A long overdue posting, that’s for sure! I guess an update about what’s been going on with John and I. I think everyone knows that John and I bought a truck (a 5- tonne) and he now drives truck for that same company as Dad. John loves it but we’ve had our share of bad luck with the truck. In October, the engine in the truck went, so we had two choices, buy a new truck or replace the engine. We choose to replace the engine but still very expensive. We ended up buying a school bus and Dad, John, John’s dad and a bunch of friends took the engine out of the school bus and put it in John’s truck. It was a long weekend of work. They started on Friday afternoon around 2 o’clock and work till 1 o’clock in the morning, starting again at 5 o’clock on Saturday until 2 o’clock in the morning, and same on Sunday. John was driving the truck Sunday night back to the warehouse, and all the lights quit working. So, it took a few nights after work on Monday and Tuesday to get the lights to work. Then about 1 month ago, John was moving a really heavy skid and he had moved the dock plate (a metal sheet that John says is about 200 pounds) out of the way to move this skid. And, wouldn’t you know, the dock plate fell and hit John on the back of his heel. He was wearing his steel toe work boots, but he still hurt his heel badly. I got a call that John was in the hospital and the doctors had thought that he had torn his Achilles’ tendon. X-rays were taken and they discovered that he did not tear it but he had damaged it and was on crutches for a while. Then two weeks later, I was driving Cheryl (John’s sister) back to Barhaven, and I hit a deer (in John’s car). It was really damaged and the deer was dead. John was following me in his truck so he stopped. We realized that I didn’t have insurance on his car, so John brought his truck back to his parents, and we claimed that John was driving the car. John forgot his license, he had expired insurance papers in his car and the license plate stickers were expired. It was a nightmare. The cop came and just said for John to change his insurance papers and remember his license next time. He was really nice. I don’t think he noticed the expired stickers on his license plate. In this meantime, John had been helping Dad that day build a hay feeder, and while grinding, he got a hot piece of metal in his eye. So when he woke up on Monday morning, his eye was really infected and he had a really hard time seeing. So once again to the hospital, and they had to scrape the metal out of his eye. He was on antibiotics for a week to get rid of the infection. We just got John’s car fixed up. John and Dad fixed it because we also didn’t have comprehensive insurance. All in all, we were lucky, everything could have been a lot worse. John’s truck is running well, and for the time being, he is healthy.
We are living in a small basement apartment in Navan. It’s about 15 minutes to John’s work and about the same for me. It’s 20 minutes to school. Our apartment has two bedrooms, which is very convenient because I use the one bedroom for all my school stuff. It’s an hour to our parents and to church and we would like to move a bit closer to mom and dad eventually, probably when I’m done school. We got our first Christmas tree. It’s 3 feet tall and has fibre optic lights. I decorated it and it looks cute.
Anyways, can’t wait till Christmas! Looking forward to those Christmas dinners! John is a little sick of burnt everything!
