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Our Week In Review

I am assuming that everyone knows that Bill smashed the Prius.  Well, he didn’t quite smash it — somebody else smashed him.  We’ve had a fun week.  I now have no vehicle (since he’s using my van now), and we just got the estimate.  Ok, sit down.  I know I am glad I did.  $6200.  Yes, I repeat $6200 to fix that.  Now, you are saying it doesn’t look that bad.  Well, it is.  Thank God, it missed the Prius’s batteries which are located in the back of the car or who knows how bad it could have been.  We will be carless for a minimum of 2 weeks.  Yes, we are working on getting a rental car.  No, don’t have it yet.

On top of that wonderful occurance, Madison has an appointment with a geneticist tomorrow.  Remember our wonderful Disney trip?  Yeah, this is in response to that.  This is the same geneticist that we saw when she was two for the same thing (her counts for everything being so way off).  Last time, we were told this was a fluke.  Should be interesting what we hear now.  I already know that the 37 million (ok not quite that many) tests they ordered in the last month (plus I had to catch her pee everyday and dip it for keytones) have all come back normal.  That should make me feel better.  It doesn’t.  It just means they don’t know what’s wrong with her, and they don’t know how to fix it.  The only two times this has happened is when she had the throwing up flu.  Well, once she is in school for real (kindergarten), I am pretty sure this will happen more.  Since we are paying tution next year, I really don’t want to pay a hospital bill on top of that.  Her pediatrician won’t deal with it at all and won’t give me a plan of action to do when it happens again.  Their response “we’ll play it by ear”.  Well, playing it by ear has landed her in the hospital twice.

So if I seem a tad on edge today and tomorrow, that’s why.  Keep wishing us luck.

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Toyota

You know, Toyota must be doing something right. Everyone I know has recently been heading out to their dealer lot (either local or to Toyota Corolla Virginia). Toyota has done something that it seems like our American dealers can’t or won’t — give us cars with high gas mileage. My sister and her husband own a Prius and regularly get 50 miles to the gallon (yes, 50 miles per gallon!). My cousin and her husband own two Toyota Corollas. They have told us that they are the best cars they have even owned (hence why they own two of them). They get awesome gas mileage, and the cars can take a beating and keep going. They have used their Corollas when they both had huge commutes. Now, they have moved closer to their jobs and have less of a commute, and they still rave about their cars.

Bill and I have started looking at vehicles that get better has mileage than our Jeep Liberty. I think Bill figured out that we are spending around $500 a month in gas! I know, it makes me sick too. We need something that gets better than 20 miles per gallon. I think a Toyota car may be our answer.

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