hiya everyone! well i am fuckin FUMING!!! we were supposed to be driving down to Bristol today to go to a comic convention (geeeeeeek -but it's also sort of work for us) and you know how we went through hell and high water to get a car sorted so we could definitely go and yadadadada....well, backtracking slightly, i have to tell you that when we looked at this car to buy it, it wasn't in very good shape. it did have 10 months MOT, but there was an oil leak, and smoke coming out of exhaust, and the back doors were knackered. anyway, the upshot is that there was a lot of work that needed doing on it, and we said to the dealer that if all the work was done and it was put through a service and MOT we would buy it for the screen price. anyway, back to today, and we're heading out of town with my bf and his girlfriend (and Z) in the car, i've made up Thermos, i've made sandwiches, we've all ahd to get up super early......and then we look out the back window and there is smoke literally pouring out the exhaust!! and the doors are still fucked. so we thought, well maybe it's because it's had a service, and there's a lot of oil in the car, we'll keep going and see if it gets any better. anyway, we were just on the M40, and Greg (my best friend) says "Em...there's rather a lot of smoke round your legs." THERE WERE ACTUAL FUMES COMING INTO THE ACTUAL CAR WHERE MY BABY WAS!!!
i swear, if there is anything wrong with Z (and i don't think there is, tbh) and it's because that fucking dealership haven't done their job properly i will burn the place down and salt the ground with lime. then i'll send them all to the special hell reserved for paedophiles and people who talk at the theatre.
so dh has gone to take the car back to the place and give them merry hell. i know he won't cut them any slack. i just hope he's remembered to keep a window open driving back there!
ok, i feel a bit better for writing it all down. sorry to rant at you guys, i know some of you don't like swearing but i have to get it out or i feel like i might explode.
anyway, Z would have had Oliver as a first name, except it's the name of my godson and would've been too confusing. the only other name we could agree on for a boy was Zachary, although dh wanted to call him Brock (cause he looked like a badger on the scan pics) but i was like, NO he has to have this name for the rest of his life, and Oliver was partly for my godson and partly from one of dh's uncles. if Z had been a girl he would've been Mariana Elise, and if we have another one and she's a girl then i think we'll probably still use that one.
did anyone else think that finding nice/good boy's names was a lot harder than finding girl's name??