My boyfriend broke my car

My boyfriend was visiting for the past two weeks and just left a couple days ago hence the no blog posts. Sorry had to show him around Montana when I wasn't working. But anyways starting where I left off, New Years Eve. Joey got here on New Years Eve and had been up since 2 am mountain time in order to catch his flight and get out here and it's surprising how tired work can make a person lol so we had a quiet night in. Made dinner and had some champagne and watched the typical cheesy new years eve programs on tv. We also had some moose drool. That is a local beer here and it's not bad actually. Around Midnight (Mountain time) people started setting off fireworks around here. I however thought it was a cruel joke because anytime I would be at my window looking for them I wouldn't see anything. Then I would go back to the couch and of course then there would be the big bangs of fireworks. I finally did just sit at my window forever and see them.
The next day was my birthday. It was good, very relaxing day. I gave Joey a tour of Butte and we went to dinner and to a casino. It was my first time in a casino and while the casino's here are nothing like Atlantic City or Vegas it was still an experience I had to have. The one we decided to try out only had video poker and keno. I don't even know what keno is but I was hoping for some slots oh well. We did video poker. I don't know how to play poker either so Joey tried to explain it to me. I kinda got it and kinda just found it fun to push buttons on the screen. I did not win any money but I only spent $1 for an hour of playing video poker. Joey spent $3 so I'm obviously the better video poker player. Just kidding. But with this money there's also free drinks and food. Yep, it's all free while your gambling. We didn't find that out til we were leaving tho and tried to pay. Thought it was the best deal ever though. You can spend $1 and technically get some food, drinks, and entertainment for the night.
Later on in the week we also tried some other local beers beside the moose drool. We tried scape goat and fat tire. I thought I would like scape goat because it is a pale ale but it actually wasn't my favorite. Fat tire I do like though and local bars have it on tap so that's nice. We also experimented and made thai food, some green curry chicken with peppers and pineapple. It was pretty tasty except we may have used a little too much curry paste because it was super spicy. But oh well.
One more new thing we tried....skiing. We tried to go on a Saturday but drove right past the Ski place and missed the lesson time. We were driving along the windy mountain roads and saw a small brown ski that said ski area we both looked down the road and didn't see much and we thought that where we were going would have a big sign that said Discovery Ski, since that is the name of the place we were going. Guess we need to get more in a Montana mind set because we were thinking they'd want to advertise themselves and figured that couldn't be it so we kept going for another half hour until I made him call the place and we found out oh yea it is that small brown sign with no name. Awesome. We went back on Sunday and found out Discovery Ski is about a half hour away from the Ski area sign so that's why we didn't see much when looking down the road. But skiing was good I would go again. Once I kinda learned what I was doing it was pretty fun.
Anyways...on to the title of the blog. Joey borrowed my car one day to drive 2.5 hours North to Great Falls, MT for a job interview. When he got back it was almost time for me to be done work so he just came straight to the station to pick me up. After work I got in the drivers seat, started the car and turned to him and asked, "has it been making this noise all day?" He said it hadn't but man my car sounded horrible, nothing like I had ever heard before. The next morning I woke up early and took it to the local Toyota and had to rent a car because Toyota closes before I get done work so I couldn't take advantage of their "we'll take you and pick you up from work" deal. Later in the day Toyota called me to tell me that the o2 detector in my exhaust had broken off. Hence I decided to blame Joey saying he must have run over something. He did borrow my car another day though and it was fine so it could have been a total coincidence, it is an old car. Oh well. There's still a lot more to talk about but this blog is already super long so I'll update again later today or tomorrow about my new car troubles from yesterday.