Today, Phil and I came to Nanaimo to celebrate, early Christmas with Wanda, Al and Tra.  Wanda and Tra had to come to Comox to pick us up as our car will not be complete until next week, and tomorrow my mom will come pick us up, but we made it

 Tonight, we had lots of YUMMY YUMMY food… including wings, nachos, veggies and other assortments.  And Wanda and I will be preparing a chocolate fondue that we will be eating very soon…. Tra is quite excited.

Later, Tra and Phil will probably play X-Box while Wanda and I do what we do best….. talk! Well, perhaps we will watch a movie…. Step Up! 

Tomorrow, we will be having breakfast in our PJ’s which will be lots of fun! Then we are on our way home to celebrate Christmas eve with mom! Hurrah!

Well, we are off to make the fondue…. dont be tooo jealous!

It is so hard to believe the it is already December 20th. It seems the time has just flown by, and I’m having a hard time catching up. I am all done school now, and it feels great. I really enjoy school, but its always so refreshing to be done. And next semester I only have 3 classes to finish my diploma! Phil works until Friday and then he is off until January 2nd. We are both going to work over the holidays a bit, and relax a lot.

Our Christmas plans this year are…. On Saturday the 23rd till Christmas eve we will be in Nanaimo with Aunt Wanda, and Tra. That will be so much fun, they are our other family that is near by and we are very excited to start this yearly tradtion to spend a night with them at Christmas. On Christmas eve, we will be attending our church service with my mom, and then going to some Christmas eve parties, perhaps at the Nymans and the Endalls. After we will come home and open one gift, which is always pj’s and just hang out. We will either open our gifts at midnight, or first thing on Christmas morning, we’ll see how we feel…hehe. Then on Christmas day we are going to the Endalls for Eggs Benedict, which is one my absolute favourite parts, this will be the 20th year I’ve gone For the rest of the day we will relax, maybe watch some movie and then have Christmas dinner it will be such a wonderful weekend. I am very excited!

Well, I best be back to making lunch!

Phil and I have had an eventful few days. Our car all of a sudden wouldnt reverse. Thinking that we just needed to add transmission fluid, we decided to be pro-active and go straight to Can. Tire yesterday morning. Just to fill it up and find out that we still couldn’t reverse. After this we decided the best choice woudl be to take it to the shop which was only about a block away. We left it there and ventured on our way back to work/school.

Later that day, we were hoping that we would hear its fixed, and it was cheap but to our dismay it was not fixed and definatly not going to be cheap. Our WHOLE transmission needs to be replaced, and after everything it will run up a bill of a couple thousand dollars. YUCK!

We are callilng the dealer today, to get a full transmission diagnostic just to see if something had been missed or anything else we should know. Who knows whats in store for us. Should be an interesting weekend, making all these decisions.

Wish us luck… and lets all hope for a miracle

So, today could have been better than it turned out.  Yesterday evening I was having issues with the car (it wouldn’t reverse anymore) so I got home and talked to Gary.  He suggested that the transmission fluid might be low, so we proceeded to go and check that out.  He was right that the transmission fluid was a little bit low, so we added some more but that didn’t solve the problem.  As he didn’t have a lot of transmission fluid Keltie and I went down early this morning to Canadian Tire to get some more, but we added a little bit more and that still didn’t help things, so I drove the car over to Kean auto and left it with Phil to take a look at.  Anyway, I ended up calling Kean auto late this afternoon and got some not-so-great news: that the transmission on the car had died, with the total repair bill likely being $2000 with a used transmission or closer to $3000 with a new transmission.

So, I now have to decide what to do – whether to go ahead and fix the car, or if it’s going to make more sense to sell/part it out and just get something else.  All in all not a great day, but I’ll admit that it could have been a lot worse, so I’m thankful that it’s the only thing that happened to me today.