All summer, Vince has been struggling with some issues (mostly mental) at grad school and I’m so proud of him for patiently working through them and really coming into his own at school. He’s much better now, though lots of talking and getting help and then getting more settled into his groove. He’s cultivated a really nice working relationship with his professor and it’s just nice to see after many months of struggle. I hope this trajectory continues and he has a run of feel-good times.
After many months of thinking about it and trying things out, Jeremy got us a new car! Do you know some people have facial blindness where they can’t really tell one person from the next person? I have the same thing, but with cars. I will live next door to someone for an entire decade and not know what kind of car they have. I will barely know what color their car is. So to me, Jeremy got us a red car. We’ve never had a red car before! No, it’s a KIA EV6, I think. Electric car, hatchback, slung low enough to fit Edda into it. I love it! I’m scared to drive it – I will feel much better driving it after it gets its first ding. Also, we have no charger for it yet – though we do have an outlet in the garage – so Jeremy is working on that. Thank you Jeremy for looking at all the options and going through all the numbers. Because of how the market is and how the rebates work, we LEASED this car, instead of buying it outright which is our usual modus operandi. I have no idea, we’ve never leased a car before – a new adventure every day.
A few mishaps: we had a fly infestation and a person who will remain nameless found DEET spray meant for skin application and sprayed it all over our windows. This spray had some solvent in it that melted a bunch of plastic things (like windows) and also slowly melted this poor orchid plant I was trying to revive. Maybe it will live? We’ll see.
Someone else who will remain nameless ran into the garage door (with the old car) and..no…we are not replacing it because it still works…mostly.
I found a cement plug while I was cleaning out a drain of leaves and I thought it was so weird. Weird enough that I called our drain guy and he dutifully came over and explained that he plugged up and old drain and had installed a brand new drain next to it. Which I could have discovered myself…by running water through it. I felt a bit stoopid waisting everyone’s time.
