-My car bit the dust. Yeah. Officially.
We were already down to just 1 car (mine) when we returned from Italy, because Jonathan's parents still owned the title to his car, and we hadn't yet had the chance to transfer that. Jonathan started back work at Neal-Prince for the summer the week we got back and since then he had either been riding to Greenville with his mom or I had been taking him back and forth.
On Tuesday of last week (May 19th), I had picked him up and we were in the Easley area headed to get dinner at Publix. We got about 1 mile away from Publix on Hwy. 123 headed South, when my car started making this AWFUL scrapping sound and the engine just cut off!!! We coasted into a "Cash Country" and Jonathan got out to check the damage. All of my "signal" lights (you know...the ones that light up in the display that signal you need to stop and fix something, ha!!) came on and as far as he could tell, he figured it to be some type of belt problem.
Ohhhh meeeee. So, we called my parents to come and get us and just walked over to Publix, I got some sushi (mmmmm love it) and then we walked over to Bojangles so Jonathan could get some chicken and we sat and ate our sushi and our fried chicken and waited on my parents to come.
We had my car towed to a local mechanic that Jonathan uses, and we were down to zero cars. What do we do???
THANKFULLY, Jonathan's very sweet grandparents let us borrow his papa's Dodge Ram truck. I look HILARIOUS driving this big ole' dodge!! It even has a CB antennae and the front plate says, "Tractor Man!!" It is a trip seeing me in that big ole' thing!!! :)
Because of this, Jonathan had to take the following day off, but this was good because we were able to take care of getting the title to his car transferred, paying the taxes on it, and getting his new license. This cost TOO much money, but put his car into working mode. Yay!!
-Jonathan's car goes kaput.
Yes, you're right that would put us down to technically, zero cars. But, thankfully (again) we had the big ole' truck!! :) After putting the new plate on and taking it for a drive, every time Jonathan came to a stop, his car cut off. And I personally didn't feel comfortable with my precious husband driving to work with his car in this condition (on Hwy. 85 and in downtown). SO. Back to driving the 1 car (truck) and taking him to work everyday.
Eventually (this past weekend), Jonathan put some new oil in his car and did a couple of other things and got it up and running!! YAY!! Back to 2 cars!!! He's got his 3000GT and I've got my big ole' dodge!! :) :)
So, in the meantime, we got a quote about fixing my car, $1500 (which we CANNOT afford to pay), so we are currently looking at other, cheaper options.
Until then, the Escort is out, but the 3000GT is in. :)
-We're in the middle of moving in and getting settled.
YAY!! After signing our lease agreement and other various forms on May 15th, then waiting out all the rain we've had, we FINALLY spent our first night in the apartment on Sunday, May 24th!!! :) :) :) The entire week in between, my wonderful husband was back and forth with his dad, and a time or two with our amazing friend Derrick, unloading all the tons of bins that we have had in storage and the attic with all of our stuff in them. We also had some larger pieces of furniture in storage that needed to be brought to the apartment.
After all of this was taken care of and after a SUPER busy weekend, on Sunday Jonathan's awesome parents helped us get my clothes (some...haha!!) up and stayed for several hours doing whatever we needed them to!! Sandra alphabetized our movie collection and hung our shower curtains among many other things and Jerry, well, he lined our kitchen shelves and complained the whole time!! HA!! Just kidding, because it was VERY tedious work and had he not done it, I don't know if it would have ever gotten done!!
Carrying his wifey over the threshold :)
Hanging curtains
Lining shelves
Since Sunday, we've been unpacking everything and organizing and deciding where we'd like to put stuff. It's so exciting setting up house....a lot of work, but SO exciting. I LOVE our new apartment!!! I mean love, love, love, LOVE!!! It's HUGE (or at least compared to what we've had for the past year as we've been moving around)!!!!!
Also, I have to say that it has been like getting married ALL over again (or even Christmas) with unpacking all of our stuff. A lot of our wedding gifts we didn't even take out of the packaging or even use because of our year of traveling. They were simply opened the day after our wedding and put right back into storage!! Some of it we forgot completely, or didn't even know we had. It's been so exciting!!!
AND, I will probably KISS my oven AND my dishwasher AND my washer and dryer for the next 12 months!!! I cannot tell you how THRILLED I am to have all 3 of these.....life is GRAND!!! :) I have probably used the dishwasher about 20 times already in the past 3 days!!
Washer and dryer.... Dishwasher....
And oven!!
-Still on the job hunt.
I'm supposed to hear about my interview that I had last week by the end of this week. Please pray that if this is God's will for the summer, that it will work out. We really need the extra income. And if this isn't what I'm supposed to do this summer, I know that God will reveal something even bigger.
Also, I'm still waiting to hear about the state of things for next school year. So, wait patiently I will. :)
I think that's about it. I did have the pleasure of taking photos at Rebekah's Bridal Shower this past Saturday which was a BLAST!! I cannot believe the wedding is only 1 month away!! She got tons of great stuff and I am so excited for what the future holds for her and Tyler. Marriage is awesome!!!
Me with the happy couple-to-be :)
We also had lunch with LMart today in downtown Greenville at Brick Street Cafe. She had Henry with her and we finally got to meet the adorable little man!! He is so funny and too cute!!! It was SO good to be able to spend time with Lindsey just hanging out and of course, eating!! ;) They're making the move tomorrow to Milwaukee for the next 4 months, so you can imagine how busy she'll be with that and Henry, so keep them in your prayers!! Thanks for treating us Linds...you are a great friend!!
Well, that's all for now I suppose. Hope your weekend is GREAT!!
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