Oooof. Dropped the Sienna off at the Toyota dealer this morning, just now got the damage - much more than I expected. Lots more going on than just the window malfunctioning (which itself requires a new motor). I could shop around, I suppose, get second opinions, go with cheaper options, but when it comes down to it, this is a 1999 (i.e. bought in 1998) car with almost 156,500 miles on it and I want it to keep going, dare I say it, another 100,000 miles, and I know nothing, nothing about cars. I hope someday I'll end up living somewhere that doesn't require me to have a car, or at least not to have to use it often if I do, so that buying a new car will not be a necessity. So anyway, perhaps the Toyota dealer is taking advantage of the poor naive widder woman, but so be it - I told them to go ahead and fix what they say needs fixing. And meanwhile I have a white loaner 2010 Corolla to get me home after work. Jaysis, they couldn't have given me something more exciting?
In other news, the person who bought Jerry's Droid on eBay paid yesterday, so I'll drop the package off at the post office on the way home. I'm pretty sure I'm remembering right that Jerry's last post on Facebook was that he'd been "sucked into the vortex of Droid!" - it's not there anymore since I had his Facebook profile "memorialized," to keep all his FB friends from receiving those "Reconnect with Jerry!" notifications that I was finding hard to take. But anyway, yet another chapter in the ongoing saga "Nothing About This Doesn't Suck."
Three weeks and a wake-up until I head to Alabama. This is so, so wrong. He was supposed to have regained his strength and have been ready for traveling, and was supposed to be traveling down too, for what was supposed to have been his 21st Lookout Mountain Convention. This is not the way it was supposed to be.
Dear Karen,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much so posting all the videos of my dad leading. It's really helped in preparing me for Lookout Mtn, and has helped me give Erich an idea of how it's done, since this will be his first singing. I was trying to figure out when we first went down to Liberty, and if that was before or after his first LM trip in 1990. I remember sleeping in the back seat of the camry wagon every year on the ride down to Henegar for the 4th. I wonder how long it would have kept going if baby Michael hadn't necessitated an upgrade to a larger vehicle for our annual Ohio Christmas trip. (Of course, the greater ability to use it for deliveries for the business really helped justify trading in the beloved cherry camry.) So many memories...
Still thinking of you often, and missing you very much. I look forward to spending time with you in Alabama in a few weeks. In the meantime (and after) remember I'm only 20 minutes away.
Love and Hugs,
Erin