Cars, Oil Leaks & Smashed Potatoes

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of my blog.

First of all, apologies for the lack of pictures on this post, there will be some in a few days.  It's just I haven't had a chance to take any yet!

So what's happened since my last post? I hear you ask. Well let me think, Heather and I got a car that was given to us by Mimi's preacher man (reports of him being the son of a preacher man and the only one who could ever reach her are yet to be confirmed) So thank you Brother Raymond. It's a 95 Dodge Intrepid in silver, it's a nice car, needs a bit of work doing to it, but it was free!

It has an oil leak coming from somewhere, the drivers seat back doesn't go up and down and it had a very long brake pedal when I drove it yesterday so pretty sure it needs some new brakes as well but there's nothing majorly wrong with it and there's nothing there which can't easily fixed so it's all good. Oh and it could do with a good wax too but that's probably going to be a job for Heather and Cayden because, well. I hate waxing cars! Haha.

Some more big news!! We're moving into a house next week too! It's a nice house too (always handy!) 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and a kitchen diner and a huge back yard which also happens to back onto a field! Yes, we're still going to be living in the middle of nowhere so our internet will still be rubbish and slow but it works for now!

(This bit is for Mum – or Mom as they say over here – and Dad – they still say dad over here, you'll have to call us on our mobile/cell now as when we move into the house, we're not going to have a landline phone)

Now because neither of us have jobs just yet my Father in Law Randy and his wife Linda are going to be paying the rent and the rest of the bills for us just until we get on our feet. Hopefully I can find a job this week, I know of one place which is definitely hiring at the moment. And I know that because I happen to know someone who already works there and he told me that they had 2 guys quit and they fired another so that's 3 positions they have open at the moment. Wish me luck.

On a rather selfish note, I kind of hope that I'll have a job by the time we move into the house, that way Heather will have to put everything away!! Well, I might help a little. Maybe I'll put my underwear away or a pair of jeans.........

….......Okay, I just got a slap for typing that. What I meant to say was, I'll be putting everything away all on my own whilst Heather sits down and watches TV and apparently I'll also have to make dinner...apparently.

Anyway, Cayden said something else that was very funny earlier this week. We were in the car after picking him up from daycare, and on the drive back home, he was asking what was for dinner so we told him we were having fried chicken with mash potatoes and carrots. Now we were thinking that he would throw a fit and say that he doesn't like carrots but no! He said that he didn't like Mashed potatoes or as he called them – Smashed potatoes – when we asked him why he started by saying that he didn't know and then when we asked him if he had had them before he said no. So I then asked him how he knew he didn't like them then? To which he replied after a few minutes of thinking “I don't know, God made me this way!” You probably had to be there but it was very funny at the time!

Anyway, that's about all that's happened this week. So thanks for reading and come back soon for the next exciting instalment. Same bat channel, same bat time etc etc.

Update on the car situation. The oil leak is still not fixed, but I do now know where it's leaking from! (Hurrah!) It's coming from the crankshaft as there appears to be an oil seal that is missing, now I'm assuming that it perished and just fell apart but there is almost no sign of one having ever been in there! So what I was hoping was going to be a fairly simple job has turned out to be a little more complicated. It's fixable, just a little more complicated!