Mother's Day....

Quite memorable actually.

It all began Saturday night. I was at home with Sym. She misbehaved and I had to keep her home instead of going over to a friend's house. (I hate that part of being a mom.)
My friend Toon rode with us to Wal mart to buy the things for Sym's Pocahontas costume. Yeah I had to make it in 2 days. Is that not lovely how I wait to the last minute?
There were severe thunderstorms and tornadoes about to come through the Ham. Toon and I are both weather junkies and we absolutely love to watch James Span (the local meteorologist) on tv for hours on end. The storms seemed to stay just north of us in this weird horizontal band across the state. It was as if the city of Ham emits this weird ray of energy to block all bad storms but send it to the suburbs because the city council is corrupt. Anyways that's a story for a different time.
It was ooo 1:45ish and the storms looked to be potentially getting worse in the next couple of hours so Toon went home. Sym was in bed I was just about to do the same when the phone rings.
"This is a call is on behalf of (my dad's name) Do you know him?"
"yes he's my dad."
The phone is handed to my dad.
"Hey sugar" said my dad.
"Hey Dad. What's going on?"
Mind you folks, dad and I don't talk regularly. Oddly enough however, both of us were going through divorce at the same time this year. He's divorcing his 2nd wife.
"Baby I need you to pick me up from the County Jail in Bessemer. (Insert crazy 2nd wife name) had a restraining order against me and I was at her house to see the grand-baby who was asleep. I was talking to (the baby's daddy) when she pulled in behind me in the driveway screaming "he's here he's here! come get him" to the county." said dad.
"You hadn't been drinking right?" I ask.
"HELL NO!!" said dad.
He gave me a few other details but kept them brief since there was a deputy sitting right there too and was probably annoyed that the call was taking so long.
"Alright I'll see if I can get someone to sit with Sym while I go down there."
"Thank you baby!!" said dad. "Love you!"

I called my friend Toon since he just left. As I was on the phone with him I hear BAM and all the lights went out! A transformer blew!!! Shit! Now Toon won't have anything to entertain him while he watches Sym.
Toon arrives and I decided to just bring both of them with me 30 miles to the jail. I told Toon the story. He concurred my thoughts, that crazy 2nd wife is an evil bitch for throwing a guy in jail just for talking to someone in their driveway.

Luckily the storms didn't have too much bite to them. There was some gusts of wind that made things quite interesting.
I drove around the block SEVERAL times trying to figure out why they hell they would want to do reconstruction on the exterior of the Jail. It was dreary enough before what they gonna make it even more gloomy?
I finally found the construction entrance composed of scaffolds and boards over head. At least I didn't have to totally walk in the rain. Sym and Toon waited patiently in the car for my return. I go in, sign the paperwork. Luckily I didn't have to bring any cash otherwise I would have told dad that I'd be alot longer.LOL
So I wait. and wait and wait, 45 min go by. I ask the deputy about the weather he said it looks like it is over head. He also apologized for the wait. The power kept switchin from generator to AL Power and that was causing all sorts of chaos with the computer systems.
So I call Toon and Sym and bring them inside. We wait another 20 minutes. Finally dad is out of the hokey. We get to my car, I go to start it and the bastard wouldn't crank.
It took forever for me to locate my insurance info. Apparently when I was switching to hell chaos insurance, I neglected put the card in the car. My dad called his insurance company, I go inside to get a phone book to try to find my agent's office number so I could get the main number off the voice mail.

(If you didn't know that already, if you are ever in need and don't have the claim number to call, just call any agent that holds your insurance. Doesn't matter if they aren't there. They tell you the number on the out going message. Never fails!)

FINALLY after 2 hours of waiting on the street, 5 am the pop a lock guy came and helped us! Yay!!! Afterwards, my dad filled up my gas tank!!! It's been almost 2 weeks and I'm just now at a quarter of a tank. LOVE my new place and my short commute!!! Thanks Dad!! You saved me a bunch!!

I got home at 5:30 am and my power was still out! It did come back on at 10:30Am mom's day. Just in time for me to get up. ;-) I didn't get around to visiting the family but I did call my grandmothers and my mom and wish them a happy m day.

At 5 my sisters, Sym and I took my mom to get a mac-momma pedicure. We brought wine too. That my friends is the way to end a hellacious mothers day.

:-) Sorry to be gone so long ya'll! I've got some knitting I need to share too.
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