Good News: We have a new car! The loan went through on Friday and we are now the owners of a 1992 Volvo S70 wagon. Boo yah! We’ll be extending the California trip for another week to drive it back.
Prayer Request: Could y’all pray that I can find a job? Every time I think something is viable, it turns out not to be. We really do need another paycheck coming in, so please pray that something will materialize.
We might have a car to buy in California. Please pray that we can get all this arranged in the short window of time we have.
Several people have asked me how I’m doing. The best answer I can give is this:
I want to curl up in bed with the covers over my head and not crawl out until we head to California in May.
Sable is totalled. We’re getting about $900 for her when all is said and done and that will have to be a down payment on a used car — we can’t afford a new one on just Jon’s salary. Jon’s shoulder is better though still a little sore. We’re supposed to go and clean the rest of our personal items out of her today so they can tow her away tomorrow. I haven’t decided whether or not I want to go with Jon to do that — I loved Sable and it will just reinforce that we are now carless even more.
So… could y’all lift up some prayers that the used car can materialize?
When I submitted the afghan to Afghans for Afghans, they put my name in a drawing for a $50 gift certificate to Elann.Com and I was one of three people chosen to receive one. *does the happy Jen dance*
Now all you crafty people head on over to the Afghans for Afghans site and see what you can do about helping them help people in Central Asia!
Jon lost control on a gravel road last night and the car ended up in a ditch on its side. Because it’s a Volvo (and those suckers are built like tanks), Jon walked away with only some minor scrapes and bruises. Sable (our Volvo) on the other hand, is possibly totalled. Her windshield is cracked, the rear windshield shattered, the frame is bent a bit, and the right mirror is gone. We are praying really hard that she can be salvaged but people (in an effort to make us feel better that has royally backfired) have told us that she’s probably totalled and to get a new car.
We are kind of attached to Sable, so keep us in prayer that we can get through the insurance mess. We thankfully have temporary wheels as a parishioner had an extra car. (Reason # 34564 that I love Minnesota: people actually *HELP* others out instead of saying “that’s nice” and going to play frisbee golf instead of helping.)
BayArea.Com: SJ’s Tillman, who quit NFL to fight, killed in Afghanistan
He was three four years ahead of me in school and I knew his younger brothers. (The Tillmans were a sports dynasty at my high school.) I’m wondering what it’s going to be like to go home in May after this happened. This is the first person I knew within two degrees of separation of me that has been killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Along the same lines…
Pentagon Angered by Soldier Coffin Photos
The Department of Defense has been catching so much fire over this. It used to be that the cameras were on and taking the coffins off the plane was a last tribute and hurrah to those who had died. Now… the cameras are off. All the Vietnam-era people and family members of those who have died are up in arms because they want the world to see the coffins being taken off the planes and the bodies of their sons and daughters coming home. I happen to agree.
I’m considering having people guestblog while I’m in California in May. If you’re interested, leave me a comment.