Dad Update and my Jeep

Planned to see my Dad today but my Jeep is still not done. I was promised it would be done by 2pm today.. will at 3;30pm (they close at 4pm) I called to find out what is going on and they said it would be ready by closing so Harry and I headed over to the dealer. Of course we get there and it's still not done.. we waited another 15 minutes before it was complete. Total cost of repairs was $1600.00. If I still wasn't making payment on it I don't think I would have done the repairs.. but I still have two years of payments before it's paid off, gotta keep driving it.

As for Dad, Mom and Grandma (her mom) visited him today along with Michael and one of Dad's friends.. Harry and I plan on visiting tomorrow.

Dad's in the Hospital

Dad indeed had a heart attack last night. The doctors were able to prevent it from becoming a major heart attack. He is in stable condition at the moment.

He was feeling pain in his chest and left arm. He took some Bayer and went to lie down hoping it was pass.. well half hour later he told my brother that he need to go to the hospital. My brother said he was sweating up storm and looked horrible. That's when he called me and told me that he thinks Dad is having a heart attack. The doctors said he could have been a massive heart attack but it was caught in time. They will be doing a test on Monday to find out if he need a bypass surgery or not. I'll keep everyone posted. Think good thoughts...

Dad has a Heart Attack

Man.. this has not been a good day. I lost my Grandma six hour prior and I just got a call from my Brother, he thinks Dad is having a heart attack and is rushing him to emergency.

My Grandma Died

Today while on lunch my Dad called me to inform me that my grandmother (his mom) died. She has been ill for several years and recently was put into a hospice as she was no longer able to take care of herself. This is my Dad's biological mother, the one I found a few years ago. Luckily my Dad was able to met her in person and spend several days with her. My brother and I were never able to meet her but did talk to her on the phone. The death didn't effect me as much as it would have if I would have known her all my life. It was harder to hear the sadness in my Dad's voice. I told him at least we found her and you were able to see her and she see you after 58 years of being apart. Rest in Peace Grandma Bega

Work Stress

Seems like my job is getting more and more stressful. I'm working later and later hours. I try not to let the stress get to me but sometimes it's just too hard to ignore. Currently I'm in a battle with Production up north. We got our first batch of tapes and they were completely unorginaized and mis-labeled if labeled at all. Of course I know that production is going crazy up in Alaska so I sent them a very nice email reminding them how to organize and label tapes that it will help post in the long run. Well that was a mistake I got several nasty emails from Production folks, pretty much saying that they really don't care about post and we are lucky we got tapes at all. It's times like that, that I'm thankful that I'm a calm person by nature. Hopefully once things are up a running 100% the craziness will calm down a bit.. wishful thinking.. but you never know. If it doesn't get any better I'll just have to let things flow off my back more often as the stress will kill me.

More Repairs

I get a call from my Jeep dealer today and I expected that they were going to tell me that everything is done.. but of course not.. they found more problems and wanted to add another $1000 to my bill. I had had enough and told them there is no way I could afford all these fixes that I must be able to get by without fixing everything they are suggesting. I know a little bit about cars and picked the stuff that sounded like it had to be done to keep the jeep running.. so now it's the waiting game again. It's costing me $500 just for them to check and see if I need more repairs. Luckily all these fees go towards the actual repair costs.

Quote for Jeep Repairs

My worse fears have come true.. I just got a call from the Jeep dealer and he listed about ten things wrong with my jeep. All repairs totaled about $2500.00. I almost died and informed him I couldn't do all those so we narrowed it down to only stuff that I must do to keep my jeep running and the final cost is $1350.00, which is horrible but not as bad as $2500.00. One very costly thing was replacing the gauge bundle that controls my dashboard, that alone was 1100.00. I opted to live with my funky dashboard gauges. I gave them the go ahead with the repairs and hopefully I'll get my jeep back in a few days better then new. I hate spending so much money but since this is our one and only vehicle and I still have two years of payments on it I figure I had to do what I had to do. And I wonder why I can't save any money.. if it's not one thing it's another.

Happy Birthday Bro

Today is my brother's birthday.. he is turning 33 years old today.. WOW.. now that makes me feel old. I hope you have a great day today Michael.

Ironman

Today Harry and I went to an Ironman screening at the PGA. This is the first movie screening that I have gone too since becoming a member of the PGA. The theater was okay, seating was not slanted enough so if you had someone farily tall sit in front of your they blocked part of the screen and the sound was okay but I can't complain it was free.

The movie itself was exactly what I was expecting.. a fun rollercoaster ride. Great SFX, nice acting and a cool story. I'm not into Ironman comics so I didn't know what to expect but it was a good first movie setting up who and how he became Ironman. Another great addition to the superhero movies.

Vet Visit

Today we Daisy bi-annual Vet visit. She loves going for drives but as soon as we get to the Vet she starts to panic and wine. We take her in and everytime you move she tries and escapes through the front doors. Doc checked her out and everything was great. They gave her a canine cough vaccine and we were on our way. She has a whole six months before she has to worry about going back again.