Just to make you happy.

Hey, did you see I started posting again?

Everybody cheer!

I’ve actually written quite a bit today, even if you aren’t going to read my reviews (which is fine), so your real updates are just going to be in a nicely numbered list.

1. I’m not doing a class on campus this semester, after all. But it’s ok because my cousin Jennifer, who was going to watch the Bwun while I was in class, had her little baby boy 5 weeks early – he’s healthy and tiny (compared to the Bwun, at least) and adorable. Will you think I’m weird if I have a secret yearning for a tiny baby now?

2. That really should have been two separate things. Pretend I wrote it as 1a and 1b.

3. We got a new(ish) car! Remember how the Dodge died? And it might be because I jinxed it? At Christmastime I had a conversation that went like this:

me: “I really hate our car. I kind of wish it would die.”

My mom: “What?”

me: “I hate it and I wish it would die so we could replace it.”

So…that maybe was my fault. Want to hear the juicy details? It was New Year’s Eve. The Romgi and I had just picked up a dozen cupcakes from The Sweet Tooth Fairy, thanks to the gift card my cousin Katie gave us, and were heading up I-15 to meet Ben & Krista for some good New Year’s Eve fun.  We had just passed the Center Street on-ramp when there was a sound like a pop and a hiss, followed by loss of power to the engine. You know as well as I do that that is a bad thing. The Romgi pulled us over to the side of the road and turned the car off. Too bad it wouldn’t turn back on, huh? And too bad it was the middle of winter and we were in Utah, huh? Cold! So I piled another blanket on the Bwun (thank goodness we had extras) and we made some calls. Cell phones + internet = lifesavers. I had my dad google a tow truck and a mechanic, so while we waited I had our neighbors come rescue me and the Bwun. The Romgi went with the nice tow truck man, who seemed a little less nice when he charged us $90 for the towing. Oh well. Then Ben came and picked all of us up to bring us for New Year’s. It was super nice, and I guess it means they really like us. Or they were really desperate for company. Could be both.

That was Thursday night, and of course the mechanic was closed the next day because it was New Year’s. Of course. We didn’t expect to hear anything until Monday, but one of the employees had to go in on Saturday for a few things and gave us a call around noon. He explained that the timing belt broke, damaging quite a bit of the engine, and it would cost $toomuch to replace the timing belt – plus, he couldn’t guarantee that the car would work after that. Sigh. So we made a few more calls, were able to borrow a car from the Romgi’s aunt, and decided not to gamble the $toomuch on the repair. Instead we started looking for a used car to replace the Dodge. We ended up selling the Dodge to the mechanic for $200, which covered the cost of his labor and the towing and gave us $10 on top of that. I think we used it to buy Taco Bell or something. It was a rough weekend.

A week after the car broke down, we bought a 2003 Suzuki Aerio. It has some cosmetic damage that we’ll eventually repair (read: we could only afford a dinged-up car), but it also has LATCH for putting carseats in, and it’s a cute little car. We’re really happy with it! Thanks, Roni’s parents and the Romgi’s parents, for helping us out!

4. I forgot about just making a list, because it was such a fun story to tell. This one will be brief: the Romgi has two internships lined up for next summer. One is at a firm in Korea where he can get a feel for international law, and the other is at a small firm in Greensboro, North Carolina where he can get a feel for the East Coast. And insurance law. Each internship will be about 5 weeks, and the Romgi is hoping to do a few weeks of part-time work up in Salt Lake with the public defender’s office. It should be a fun summer! (That wasn’t as brief as I meant it to be.)

5. The Bwun has been fussy the past few days and just wants to nurse. Is he teething? If so, where are the new teeth? I sure don’t feel them. If not, will you please come babysit so I can have a break?

6. Right now, the Bwun is sitting on the fl0or next to me, talking to a board book (The Very Hungry Caterpillar). Yesterday he was waving to Harry Potter – on the cover of a dvd. He’s quite social. The Bwun, I mean. Not Harry Potter. (Especially in Book 5.)

7. Fried rice for dinner. The Romgi makes the best fried rice ever. Maybe we can even have dessert tonight! Wouldn’t that be cool?

8. Check out my plan for reading in 2010.

And that is all. Leave a comment so I know you still read my blog despite the fact that I didn’t post for 3 months!

P.S. Sorry about that “juicy details” link. Just wondered if you clicked on my links or not.

Weather

Utah is known (at least by its residents) for having ridiculous weather. For instance, yesterday morning was overcast, the afternoon was brilliantly sunny, and in between we had a huge thunderstorm, complete with this:

What will today be like, I wonder?