Whoa! The whole city is covered in three inches of snow!!! I wish i could see downtown right now! Keeping my fingers crossed for a snow day.

So my motor was supposed to show up today, but G.I. Trucking sucks and is too lazy to get it here. Something about their truck breaking or whatever and they’ll try again friday. It’s been sitting at the seattle terminal since dec 17th. Seriously, people, what am i paying you for? And don’t get me started on fedex and ups… leaving notes on my door, coming during the day despite my specific requests to come after work, being generally incompetent and disorganized. Ugh.

In other news, seattle is all snowy and wintery, very very weird to see out the window. Downtown covered with snow, very disturbing. I don’t like it. I want it to go away. Had a nice breakfast with Kim and Erika, welcoming them back to our supposedly-mild-weathered home. Steph and i grabbed lunch supplies and raced to her house to meet the engine shipment that never arrived… oh, wait, i was going to change the subject. Sorry. So anyway, first car payment is due in 15 days. Sure getting my money’s worth there. I pick up a rental car friday morning so i can drive all over town running errands, buying tools and come up to Steph’s with a trunk full of supplies and work on my car. Oh, wait, not gonna get much done without that order of parts from Courtesy Nissan i placed on the 12th that hasn’t arrived because they lost the invoice. Didn’t stop them from already billing my credit card. And people say big business is evil… small business is just as bad.

Oh, right, i had somethign funny to show you. Check out the funny mac-related t-shirts on this website, macshirt.com. I think this one is my favorite. If they had any left besides XXL i might actually buy one and wear it to work.

Back in the city, back on the bus - altho a later one than i should be. It’s almost a relief this week, tho, almost welcoming. It’s familiar, after a week in a home that’s new and a town i don’t know anymore. My cabbie coming home last nite was lamenting the airport’s inefficiency - he’s obviously never flown thru montana. Seatac’s organized chaos was a welcome change - and at least my phone worked at seatac. Other than the technological and procedural backwardism, tho, my visit home was nice. I forget how much i depend on my family until i see them, how much i need them even when they’re far away. I also forget how crazy they make me, especially around the holidays… ;)

Watched an episode of cowboy bebop on the pbook while i’m waiting. Thanx danielle, those are great! Stressing about next week. Guess vacation is officially over…

Waiting for my flight after dinner of airport food with the family. Been a busy week - sorry to all the MT peeps i didn’t get to visit!