Flat Tires and Nike!

So let's talk about today... eesh... what a day indeed.


     I started work today at 6:00AM and got off at 11:30AM. I was feeling good, pumped, and hungry. My intentions were to get home by noon, have lunch with the boyfriend, wait for my Nike package, and then study my butt off for my midterm on Tuesday in Audiology. However, those were only my intentions; what actually happened was WAY OFF! No more than 15 minutes on the road, I hear this epic *BOMF* while changing lanes, and not really think much of it... maybe I hit a pot hole... nope. After approximately 1 minute of driving on it, I start to feel my car going a bit lop-sided. I pull off into a near by neighborhood and check out what's going on. Of course, my tire has popped majorly and there is a big nail in it! Kelvin came and changed out the spare because my jack was attached to my car... attached to my car, really? Anywho, Kelvin changed it out and then just to be safe, he drove my car while I drove his back to the house. Only problem is that.... it didn't make it back to the house. We were on the road for about 5 minutes, when I see him put the hazards on again and turn into a close-by plaza. THE SPARE CRACKED!
     We abandoned the car at the plaza for the time-being and then we jumped in his car and drove to Sears and bought 1 tire. We bought the 1 tire, met an incredibly nice man who will remain nameless just in case he gets in trouble :P! Well this mystery man rushed our order, so instead of waiting an hour for the tire to be ready, we only waited about 15 minutes! We got the tire, went back to the car, put the tire on, drove BACK TO SEARS to buy just 1 other tire but the mystery man told us that my tires were WAY below the "fixable" level if any of those were to pop next. So we ended up just buying 3 more to make everything even. It was a 2 hour wait, again rush ordered by our favorite mystery man. After that, we both were starving since we didn't eat all day! We decided to eat at Sweet Tomatoes while we waited and had our friend Brandon join us. We ate and were merry. After lunch, we went back to a waiting car for us, paid the $500 for everything and dropped the car home! Kelvin decided to be Mr. Sweet Guy and took me to get a massage... Wow... I needed that! After all of the school, and not sleeping, and stress getting prepped for midterm week right after the Nike Women's Marathon... a girl can only take so much!

     We finally got home around 7:30pm and look what is waiting for me! The awesome package from NWM that I've been waiting for! I was so excited I didn't even change out of my work clothes -- that by the way I was in since 6AM this morning! I opened the package and my oh my, I felt like nothing bad ever happened today! I received a sports bra, tank top, t-shirt, shorts, tights, a Nike sportsband, a Flip video camera so now I can officially Vlog! Oh, and SHOES! I told Nike that I didn't run in their running shoes... and they sent me some! It wouldn't be smart for me to change up my shoes this late in the game, but I am definitely willing to give Nike running shoes a fair chance in my running regime! :) I tried on all the fun stuff and took lots of fun pictures! I should be studying right now because I have a midterm on Tuesday and leaving on Thursday but I think it's just one of those days where it's a bust and we'll try again tomorrow -- I have been trying to not be so hard on myself when I can't get a decent study session in. I know that tomorrow is going to be a great study day, so now I am looking forward to that! 
     So... in a nutshell. My tire popped, my spare cracked, lots of back and forth, nice man at Sears, Sweet Tomatoes, massage, and last but not least Nike Swag!!

Thanks Nike!