Then Sings My Soul

Like a gift from the heavens it was easy to tell
It was love from above that could save me from hell
She had fire in her soul, it was easy to see
How the devil himself could be pulled out of me
There were drums in the air as she started to dance
Every soul in the room keeping time with their hands
And we sang

Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay
And the voices rang like the angels sing
And singing
Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay
And we danced on into the night

I've been neglecting my poor widdle blog...

So. 7 weeks - count 'em - SEVEN weeks after the accident, we finally got an adjuster to come out to the apartment and assess the damage on my truck. This was AFTER I had repeatedly called and talked to the idiots at Allstate and gotten nothing done. The guy assigned to our case even had the GALL to call me a week and a half after I had last left a message for him and tell me that if I didn't call him back within 24 hours he would close the claim. Jason about ripped him a new one after that.

So a really nice guy comes out to assess the damage on my truck. I stood outside in 50-degree weather for two hours in the evening while he checked everything and wrestled with his computer. 30 minutes after Jason came home, the guy wrote me a check for $2600 in damages. He said he didn't think the company would like it very much, but we had been through enough so he was gonna give us the check anyway. God bless that man.

We drove the truck over to my in-laws so Jason's dad could look at it. Those Sander men know Chevy trucks backwards and forwards... there's very little they can't fix themselves. After checking around at a couple salvage yards, Bob found all the parts we need to fix the bumpers, tail light, and driver's seat. We're going to be able to fix everything that needs to be fixed on my truck, fix my door (a previous problem -- won't shut right), pay Jason's dad, and get Jason new rear tires for his truck for $1000. That leaves us with $1600. We're planning on using some of it to get to Bean's wedding in May, and the rest is gonna sit in savings for a rainy day. For all the trouble they gave us, this is worth it.

Hastings is working out really well -- so far I haven't worked more than three days a week. The pay is REALLY piddly, but it's helping us out this month with Christmas presents. The job itself is easy -- I just check people out, check in rentals, and stock the rentals after checking them in. It's four and a half hours per day (9 - 1:30), 2 to 4 days a week. I worked Black Friday, and that wasn't even that bad -- it was PACKED right as we opened, but after that the people kinda just came in nicely spaced out floods. We had plenty of people working, so it wasn't that terrible. As Christmas gets closer, it's getting busier, but it's still not that bad -- at least during my morning shift.

Other than all that, we've been moderately busy. We've got something going on every weekend as usual -- this weekend we're going to a wedding on Saturday in Houston, and then we're going to my parents' on Sunday to bake kolachkys. Not kolachies, kolachkys. It's a pastry cookie thing that's totally awesome. We've always baked these cookies for Christmas with my Na Na, mom, sisters and me, so it's a pretty nifty tradition. And the dough is really good. ;-)

My cousin Toombs is letting us borrow his XBox 360, so I rented Halo 3 from work on Wednesday. I'm tearing through it on normal right now -- I just loooove Halo. It's sooo spiffy. I have it 'till this coming Wednesday, so I'm hopefully gonna finish it and get Jason used to the XBox controllers so we can play the boys and my sisters on New Years. Woohoo!