Let me restart this diary by saying a HUGE thankyou to all who have helped me out !!!! Whether it was pointing out I was being ripped off as some had or sending your hard earned cash it has truly helped and I very much appreciate it. Sometimes life throws us a curve and it is fantastic to know that all of you here at DK are willing to help out !!!!!!!!!!!
Living in Ky. you would not think that our two latest hurricanes have done much damage and yet they have. I am not talking about winds, rain and other ecological damages. Much more personal. My back has been having fits thanks to the weather. The barometer has been up and down like a yoyo and my back has felt every last movement. I wish I could say it was minor inconvenience but losing 2 days of work because of it SUCKS ! I lost a bunch of time during the summer that ate up all my vacation time thanks to Chemo so I had only just started building it back up. I truly HATE calling in to work. My boss swears at times I am a robot. ( To be fair I am partly run off batteries ! LOL !) I am always there. Lately that has been very hard to do. You may have seen a couple of my diaries dealing with my pain over the last 2 weeks. It really has been HORRIBLE. Even now after working today my back feels like it is on fire with some well placed red hot pokers stuck in my spine. Thankfully I have my multiple 80’s playlists ! I am a totally 80’s junkie ! Right now I have some Queen and Springsteen playing to motivate me while Amber tries to climb into my lap. Makes typing a bit hard so forgive any typos. That is the other downside of storms generated by the hurricanes. Two very large furry babies want to suddenly become lap dogs. Then they start to fight over who gets to stay on daddy’s lap. That is fun ! Amber used to be fine during storms but somehow she changed. Buddy hates them. We figure it is because he was outside for a bit on his own before we found him and gave him a furever home.
Well I have told you about my horrible 2 weeks in very light detail. I could have gone on for a few paragraphs on the pain but enough of that. The good news is that last week I was able to raise 100 bucks towards getting the ball joints and 2 rear tires. All thanks to one hugely generous Kossack ! I am still about $600 short for both the ball joints and 2 rear tires ( and of course the dang alignment. GRRRR ! ) Seems like they have done a great job on the valve cover gaskets. No oil leaks over night and NO more burning oil smell going down the road ! Woohoo can finally get rid of those dang cardboard boxes I had stuck under the car to keep the oil off the garage floor ! Also seem to be getting a bit better gas mileage now for some reason. ( maybe not running low on oil ???? Maybe the new plugs or a combination of the 2 ???) Have not had to add any since the gaskets were done. So with the ball joints and the 2 new tires my old friend should be in great shape. ( Plus of course the 2 nicely turned rotors and new break pads I will stick on while they have everything off. Man the stupid little holder thingies they use to hold the rotors on are a huge pain to get off. So happy they will be doing that part, but then they probably have a neat little tool for that where I don’t ! lol ) !
When I started this way back at the beginning of Sept. I had been hoping that I might be able to get the rest of the work done before Winter really set in with it’s oh so fun garbage weather. Well I no longer need to hope as it is a reality. It would be getting done today but my bank and Paypal don’t talk on Saturdays so any money transferred on Friday gets there Monday. So instead of greeting them when they open today I will be calling for an appointment NEXT Saturday to have them done. They are still willing to swap out the old rotors ( so I can have them ground down to smooth for the last time before having to buy new ones.) and let me stick new pads on while they have that all apart. That saves me a ton of pain from trying to do it in my garage ! All of this last work could not have been done without 3 very generous people. Between them they gave enough to get all the work done with the last $500.00 coming from 1 Kossack who had just received a bonus and decided to help out in a HUGE way ! Honestly just about fainted when I logged into Paypal yesterday and saw it sitting there. Still having hard time believing and have to keep checking it is real.
SO that is the end of me needing a little help. I wish I could give all who donated and helped a huge hug and kiss as thanks ! Know that you really helped out and it is very much appreciated ! No way I could have gotten this old friend fixed without your help and that would have left me basically stranded ! So THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Think we will take Buddy and Amber out to Bernheim for colorfest to celebrate !!!!