Sunday, January 11, 2026

This week was appointment heavy. Since Missy’s van had the problem with the hood latch, and I didn’t get it in to the shop in time for them to get the parts to get it fixed, we had to bring Missy back to school and keep the van at home for a few days. We got the van to the Toyota dealer on Tuesday and they had it all morning, but now the hood will open and they filled the windshield washer fluid as a courtesy. And such a little thing, such a simple tiny little issue with the van cost about $1200 to get it fixed. Holy crap. Anyway, this also meant that we needed to go deliver the van to Missy. After I was out of work on Wednesday, Beth and I headed to Muncie in separate vehicles, me driving the van, so we could drop it off with her. She’s well into her final term now….how is that possible….oh please let her find a job….anyway we arrived at her rental house, took all the girls out to dinner at IHOP (their choice), and headed back home again just after dinner because they all had stuff to do. 

Also this week Collier’s came to the house to do our annual furnace inspection. Afterwards, the humidifier is still leaking, though. Although it wasn’t when they were at the house to do the service. Of course. But I did get us signed up for the service plan again, hopefully that won’t fall through the cracks again. The fireplace in the living room doesn’t work, either…I wonder if they can still service that even though it’s >25 years old.

Saturday Beth and I had a date night, something we haven’t done in some time. We’ve wanted to go see the new “Wicked: for Good” movie for a while now and figured we’d better go see it before it was gone, because it’s a big screen kind of movie. I really enjoyed it, as with the first one, more than I thought I would. Not sure why I thought that way since I also really enjoyed the first one, but anyway as with the first one, we went to Goshen to see it. It’s old enough that the theaters only had it at certain times, and the Goshen theater had the time that worked best for us. We went out to dinner (sushi, of course) afterwards back in Warsaw.