its a camry thing

On my way to work the other day my truck came to a slow unsteady stop, apparently due to a defunct radiator.  This time I'm thanking my lucky stars for having the right coverage that everything is taken care of.  And while I wait for them to build my new radiator in Detroit (motor city) I get to cruise around in a 2014 Camry.  I laughed as soon as I saw it because it is the same car Heather's company gave her, so I couldn't wait to get home and freak her out with her car twin.

The only difference that we've figured out is that mine has a back up camera and hers doesn't.  It is really nice, I have to admit.  But actually, the car itself is pretty nice.  There is something very comfortable about it.  I never knew.

I'd have to get a different color though, the matchy matchiness is too weird.

I'm still trying to be as cool as Andrew

Of course, a little over a month in and the check engine light came on in the benz.  No amount of placating stories from my father about how "sometimes it's just cause you didn't screw the gas cap on till you heard 3 clicks" were enough to drown out the Andrew's clucking tongue in my head.

I know, you warned me this was going to happen.  You are right, I am wrong, as usual.

So while I was at the rental car counter looking over my options I couldn't resist asking for a Volvo T5.  Unfortunately they didn't have one to loan me but the clerk suggested a Pathfinder.  The universe is being pretty clear with the signs today.

Congratulations Andrew, I hope you're happy, I just can't get you out of my head.

a little more my speed

I finally found out yesterday that the are estimating the damages will take a week to fix, though Leslie said that all they anticipated needing to do was a re-alignment to the back wheels.  I told her I would be happy if that's all it needed but I doubted that would be in the case.

In any event, Enterprise was very obliging to the fact that I could not drive that Jeep for another week.  They even matched my color scheme.  And though I lost my beloved satellite radio it was replaced by one of the most amazing features a car could have:

It's a good thing this 3 series is automatic, otherwise I could have fallen in love.

bats & cotton candy clouds

I've been taking a lot of coping walks lately, the area around my father's is not a bad place for it.  I'm getting to that point where I feel like once all these issues in my life get resolved I won't know what to do with myself because I've forgotten what life is like when I don't have Leslie from State Farm on hold on line 1, and Crystal from Enterprise on hold on line 2, with the Jerry behind "Tom and Jerry's body shop" beeping in incessantly.

I feel like it's a lot easier to be irritated in NYC, not so much down here.  Walking on the nature trail it was impossible to be upset when the sky was filled with the fluffiest pink clouds you could ever want to see.  Then when I realized the sky was also full of bats I forgot about all my worries and enjoyed the bizarre scene.  It made me think of Esha, or the Addams Family, WHICH DAN HAD NEVER SEEN!

Morticia: Have you spoken to her parents?
Susan Firkins, Wednesday's Teacher: Well, Wednesday brought in this picture: Calpurnia Addams.
Morticia: Wednesday's great-aunt Calpurnia. She was burned as a witch in 1706. They said she danced naked in the town square and enslaved the minister.
Susan Firkins, Wednesday's Teacher: Really?
Morticia: Oh, yes. But don't worry. We've told Wednesday college first. 

source

I really can't believe Dan had never seen it.  Her dress alone is enough to sell anybody on that movie.  


So here we find ourselves, at the dawn of another day.  I am chomping at the bit for it to be 9:00 so I can start calling all of my new best friends.

just a little bigger

At the rental car place I jokingly said to my sister, "maybe they'll put me in a BMW, you know, keep me in the lifestyle to which I've become accustomed".  She gave me a look not unlike the kind kitty gives me, so it was a surprise to both of us when the guy behind the counter said, "ok I'm going to put you in that blue BMW out front."

Oh I was excited.  I could have done without him lecturing me about how it was a 2011 BMW and if I damaged it it was going to be very expensive.  It was like he was Joe Enterprise loaning out his favorite BMW to his son for prom night or something.  And what's worse is that I didn't even end up getting it either.  Somebody else apparently had already claimed it so I was given this monstrosity.

And apparently I wasn't far off with my guess, the woman put me in for a premium rental, I can only assume because of my car.  I can't imagine it was for any other reason as this was the same woman who I had earlier called Cruella DeVille for suggesting that I run over the turtle instead of stopping for it.

So for the time being I am relishing the early morning hours before I have to be on the phone again talking to any number of different people that I don't even understand why I have to talk to in the first place.  I can't wait to hear from Kelly at Progressive, she's got some 'splainin' to do.

On the plus side my premium SUV comes equipped with the most premium feature of all: