Update to Seriously....

I just don't know what to believe anymore with this car!

My husband called me and said that he called the shop owner.  He was told that they got our car all re-wired and it wouldn't start.  So they had to figure out where the problem was. Turns out they had crossed two wires or something. They got that all straightened out, then there was a problem with the heat being mixed up or something.  Now keep in mind, He assured me that he has done this a million times in his 25 yrs of owning this shop!  I had asked him if he had ever done this before and if he knew what to do....he said Yes!

Apparently they got the heat mix up fixed and took it for a test drive and it didn't go down the road as straight as they would like it to, so they sent it to another shop to get an alignment.....that's where it is today!

So tomorrow the insurance rep. is supposed to go and "check it out"....give his approval, settle the bill
AND THEN.....we should be able to pick up our car!

Excuse me if I am just not totally believing this!  I am usually a total~ Glass is half full kind of girl....but, this experience has really made me a 3/4 Empty!

Hello....

Here is a seldom seen peak into our Home. 

This is where we do our 

Living!

This would be considered our

Family Room....

this is where 

Friends & Family 

Gather....

There are 17 rooms in our Home....

but, besides our kitchen &  our bedrooms

this is our most used room.

Probably because of our fireplace.

It's warm and comfy in this room!

I took down the last of the snowmen & cleaned up the fake snow I had on the mantel, those 2 white things hold whatever I might hang up there next or I might just remove them, I haven't decided yet!
Yes, my fireplace needs to be cleaned or painted, but having a fire right now is more important here during the winter months....so it will have to wait!

 Especially on days like today....

dark & gloomy!

 I tend to sit here....

with a soft down pillow behind my back....

and my slanket over me.

Nice and toasty!

Do you have a spot to sit in your home?

 I like it because I can look straight at the fire.

This is where my hubby sits....

We both have our favorite spots!

Today seemed like a good day for a fire.

While I did a bit of laundry....

made a few beds....

and vacuumed!

Real Life Living right here!

What did you do today?

Now a little Update:

Still no car back! BUT, just after my last post about this car, the owner of the shop where it's at called.  He explained some of the reason it has taken so long and I listened, then I as calmly as I could explained our reasons for being upset.  He agreed it has taken too long, but seems the insurance company is the reason totally mostly to blame!  My husband later that day talked to our ins. reps. boss' boss....shame you have to go to so many different people....and Long Story short they are paying the bulk of our deductible.  Then today, my husband called and spoke with the owner of the shop and he explained to him (as he did to me) that he went thru all the "hoops" our insurance co. wanted him to and the car was not doing what it should electrically, it's a Toyota Camry, and he was not comfortable doing what the ins. co. wanted him to only to possibly have us return in 6 mths with problems.  So he insisted on re-wiring the whole car!  A part that had to be ordered directly from Toyota and at the cost of $2000.00 (on top of what it already cost for repairs, which the ins. co. were refusing to ok were trying to finagle!)  That has been the whole hold up! They wanted him to basically splice wires together!  I could go into more detail, but you are probably sick and tired of it so I will spare you.  But, then he told my husband he is going to cover the remaining amount of the deductible!!!!!  Yeah....finally we feel as though we are being taken care of!  He told my husband that the part isn't there yet, but probably will be by Monday.  It takes a FULL day to re-wire a car, so it should be done Monday.  My husband said, Well, we would rather you not rush this part...we don't want to turn on the radio and have the wipers start working....if it takes until Wednesday, what the heck we've waited this long!  

A bit tired of this....

You may remember me posting about my husband being in an accident back on Dec. 9 th on his way to work that morning.  We were told where "the best" place to take it would be.  And assured so by our insurance company!

We were just Thankful that he was okay!

It was supposed to be done in one week!

But that was 50 days ago....fifty days!

Each week, our insurance agent calls....Me, and tells me the progress or lack there of!  At first it was like...okay at least they are hopefully doing a good job and not rushing it.  Things happened during that time that we could have surely used 2 cars for....would have helped us out tremendously.  One being when my MIL was hospitalized...twice within one weeks time.  Another was when she passed.  My husband had to drive a 45 mins home to  pick me up so we could drive down to be with his Dad during all of this.  I could have gone myself....had we had both cars.  

Those calls from the insurance agent have just gotten funny frustrating now.  When I see the number pop up I am not surprised when he tells me....Guess why I'm calling?! He called Weds. around 4 p.m. (it was supposed to be done Monday, he never called that day), it's usually at the end of the day, to tell me that the  place ordered the wrong air conditioner clip and that is the hold up.  Seems they used that a few weeks ago!  How can a place that is so highly recommended "order" the wrong part for a car?  So, says the insurance guy, it's supposed to be done Today....or Monday at the latest!  Then it will be 53 days....right? 

I am the one without the car!  I am the one who has to wait until a daughter has a day off or a few hours to spend taking me to run errands.  This has been a real life inconvenience, not having 2 cars available everyday!

We have a high deductible too....$500.00!  Five Hundred Dollars....and we have been with out our car 50 days.   Maybe we should charge them $10 a day for taking so long to fix our car.  Then if it is done Today....day 50 we'd be even.  Because if I did my math right that would equal $500.00!

Oh yeah, our insurance agent said had we taken it to an @r0%ress(ive approved shop (they failed to say that at the time), it would have had to be done in 12 days!!  Twelve Days!!

Honey you should take my car....

and I'll go get you new tires today!

Maybe...

No I'll just take my car he said!

You may not be able to tell

from this picture,

but to left you see a road that is the end of

a hill, which then goes straight across

and down with trees

and electrical poles

and other stuff....

like the van in front of him that

also couldn't stop,

coming down that hill!

And the lady in the suv after him,

that steered clear of them,

and then was on her way.

He's just fine....

alittle sore from tensing up

ready for the impact.

Car wouldn't even start up.

But, they say it should

be ready by the end of next week.

And the guy in the van...

drove away with a bent muffler pipe.

coulda, woulda, shoulda....

left me his the car!

At least he'll be

Home tonight!