Trouble with cars...

Brett and I are not having very good luck right now. We bought a "new"car a few weeks ago. Its a ninety- something Nissan Altima. When the car was at the former owner's house it worked perfectly fine. But as soon as it was ours, it started having problems. We went to Ammon to buy the car, and then went to dinner at Olive Garden right after. Well, in the parking lot, after dinner the car had trouble starting. I thought, okay, its sitting on a decline, its low on gas, so it must not be getting enough gas to start. After a minute or so we got it started, filled it with gas and got it home.

The next day, when Brett went to get it registered, the car wouldn't start. First thing he checked was the battery and all the cables. Check: operational. Next, he checked the starter. Ah ha, found the possible problem. As it turns out, the starter on this car, is in a location where it is nearly impossible to reach without some effort and a possibly a hydraulic lift. So Brett's solution was to put in a push button start, and circumvent the starter.

So for the last couple of weeks, Brett has been fiddling and fussing, and trying to fix it himself. But, unfortunately, the push button start didn't work. The car still won't start. I think we have hit the point where we need to take it to a mechanic.

I love my husband. But there are times that I wonder about whether or not he was meant to be a band teacher or if he should have pursued an education and career as a mechanic instead.

Or maybe someday he could be both. Who knows.

But for the moment, we have a broken car that needs some attention from a higher trained professional than my husband.

hitting a brick wall...

For the last little while I have been trying to find an inventory software to catalog all of my jewelry and sewing supplies. So far I keep hitting dead ends. I found one program that was perfect. I was within my price range. It was specifically geared toward crafting, but unfortunately I couldn't get the program to work on my computer. After downloading and installing it, I opened it to input my registration key and it restarted my computer. No blue screen of death just instant black out, power off and turn back on. I even tried it in safe mode and it still had the same result.  So there is something wrong with my computer, but it is something neither Will, (my tech guy), nor I can find. We did all the usual things. Checked for viruses...etc, etc, but nothing could make this program work. The only time it did work was when I loaded it onto Brett's computer. So, it stands to reason that there has to be something wrong with my computer. Sigh... I could have simply kept it on Brett's computer, but that wouldn't have been fair to him. Not to mention, his wireless router just died last week. So now my search continues... But everything else I seem to find is either more than I can afford or doesn't have what I need. Sigh....

Sick day...

So last week was kind of rough. I caught the nasty bug that's been making the circuit through the schools, and so I stayed home sick from subbing on Tuesday to recover. I probably should have stayed home on Monday, but Brett accepted the job for me that morning before I had determined that I didn't feel well. My wonderful husband answers my phone for me in the morning because I can't see and both of our phones sit on his side of the bed. So he accepted the job for me and we went back to sleep for a few more minutes. Well, when I got up to go the bathroom, I did not feel very good. You know when you sit up and then you want to lay back down because you don't feel well, yeah that was me. I didn't feel nauseous or anything like that, but my head felt like a ton of bricks, my throat was sore and all I wanted to do was lay back down and stay there. But I felt obligated to go to work because I had already accepted the job, and how bad would that be to accept a job then 20 mins later cancel it. So I got up, got dressed and went to sub anyway. While I got dressed I felt a little better; my head and throat ached, but I felt well enough to go.

Ironically enough, the teacher I was subbing for had the same symptoms that I did. I made it through the morning, but I began feeling worse as the day went on. Thankfully it was for elementary school and I was done relatively early in the day. By the time I got home, I was exhausted and I knew that I had a fever. So I laid down on the couch and stayed there the rest of the night. I didn't even go to my belly dance class, and I never miss that class. I have missed only two or three classes in the entire time that I have been dancing with them. By Tuesday I felt better, but I still stayed home anyway and got some much needed rest.

Sadly, getting sick threw off my entire work out schedule, and I didn't feel motivated to go at all last week. Next week though I'm going to go at least 2-3 times more to make up for lost time.