Yesterday. Life happened.

Right after work Mark and I went to look at a table I found on craigslist. Our new place has a little kitchen nook and our current table is too large for that space. So we thought it would be fun to get a little bistro table.

We really liked it!! Here's the pic (there is one more chair, just not in this picture):

Amazingly we got the table and chairs into the back seat of the car. We just had to put the top down. Everything was ready to go and we went to start the car and it wouldn't start. We tried jumping it and that didn't work. After calls with both our fathers, checking to see if the people who's driveway we were stuck in had any tools (they didn't have what we needed), we called a tow truck.

The tow guy was nice.

We took the car to the place I normally have it serviced, a dealership. I know, some people are convinced that's the worst place you can take it, but I like how they know what to do to it and when. The place is also open until midnight.

We rode in the tow truck and met Barb at the dealership. It was around 8:30pm, we stopped for "comfort" food of Baja Fresh and TCBY on the way back to Barb's. By 10:30 we got the call that the car was fixed and only needed new battery cables. By 7:30am we had picked it up and drove in to work.

Given our current endeavor to buy a house we were both VERY grateful that it wasn't worse or more expensive. Although we could have figured out a way to go without a car for a few days anything more then that would have been frustrating. And thank God for budgeting as we had enough set aside in our "car repair" fund to cover the work!! Not the towing, but out of 2 isn't bad ;)