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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
The Saga Continues
Well, it took the insurance company 12 days from the day of the accident to get me a rental car. And what got delivered? A clown car. I am not going to mention what make or model as I know somewhere, out there, there is a fan of this particular car. Maybe even two.
_I_ feel cramped in this car, and I am only 5 foot tall! I know my poor husband feels cramped as well. Even Nora doesn't like it much. Maybe she is just picking up on our feelings. It feels like driving a VW Bug, without all the fun-ness of driving a bug. It even has a little clown car horn. Beep Beep.
Anyway, I called the insurance agent and of course they offered me an ultra low settlement. It would have been a disaster if we accepted it, I wouldn't have been able to buy another car to replace ours, not in the market around here. So, luckily I had done my research and knew my car was worth (in market value) just shy of 3x what they offered. I had to threaten to get a lawyer, called lawyer, called the Idaho Insurance Commission, and all that work just to call back to find that they were going to meet my demands! At least they are going to pay me a fair price for the car. Now I just need to see if they will pay lost wages.
On to the next big news! We already picked out a beautiful replacement car! We have shook hands on the deal and they have a wonderful "sold" sticker in the window. We are getting a 1999 Lincoln Town Car with all the bells and whistles except remote start. It only has 43,000 miles on it and a few blemishes to the paint which are no big deal. I can't wait for the insurance check to get here! I want my new car! :D
Nora is walking now. She is doing so great! She is also learning new words. She says Mama and Dada, has said "I love you" in that special way that only a mom or dad will understand, but she's trying, has said "red" when holding a red item. She really loves the Teletubbies show and also Classical Baby from HBO. I try to let her watch too much TV, but she really likes these two shows and will interact with the show by waving goodbye and laughing and such.
Since she is walking now, I bought her some hard soled shoes which are a little harder for her to walk in, but she is getting the hang of it. It is so funny to watch her walk when I first put them on, she would lift her leg up so high and take huge steps!
I am almost done with the quilts for Julia and Doc, Reo, Aria, and Rianna. Four in all. I think they are looking mighty spiffy myself :D Then my next project is Top Secret for now, but I promise and unveiling soon. I hope within the next two weeks or so! I am hoping this new project will bring in some much needed income. Wish me luck!
_I_ feel cramped in this car, and I am only 5 foot tall! I know my poor husband feels cramped as well. Even Nora doesn't like it much. Maybe she is just picking up on our feelings. It feels like driving a VW Bug, without all the fun-ness of driving a bug. It even has a little clown car horn. Beep Beep.
Anyway, I called the insurance agent and of course they offered me an ultra low settlement. It would have been a disaster if we accepted it, I wouldn't have been able to buy another car to replace ours, not in the market around here. So, luckily I had done my research and knew my car was worth (in market value) just shy of 3x what they offered. I had to threaten to get a lawyer, called lawyer, called the Idaho Insurance Commission, and all that work just to call back to find that they were going to meet my demands! At least they are going to pay me a fair price for the car. Now I just need to see if they will pay lost wages.
On to the next big news! We already picked out a beautiful replacement car! We have shook hands on the deal and they have a wonderful "sold" sticker in the window. We are getting a 1999 Lincoln Town Car with all the bells and whistles except remote start. It only has 43,000 miles on it and a few blemishes to the paint which are no big deal. I can't wait for the insurance check to get here! I want my new car! :D
Nora is walking now. She is doing so great! She is also learning new words. She says Mama and Dada, has said "I love you" in that special way that only a mom or dad will understand, but she's trying, has said "red" when holding a red item. She really loves the Teletubbies show and also Classical Baby from HBO. I try to let her watch too much TV, but she really likes these two shows and will interact with the show by waving goodbye and laughing and such.
Since she is walking now, I bought her some hard soled shoes which are a little harder for her to walk in, but she is getting the hang of it. It is so funny to watch her walk when I first put them on, she would lift her leg up so high and take huge steps!
I am almost done with the quilts for Julia and Doc, Reo, Aria, and Rianna. Four in all. I think they are looking mighty spiffy myself :D Then my next project is Top Secret for now, but I promise and unveiling soon. I hope within the next two weeks or so! I am hoping this new project will bring in some much needed income. Wish me luck!
Friday, March 7, 2008
He has Insurance!
The guy that totaled my car has insurance! Thank Goodness! So much stress and weight off my shoulders! I feel like I can breath again. I will update this post once I know a bit more- Once I have talked with my insurance guy in the morning. This is so wonderful I am just giddy! I can't wait for morning to come!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
If you are waiting on a package from me...
Please be patient with me. I have to walk about 2 miles to the Fed-Ex store or to the bank so anything I take has to be able to fit in the stroller. Also I can only go if Nora is cooperating with me which some days just doesn't happen. I will be trying to get everything in the mail by the end of the week at the latest.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
I should not be allowed vehicles...I really shouldn't
An Ode to my abilities to destroy vehicles.
When I was younger it was always a dream
to be in possession of free flowing wheels
to escape to parts unknown
with a simple press of the accelerator.
I took the driving course, I passed the test
I was handed the keys to a vintage 1970 VW Bug.
"Now drive safe, the car has made it this long
Lets see if it can last a few more drivers"
My parents cautioned.
The bug "Morty" and I were fast friends
The town was ours for the taking.
How I love that car.
It actually still runs.
Then I traded "up" to a newer car.
I got my first speeding ticket with it and my first accident
It was traded in for a newer more reliable car...with cruise control.
I still remembered "Morty".
I found another vintage bug to be my new mechanical baby.
It died a painful death in September of 2007.
Windows shot out by local hoodlums and then
was used as a bumper for a 1967 Chevy pickup.
Then my oh so loving and trusting mom
lets me borrow to buy her beloved Intrepid.
Another solid stable car that has been through thick an thin
And I manage to blow up the engine.
And now my Sunfire. My beloved Sunfire.
Declared officially dead 03/04/08.
Fatally wounded 03/01/08.
Good bye faithful car.
I think I need a horse!
When I was younger it was always a dream
to be in possession of free flowing wheels
to escape to parts unknown
with a simple press of the accelerator.
I took the driving course, I passed the test
I was handed the keys to a vintage 1970 VW Bug.
"Now drive safe, the car has made it this long
Lets see if it can last a few more drivers"
My parents cautioned.
The bug "Morty" and I were fast friends
The town was ours for the taking.
How I love that car.
It actually still runs.
Then I traded "up" to a newer car.
I got my first speeding ticket with it and my first accident
It was traded in for a newer more reliable car...with cruise control.
I still remembered "Morty".
I found another vintage bug to be my new mechanical baby.
It died a painful death in September of 2007.
Windows shot out by local hoodlums and then
was used as a bumper for a 1967 Chevy pickup.
Then my oh so loving and trusting mom
lets me borrow to buy her beloved Intrepid.
Another solid stable car that has been through thick an thin
And I manage to blow up the engine.
And now my Sunfire. My beloved Sunfire.
Declared officially dead 03/04/08.
Fatally wounded 03/01/08.
Good bye faithful car.
I think I need a horse!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Good-bye to a good Car
This morning I was sleeping oh so deeply. The type of sleep where your body is really resting and restoring itself. When suddenly the neighbor's dog started barking. A lot. I jumped out of bed, and in my dream-fogged state, I thought I had left Sky-Dog outside all night. So I started running for the door to let my barking Sky-Dog in, when I realized, Sky was running along right behind me.
So I stood still in the hallway trying to figure out what was going on. Was Nora crying? Did that wake me up? No. The dog was still barking...but she always barks. Then I realized that someone was POUNDING on the neighbor's door down below me and was ringing the doorbell. Ugh. Over and over POUNDING, RINGING etc etc.
I started to worry that they were going to wake up Nora so I got dressed to go outside and see what the fuss was about. By this time, Doug was up with me and we started to go the door together, just as someone started pounding on OUR door! So I open the door and on my doorstep is a police officer, asking if we own the white vehicle parked out front.
"Why, yes Officer, we do... Why?"
"Your car was the victim of a hit-and-run. You need to come and see this."
So we go down stairs to see our car (Which is freshly back from the repair shop, no less) rammed up onto the lawn and between our two pine trees. The whole drivers side is mashed in, the doors either are so dented they won't close or they are mashed closed and won't open.
Doug is able to pull it forward back onto the street. There are gouges in the cement sidewalk from something being scraped across them, and everything is all shaken up in our car.
We are pretty sure it is totaled.
This poor car has been through so much with me. It has been a good car that has not gotten stuck when people expected it too, and gone places with snow chains that even I was suprised about. It has been a work vehicle for my cleaning business, a family car, a ranch car and so much more. It was the first "new to me" car that I had ever bought. I picked it out myself when it only had 20,000 miles on it. Together we drove a good 70,000 miles since 2001. I am going to miss this car. :(
Pictures of the mutilation of my car will be upcoming.
So I stood still in the hallway trying to figure out what was going on. Was Nora crying? Did that wake me up? No. The dog was still barking...but she always barks. Then I realized that someone was POUNDING on the neighbor's door down below me and was ringing the doorbell. Ugh. Over and over POUNDING, RINGING etc etc.
I started to worry that they were going to wake up Nora so I got dressed to go outside and see what the fuss was about. By this time, Doug was up with me and we started to go the door together, just as someone started pounding on OUR door! So I open the door and on my doorstep is a police officer, asking if we own the white vehicle parked out front.
"Why, yes Officer, we do... Why?"
"Your car was the victim of a hit-and-run. You need to come and see this."
So we go down stairs to see our car (Which is freshly back from the repair shop, no less) rammed up onto the lawn and between our two pine trees. The whole drivers side is mashed in, the doors either are so dented they won't close or they are mashed closed and won't open.
Doug is able to pull it forward back onto the street. There are gouges in the cement sidewalk from something being scraped across them, and everything is all shaken up in our car.
We are pretty sure it is totaled.
This poor car has been through so much with me. It has been a good car that has not gotten stuck when people expected it too, and gone places with snow chains that even I was suprised about. It has been a work vehicle for my cleaning business, a family car, a ranch car and so much more. It was the first "new to me" car that I had ever bought. I picked it out myself when it only had 20,000 miles on it. Together we drove a good 70,000 miles since 2001. I am going to miss this car. :(
Pictures of the mutilation of my car will be upcoming.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
New Schedule
I am so sorry I haven't posted for a while. My laptop had problems not to long ago and had to be reformatted, but never quite fully recovered. It kept getting slower and slower, taking as much as 5-10 minutes to load Internet Explorer. So I took it back to V-Mobile (the place that I bought it from) and since it is still under warranty until the end of the year, they are going to fix it. I will probably be getting new ram, new hard drive, new CD drive, new keyboard, the list goes on. Basically they are using the same case and just giving me all new insides. Yay! Maybe it will last another few years for me.
But with having a slowed down computer, I just wasn't able to be on the internet all that much. Our other computer is in the the office...aka "Man Land" which is not baby proof at all. The good news is, until my computer gets fixed, I have this loaner computer to use! Yay!
Nora is back on schedule again. She wakes up at 6:30am every morning and I have been putting her to bed between 8 and 8:30pm. She has been taking a morning nap between 9:30am and 11am. I am still working on trying to tighten that schedule up a bit. I would love it if she went to take her nap right at 10am. Then, she is often taking another nap at about 3pm. Sometimes she will sleep for 2-3 hours in the morning and then be fine the rest of the day.
She is still doing her biting thing. Usually when she is hungry is when she is the worst. I was just trying to get her changed out of her clothes and into new clothes and a diaper; She knew that her bottle was ready, so she turned over and bit my foot! Ouch! Luckily she bit the pad and not the arch of my foot, otherwise she might have drawn blood.
When puppies bite, you can shove your hand further into their mouth to make it really uncomfortable to continue to bite down. I have sort of adopted this policy with Nora. When she bites me, I mooosh her face harder towards me. She really doesn't like this and has slowed her biting down.
Her favorite food right now is Organic Oranges. I am really trying hard to give her only organic foods. I am trying to change the way I eat and live and I figure that now is a great time to eliminate toxins from her diet too! Hopefully if I can keep affording to feed her organically, she won't face a lot of the problems that "conventionally" fed children often do. She also likes the organic Sesame Street cheese crackers and the Organic Letter of the day cookies. She loves string cheese and bread, oh and she really likes lunch meat. I am going to have her try Tofurkey lunch meat and she loves the Boca brand Chik'in patties.
I am trying to go vegan, but so far am having more luck going vegetarian. I ate meat last night because my friends at the Ranch made hamburgers from their ranch-raised beef. I figure a little meat once a week won't hurt as much as meat several times a day each day was hurting me, and I know how they raised and slaughtered their meat so I don't have a problem there. Just like I don't mind drinking their raw goats milk. Yum.
I must admit I still drink some of Nora's organic milk occasionally. I have a serious milk addiction. I am trying to break it, and I am doing much better. But it can be hard at times.
Well, I hope everyone is doing great! More later!
But with having a slowed down computer, I just wasn't able to be on the internet all that much. Our other computer is in the the office...aka "Man Land" which is not baby proof at all. The good news is, until my computer gets fixed, I have this loaner computer to use! Yay!
Nora is back on schedule again. She wakes up at 6:30am every morning and I have been putting her to bed between 8 and 8:30pm. She has been taking a morning nap between 9:30am and 11am. I am still working on trying to tighten that schedule up a bit. I would love it if she went to take her nap right at 10am. Then, she is often taking another nap at about 3pm. Sometimes she will sleep for 2-3 hours in the morning and then be fine the rest of the day.
She is still doing her biting thing. Usually when she is hungry is when she is the worst. I was just trying to get her changed out of her clothes and into new clothes and a diaper; She knew that her bottle was ready, so she turned over and bit my foot! Ouch! Luckily she bit the pad and not the arch of my foot, otherwise she might have drawn blood.
When puppies bite, you can shove your hand further into their mouth to make it really uncomfortable to continue to bite down. I have sort of adopted this policy with Nora. When she bites me, I mooosh her face harder towards me. She really doesn't like this and has slowed her biting down.
Her favorite food right now is Organic Oranges. I am really trying hard to give her only organic foods. I am trying to change the way I eat and live and I figure that now is a great time to eliminate toxins from her diet too! Hopefully if I can keep affording to feed her organically, she won't face a lot of the problems that "conventionally" fed children often do. She also likes the organic Sesame Street cheese crackers and the Organic Letter of the day cookies. She loves string cheese and bread, oh and she really likes lunch meat. I am going to have her try Tofurkey lunch meat and she loves the Boca brand Chik'in patties.
I am trying to go vegan, but so far am having more luck going vegetarian. I ate meat last night because my friends at the Ranch made hamburgers from their ranch-raised beef. I figure a little meat once a week won't hurt as much as meat several times a day each day was hurting me, and I know how they raised and slaughtered their meat so I don't have a problem there. Just like I don't mind drinking their raw goats milk. Yum.
I must admit I still drink some of Nora's organic milk occasionally. I have a serious milk addiction. I am trying to break it, and I am doing much better. But it can be hard at times.
Well, I hope everyone is doing great! More later!
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