So Tuesday morning I had to get my car into the shop at 8:30am. That's easier said than done with 2 small children. I actually set my alarm and woke up before Marren for the first time in 6 weeks. We even managed to get to the shop 5 minutes early. The guy asked if we needed a ride somewhere and I asked him how long he thought it would take. I did bring stuff to keep Marren busy for an hour or so. He said he thought it could take a couple hours so they gave us a ride home.
When we got home I called by babysitter who said to let her know if we needed help getting around. She offered to come get Marren and take her to school if the car wasn't fixed by then, which it wasn't. Fast forward to noon and I still hadn't heard anything. I was starting try and figure out how I was going to make it to my Dr. appointment at 2. So I called the shop and said I needed to know if they knew if it would be done before then because otherwise I'd need to find other arrangements. They said they'd check. Finally an hour and a half later they called to tell me it was a solenoid in the transmission and they wouldn't get the part until tomorrow. In the meantime I called a friend that works at the clinic where my appointment was and she said she could come pick me up (I live about 5 blocks away and would have walked if it wasn't so cold). I called my babysitter and she said she could pick Marren up from school and bring her home at 3:15. Now I just had to figure out how I was going to get home from my appointment and how I was going to get to the conferences at 4:45.
As I was on the way to the clinic my babysitter texted me to say she was really sorry but she couldn't pick Marren up now because she had fainted and cracked her head on a railing in the process (she is also currently pregnant). I was all panicking now. Luckily my friend said I could borrow her car and just pick her up after work and she could watch Marren while I went to conferences.
When I checked into my appointment, the receptionist informed me my Dr. had been called over to the hospital and subsequently was now running at least a half hour behind. Great! That meant my 2:00 appointment was now a 2:30 appointment and I had to make it to get Marren by 3:15. Her preschool is literally in another state. I knew I should have just called and rescheduled before I even left the house! I told the lady my problem and she said to wait til 2:30 and if they hadn't called me back we could reschedule. Luckily they called me within 10 minutes and I was done by 2:30.
Everything else went smoothly after that. I got my car back on Wednesday evening, minus the $559 it cost me to fix. Plus they told me I probably needed 4 new tires. Yeah, that's not going to happen right now....
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