if i pick you up, would you drag me down? if i run to you, would you turn around?

i was going to post a couple days ago about what people wanted for christmas.
eric wants 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep. andrew wants to finish a project he has been working on. my christmas wish was for my car to start up every morning, without fail.

currently, my car is sitting in the west oaks II parking lot, where it has been for the last 2 days. i would make Rainbow Brite proud with the prism-like swirls that extend in a 5 yard radius out from my car all over the pavement. hopefully it will be towed today, and hopefully brian's dad will be able to make it drivable again.
just last week, when the winds were really bad during the night, a tree branch fell on the front of my mom's car. it hit just the very front, and she ended up driving over it, lodging underneath her car. she pulled off the road and attempted to pull out as much tree as possible- but it had impaled her radiator and messed up some other stuff i dont remember. $400 and a favor later from brian's dad her car is back on the road, but she was deciding against having christmas because she didnt have the spending money to pull it off. of course, the daughters jump into action. sunday, sam and i would pull out the decorations and christma-fy the house while nik took mom out to the Festival of Trees, to have a nice suprise when she came home. i was going to buy little presents for everyone- from "santa" and give money to jim to buy/cut down a tree. i didnt really have a plan b- in case of my car.
luckily mom decided to have christmas- she said she snapped out of it and stopped feeling sorry for herself "how can i not have christmas? i always have christmas!" she had already started decorating when i got a ride to her house after work- 8 hours after my car said "fuck you". she would decorate and get everone together for dinner. im glad she came to. she loves christmas.