AAA to the RECUE!!!!

Who wants to hear a story about my "WONDERFUL" car and its even better car battery....

You know your jumping up and down with excitment.

Okay since you insist...

((WARNING LONG BLOG))

It all started yesterday (Tuesday 2/9/10) oh wait it all started when we got back from our Honeymoon. My wonderful mom took my car to FORD to get a oil change while we were gone. You know those wonderful dealerships try to get every penny out of you. They ran every single test possible and said my battery was in the red along with many other usless things that were rediculous. Well, we started saving money for when the battery did die. 

That time has come :( yesterday morning it was raining so I had my lights on, well the sensor in my divers side door is broke so when I leave my lights on it doesnt ding like its supose to. So I headed to work with my lights on and since the parking lot gets so packed the day workers have to park in the lot across the "road" and ofcoarse nobody noticed I left my lights on since my car wasnt around and it was now sunny.

So I got off at 5:15 and I was beat. All I wanted to do was go pick up my hubby from work and go home to my soup in the crockpot. NNNNOOOO it cant be that easy. I noticed my remote wouldnt unlock my car (no biggy i'll just replace the battery) ofcoarse not it cant be that easy I get in my car and nope it doesnt want it start its dum dum dum DEAD. NOOOOO it cant be! 

So I call the hubby and let him know, then call my handy dandy mechanic (who by the way is AWESOME) to let him know its dead since he said he wouldnt charge to put a new battery in, THEN the awesome people I pay money to every year so when my car breaks down they come to the rescue.

Yes, they know me well. The nice lady on the phone said it could be anywhere from 20min to and hour. I dont want to wait an hour i've been working for 6 and its getting cold!  Luckily he came in 20min.

THANK THE LORD!

First off he wasnt all that friendly, but since at work our goal is to make every customer smile at least once before they leave. By force of habit that was my goal. Well, I guess he warmed up to me cause he talked my ear off. He also told me to take the LONG way home and to drive for 40min to recharge the battery.

Boy, this is a long post, but I have alot on my mind.

Tuesday night we prayed my car would work GREAT until we could get this whole battery cituation worked out. Wouldn't you know he answered our prayers.

Wednesday morning we left the house to take Jeff to work so I could go to a appointment. I also had to go pick up a car battery from my moms that came out of my brothers car that was still under warenty. Back to FORD I went. I was going to try to get them to give me the money back for that one or replace it. Wouldn't you know they wouldn't honor the warenty, but tried to replace every other part in my car.

So, I call my mechanic and off to autozone I go to get a battery. $100 later I have a batter (in my car trunk) Now, to wait till tomorrow to have it put it. 

As I was driving today praying my battery wouldnt die I got to thinking. Sometime we treat God like a car battery. We dont really think of needing it (him) to continue on. We just go on, we wake up and continue on our day. Not thinking of the one who starts out day, who starts us. But, if it weren't for that Battery (God) we couldn't go anywhere or do anything.

God, please dont ever let me treat you like a car battery. I dont want to be one to forget about you and just expect you start my day.