Day 70

Good evening everyone. Yes I admit, I did not post last night. I meant to, and then I completely forgot until 12:05AM the following morning, and so it wouldn't have posted for Monday. So today is day #2 of my 3 days off from work. It feels great. I am for the most part doing what I had planned to do, which was doing a whole lot of nothing. We've gone out and taken care of some things, but otherwise we have been chilling out.

We've watched seeker episodes, slider episodes, and we watched episode 1 of series 1 of Doctor Who. I think Erin fell asleep at the beginning, so we might end up re-watching it. You could say I'm so used to being at work everyday, that when it got be just after 6PM I would look at the clock and think about it and be like "hey look, I'm late for work!" It just felt really weird to be here at home when normally I was going to be at work. I guess that's a sign that I definitely was in need of some days off. What's great is even though I have a total of 3 days off this week, it is almost like 3 and 1/2 because I don't work until 6 on Thursday. So it feels nice to know I still have an entire day off and then some left.

So, I do not recall if I wrote about the transmission on Erin's ford escape. Well, it looks like it is going to cost us $1,900 at a minimum for the transmission. We can put a new one in for over $4,000. Or we could rebuild the current transmission for $1900. There is one other option. We can try to find a junker ford escape that has been put into a salvage yard and see if we can get a used transmission, which I would have to go pick up with my truck, and then our mechanic would charge us around $500.00 to put it in. That is the cheapest way, but there is no warranty for that one. If we have him rebuild our current transmission, then he would guarantee it for 12,000 miles or 1 year.

So the one we'd prefer would be to rebuild the transmission. We still have no idea where the money will come from, but to be honest, I'm not stressing about it for some reason. It falls in the worries and cares area of our life, and those are things I am continually giving to God every time I drop and pray. Thankfully He keeps the stress lifted from my shoulders, so although I know what the worries are, it's ok because I know things will work out.

So today, since I'm expecting a really good check this week, and we had planned on doing some work to both cars, I called master auto care, where i had taken my truck to ask them about their labor costs for welding my tailpipe back onto the catalytic converter. So today I called them and first asked them what they would charge me to switch out the tank that has a drip leak for the brand new tank i have had stored here in the garage for a few months, and to weld the tail pipe onto the cat converter. They told me, and then I asked "do you have any openings on thursday?" and they said they could get it in any time. I said "if I dropped it off first thing, would you be able to have it done and ready by some time in the afternoon?" They were like "oh yeah, definitely. Probably by 2." Then I mentioned that I wanted to go ahead and get on the books for thursday morning, and that it is our only mode of transportation currently and I will figure out how to get there and back." He was like "when you get it up here, i will give ya a lift." So, some time thursday we will have the truck in much better working order than before.

So in closing, enjoying the days off, spending lots of time together as a family, relaxing a lot trying to make up for the lack of time this past month while working, etc. So anyway, I think I will call that it for tonight. I will write more for you tomorrow.