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So.. we picked up the car Saturday. They had it since Monday. We didn't get it home before more problems started happening.
It stalled, it jumped, it ran like crap. They sent a tow truck out, took Jason back with them, he sat there for 3 hours before they told him it wasnt anything THEY did.. we also needed an ignition coil.
At this point Jason told them to take it out of the garage and leave it in the parking lot. It may or may not be true (he changed one a year ago without being aware you should change two at a time) but that was NOT the entire issue.
My Mom came out Saturday and took him to get the coil, put it in and everything. Still didn't run.. but the service engine light wasn't on anymore. So he came home.
Sunday he took the Caddy up and put some gas in, thinking maybe sitting with a low gas tank had anything to do with it. It gave him a bit of trouble and then..nothing. No problems. He ran it all over their parking lot,. gunned it, braked it, did anything he could think of.. no problems.
Except a vibration in the throttle body. We are still almost certain they messed something up but we don't want them touching our car anymore. He came back home with the Caddy (after informing me I was never to drive in it anywhere again) and my Mom came and got him to get our car.
He drove to work and back just fine. So, I don't know. I am sure some work needed to be done I just wish it hadn't wipe out our entire refund.
Oh and Mikey has been sick. Friday night and Saturday night throwing up.. I gave him a cup of water at one point and he tossed it in less than a minute. My Mom came back after taking Jason to the car with some Pepto Bismol, applesauce, crackers and Sprite. He perked up not long after taking the Pepto and has been fine since.
Speaking of Mikey.. I have not been shopping all wek except for a mini race run thru Publix in 20 minuets between getting a rental car and Jason going to work Friday. I told him today I was going shopping tomorrow and if he wanted something to let me know.
He didn't just 'let me know'... he made a list. In Notepad. And sent it to me via Yahoo. Here it is:
Contents Of What I Want Mommy To Buy At Tues (Some Stuff Needs You To Wait Til It Comes)
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1. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
2. Trix Cerial
3. Cocoa Puffs
4. Soda (The Soda You're Gonna Be Is For Me [Put Them In Somewhere Else])
5. Juicy Juice (All Flavors Of Juicy Juices)
6. Fruit Loops
7. Rice Krispies
8. Ice Cream (All Flavors)
9. Easy Mac Or Macaroni And Chesse
10. Windows 7 (Wait For Real Windows 7 To Come)
11. CheeseBurgers
12 (Last One). Windows VISTA (For Now Until Un-Beta Of Windows 7 Comes)
13. The End.
How do you not love this kid? "I am going shopping what do you want?" ..."Windows..."...yeah..
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Vegetarian?
Mikey had a bad day at school a few days ago. I sent him a hot dog for lunch. I guess at one point a child mentioned kicking his cat and Mikey strongly objected. He's very sensitive to any living thing. SO then another child mentioned Mikey was eating an animal...
Mikey got very upset.. I am not even gonna say what happened because I am not happy he takes this approach to issues but it wasn't good.
So he's talking to me later. He doesn't know hot dogs are animals..he also eats chicken nuggets and cheeseburgers. I am starting to worry because quite honestly if he connected them...I am almost certain he would NOT eat them.
How do I explain to him? How do I say "Yes, cheeseburgers are cows and.. chicken nuggets are chickens.. " I am pretty sure he'd be scarred. I don't know what to do...So I am researching vegetarianism.
So one day... when he gets it and decides he won't eat it... I have other options. I can show him whats ok to eat and what isn't. I can set him at ease. I am fairly certain once he understands he is eating animals.... he will be DONE.
Cause this is the kid who freaks out if he thinks a bug is near him but won't let me kill it.. I have to catch it and set it out to find its family. There was an almost dead dragonfly in the road one morning waiting for the bus.. I promised him he was going to find his mommy and as soon as he got off the bus that afternoon he looked. The dragonfly was gone and I told him he had found his Mommy. Of course he hadn't.But Mikey needed that reassurance.
So once he gets that he is eating animals.... I am pretty sure he will stop. I worry about what he's gonna say to anyone else eating them ><
Mikey got very upset.. I am not even gonna say what happened because I am not happy he takes this approach to issues but it wasn't good.
So he's talking to me later. He doesn't know hot dogs are animals..he also eats chicken nuggets and cheeseburgers. I am starting to worry because quite honestly if he connected them...I am almost certain he would NOT eat them.
How do I explain to him? How do I say "Yes, cheeseburgers are cows and.. chicken nuggets are chickens.. " I am pretty sure he'd be scarred. I don't know what to do...So I am researching vegetarianism.
So one day... when he gets it and decides he won't eat it... I have other options. I can show him whats ok to eat and what isn't. I can set him at ease. I am fairly certain once he understands he is eating animals.... he will be DONE.
Cause this is the kid who freaks out if he thinks a bug is near him but won't let me kill it.. I have to catch it and set it out to find its family. There was an almost dead dragonfly in the road one morning waiting for the bus.. I promised him he was going to find his mommy and as soon as he got off the bus that afternoon he looked. The dragonfly was gone and I told him he had found his Mommy. Of course he hadn't.But Mikey needed that reassurance.
So once he gets that he is eating animals.... I am pretty sure he will stop. I worry about what he's gonna say to anyone else eating them ><
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Rough Couple of Days
Ugh it's been a really crappy few days. Turns out there's alot more that needs to be done to the car. Jason is a bit stubborn and he must have visited the auto place countless times and demanded to know exactly what they were doing and why. They did show him and when he said he believed them (cause for a while we weren't sure if they were pulling something or not) then I felt better.
However it's still twice what I thought it was gonna be. And when you factor in having to rent a car for two days that didn't help. My neck pain is still bad.. it lessens here and there but I can't turn my neck without pain and it often just hurts when I am doing nothing. The headache above my eye also comes and goes. Both flare up in times of extreme stress, which has obviously been alot the last few days.
Oh and I had to reformat my computer last night. Right before a raid. WoW is my escape remember? I kept getting MBR errors and finally had no choice. Luckily my WoW is on another hard drive so at least I didn't have to reinstall that. I am reformatting that drive currently as I froze up again today and I wanted all bases covered.
I have sat down and cried a few times, I wont lie. Between the physical pain, the stress, the frustration and the kids (who have not been THAT bad but even a little is hard right now) I just let myself go.
I had plans for that money. It's not the end of the world though. I was gonna get Heather some more summer clothes. She has some though, and it's not like I don't do laundry every day regardless. I was gonna stock up on some food and household items, to free up some money from Jason's paycheck, but now I will just have to buy it like I always do. I was gonna pay off some small credit we had so we wouldn't have the monthly payments anymore, but we'll just keep making the payments.
I am most upset by not being able to pay my Dad back. I know he doesn't care but he got us out of a few jams last year and it's important to me that he knows I am not just sponging off him or something.
I was gonna get a Sunday paper subscription so I wouldn't have to worry about running out for coupons. Now I'll run out. I was gonna cut our cable down to just basic and get the unlimited Netflix plan with the box ($100) they send to feed directly to your TV. So Jason could watch any movies he wanted and also current shows and movies. It would cut our cable bill in half but we'd be getting more. I think we're still gonna cut the cable and maybe even still get the Netflix unlimited but we can't buy the box. It's not the end of the world.
My shoes have holes in them and I was gonna buy a new pair. But as Jason says, I have a perfectly good pair in the closet I rarely wear because they hurt my feet. Probably because I never broke them in. So now I will break them in.
I wanted to give Jason a few hundred dollar to buy some new speakers he really wanted. And now I guess he'll be ok with what he has.
As long as we get the car back. We have the money to fix it (i.e. nothing else huge crops up) and it runs well for a long time.. none of it is the end of the world. But it doesn't mean I am not sad about it.
However it's still twice what I thought it was gonna be. And when you factor in having to rent a car for two days that didn't help. My neck pain is still bad.. it lessens here and there but I can't turn my neck without pain and it often just hurts when I am doing nothing. The headache above my eye also comes and goes. Both flare up in times of extreme stress, which has obviously been alot the last few days.
Oh and I had to reformat my computer last night. Right before a raid. WoW is my escape remember? I kept getting MBR errors and finally had no choice. Luckily my WoW is on another hard drive so at least I didn't have to reinstall that. I am reformatting that drive currently as I froze up again today and I wanted all bases covered.
I have sat down and cried a few times, I wont lie. Between the physical pain, the stress, the frustration and the kids (who have not been THAT bad but even a little is hard right now) I just let myself go.
I had plans for that money. It's not the end of the world though. I was gonna get Heather some more summer clothes. She has some though, and it's not like I don't do laundry every day regardless. I was gonna stock up on some food and household items, to free up some money from Jason's paycheck, but now I will just have to buy it like I always do. I was gonna pay off some small credit we had so we wouldn't have the monthly payments anymore, but we'll just keep making the payments.
I am most upset by not being able to pay my Dad back. I know he doesn't care but he got us out of a few jams last year and it's important to me that he knows I am not just sponging off him or something.
I was gonna get a Sunday paper subscription so I wouldn't have to worry about running out for coupons. Now I'll run out. I was gonna cut our cable down to just basic and get the unlimited Netflix plan with the box ($100) they send to feed directly to your TV. So Jason could watch any movies he wanted and also current shows and movies. It would cut our cable bill in half but we'd be getting more. I think we're still gonna cut the cable and maybe even still get the Netflix unlimited but we can't buy the box. It's not the end of the world.
My shoes have holes in them and I was gonna buy a new pair. But as Jason says, I have a perfectly good pair in the closet I rarely wear because they hurt my feet. Probably because I never broke them in. So now I will break them in.
I wanted to give Jason a few hundred dollar to buy some new speakers he really wanted. And now I guess he'll be ok with what he has.
As long as we get the car back. We have the money to fix it (i.e. nothing else huge crops up) and it runs well for a long time.. none of it is the end of the world. But it doesn't mean I am not sad about it.
Monday, February 16, 2009
And there goes the refund..
We just got our tax refund Friday. It was a pretty decent amount. It's just about gone.
Between paying back some money owed, paying some bills, and splurging a little over the weekend on the kids.. then we got hit with this.
The car broke down on the way to work today. Looks like the Timing belt. Between towing it home (almost $200) and the cost to replace that, the water pump, some cam sensor and whatever else is all in the same area, we're looking at almost $1000.
Oh and Jason is missing a day of work over this.
*cry*
I still need to buy Heather some summer clothes, I desperately need new shoes and I wanted to stock up on some things at BJ's we won't have much left. Oh well, I guess we're at least lucky to have it when it happened, right?
Between paying back some money owed, paying some bills, and splurging a little over the weekend on the kids.. then we got hit with this.
The car broke down on the way to work today. Looks like the Timing belt. Between towing it home (almost $200) and the cost to replace that, the water pump, some cam sensor and whatever else is all in the same area, we're looking at almost $1000.
Oh and Jason is missing a day of work over this.
*cry*
I still need to buy Heather some summer clothes, I desperately need new shoes and I wanted to stock up on some things at BJ's we won't have much left. Oh well, I guess we're at least lucky to have it when it happened, right?
My Headaches
Long time readers (and my family)know I have had migraines pretty much all my adult life. Causes generally include stress and lack of sleep. They can range from mild to debilitating and one day to four.. No fun.
Some of the worst ones have the pain above one of my eyes.. generally my right eye. It makes it hard to focus on anything, like driving, reading, computers, etc. In a new development I woke up Saturday (yes, woke up) with a headache and pain at the base of my skull.
I thought maybe I slept wrong or something but it hasn't gone away. I spent Saturday, Sunday and am still today dealing with the pain in my neck as well as pain over my right eye (the neck pain is also on the right side).
So I finally looked it up. Hey guess what.. theres a nerve that goes from above my eyes to the base of my skull. The Occipital nerve. It's the cause of Occipital Neuralgia.
From the looks of it I have been dealing with it for years but only around my eyes and sometimes the back of my head (towards the top). Never this new pain in my neck. It says it is usually a result of some trauma. I can't think of a single thing that could be except possibly about 5 years ago when we got rear ended on the way to Mikey's therapy. It wasn't serious, but I had neck pain for the rest of the day. That's all though.
Before that, I couldn't tell you if my migraines had any focus like they do now. So it's kind of up in the air. All I know is, I don't like it. It's hard to do anything except lay around in the dark with heating pads and as you know, with kids, you can't do that for long. I bought some Icy Hot patches today and that is actually helping some with my neck. But I smell awful :(
So a trip to the Dr is probably gonna be in order. At least we got the FSA going this year!
Some of the worst ones have the pain above one of my eyes.. generally my right eye. It makes it hard to focus on anything, like driving, reading, computers, etc. In a new development I woke up Saturday (yes, woke up) with a headache and pain at the base of my skull.
I thought maybe I slept wrong or something but it hasn't gone away. I spent Saturday, Sunday and am still today dealing with the pain in my neck as well as pain over my right eye (the neck pain is also on the right side).
So I finally looked it up. Hey guess what.. theres a nerve that goes from above my eyes to the base of my skull. The Occipital nerve. It's the cause of Occipital Neuralgia.
From the looks of it I have been dealing with it for years but only around my eyes and sometimes the back of my head (towards the top). Never this new pain in my neck. It says it is usually a result of some trauma. I can't think of a single thing that could be except possibly about 5 years ago when we got rear ended on the way to Mikey's therapy. It wasn't serious, but I had neck pain for the rest of the day. That's all though.
Before that, I couldn't tell you if my migraines had any focus like they do now. So it's kind of up in the air. All I know is, I don't like it. It's hard to do anything except lay around in the dark with heating pads and as you know, with kids, you can't do that for long. I bought some Icy Hot patches today and that is actually helping some with my neck. But I smell awful :(
So a trip to the Dr is probably gonna be in order. At least we got the FSA going this year!
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