Day One Hundred Sixty Eight

Today was a horrible day!  First off, Lisa told me that she needed to go to the college and study this morning so since we only had my truck and her car was in the shop, she asked me to take her.  So I put off my walk this morning to do that.  Well, Lees ended up not waking up until way late so she called off her study date.  Aaarrgggghh!!!  So I missed out on my walk for nothing :( 


Not only that, I was busy the rest of the day!  First, about 9:30am, Mister Muffler called and told me they looked at the car.  The crazy guys told me it was the damn Crankshaft Position Sensor...WHICH WAS THE EXACT SAME THING AUTOZONE TOLD ME!!!!!  That wasn't the kicker though.  What was, was that they wanted to charge me $343 to fix it!  I'm like, WHAT?!!  So I told them No and that I only wanted to pay for the test they did.  Well, the damn diagnostic test ran up to $107.  I was so pissed off!!!!  Those punks charged me $107 to tell me the EXACT SAME THING that Autozone told me for free.  Oh man, now I am so scared because that took a huge chunk out of the money I had and we haven't bought any groceries.  We're also completely out of food too!  So, my grandpa came by again and he helped me tow the car back to my house.  Afterwards, Lisa took my truck to work.  So after she left, I sat around for a bit and finished up my lunch, then I borrowed my Grandma's ride and headed up to Autozone.  I bought that Crankshaft Position Sensor with the last of my money, then I took it home and I replaced the damn thing myself.  Didn't cost me a dime for My labor!!  I got that thing changed out in ten minutes.  Can't believe those ripoffs at Mister Muffler wanted to charge me three hundred dollars to do that!  I am Never Ever EVER going back to that cheapo business ever again!!!!  They completely ripped me off big time and they didn't do a damn thing to my car.  I am so mad about that!  Well, I got the car running, then I took it up town put my last 7 bucks into it for gas, then I took it to the car wash and washed it up really good with some spare quarters I had.  I even washed the engine really good.  I washed all that old oil buildup that is all over in there.  Now that engine looks really clean!  I'm so proud of the work I did.  When Lisa came home, I surprised her.  She was jumping up and down happy!  Right away, she took her car for a test drive and we went flying down the road.  She is very excited to have it back.  She said she missed it so much and hated driving my truck around haha. 
One thing Mister Muffler did tell us that I'm going to take into serious consideration and planning, was that my timing belt may need to be changed soon.  I have been down that road before so I know I need to always keep an eye on the timing belt.  If that damn thing goes out and breaks, you're lookin at a new engine right there.  That happened to my truck about 2 years after I bought it.  Timing belt broke, had to get a whole new engine.  Crazy!  So, we're going to start saving up and try and get that thing replaced.  I'd love to learn about it and try to do it myself.  That'd be Awesome!  We'll see how that works out there.


So now, I am totally out of money!  One thing though, I'm not too worried.  I prayed to God and I know that He will provide.  He's Always looked out for me and Lisa.  We put all our faith in Him and He is always there for us.  I urge everyone to do that!  Believe in God and Always put your faith in Him.  Trust me, He will never ever let you down :)  Ok, it's been a long day!  Goodnight!