Do you ever just have one of those days? I'm sure everyone does! Well, yesterday was a crazy one for me. Our windshield wipers have needed replacing for a while now and, due to the rain yesterday, I decided I'd better get some blade refills so I could actually see out the window. The kids and I set off for Wal-Mart and headed for the automotive section. I looked up our car information (make, model, year) and found the wiper sizes I needed to buy. So, we bought them - a size 20 for the driver's side and 18 for the passenger's side. We then drove home with the old blades still in place. Once I was home and parked out of the rain, I proceeded to change the blade on the driver's side. I took the old one off and it promptly fell apart in my hands. So, I took out one of the size 20s and went to put it on. Well, it was too long. So, I tried a size 18 and it was too short. I thought maybe I put the wrong information in at Wal-Mart, so we headed back over there (without a wiper blade on my side).

The rain was only lightly coming down so I could still see out the window fine. Well, about a minute out from the store, it starts downpouring! I pulled over to the side of the road, got out of the car, wiped the window off, got back in, and drove about 30 feet before it was too blurry to go any farther and I had to stop and do it all again. I stopped only twice before I realized there was no way I was going to make it to the store, or home, without a wiper blade. So, I pulled out a size 18 blade and put it on the car. It was indeed too short by about an inch but it worked to get us the rest of the way to the store. Upon arriving, I took off the blade again, bundled up the kids, ran into the store, returned the wrong size blades and headed back to get the right size. I again put in our car's information and it came up with the exact same information as before. However, I had forgotten that last year, sometime, we had our oil changed at Jiffy Lube and they had replaced our wiper blades at the same time. But instead of putting on the correct size blades, they must have put on whatever size they had. So, I got the size I knew would fit, went back out to the car, put the kids back in, put the new Pylon blade on and got in the car. I was completely soaked! I drove home and put the second blade on there, out of the rain, and am glad to say they worked great the rest of the day. What a mess, though! I wonder whose idea it was to mess around with the customer's car and not tell them. They could have at least said, you know, if you need your blades replaced again, this one's a size 19 now, not a 20. How hard would that have been? Oh, well! It's over now and at least I'm FULLY prepared for next time!

I got a CD yesterday called "Oldarra - Le chant basque". It is, obviously, a Basque album, sung all in Basque, by a men's choir. They sing a number of the Basque songs from the old country. I am hoping to find a more 'traditional' version of these songs but have not run across any yet. The songs on this album are sung more like hymns. Still very beautiful, though, and they bring back a lot of memories for me! A couple of the songs on the album I have sung with my family from the time I was very little. I love them!