Thursday, February 26, 2004

 

Oh, an update about the below mentioned financial situation:
We were set back this week. I had a meeting for the library in Montgomery. (Side note: I started getting sick Sunday, had little sleep that night, went to school sick all day Monday and got home at about 10. Then left that same night for Montgomery, only to get up early the next morning for the meeting, so I was already tired.) We stayed with reletives there that were so nice to let us stay. The plan was to stay Tuesday night to be able to visit with them some. Tuesday morning, James dropped me off at my meeting. He was planning to take Xander to the park, have a picnic and feed the ducks. They went to the store to get peanut butter and when they came out, a woman said, "What's that coming out of your van?" Needless to say, he made it to the Ford (never again will we have another) dealer for them to say, "There' s too much pressure in the water pump. You've likely got a cracked head gasket. We've had problems with this model before and I'd recommend a whole new engine." WHAT!?
So, we called a friend of ours who is a mechanic and he said that he could replace the gasket and check the water pump. He said he could probably do it for $1500. We're hoping that we won't have any more problems until our bills are paid off. Then we'll save up a few months and pay cash for a nearly new van.
We've had this van for 2 years and every 4-6 months we've had to put money into it. It is very frustrating! We have a second car, a Nissan Pulsar (tiny, but good). James has had that car for about 13 years and we've put a lot less money on it than we have put into the van in 2 years!
So, we got a rental car ($40 a day) for a day and drove home in it Tuesday night. But it was not one-way and it was due back in Montgomery by 12. So, I got mom to baby-sit and we headed back up there before 8 AM Wednesday morning. Mom had a fibromyalgia exersise class at 1:30 that we needed to be back to relieve her. So we dropped the rental car off, squeezed into the Pulsar and headed home to make it around 1:15.
Well, anyway that was our adventure! We'll have to work harder, but I think we could still do it. ;) TTFN!

Dawn posted this at 10:52 AM.

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