January 2 — And the car is ready — almost

Just before Christmas the car did something horrible.  It has been making a noise and then one day the a/c and the power steering stopped and there was this dreadful stench of something burning.  We managed to pull into a service station and Hubs discovered that the serpentine belt had broken and, in the process, it broke the bracket that held the whatchamacallit that held the whole thing together.

We made it home but couldn’t get it to the dealer for the repair so it had to be towed.  It has been there ever since.

We just heard today that it is almost, very nearly ready, but the computer console is out (we knew that, thank you Caliber Collision) and the check engine light is on — we didn’t know that because it wasn’t that way when we sent it.  So, they are doing diagnostics on it.

Somehow I don’t feel very secure anymore and it is a Subaru which is supposed to be a very reliable car.  I now really have the new car bug.  Sigh.

I am in the market for a copy of our church’s new prayer book, the 2019 Book of Common Prayer ACNA.  We started using it in church a few weeks ago and it is much the same but yet so different in a few aspects but I need a copy to really be able to sit down and compare.  I looked at Amazon and it isn’t available yet so I went to the publisher and I can get one from them.  I don’t want a pew edition, I want a nicely bound one and they do have that so I will be thinking about ordering in the near future.

I have started my Bible reading.  Of course, I have read the Bible in spurts, in parts, all my life but I have a goal to actually sit down and read it.  I recently purchased a copy of the English Standard Version and find it reads really well so this morning I had a perfectly enjoyable read right after breakfast.  A few years back my husband bought me this beautiful study Bible with lots of info about the regions, the life at the time — just a lot of stuff — but the print is so light, sort of a light taupe on white that I can’t read it.  I do love the book though and the information therein but the format is terrible.  This one is much more “user friendly”.

So far my new plan is working well.  The street tacos were yummy, the kitchen was cleaned immediately after dinner (not after I “rested”) and my night time routine went off without a hitch.  I like routine and I like getting back to one.  It sounds silly, I know, but I have always changed the sheets on Monday (crib sheets were daily).  If I can stick to the Monday sheet thing I feel in control.  My sheets were done on Monday and all is right with my week! Silly old girl I am.

Have a wonderful Thursday! My kitchen is clean and I am going to the pet store to try to find some indestructible toys for the girl he