Cars, a pain but a neccessity

So I'm back and the saying when it rains it pours could not be more true for me and my poor car right now. Well luckily my car is back in my possession, sleeping in the garage where it belongs and getting me safely back and forth from work. That was not the case yesterday morning.

I'm already running late, a regular occurrence for a Monday morning, and I go to start my car and it is shaking, like shaking my whole body shaking and the engine light is flashing at me (not just on but flashing, that's bad right?!?!?)

So I run inside knock on the bathroom door because Matt is showering and getting ready. "Honey, we have a problem" So he runs out putting his shoes on to drive my car around the block, nasty burning smell and smoke coming out of the exhaust. bad again right?!?!

So we measure the oil, not measuring hardly at all, so we poor about a quart in, decide I'm not going into work and my car is going to see the doctor. I packed a very sleepy Lydia in her pj's into his truck, follow Matt to the auto repair shop, then take him to work. We get a call later, we can't find anything wrong with your car... WHAT?!?! It was shaking and smoking. Well it turns out this crack in a valve that we hadn't ever gotten fixed was probably the culprit so we went ahead and let them fix it, since they have been bugging us for 2 years to fix it. $530 later my car is running like new. Ugggh car problems are the worst.

Good news, I got to spend the day at home with my baby girl it only cost me $530 to do so!!