The problem with being unemployed is that my responsibilities at home include taking care of everything that is not Joe going to work. This includes fun stuff like vehicle maintenance, dog care and all the shopping, cleaning and laundry. Sometimes this is enough to want me to run screaming back to work, a job...any job...anywhere. Then reality asserts itself and I recall my working days when I was up early every day, racing to get ready to go and driving off to work, spending my entire day away from home and still being responsible for all of the things I currently have to get done and never having enough time for anything.
Gracie and the Twins are all feeling much better, we have not had any throwing up issues since midday yesterday from them. Now they are restless since they had a "down" day. Mattie is feeling better but he did throw up around 3am, which requires me to get up and clean the mess and love on the poor sick baby. He is still a little off but doing better.
Leaving my house to run an errand early in the morning requires an effort on my part. Gone are the days when I could hop out of bed half an hour before I needed to leave grab a shower and go. These days I need to get up a couple of hours before I need to leave and run the twins around to get them tired out before I put them in their pens and leave the house. This is difficult on the best of days but after Sunday night when I was up every hour because the twins were taking turns throwing up, then last nights joyful awakening to Mattie's addition to the puke party makes it completely awful. I am not a morning person to begin with and I do not function well with limited sleep. I know this will not shock anyone, especially if you have ever had a reason to deal with me before 10am.
This morning I needed to take Joe's car to the dealership since he has been having some issues with a couple of different things. Since the warranty was due to expire this month I wanted to make sure we got it in ASAP. I was due at the dealership at 9 which meant getting up at 6:30 and dragging all the dogs around the house in puppy games. Grace and Travis are not morning dogs, trying to wake them up early is just not a productive experience. They are definitely their mama's dogs, mornings are not for them and playing and running around is just not an acceptable start. On days like today when I am not in the mood either, the impulse to just lay on the floor next to them and take a nap is nearly overwhelming. Luckily Jack and Mattie are more than happy to keep me awake and to drag Grace and Travis into their morning adventures no matter how unhappy they are about it.
So we spend the morning running around, and finding some mud in the backyard to track on mama's carpet (that is their favorite game, they like to help mama clean it up. I am not sure that drinking the soapy water and standing on the mud is actually helping but they like to think so.) and generally being noise and chaotic. I get the twins back into their pens and the big dogs upstairs and head out on my merry way.
I *hate* driving Joe's car. The hamsters that run the thing are slow to start and stop, compared to my SUV it is like being in a go cart so I need to leave at least 15 minutes earlier than normal to make sure that I actually make it where I need to be on time. I get to the dealership and wander in a few minutes early so I can drop the car off and get my loaner. My plan is 15 minutes there and then back out again. However, come to find out that our factory warranty expired last month!!! When we bought the car, we spent the extra $2k on the extended warranty, as a general rule I tend to avoid these but since we were buying a Hyundai and I was uncomfortable about that to begin with and this is a transferable warranty so it should help with the resale value. Now I get to take another trip out to the car to see if I can find the paperwork on the warranty so they can verify (Apparently even if it is purchased through a dealership they do not have a record in the system and need some paperwork for which warranty company you are covered by) coverage and all that.
We get that taken care of and NOW I find out that our extended warranty requires that we pay a $100 deductible on covered repairs. WTF?!?!?!??!?! No way, you have GOT to be kidding me. Unfortunately, I said a very filthy word when I heard this because, really I have already paid $2k for coverage that I am just now getting? Alright, I am over it....sort of. Now I have to make a phone call to Joe so he knows what I just found out. Thank god his brain is on because mine is still in bed, he reminds me that both of these issues that we are having are things that we have already taken the car to the dealership to have repaired while we were still under warranty. OK, good.....I can work with this. So, I go back in to talk to the nice man and pass this information on. Now here is the problem, when we first moved here we took the car into a different dealership to have the work done on the AC System. I refuse to return to that dealership because they were jerks and idiots. I had so many problems there that I was just not interested in going back. So, the bottom line is that *IF* this is something covered by the extended warranty I still have to pay $100 to get it fixed. If it is not covered by the warranty then I have to pay $89 for the diagnostic. This absolutely infuriates me because we paid a good chunk of change for this additional warranty on a car that I had no faith in to begin with and have consistently been proven correct about my misgivings in owning it. This is just another annoyance to add to my reasons for not owning one. If it made any sense I would just sell it and get something else but, well sometimes the emotional response has no logical basis. I comfort myself with the fact that Joe said the same thing after I talked to him ;-)
Ultimately the lesson learned from this mornings adventure? Stay in bed, everyone will be better off.
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