I Can Do It

With in James in Qatar I've had to take care of things.  By that I don't mean call someone to come fix it, I've had to fix things.  The battery went out on the Durango, thankfully in the driveway.  I went to WalMart at 8:30 pm on a Sunday, bought the correct battery (woo hoo) and put it in the truck (double woo hoo).  Okay I'm feeling pretty proud of myself and then the pilot light went out on the hot water heater.  When my brother was here he offered to show my how to light it but for some reason we didn't get around to it.  I looked on the internet and there are all kinds of instructions on how to do it but none of the water heaters looked like the one that was in my attic.  We went a few days without hot water which wasn't too bad since we live in Texas and it was in the middle of a warm spell but yuck.  I'm afraid of three things, deep water (over my head), electricity and natural gas.  But as I drove home on Friday night I thought come on girl you can do this.  I looked up the instruction manual for our particular water heater and printed off the page about lighting the pilot, read over a dozen times, and went to light it.  woo hoo! All the stressing and it wasn't that difficult.  Then Clay who I guess doesn't have much faith in me, kept saying "I smell gas".  My next feat was cleaning the carpets.  I have watched James do this a bunch of times but never realized how hard it was.  I rented a carpet cleaner from Home Depot and started this huge job.  I can't take complete credit for this, I couldn't do it without Clay's help.  He lifted and filled the water container for me.  On Saturday night we went to see an Arena Football game.  After the game and we stood to leave both us looked like an old couple.  We finished the job and returned the cleaner to Home Depot without an additional charge or late fee.  Woo Hoo!!!  The weekend we cleaned the carpets was also the weekend of the MS150 and on Monday when I went to work even though I hadn't ridden in the ride, I sure felt like it.  I have always thought a woman can do anything a man can do but after experiencing the past two months I've come to the conclusion that it ain't (sorry, I know that's not proper but it fits) so.  If a woman tells you that she can do anything a man can do, she's either not doing it or paying a man to take care of it.