May I ask for some prayers and positive thoughts?

SB, it was DS, not DD! Sterling, DS = Dear Son. He's okay now. Spent two days in the hospital. He was walking home from Kroger, about two blocks, minding his own business. Took his phone and his tablet (he'd been at Barnes & Noble before getting groceries). He didn't have any cash. Had to be somebody who'd been watching him and knew he works from home because the first day he was in the hospital, somebody ransacked his apartment. Thank heaven they didn't take any of his servers, desktop or monitors. It was all disconnected and shoved together in the middle of the floor, though, so they must have been planning to get it out of there. I think they probably heard me coming and skedaddled. They did take two expensive suits, his topcoat, dress shoes, a set of pricey speakers, and get this: even his laundry detergent and bath soap. WTH? All his small appliances were lined up on the kitchen counter...maybe waiting for boxes to put them in? It wasn't anybody recognizable on the security cameras as living in the neighborhood or even having been seen in the neighborhood.

And yes, Kanga (Ru...get it? Kangaru...Subaru...heh heh) is AWD and that's why we bought her. We still lived in the UP then. She served us well in the sNOw and ice. She still serves me well...until this problem. Hope she can be made whole again for little money.

Cookie. Yes. I work. Usually five days a week. Yes. 99% of the time I'm positive. I was a positive single parent of three children. Sometimes when bad stuff happens one thing on top of another, I don't feel positive. It helps to have a place to vent. That's what I've been doing. Venting. I will be 74 in a few days. Thank you for sharing and for your input.
 
Does anyone know how to post a photo up in a post? I have not been able to post it within the post. So do I need to put it in my album so people can see it. It is a photo I shared yesterday and I was hoping to show it to you. Help ?
 

I don't have a clue, Sterling! Heck, I only just learned to c/p a couple of years ago:) When I post a picture here, it's because I c/p'd it. Not exactly a computer whiz, but I can bake a cake from scratch and know not to ever mix ammonia and bleach or back down the stairs with a vacuum!
 
Well, I think I gave up. I tried to upload the file and that did not work, so.... Anyway, it was a cute photo of a dog and would have given you a chuckle, I think. I sent it via Twitter yesterday to Al Roker on the Today Show (He was doing a 34 hour weather broadcast marathon.) and it got alot of play on Twitter. Thought you might enjoy it.
Anyway, thanks for the clarification of the initials. I am new to this so I guess I need some interpretation. The mugging sounds terrible and I am so sorry for your son. We live in a very crazy world and too much bad stuff happens. I am convinced that there are good people out there too.
 
Georgia. I know how you feel -- sometimes the little stuff piles up and it's easy to feel one more thing is just too much to bear. You get to feeling like you're swatting at an endless swarm of bees -- you are doing sort of OK keeping ahead of them, but then the next bee is the last straw! I had a spell of this recently and seeing a mouse in my house (they just come in for the warmth this time of year) was my last straw and I just sat down in the kitchen and cried like an idiot. I wasn't crying over the mouse, but over the seemingly endless stream of problems picking away at me. I, too also felt silly about it, because it's true that there are a lot of people out there with a whole lot worse problems than I have, but that mouse looking at me from under my dishwasher just pushed me over the edge. How silly -- I'm helping a family member who is dying of cancer, but I'm reduced to tears by a mouse looking at me!

Back in September I had an engine light problem, too. It had come on who knows how long ago. But here, you can't pass the air quality emissions test thing that you have to have to renew your car tags if that stupid light is on. So I failed the emissions test and so began my saga of trying to find someone to figure out exactly what was wrong and fix it in time so that I could get my license tags renewed before they expired and all the hassle that comes with something like that and trying to get it fixed right away. I envisioned it costing a fortune and all that negative stuff, but it turned out it was a bad fuel filter and I got it fixed for under $100 and then passed the test. I always feel so frustrated when it is a car thing, because I have no clue about cars, and half the time I don't even understand what they are telling me. Thankfully, my neighbor recommended a mechanic he trusted. Bad news is that during the course of all that I learned I need new tires, too. If it is not one thing, it is another, as my mother used to say.

Anyway, hang in there, and know that this happens to most of us at one time or another.

I agree with Sterling Oak above -- you could call your DD when you are setting out and let her know you are on the way and exactly what route you are taking let her know what time you expect to arrive and arrange it so if you haven't arrived by a certain time someone should come looking for you. That's what we used to do, too, and it works. Chances are, though, you'll be fine. After all, you were driving with that light on for however long without worry before you know what it meant.

Peace and love to you.
 
Georgia, I was greatly touched by your post and all the problems you're having right now. I will definitely remember you in prayers, thoughts and well wishes. Subaru is a good make of automobile, ( I knew someone who owned a dealership), and you shouldn't be having problems with it since it's been well maintained.

Best luck with everything.
Hugs from Chic-ee
 
I'll hear from the mechanic after 9 this morning. Right now it's only 10 past 7. Fingers crossed for a simple diagnosis and an inexpensive repair.
 
Poor Georgia...It does seem that when you are short of money..everything breaks down...we say..'' when there is a light at the end of the tunnel..it is usually an oncoming express train!

I have actually burst out into hysterical laughter when life has clubbed me to the ground..

The only way is up..

You won't need prayers..everything has a way of working out...:love_heart:
 
Thanks, Georgia. I have no clue what I was doing wrong. Anyway, I thought the photo was sooooooo cute and it gave me a chuckle. Hope it made you smile.
Sterling
 
I just got a pep talk from DS...he has no reservations whatsoever about telling it like it is! LOL

Anyway, I've found my old phone...no charger because I gave it to DGS long ago...but DD is going to take me to Walmart to get one. Gosh, you'd think with all the old electronics and stuff that never get thrown out around here, there'd be a charger that fits the phone!

Twix, you're right. The only way is up. Heck, it was overcast when I got up, but now the sun's out. Yay for that. I feel better in the sunshine:)
 
Sorry to hear of your problems Georgia ... it always seems to pile on when one thing goes wrong! I know the feeling well.
Hope you are out of this situation real soon, and the sun shines bright on you. .. :sunshine: ..
 
Butterfly...LOL! I guess you didn't see the part about the phone. The phone that isn't! I dropped mine on Tuesday, and it's kaput. No hope for it without a $209 repair so I ordered a new one on Tuesday and paid for next day delivery. It still isn't here. Can't call DD and tell her where I am, where I'm going or anything else.

We did find my old phone but couldn't find a charger. She got her old phone AND a charger, changed out the SIM cards and it's on the charger right now. It's been a good while...like maybe a couple of years?...since it's been used so it will take a while to charge.

However...it's a new day. The mechanic will call soon so we can get the car sorted out and the phone might be usable for a couple of days, I called DS on DD's phone and he gave me a pep talk and told me in no uncertain terms to quit feeling sorry for myself.

I've been through worse:( and feel better so far:) DD has offered to lend me the money to get the car fixed if it's not too expensive.
 
No go on either phone because the SIM cards were deactivated when we got smart phones.

Mechanic had the car back on the computer, but the codes didn't come up again. He drove it, no problem. He said it could be the coil...whatever that is...is going bad but that nothing can be done about it until and unless it does. He's baffled. Intermittent problems are difficult to diagnose. I remember learning that in "car school".

Anyway, DD is going to take me over there to get it in a little while. Mechanic isn't going to charge me anything.

So...no phone, but I do have a car at least for the time being:)

ETA: One more thing...DD is going to let me use her phone while I go down to DS's place.
 
I am glad to hear that things are working out for you, and hopefully that new phone will get there in the morning for you, Georgia !
Cars are a funny lot sometimes, especially when it comes to figuring out what is wrong with them. Mine has had the CE light on for over a year, (since we bought the car) and it says that it misses on the 4th cylinder sometimes.
I have an app called "Automatic" on my smartphone and it tells me how far I have driven, what the gas mileage is, where I am at, and all of that kind of stuff. It can read the computer on my car, so when the CE light was flashing, it was usually telling me what was going on.
When my car quit last week, it turned out to need a new fuel pump, which has apparently been the problem all of this time. We replaced the pump, and now the car runs fine and the CE light is staying off; so (hopefully) I won't be broken down any more and have to get the car towed home now. We had replaced the fuel filter, and that helped some but didn't solve the problem.
Not having a car all week was no fun, but it was still better than having it break down on me every time I went somewhere.
And Amazon sent the parts right out so we could fix it.

The mechanic that came to help my husband replace the fuel pump said we need to have the coils replaced, too; so I guess that is the next car project for us as well.
 
Update! I got Kanga fixed yesterday. Woohoo, yay and other exclamations of joy and delight. It was only the O2 sensor, which certainly explains why the mileage kept getting worse almost by the minute. And it only cost $165, which is cheap by my reckoning when you consider that I was waiting to get hit in the pocketbook for lots more hundreds. So Kanga is much better, and I'm a happy camper.

It's two days after Christmas, and my bank account is still in the black.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Not a big deal to most folks, but besides the fact that my phone is NOT coming today (insert angry and hostile words here), my car is sick. Check Engine light keeps coming on. Oil gauge looks fine. We used to have real gauges on our dashboards. Now we get one idiot light for the oil temp so no clue what's wrong.

I have a two-year automotive certificate from a vocational school. Trust me...it doesn't make me a mechanic! If I'm not being punished for sins in a former life or in my current one (!), maybe it will be something really simple. I'd like to hang onto that notion, but it doesn't feel promising. Car seems to have been running a bit rough in the past few days.

Phone? It arrived at the warehouse at 7:30 this morning. UPS. Therefore, I won't be seeing it before Monday. UPS doesn't deliver on weekends. So AT&T wouldn't let me cancel on WEDNESDAY and reorder WHY? They said it was already "in process". Huh?

No car? I'm out of business! I'm also flat broke until the 19th when my SS check hits the bank.

No phone? I'm also silent until at least Monday. There are those who are probably very grateful for my (temporary) silence. LOL
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Can you check your oil Georgia? My light will come on, and I add a quart and it goes off.

That's a long wait too til the 19th. Any guy friends that might take a look for you? My sis and I have one guy, or our neighbor that likes to get outdoors and do things so he is always offering to help. I know not everyone is that lucky, and believe me, I haven't always had a guy that would take the time.
 
LOL, Denise...the thread was started back in mid-November. My post on page 3 is an update. And yes, I do know how to check my oil. That two-year automotive mechanics certificate I referred to didn't make me a mechanic, but I do know how to check my oil...even change it!
 
Sorry, I didn't notice the date, and unfortunately I miss some important things in posts, like your certificate info.
 

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