- The Village Chronicles -

Yesterday I was driving down the road with a newly opened gatorade sitting in my cup holder. This cup holder is specially made for jeeps and as you can see in the picture it hangs from the dash - partly inside the jeep and part outside, so if I was to have a door or top of some sort I would have to relocate it. The way it is attached allows for it to swing and sway as I ride down the road and somehow manages to spill very little. This is by far my favorite cup holder I've ever had. However, yesterday on the way home from work I hit a bump and my cup holder just broke off. The cup holder and fresh drink fell right outside of my jeep onto I-30.

About a week or so ago I was driving the same route home and my rear view mirror pulled the same deal. It just fell off the window and shattered inside my jeep. It was the type that couldn’t be adjusted and it was already cracked down the middle, so it was very difficult to see things behind me, but it was also my only mirror. Last week as I was driving home listening to the ipod that Kate forced me to purchase from her, I heard a faint siren sound as Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat was ending and Just Like a Woman was beginning to play. I turned around as best I could to see what was going on behind me and of course there is a cop right on my tail with the lights aflashing. Not knowing how long he had been there, I flinched a bit before taking action. My first instinct was to go left, but as I moved that way I noticed how small the shoulder was. I then slowly switched in to the middle lane with my left blinker still on and began to slow down. The cop just zoomed right on by.

For the last month or so I have not had any working headlights on my jeep. I checked fuses and inspected a few loose wires from time to time thinking that both lights going out at the same time had to mean that it wasn’t the bulbs. After a while of trying to schedule my drive time to daylight only (minus mornings to work), I finally decided that something had to be done. Kendal left for Austin last Friday, and I needed to have night commutability due to a poker tournament in Flower Mound. So, Friday after work I went to Pep Boys, bought two new headlights, and installed them in the parking lot. One headlight works now.

Now that the rain has slowed down around here I have been enjoying the jeep a lot more.

I am waiting on pictures from Ros before writing a post on Drew and Rachel’s wedding.

Graham flew in from Korea for the bachelor party and about 18 guys picked him up from the airport in very little clothing. Gav was blowing a whistle in the airport for some reason. We were on our way to go tubing, but that’s another story.