Such a wild and crazy family
posted in Uncategorized |“We live on the edge!” exclaimed OmegaDad last night. “We need a new car, so what do we do? We go out and buy exactly the same car we already have!”
Say goodbye to the Little Green Car.
Say hello to the Little Red Car.
A brand-new 2007 Outback Sport. The new car will get a fantastic breaking-in period as OmegaDad tools it across country, dawg in the passenger seat.
OmegaDotter and I will be staying with OmegaGranny for a couple of weeks (with cats) while OmegaDad drives the long way. Then she and I and cats will board the plane and fly out to Alaska to meet daddy.
I’m kind of sad about it–I really wanted to do the cross-country trip. But a lack of paperwork has made it imperative that we not take OmegaDotter into Canada. We just can’t afford to cross paths with an uber-officious border patrolman (or woman) wanting to follow the letter of the law. I have nightmares of the dotter and I being stranded at the border into Canada and having to figure out how to get from there to Alaska…or, worse yet, stranded at the border into Alaska with the same situation. At least at the border into Canada, we’d be close to airports…
So a request: please pray, send good vibes, or otherwise attempt to influence the universe so that the monsoon rains start before the dotter and I stay with OmegaGranny; right now, it’s pretty toasty down the hill.
We’ve had the house shown twice so far. Grandma Sharon and I spent a frantic two hours yesterday scuttling around the house and cleaning/straightening up to prepare for the second set of folks.
Things are slowly beginning to fall into place.
