A child of God educating other children.

The good news...

Today was great! I subbed in a 1st grade classroom and absolutely loved it! The kids were great, and my nerves were under control. I owe today's success to God, 'cause it wouldn't have been so great without God guiding me through the day. I pulled together everything that I have learned in education and the skills worked. There was a handful of students that needed constant redirecting, but nothing too hard. One of them ate up ever positive reinforcement I gave them. That makes me feel good personally, but then wonder why they are so thirsty for it. The teacher I subbed for left everything easy to find and explained everything well so I didn't have a problem. And best of all, I get to go back to that same class tomorrow! I'm really looking forward to that! :)

And for the bad news...

My car has been acting crazy lately. The other day I noticed my speedometer stopped working, and with that my power locks don't auto lock when I start driving 'cause it doesn't know my car is in motion. Then I noticed that the green arrow that shows when to shift up doesn't light up anymore either. And the odometer isn't working either. Yesterday the service engine light came on also. And then to top it off, today on the way home from school I noticed the check engine light was off, but then as I was turning (or trying to turn) off of the busy road I was on my steering decided to go out, and then my car wouldn't go when I put on the gas. So I coasted as far away from the intersection as possible and forced my steering to the right. I called Tim to pick me up and after a few minutes tried starting my car to see if it would go, and it did. I was able to get the car home. Needless to say, my car has decided to quit on me all at once.

And to top all of that off...the lady at the Saturn dealership sold us a warranty that she said would be good at any GM certified dealership, 'cause we told her that the closest Saturn dealership is 2 hours away, and so she gave us her word we could go to a GM. Well, she is wrong. I called every dealership in town, and the GM certified one will not honor a Saturn warranty. Our weekend is packed, so sometime next week Tim will call the lady and see about getting our money back for paying for a warranty that wont do us any good, then decide how to financially pay to fix my car.

And I'm off to bed. I'm exhausted, and should sleep really well.
Oh! My box of gifts came in from my parents and Katelin today. I was so excited to get it! I'm going to use my new cute summer purse tomorrow, and I already started eating the beef jerky and tried the gum. Yumm! Thank you Mom, Dad and Katelin for my presents!
Now off to bed! :)

Posted in: car, family, subbing, teaching on Thursday, April 26, 2007 at at 8:49 PM 0 comments    

Tim and I bought me a new car today. It's a 2003 Saturn VUE.

The pastor's son at our new church is looking into buying a car down here, flying down here to get it and drive it back up. From him and a couple other people, and through our own research we have come to find out that used cars in Texas are cheaper and in better shape than cars up North. After going and checking out the car for our pastor's son, we decided to just look around and see what we could find if this is true, not thinking too seriously about it, but we came across a deal that we think is really good.

The car was traded in about an hour before we went to the Saturn dealership and they quoted us $8,995 for the VUE with almost 49,000 miles which is less than average mileage on a vehicle for it's age. History check came up clean. If we weren't going to buy the VUE they were going to put it on the lot tomorrow for $10,995.

Last night I stayed up until 2am researching online about the vehicle, and even got back on at 7:30 'cause my mind was going a mile a minute thinking about everything else I wanted to learn about it, so I couldn't sleep any more. I even joined a Saturn forum so I could discuss with owners of VUEs to get their opinions. I kind of felt like a jock getting on the Saturn forum talking about cars with all the men on there. It's been fun though! :) They had good insight.

We'll go and pick the car up tomorrow. Since it was just traded in yesterday they've had it in the workshop checking everything out, put 2 new tires on the front (FWD). It's a manual which I like. We were going for either a manual or AWD with us moving to Minnesota. Tim drove it today after everything was done except them cleaning it out.

So tomorrow we'll go pick the VUE up, I'll hopefully have some pictures to post, and then we have to really tackle all of the packing that needs to happen.

Posted in: car on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at at 8:14 PM 0 comments