Furby Wranglings

1. Working gas  gauge
2. Heated front seats
3. Decent gas mileage
4. No mysterious rattles
5. Decent sized trunk

Things I'm Not so Fond of:

1. Dashboard notification of possible problems overrides the odometer display.  I'm sure there's a way to remedy this, I just haven't figured it out. Yes, I KNOW we're due for an oil change.... in about 300 more miles.  I'd prefer being able to tell when that occurs over being constantly nagged.

2. Nitrogen- filled tires.  I'm told I can have them refilled with normal air, but it will cost me.  In the meantime, I've had the 'Check Tire Pressure' notification come on every time the temperature drops below freezing.... I personally think that the nitrogen is more sensitive to air pressure/temperature, and that's why it happens, but can't seem to get a definitive answer from the mechanics.

3. The key fob.  Supposedly I had remote start as well as remote lock/unlock.  The remote start never worked for me, and the lock/unlock stopped working over the weekend.  Husband replaced the battery, but that didn't help. The plus side: I'm no longer accidentally popping the truck open.

4. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I think there might be something going on with the transmission..... I have a appointment to have an oil change, safety-check, and tires rotated next week, and I told them to take a good look at the transmission while they're at it.  

5. I think the previous owner was a smoker. There's a lingering aroma.  I have a bamboo-charcoal odor absorb-er in the arm-rest pocket, which seems to help.  (the many air-freshener packets secreted in every possible cranny was a bit of a tip-off)

Other than those five things, Riza and I seem to be a good fit.

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Husband is on his annual December 'use it or lose it' vacation leave.  Rather that do what I did, and sort out the manga he no longer wants and sell them to B.A.M., he's decided to rearrange the furniture and install the bookcases we couldn't find room for the first time around. This involves cleaning the computer room -- which is a plus, in one way, because I am convinced that we will find some items that went missing a while back, but in the other way, it will make huge messes everywhere else in the house!

(I'd almost rather have Daughter's ceiling collapse again....)

Rrrrg... I keep receiving Manufacturer's Recall notices regarding various pieces of Adric's autonatomy  -- so far, it's been the steering column, gas pedal,  gas gauge, and something else that evades my memory at the moment -- makes me wonder if anything has a NON-defective potential  on this particular model ---  but here's the kicker!  Every letter includes a paragraph about how the repair parts are NOT AVAILABLE at this time...and  I will be notified by my dealership when they are, in order to schedule repairs..... WTF,  Chevrolet-Whatever CorporateConglomerate???  The gas gauge thing is more annoying than anything -- I figured that last winter's extreme cold froze the sensor, and that's why it was doing that annoying 'drop to empty even though I just filled the tank'  thing, but the rest are potentially hazardous -- I guess they're covering their butts, legally speaking.... but c'mon --- tell me my car has defects, and then in the next breath say, 'sorry, we don't have parts to fix it?' ?!?!

Beldandy is on her fourth week of 'twice a day anit-fungal spray and twice a week bath'  ring-worm treatment -- the Vet looked her over last week and said she saw improvement, and keep it up for another couple of weeks.... poor Bel cries and moans and groans, and Jethro... well, we gave him a preemptive bath two weeks ago, and I think we figuratively 'broke' Mr. Happy Tail --- Jethro's tail is more down than up these days.... used to be, all we had to do is LOOK at Jethro, and the Tail would start wagging.... *sob*  ... He hates us......

Last week I went to the eye doctor and had a 'diabetic' eye exam like my doctor  and the insurance company recommended.... Eye doctor said that while the Diabetes hadn't affected my eyes, it looked like the High Blood Pressure had a bit-- How can they tell, I wonder? different types of damage? The diabetes we'd been kind of watching for, since it runs in the family  but the HBP blind-sided me when it was diagnosed ten - twelve years ago .... I'd gone to the walk-in clinic for something minor (I don't even remember what - sinus infection, maybe?) and the next thing I know I'm getting IV's and drugs and doctors saying my BP is through the roof and I have to stabilize before they can let me go home and who is my family doctor --- um, don't have one, that's why I'm at the walk-in?  But I remembered the doctor who'd lanced a nasty cyst on my side the winter before because I liked his attitude, and he's been my doctor ever since (wonder if he remembers?) -- ANYWHOO --  Today I went back and ordered new glasses - bifocals - not as pricy as I'd expected.  And when I had my 6-month check up, the doctor gave me a manufacturers' coupon for one of the more expensive diabetes prescriptions....

Still haven't made a decision re: TARDIS-Con vs DAICHO-Con.

Want a nap.