Ghetto Fabulous

A few days ago I noticed that my car was making a funny noise. It seemed to be slightly louder when I was accelerating. I went into Mac & Sam this morning and scheduled an appointment of friday to have it looked at. While I was there I described what was happening and asked if he thought it was safe to drive to Kutztown this week. He looked at me with that "you're such a girl" look and replied, I can not answer that question without looking at the car first. I have no idea what is wrong with it. I took that as I'm over reacting and left for school.

I leave Kutztown after class. !5 minutes into my hour and a half ride I hear a loud thump followed by my car becoming extreamly noisy and a scraping metal sound happening below. This is the sound of your exhaust falling off your car and dragging on the ground. So now I'm that girl driving on the highway with something dragging from the under part of my car, causing sparks to fly from the metal scraping on the ground. (in case you haven't noticed I love the "I'm that girl" statements.)

I immediately call Enoch and ask what I should do. He tells me to keep driving, I don't listen. I pull over at the first exit, get out a look under my car. I then find out that it was not the back part of the exhaust that fell off, that part is still attached, it's the front part up near the front axel, that has fallen off. It's a good thing I stopped. If i had hit a pot hole that could have been really bad.

Enoch tells me to go to Pep Boys and have them wire the exhaust up so I can drive home. Unfortunately I am in the middle of no-where's-ville with no Pep Boy's in sight. Luckily there is a toyota dealership right next to me. I go in, they won't help me but tell me to drive down the road a mile to an STS. Great I'm back in the car driving with things scraping on the ground again. I get to STS and luckily they helped me, they wired up my exhaust without auctually fixing it (I was under strick instructions by my mechanic not to let anyone fix it, it would cost too much money) for free and I was on my way.

I had to drive with the windows open since now the car keeps filling with exhaust which is coming from under the drivers seat and my car is so loud that people are looking at me but at least I made it home safe and let's be honest, in the scheme of things this was not bad at all. I didn't compleatly break down, no one was hurt or stranded, it only delayed my trip one half hour, I got it sort of fixed for free and it made for a great story. (And if I'm being honest, I love the fact that my car is so loud. I've always had a secret love for those cars that are all suped up and have tips on their exhaust. I know, I'm nuts!) I like to think of my car now a ghetto fabulous!

I'm getting it fixed tomorrow.

Cheesy Christian Music

Today my car broke driving home from school (more to come about that later) I had to pull off the highway and stop at a tire repair shop to have them fix it enough that I could get home. I nice young guy came and got my car, fixed it in a matter of 15 minutes and pulled it back out for me. I gave him a tip (since he did this for free) and got in my car to be back on my way. When I turned on the car I realized that I left on my worship CD and the song that was playing was really cheesy.

I was imediately mortified that I had left the CD on, normally I would turn the radio off before letting someone else drive my car. Then I instantly felt guilty that I was embarassed by the music. I quickly justified my embarassment by reminding myself that this was a really cheesy song and that I myself might have made fun of it when with friends. Then I felt bad that I was justifying my embarassment. Later I was glad that I had given him a tip, at least now he doesn't think of me as a cheep Christian.

Boy this event has really pointed out quite a few things I need to work on...

Andy McKee

Here is another amazing guitarist. Enjoy!

Jonny Lang!

Tonight I went to a Jonny Lang concert. As many of you know he is one of my favorite performers and song writers. Tonight's concert was amazing. I love the way he performs and the songs he sings. During one of the songs tonight I noticed that he changed the lyrics a bit.

They used to say...

"Sometimes it's like I don't even exsist,
even God has lost track of my soul.
Why on earth would he leave me all here like this,
to wander this world all alone."

Tonight he sang it like this...

"I used to feel I didn't even exsist,
like even God had lost track of my soul.
But I know that He loves me and won't leave me like this,
to wander this world all alone."

How cool is that!

my town

The main street that runs through my town in lined with banners on all of the phone poles. At the bottom of each sign it says the name of my town and then

"Proud of our past, hopeful for our future."

Hmm, that doesn't sound too good for the present state of my town does it?