Car Trouble

School started on Wednesday and I'm almost back into my routine. The first few classes have gone great, but I certainly have my work cut out this semester. I can honestly say I expect twice as much homework as last semester. Going over the new syllabi became a scary endeavor but the Lord was gracious and gave me the courage to face new challenges head on.

School has been good but our cars have been really frustrating lately. For some time now Katie's car has been leaking water into the back seat floor. Before our Christmas break we wrapped her car in a tarp to keep the water out and we didn't drive the car for about a month. I obviously expected the battery would die, but I didn't anticipate needing her car any time soon. I was wrong. On Tuesday Katie and I decided to have lunch at the Chinese buffet down town. We drove my car down, enjoyed lunch and sat around to chit chat for about an hour. When we tried to leave the restaurant parking lot the car would not start. It wasn't the battery, the battery is brand new because of car trouble back in December. Long story short we need a new starter. We had someone pick us up so we could get to work on time. Then we had a friend pick us up from work that night. The next day I unwrapped Katie's car and got it jumped so we could get around town. We made a trip to Wal Mart and it barely started back up to get us home. The Friday I went out a little early to warm the car up for work because Friday we had a high temperature of 1 degree. The battery was dead again. My jumper cables were nestled safely in the other car stuck at the Chinese buffet. I had to find a friend who didn't have class and had jumper cables so that we could get to work on time. We worked our normal 1-8 shift on Friday and when it was time to leave we came out to another dead battery. The mall security guard helped us get it charged. Katie's car has a most peculiar problem: the water that leaks into the car evaporates during the day and gets onto the windshield, at night it freezes. Of course, the heat in her car is also broken so in order to drive it we have to scrape the inside and outside of the windshield. Unfortunately the scraper was also locked in my other car at the Chinese buffet.

We're home now, on Friday night planning for tomorrow morning when the battery will surely be dead again. After we get off work at 4:00 we're going car shopping!

At least we have some nice snow on the ground, even if it has been -4 degrees and the weather is wreaking havoc on our cars. Pray for us with the car situation, we have no doubt that God will take care of us as he sees fit. Please pray fervently for my schoolwork this semester, I would like to keep my 4.0 GPA but I realize that may be unrealistic with some of the classes I have.