Okay..so it's been awhile...
since I last posted, but I've been sick, busy and..well sick and busy. :-)

I had an allergy morph into a cold which is now morphing into a respiratory infection. I've never been so glad to have insurance in my life! The guy at the pharmacy knows me by name, and I am wearing a groove in the backs of my insurance and prescription cards.

It is such a great feeling to know that even though you feel like crap you can go to your doctor or the ER and get treatment without feeling like a charity case because either you don't have any insurance, or you have a medical card. I've been in both places, and I have promised myself that I will do whatever it takes not to be there again. Not that medical insurance is perfect. I still pay a decent chunk monthly for the priviledge, and there are days that I think "if I wasn't paying out for health insruance I could afford a better cut of meat", but then I think of the last few weeks and suddenly ground round instead of ground chuck doesn't seem all that bad. Or should that be the other way around? LOL

Update on the family: a friend from work has set Lou up for a job, and if all goes right, he should be gainfully employed later this week. Guess what he's going to be doing (if he gets the job)? Short Order cook! The man burns water, and my friend knows this (I told her) but she said that most of the cooks didn't know how to cook before they started working there. I almost didn't tell him about the job, thinking he wouldn't want to do it, but he gladly accepted the help, to my suprise and relief. I'll let you know how things go.

Taylor tried out for the volleyball team, but didn't make the final cut. I think I was more disappointed than she was, since she's got oodles of other activities and clubs to look forward to, including band. A quick rant on the Ohio public school system: It's going to cost me close to $200 just to send her to school. Okay, so $90 of that is band-related, but the balance is for fees for classes that are MANDATORY! That's how strapped for cash the school system is. What I don't get it that I pay taxes the three..count 'em THREE different cities...and yet I still have to pay these fees for Taylor to go to public school? Incredible. I'll pay the fees and see what my money gets me...and if I don't think I'm getting my money's worth, oh my are they going to hear about it!

Let's see...what else is going on? We're shopping for another car. Well, an additional car since no matter where Lou works, we are going to each need one. I picked out a nice 2000 Malibu...and I've applied for financing, so we will see what happens with that. One perk to living in Ohio is that the insurance is MUCH cheaper than it was in WV. I'm going to go from $150 a month to just over $50 a month for full coverage. Can't complain about that. Of course, Lou had me convinced that the car we already have was about to die at any moment. It seems that when he and Jake went out Saturday night, the car started doing strange things...making noises and it seemed like it wanted to stall. The car has had engine problems for a long time, so I was assuming that the problems were finally catching up with it.

That's what I get for assuming things. Especially when the scenario is being recounted by my drama king husband.

I get in the car yesterday, and sure enough, it's making weird sounds and acting like it wants to stall, especially while idiling at red lights. There was also a strange, but familiar smell coming in through the vents. This concerned me, so I immmediately start car shopping (gotta love the www!).

This afternoon when I was heading for work (I took the morning off to take Taylor to her school orientation) I noticed something. The defrosters were on. That was the strange smell. The heater hasn't worked right for a long time, and the defrosters aren't much better. So, I turned off the defrosters (why either of them needed the heater on in August in Ohio, I'll NEVER know) and lo and behold...the car started running the way it had been before the noises and smell.

I gave Lou a good talking to...I won't go into details here, but it wasn't pretty. LOL And when Jake comes back, I'm going to yell at him too.

Okay, that's it. This post is longer than I anticipated, but I think you are all caught up. I'll try to post more often...I know..promises, promises. LOL

You may all resume living your lives now. :-)
- posted by Kim @ 10:35 PM