Aw crumb.

Just crumb. Let me start at the beginning. Last week I was at the bank. The parking places were staggered at an angle so the back of the truck next to me was at the middle of my van, kwim? Anyway, I came out from the bank and the truck next to me had an exhaust pipe the size of my head sticking out the side. My van was full of exhaust from this guy blowing it into the van for 5 minutes. As soon as I started the van the check engine light came on. I grabbed the vehicle manual and discovered it had something to do with the "exhaust system" so I figured the guy in the ridiculously big truck probably tripped a sensor and continued on my way to get Neall. The next day I stopped at CarX to see if they could reset it. They didn't have the equipment but said that "Jason at Lindbergh Tire and Auto would HOOK ME UP" so I went there. Jason's version of hooking me up was to charge me $100 to hook up the machine. I told him to stick it and stopped at Meineke. Meineke says it's impossible that the exhaust fromt he truck tripped a sensor but that Auto Zone will test for free. So, I went to Auto Zone (you do realize that I have all 4 kids with me alone, lol). Auto Zone plugged in the little computer and 30 seconds later had the codes cleared. He wrote them down and said that if the light doesn't come back on then it was just the sensor tripped. If it does come back on then bring it back and we'll see if the same codes pop up. I was giddy with excitement when the light didn't come back on. It didn't come on Friday or Saturday or Sunday. Yesterday it came back on :(. We haven't had a chance to take it back to Auto Zone yet but mostly I just don't want to know. I want to pretend all is hunky-dory.

This next paycheck was going to be the first one we weren't paying out every dime that came in. With a van repair who knows what's going to happen. Perhaps it will be no big deal. I know it will be somewhere around $80 just to test it and find the actual problem. Beyond that it could go into the thousands (at which point we'll trade it in, lol). That's the worst case scenario and I'm sure it won't be like that but I can't help but worry.

Finally, I am just heart-sick for my friends and their baby Jack. He's battling severe congenital scoliosis and the treatment they'd hoped would save him from years of spinal surgery and heartache is not working as they'd hoped. There is still hope. I refuse to believe that all is lost, but for now her heart is heavy with worry for her son and so is mine. I pray that they will get good news from todays re-casting, that his curve will be reduced significantly, that the first cast just wasn't applied properly, something. (((hugs))) to the universe for my mama and papa friend.