04:38 pm: Bennett's phone decides to call it a day and shuts off by itself.
05:03 pm: Katie makes first attempt to start her car after work with no success.
05:30 pm: After several failed attempts to start her car Katie attempts to call Bennett
05:38 pm: Bennett sits blissfully watching the Yankees game on TV
05:49 pm: Katie attempts to call everyone on her contacts list, only Jake answers.
05:55: Katie begins walking to gas station to buy WD-40
06:55 pm: Katie returns from 3 mile round trip walk to gas station to apply WD-40 to broken ignition
07:00 pm: many people attempt to contact Bennett, who sits watching the baseball game unaware of his wife's troubles, not expecting her home until 08:00 pm
07:20 pm: Katie gets directions on how to get home using public transportation from Jake
07:24 pm: Katie walks to store to get cash back to ride the bus
07:28 pm: first store doesnt give cash back
07:36 pm: second store doesnt give cash back
07:44 pm: third store does give cash back but upon opening the register the drawer gets stuck and Katie has to wait another ten minutes until the clerk gets it unstuck
08:00 pm: Katie boards the bus
08:13 pm: Bennett poops blood
08:14 pm: Katie gets off bus to transfer to lightrail
08:15 pm: Bennett gets a call from his boss on his work phone asking if he knows a Jake Allison.
08:19 pm: Katie finally gets a hold of Bennett
08:22 pm: Katie realizes that there is no train station anywhere near where she is.
08:23 pm: Katie realizes that Jake's directions were wrong.
08:24 pm: Katie's phone dies
08:25 pm: Katie begins walking to nearest train station, 1 and a half miles away.
08:50 pm: Katie boards train
09:17 pm: Katie departs train at bus station
09:18 pm: Katie discovers that the bus that goes to her house doesn't leave until 10:30 pm so she starts walking home through a strange dark neighborhood
09:19 pm: Bennett wonders "where is my wife?"
09:30 pm: Bennett guesses that his wife must be walking home from the bus station so he decides to go meet her, unfortunately they take different paths and never meet.
10:15 pm: Katie gets home, 5 hours later.
11:00 am: Katie goes back to broken down car with a rental car and a newly purchased ignition switch
11:15 am: mobile mechanic shows up to fix car
12:38 pm: Mechanic finishes work but refuses to take Katie's credit card.
01:00 pm: Mechanic follows Katie to store so she can get cash. Katie accidentally pushes wrong buttons on ATM which triggers fraud alert on her card (this will come into play later)
01:13 pm: Katie pays mechanic and drives home exhausted in rental car, leaving her car until she can pick it up and return the rental with Bennett after work.
08:00 pm: having picked up both cars Katie and Bennett stop at gas station to fill up both cars.
08:03 pm: Wanting to only put in enough gas to fill the rental car to 3/4 of a gallon Katie puts in 5 dollars worth of gas. It's not enough.
08:05 pm: Katie puts in another 5 dollars of gas. still not enough
08:07 pm: When she tries again Katies card is declined because of fraud alert.
08:09 pm: Bennett goes into gas station to pay with his card
08:11 pm: upon returning to car Bennett realizes he has locked his keys in the car (with the new ignition switch the car now has a different key for the door and the ignition and Bennett is holding only one, the wrong one)
08:15 pm: Katie begins crying when Bennett informs her of the locked car. She refuses to get out of the car, or drive the car back home to get the keys, or talk or do anything. She has had enough.
08:21 pm: While crying Katie glances at the gas meter, still not at 3/4 of a gallon. She cries harder.
08:27 pm: Bennett tries to calm Katie down while simultaneously trying to stop laughing from the absurdity of it all.
08:33 pm: while still parked at the gas station a tow truck stops in for gas and he is able to open our car door.
09:30 pm: finally return home.
Last night we went and saw Goonies in a movie theater that shows older movies. It was fun but not as AMAZING as Dralion. Oh how I loved that show. Simply Amazing.
In true Oregon fashion the movie theater had a garbage can and a compost can.
See what I mean? Tiny! You can see basically all the counter space in the picture below. You can also see the Dahlias that Bennett gave me on the counter. They're getting ready to bloom.
The dinning room which is spacious (or should I say more spacious than the kitchen?).
This is the dresser in our bedroom. The bed is directly across from it.
Our bed. I got these "shutters" (closet doors) for free on craigslist and painted them red.
When I got home on monday (my day of birth 28 years ago) Bennett had made this beautifully delicious cake and bought me some dahlias and orchids. I'll take pictures of thoses too. Now, I'm going to go clean the house and take pictures of our new apartment and hopefully inspire some others (Emalee and anyone who hasn't shown what their casa looks like lately) to post some pictures. 
Ever notice that for being an efficient killing machine with an app for destruction the Armed Forces have really lame and wussy theme songs.
The three week Portland Rose Festival is drawing to a close this weekend with fleet week and the Grand Floral Parade. Below are some of the floats from the parade. The entire exterior of the float has to be made from organic materials. Thousands and thousands of pieces of colored rice and flowers never looked so good. Take this float below, everything you see is made from rice, seeds, flower petals etc.
Worshipping the sun god hoping for a break in the clouds.
The highlight of the evening was when the four square dancing float narrowly missed a run in with the 8:15 train to Gresham.
On our way home we got stuck in a very long traffic jam. See if you can spot the error in judgement in these two road signs, seen less than thirty feet apart on a three lane highway; "Right Lane Ends, Merge Left" and "Left Two Lanes End, Merge Right"