I think the first day of fall was sometime last week. I had to give up Broadband for a while, I wouldn't have it back yet but Cricket sent me one of those Come back and get first month free fliers so I have it back for a month, maybe more.
We've spent most of the last three weeks with the van out of commission. the half shaft broke when Jeremy was driving it home from work one day. Patrick came and looked at it and said to tow it to his house and he would fix it. Once he got it there his neighbor, Pirate, looked at it and said that the shaft had broken because all three motor mounts were broken. We gave Pat $140. to do the half shaft and $220 to pirate to replace the motor mounts and it took them a week to get it done because Garcia tires had tightened the lug nuts too tight when they put tires on it last month and they ended up having to to drill them out. I picked up the van on a Friday and Monday I was driving Jess home and there was a terrible noise in the front end. I crept home with it and called Patrick who came and said the half shaft had broken again and to tow it back to his house. I was afraid to even call him because I knew how sick he was of working on it but he was a great sport about it. When he got it home he and Pirate looked at it and didn't see any reason the half shaft would have broken again so they concluded that the shaft they got must have been defective and they warrantied getting another one. Pat picked me up to get the van a few days later. I had Jessalynn with me and we got about a mile from Patrick's and the damn thing broke again. I tried to limp it back to Pat's but there was no driving it this time. I couldn't find my phone but a man was out on his porch by where we broke down and he let me use his phone but I couldn't remember anyone's number except my own. One of the crimes of Speed Dial. I wasn't sure where I left my phone but I kept calling it and after almost an hour Patrick answered it!!! He said it was in his car and he wouldn't have heard it but someone stopped by to see him and he heard the phone when he stepped out to talk to them. He took us home to wait for the new diagnosis. It rained the next night but the next he and Pirate got out there and looked and saw that the main new motor mount was broken again. It is supposed that it broke before the last time the shaft broke but they didn't look for that since they were new. The auto parts wouldn't warranty the shaft again but they did at least warranty the mount, another $70. for the shaft, and Pat had it done in that night. It feels OK, made it home and have used it to take Jessalynn to school and Jeremy to work, but it is WAY out of line from all the work but I have no clue how we will pay for it after all we have paid to get it fixed and fixed and fixed, somewhere over $500.
We had all kinds of plans for Labor Day weekend, Rocky Horror was showing and there was Septemberfest, but I had been running a high fever for four days by Friday and I was still trying to get ready to go to Rocky Horror when my heart started skipping beats and feeling pretty uncomfortable. tried to ignore it but it kept on so Jeremy insisted we go to the ER instead of RH and they ended up admitting me for the weekend. Of course Jeremy stayed at the hospital the whole time with me making them wheel a roll-away bed in for him, I had a private room. I was supposed to pick up a heart monitor to wear after I got out but then the van started its antics and I still haven't picked it up. Jaz has been with me and sick since I got the van, well, she has been here way before she got sick, but I can't get to the fifth floor at the Med Center with her with me unless I get the single stroller from Jeanette. On my list of things to do....
Jeanette and Rob moved into a house on NJ. 45th last weekend. It is less expensive than where they were, where they were several months behind on the rent, and I think it is a nicer house, too. Jenise transferred from Benson West to Fontenelle whee Robby is in pre-K a week before they moved. Nett had problems with BW and I'm not thrilled at the switch, not sure if Nici is either, but it is done for now.
Jami is still at FW with Kira and could be released from there in the next month if she has a plan for where to live and how to take care of Kira. I am not sure how I feel about it. I don't think she is ready to have Kira on her own yet, her ability to stay drug free hasn't been tested in the Free world at all, but I hope for the best. I nor KVC have anything to say about what goes on with her or Kira since Kira joined her at FW, Judge Johnson makes all of the decisions and sometimes I think he is pretty clueless. Not just my opinion, several official people have voiced similar comments about him and how lenient he is with those assigned to his drug court.