Day 341, January 25th

So I spent my lunch hour on Wednesday trying to get Lolla in tip top shape.  I found Mad Hatter Mufflers & Brakes thanks to an old friend, and they told me they could fix Lolla up for a small cost. We headed over there, got fixed up, then immediately headed back to emissions where I'm happy to report we passed!! It was a stressful couple of days, but glad to be safely back on the road.  It's times like these I wish I had a new car, but then I think that really I just spent a car payment to fix her up and now we're good to go, so I quickly get over that desire.

Day 340, January 24th

Tuesday was a pretty hectic day.  Ryan and I are going to Mexico this weekend, and out of the two cars, mine runs best.  Well, anyway, I needed to get my emissions done before the end of January, and my check engine light has been on for probably about a year.  Car people, don't get on me about that, it was running fine.  Anyway, as it turns out, I needed a new Catalytic Converter, which, yes, made me fail my emissions test...talk about embarrassing. 
Well, so as my mechanic told me it would cost me $2000 I had a mini meltdown, called my mom, who helped me find a place that did used catalytic converters.  As I wasn't totally out of the woods yet, I stressed all night, per usual for me, wondering why Lolla would turn on me after all our years together.  Even though I stressed all night long, our children did not.  As I went on and on about my car, these two didn't seem to have a care in the world...sometimes I wish I was a cat.