second of three continued from yesterday

so there were adjustments to be made.

i s'pose that's customary whenever you have a car and you use it every day and then one day it turns up missing. i was feeling pretty impulsive right after i made the police report, even considering going out and buying a cheap used car that very day. luckily, that urge came and went, but it was followed by an even stronger one to go get a bike, in fact the only thing that kept me from getting one was the fact that i didn't really have a way to get one back to my apt, which was probably just as well, mostly because it ended up being a likely couple hundred dollars or so saved.

so like i said the whole deal happened on saturday, which sorta left me in a bit of a spot as far as getting around on sunday, not showing up at church wasn't really an option at all, on account of me working there and everything. i don't guess that i had to walk, there were definitely people who would have picked me up if i'd called and quite a few people told me as much when they found out that i did walk to church that morning. i don't figure i really did anything that i didn't want to, i mean i live less than three miles from there, so walking wasn't a real big deal, and on top of that, i was determined to embrace whatever little hardship might come out of it and not let the whole deal ruin my attitude.

i used the story as part of my sunday school lesson, i figured it was pretty authentic, and despite what i'd resolved, keeping a good attitude was a real fight and i figured it was something that could teach real easily. what was funny was that i didn't really want to make a huge deal out of it, i hadn't brought it up in conversation, but i'd neglected to think about what kids do whenever you tell them something like that, so pretty much immediately after i'd gone outside to the lil coffee hour after church, people were all over me about it.

in the end that wasn't such a bad thing because one of the families that heard about it had just bought a truck and hadn't done anything with the old one they had, so that afternoon they called and asked if i'd want to use their old truck. that was a pretty huge relief, because that tuesday i was s'posed to pick up evan, aka "taco bell" and an old roommate of mine from wheaton, from the airport in LA, he was on his way back home to jersey after spending a month in australia and new zealand, and one of the first things i thought after realizing that i didn't have a car was "hmm, how am i s'posed to get to LAX with no car?" so like i was saying, luckily that wasn't an issue, and it was such a cool thing to see someone step up like that and fill a need, really without me having to do anything.

this is the point at which things sort of begin to level off, at least as far as the better/worse deal goes. well maybe that's overly simplistic, but in any case the attitude fight was about to get harder.

feeling: a bit slow
thinking of: baseball
music: "stop to think" millencolin