. Grr...

There's no offical cause of death yet, but we think the timing belt (that we hadn't changed because we are poor) broke and led to us throwing a rod (or something a rod....) which basically means "this car is no more....it has ceased to be..." (Monty Python). I've been involved with totaling two cars in one week....that makes me more than the winner....I have to be like the master of the universe by now or something....Grr...

So in true Edmonson style we all went back to Mom & Dad's house and had ourselves a drink!!! Schwepp's Ginger Ale and Jack Daniels. And I think we would all agree that it did its job well...But unfornately this was only Saturday and the weekend had a whole other day in store for us....Grr....

So...we go to meeting the next morning. I was really in pain too. For some reason.....insert sarcasim here....I had a headache. The speaker was very good though and gave an excellent talk. And then after the riviting Watchtower study..........................(just thought I'd give a minute to let that one sink in) we went to Wendy's to "munch on some grindage" (Pauly Shore, Son-in-law, don't knock it!). So off we went to Pomery, Ohio. It was a nice right down there, no flaming balls of gas flying at us or anything. So we go and look at Mindy Grady's kittens and puppies (probably the only non-depressing part of the weekend....besides the alcohol, of course) and we go to leave. As I am going down her driveway Mom & Dad's Achieva starts making the loudest noise in the world.....the exhaust on the car broke in half!!!!!!! So we spent an hour at Mindy's with Chris under the car wiring the exhaust up with wire hangers ("no more wire hangers...EVER!!)!!!! The only plus about this delay was that Mindy took me for a ride in her convertable, which was awesome. So no one really trusted me with Mindy's '04 Dodge Neon, so I had to drive the Achieva home....Grr...

About half way home we stopped at a Speedway and got a hot dog, the Achieva was not helping my headache at all between the fumes and the LOUDEST SOUND EVER!!!! So Chris was nice and let me drive the Neon. That car is really nice, it only has 43k miles. But I still don't understand how a 2004 car doesn't have cruise....Chris and I looked everywhere but under the seat....but knowing our luck, that's probably where it is. Grr.....

When we got home we realized that we hadn't gotten the parking passes for our apartments out of the Honda, so we had to park in the visitor's lot. I talked to them today and after explaining our week she gave us two temp passes till we get the others. So now I get to drive the Achieva to work, but at least I only work 3 miles away.

I'll tell you what though...all of my limbs could just drop off of my body right now, and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised....but hey....the apartment hadn't burnt down while we were gone, so things must be getting better....right?!?!?!

GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poor Thing...

So here are the pix. When I saw them I thought they really didn't look that bad. I suppose it was to me though. I tried to take pix of my green hand, but they didn't turn out. It still makes me sick.....Poor thing.....

Poor Thing...

Look Out!!!!

Between car accidents and getting pregnant, all women beware!!! I have another friend who was in a car accident on Wednesday!! And everyone I know (almost) is pregnant!! Let's keep our fingers crossed Judy that they don't go hand-in-hand!!!! Wait...I better reiterate that....I'm not pregnant.

This whole week has been terrible though. I have just plain felt like crap. This morning I had a fever...a lovely way to start a work day. I made it though, somehow. We're going to get the pix of the car developed today, so I should be able to put them up tonight.

This weekend is going to be icky too. Tomorrow Chris has to work 8am-4pm, so I have to wake up and take him to work so that I can go to Chinese bookstudy at 9am ,and then out in Chinese service until who knows when, then pick him up, then go to Mom and Dad's. We are going to spend the night there, go to their meeting, and then it's off to Athens!! We have a friend down there who has a dealer's license and is going to let us borrow a car for a while. Then we get to go back to Columbus......the whole weekend.....just completely gone. At least we'll get to see people we haven't seen in a while. But I must say.....I would much rather just lay on the couch and sleep!!! (No offense).

This is a long post. I need to shut up now. Thanks for listening!

How Cute!!!

I totally found what kind of dog I want. It's called a Puggle. It's a Pug and Beagle mix. I saw one at the pet store the other day and about died!!! It was the cutest thing I have ever seen. These pix aren't even as cute as the one I saw. I want one sooo bad!!! (once we get a house) Now all I have to do is convince Chris that he wants one too!!

I WIN!!!!

Well, there's no way around it. I win. I beat out Erin in the "Let's see who can total their car" Contest. Yes, I too was in an accident this week. I don't have the pictures yet. (cause we don't have one of them fancy digi-tal cam-er-as.) I will have the roll of film delevoped soon though. Long story short, just think of one of those Crash Tests, only I was the dumby (in more than one way). I got hit on the front driver side. Needless to say, I will never turn left on a yellow light again. I'm ok, for the most part. I busted a blood vessel in my hand, so the back of it is all blue and swollen, and my wrist is pretty sore from the air bag. Both air bags went off and the radiator was leaking, so it was definately done for. Luckly, we were able to sign over the title to a junk yard, so they covered the cost of the tow. Yesterday was horrid. That's all there is to it.

I finally figured this dumb thing out. It just takes forever!!!

I felt a little left out because everyone else had a blog and I didn't. But since I have the internet again I figured, 'Hey! Why not?!'. So here it is my very own blog. The name is Wo de shenghou, which of course is Chinese for, yep you guess it!!! My life. Nothing special...but I present it to you. Enjoy.