I don't know about you, but this retrograde hit harder than ANY of the others in the past. And I for one am GRATEFUL it's over!!!
I know all planets retrograde, and there are glitches in them all. I have this attitude where Mercury Retrograde is concerned: I take the positive spin on things as this retrograde is a time where I can clean up some of the things that need to be put to rest once and for all. I look at it as a time where my words have much more impact than they do any other time; so I am apt to think harder before I speak. My emotions are stronger, so I am extremely careful in how I do employee evaluations and presentations. And I AM the Queen of Road Rage if you cut me off in traffic, so I drive more defensively.
About 2 weeks ago I was caught in rush hour traffic along I-635 here in Dallas. I was heading back home after an interview and proceeded to get onto 635-East heading home. Well, there I sat........
Now, I need to interject here.......2 months ago I had the air conditioning compressor replaced on the car but I had noticed that the cooling fan wasn't working since I got the car back from the repair shop. I thought I could get it taken care of when I got this new job and that whatever was wrong would be fixed. Boy, was I wrong!
Sitting stalled in traffic, I was looking at the clock on the radio and was getting worried because I needed to pick my youngest up from Summer Camp AND I had to drop off cakes to the Center for the cake decorating class.
All of a sudden I heard an idiot warning dinging. Those are the lights and whistles that go off in your car to tell you something you forgot...like an idiot. I looked all around and all of a sudden to my horror, I saw the temperature gauge hit the dead zone! Well, I pulled over, turned off the engine and waited till traffic started to move before I drove home. During my usual 15 minute drive home, I had to stop and start at least 10 times so the engine could cool.
I picked Monica up, dropped of the cakes and proceeded to go to the dealership where my car is serviced. I was pouring over the owner's manual waiting for the service technician to look V-ger over (that's the car's name...after Voyager....... it's a woman thing, ok?)
I went to the section of the manual where it had "overheating" and read that I did what I was supposed to do, but that if I was nowhere near a service center, I could run the heat till I could get there...well, DUH!!!! I totally forgot that part. I remember my Dad drilling that into my head should anything like that ever happened to any car I was driving. OK, I'm a blonde and I was having a moment!
Well, he looked it over and told me that the fan wasn't hooked back up when the compressor was replaced a couple of months ago. They couldn't fix the car right away because Chrysler doesn't make Voyagers anymore and the part had to come from the factory. I made an appointment and was told not to drive the car if possible (yeah, right) but if I had to use it, to drive the car with the heater running to avoid overheating till I could bring it back to get fixed.
Two weeks later, the part finally arrived, I got a phone call from the dealership and scheduled the car to get fixed. I also want to add here, that we had temperatures above normal, sometimes hitting over 100 degrees here in Texas...blowing record highs right out the window! There I was in scorching heat with the heat running...was I a sight! I think I sweated off 10 pounds!
Well, last Saturday, I sat in the dealership for eight LONG hours before the car was fixed. I can say that the air conditioning runs smoothly and is actually quite cold in the car now. The fluids had to be replaced, but it was time anyway because they were burnt, and the car runs like new. I think I might wait to buy a new one till the left-overs go on sale.
To add insult to injury, I went to look at my flight plans for July. Grandpop and Grandmom asked to have Monica stay with them this summer so I had booked the flights early to avoid the pay increases...again I was wrong!
Don't ask me how, but my dates for departure and arrival were changed and I ended up spending more for the round-trip tickets than originally thought. When I called American Airlines to inquire about the discrepancies, I was told they were not errors and that scheduled my flights that way. Now, I have to say that if I hadn't made a copy of my itinerary at the time of booking, I would have thought I had another blonde moment and made a mistake. But it looks like I'm leaving a day earlier adn coming home a day later....hmmmmmmmmmmm, maybe the Universe is trying to tell me something?
My PMS has been worse this month than any other month...I'd cry at the drop of a hat OR I could really have used the twinkie defense if I had been pushed a little farther. I'm never as overly emotional as I have been this past month.
Lastly, my phone, internet, and cable service had gone on the fritz. After about seven days of arguing with the phone/cable/internet company, it got fixed yesterday.
So, needless to say, I truly am EXTREMELY grateful this retrograde is over...cause honestly, I'm exhausted!!!
Enjoy your day! Cheryl