Ready, Set...Oh Wait the Car is Broke

You heard it right, ladies and gentleman...thankfully we had the extra money (well, not extra, it was kind of grocery money) when our car decided to leak oil and blow out blue smoke today, an hour from home, at the in-laws. Here I have one thing to say...thank goodness I like my in-laws! Richard's cousin told us "what was wrong with it" and that it would be 500-600 dollars to fix. A car place said that to fix what was "most likely" the trouble would be 1200 dollars. Right...So we went to a garage who, thankfully, do things cheap and effeciently to pay the 10 dollar fee to put the car up on the lift-y thing-y and see what was wrong. Apparently, it was an oil sending unit, a part that the car-illiterate me did not even know existed. Let me clarify. This piece was about three inches long, not even an inch wide, looked like a little cylinder, and cost a grand total of....drumroll please...15.99. A total of 46.something to fix the car period. I almost cried and hugged the extremely greasy man standing in front of me. So fifteen minutes later...fixed! That was at about four, and then later....on the way home...



I won Kelly Clarkson tickets on Hot 96! Again, I will clarify. In my area there is a radio station that I am, quite frankly, addicted to, called Hot 96 STO that is based out of Evansville, Indiana. They were having a contest called RC Tops off for Summer or some such title. If you were caller 96, you simply pick a number from one to 96 and see what's under the lid! It was the last time they were playing this game, and I was caller 96. I almost fell out of the car. J, my stepson, gave me the number and I won concert tickets. It was between Jason Mraz and Kelly Clarkson, and I know more Kelly Clarkson songs so that was my pick. Yay! I never win ANYTHING! My stepson, of course, was only interested in hearing his name on the radio, lol.



It seems like I'm forgetting something sweet and poetic I wanted to say. Eh, I'll post another if that's the case.