This rollercoaster is getting really old. We go from YAY this is done, to CRAP it's not. To YAY we get to do this, to CRAP no we don't. It just never ends. I swear. Our luck has never been GREAT. I don't know what i did or who I pissed off to make life so crazy, but I wanna make sure they know I'm profoundly sorry. Just please, let me off this rollercoaster.
We put the Tibby in the shop. Spent over 1200 bucks to have them fix a TON of sutff that would have cost us just as much and ten times the time to get done ourselves. They fixed the water pump, fuel pump and filter, timing belt, serpentine belt, and a radiator flush. It wasn't over heating, and drover PRETTY good when we got it. We drove it for a while, and it was perfect. And then the check engine light came on. No idea what's up. Didn't stop to check (I guess we got to used to seeing the check engine light on in the grand am). We went to Best Buy to price some stuff fof a new sound system. And when we got in the car after that was done it wouldn't start. Yeah. I was PISSED! Had to get a ride from Rubens brother to get the grand am and go back and pick Ruben up. UGH! WILL IT EVER END! heh. Not the end of the world, since we still have the grand am until the tibby is working, but still. Very frustrating to drop over 1000 bucks to only get to enjoy it for a few hours before it's shit again.
Good news is it wasn't overheating anymore. SOOO, we are gonna get out of here in a bit and do some easyish stuff to it. Check the fuel filter, and the spark plugs and wires. And HOPEFULLY one of those will fix it. We know the battery is good cause we replaced it right before they took. So unless we've got a dead cell battery that shouldn't be the issue (and the radio and stuff was working just fine). It shouldn't be the starter, since it actually tries to start. So we think it's just not getting any spark, or fuel. SOO, that's the first step. HOPEFULLY we can have it back today. Cause that'd be awesome!!!
As long as we have it done by the time we have to go down to Arkansas though it'll be ok. It just better freaking be done before them. I swear!
I'm so sick of spending an arm and a leg on gas just to do the necessities.
I'm tired of the crappy car with no AC, and heat that takes as long to heat up as it does for us to go anywhere anyway. I'm tired of the grand am. Don't get me wrong. She did us well over the last little while. But it's become a bigger problem child then I ever imagined it would be!
I know at this point in time we still have the funds we need to get it fixed. Just HOPEFULLY it won't take much more cause we need to get a new sound system in the car before it drives Ruben and I crazy, haha. :p
So we are about to get out and do breakfast, and then get to work on the car. And HOPEFULLY it'll be running before tonight so I can take it to the in-laws for laundry tomorrow. And HOPEFULLY it won't cost us an arm and a leg. And HOPEFULLY it'll be something easy and semi-inexpensive. So please please please just pray that it'll be easy enough.
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I am SOO ready for spring break. I can't even really put the excitement into real words. I'm ready to visit Arkansas. I'm ready for the week without the kids. I'm ready to get to see friends and family. I'm ready to get out and do stuff that we want to do without having to find a babysitter, or have them screaming they are bored in the backseat.
Now, don't ever mistake what I just said as I wish I didn't have kids. I LOVE MY GIRLS! More than I could ever put into words. I wouldn't trade them for a million spring breaks without them if it ever came to that. I just know that a week with Ruben will be great! It'll be our ten year anniversary, so it's a time to celebrate anyway. Should be awesome. For all of us. The girls are staying with my parents, and we will have the week to explore up here, sleep next to each other, and just enjoy each others company. Maybe make a couple good long road trips (since we both love to drive. Maybe Tulsa, or down to the Gulf of Mexico for the beach, or something like that). Just have to see what happens.
For now though, I actually have to be a responsible adult and go take care of things that need our attention.
Did I mention all I wanna do is stay home and enjoy our newly organized living room?? Cause that is definently what I wanna do, haha. :p
LATERS
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