car troubles always come at christmas time

so it has been quite a weekend for us. on thursday night i was out shopping for christmas presents with kjonaas when the car totally stopped running in an unlit parking long downtown. my friend katie came to jump start me but after four tried our poor car wouldn't hold a charge. oh yes by the way this was me and screaming kjonaas...magic fun. so we got the car towed back to our apartment and the next day my step dad came up and put in a new battery, woohoo the car started to run again.

saturday the car stopped again and upon taking it to pep boys we learned that our alternator had gone kaput and we needed to purchase a new one at the hefty cost of $267.00. So it is at pep boys waiting for me to pick it up and i don't want to walk over there with kjonaas in this god awful weather. ugh stupid car. so we wound up spending $60.00 for towing $95.00 for a brand new battery and then the cash for the alternator bringing us to a grand total of: $422 dollars spent on car crap that was supposed to be for bills/christmas presents.

on the upside i made vegan mac and cheese and vegan sopapillas. be jealous. selby the yellow lab decided to help herself to about half of these sopapillas since i left them on the counter to cool, but i won't hold it against her since she is a dog and can't really help herself. merry christmas food stealer.