And the scrawny 5 year-old saves the day!!

Bossman FTW!!

Okay, so if you are a friend of mine (or possibly a friend-of-a-friend...I'm not sure what my settings are anymore - I should probably check on that!) on FaceBook you know I've had water stuck in my left ear for about 5 days. I had gone almost completely deaf in that ear. No prob - I just tilted my right ear towards ya if you were chatting at me.

Then yesterday my right ear started hurting. I couldn't figure out WHY my RIGHT ear would be hurting when the water was stuck in my LEFT ear. I started doing all these treatments suggested by various people in my life (and on Facebook) but nothing got the water out and my right ear started hurting worse and worse.

Suddenly last night it felt like someone was boxing my right ear as hard as they could and suddenly all sound left my right ear. And this time it was completely. I'd say my left ear was around 85% deaf and my right ear was around 98% deaf. I started panicking and spent the whole night wondering what kind of horrible infection I had. Around 4 am my neck started getting sore and when I finally decided to go the doctor (around 10 this morning) my jaw felt like it was wired shut.

The van I usually drive has no brakes. For that reason I refused to drive it while I had my kids with me (duh) so while my husband (the mechanic!) took the crippled van to get it fixed I drove the van that HE usually drives. I went to the doctor and got my ears fixed right up. I was just as happy as I could be when I could hear again! Of course then we left.

As it turns out I forgot which van I was driving and took the wrong set of keys. My habit is to lock all doors immediately upon exiting the vehicle. I think you can see where this is going. I was still dizzy from the ear treatment and still in a lot of pain (they said if the pain doesn't go away in a few days to go see my regular doctor) so my brain could not function. I called The Mr. and he said:

"You've got to be kidding me!! I'm an hour and fifteen minutes away and I've got at LEAST a half an hour before I finish this job! And I don't even know where you KEEP the spare keys!"

I was devastated. The only other thing I could think of was to ask my sisters. If I was really lucky they'd both be in R_ville and one of them could go down, get my spare keys, and come get me. As it happens one sister was at work (in a different state) and the other was asleep and not answering her phone. I just KNEW I was stuck there forever!

My genius son, the Star, noticed that the windows were slightly lowered. My Baby (name of this particular van - the other one is Vera) is REALLY good at retaining heat! So much so that in the summer I open the back vents and lower the front windows slightly in order to ventilate the van somewhat so it doesn't feel like we're entering a preheated oven. Star suggested I have one of the little kids reach through it and unlock the door. Of course any adults hands were going to be way too big and Star's hands were likewise just too big to fit in that little crack. So I had my little, way-too-skinny Bossman stand up on my leg and reach through.

HE DID IT!!

I exclaimed "MY HERO!!!" and we had air conditioning running in less than a minute. Well you KNOW I went to Target (GREAT SALES THIS WEEKEND!!) and bought him a present!! I got the Star a gift, too. I ALMOST bought Sims 3 "World Adventures" but I decided to get the most out of "Ambitions" before I got another expansion pack...all I've done so far is exorcise a few ghosts LOL.