This Week....

The depression  and frustration for me this week actually started last Wednesday when my much loved Jeep with less then 40,000 miles began making a loud metal on metal sound when ever I turned corners or accelerated. By Friday there were new noises which under Seniors direction I took it straight to the service center at my local Jeep Dealer.

First ,they thought it had something to do with my lift kit. Then I had to take the Service Manager on a ride so he could hear it. Turns out it was my transmission. They kept it over the weekend. Upon further inspection this past Monday, it turns out some transmission gears had come apart, and shredded it. Did I mention I have less then 40,000 miles on it? Also, I have NEVER "Ragged" my jeep out, it has never been off roading, or in the mud..only driving on the beach.
 The fluid had been burning and turned a dark purple and was burnt. The service center had to get approval from Chrysler to either give me a whole new unit ( which I wanted) or just rebuild the crapped out one....Can you guess what they did?  YEP! they approved the rebuilding. I was told that because only 70% of my tranny went out, they were only fixing the 70%. that was broken.

I have 2 kids to shuttle around and errands..couldn't be without a car. At least they approved a rental for me from Enterprise. I get to Enterprise...the girl says: " Sorry but all we have is the 2012 Camaro out front"... Darn the luck I thought!  I hate it when that happens.  " Okay" I say.. " I guess I can suffer".  At least some part of the week has gone well. Now we have been sporting it this week to and from school in the hot Camaro.. : )   NS thinks its  "Bumblebee" the transformer.

We decide to research the transmission with Jeeps...turns out I am not the only one.There were over 157 complaints  on the NTSB website from people with the same issues I have had, and most had less mileage then My Jeep has. So now, do I really want to be driving this unreliable vehicle anymore? I LOVE ,LOVE, LOVE my Jeep...but I have  to now consider the fact it will have the same crappy transmission..only rebuilt and cleaned up..give it another 10,000 miles or so and it will go out again.
Therefore we have started the pain of car shopping.  If there are two things in this world I absolutely hate, and that is: Swim Suit Shopping, and Car shopping. 
I like the VWs, but also the Subarus, so I think we have settled on a Subaru Impreza WRX. It is the "stay at home moms sports car".
I am suppose to pick the Jeep up today, hopefully by Sunday we will have something new.

So with this and all the World events this week..it has been one for the record books. We walked out this morning, I looked up in the sky and was amazed at this sight: 

 

 

Yes a morning rainbow..something I have never seen. Rainbows are a promise from God...then I knew...that there is nothing too big that God can't handle...Personal issues, and world issues...He is there with his daily reminder that things will be okay. Our youngest said it best when after we got in the car, he said: "Mommy, you know that was the gateway to heaven".....  

Wheels for the Wounded

Friday night I backed out my beautiful Jeep , washed him up, vacuumed him out and got him all pretty for the 4th Annual " Wheels for the Wounded Show, Shine and Swap". 
You ask what that is? well it is a jeep show of course!  All proceeds went to benefit the Wounded Warrior Foundation..so yes we jumped on board with it.
Okay, before anyone asks...I guess I should also mention that none of these Jeeps on this post are mine... I WISH..but they are "Show Jeeps".... 
I was so excited driving down to it. And once there we felt like kids in a candy store..there was so, so, so many jeeps...probably hundreds and more kept coming in.. Jeeps there in all sizes, and big money ones too..like the high dollar rock crawlers...

Zombie Apocalypse Jeep..Owned by "Spikes Tactical"

 In fact I don't think the organizers expected such a huge turn out. I say that because there was only a small handful of vendors probably less then 5.
The best one we found was Spiderweb Shades, this guy made an inventive product for all jeep owners,its literally a shade that stretches under neath your hard or soft top, so that when you decide to go topless on a nice day, the sun won't bake you. Senior let me get one, and I LOVE IT.

Anyways, hanging around down at the Jeep Show was a fun time and all proceeds went to Wounded Warriors which is so near and dear to our heart.

It Finally Came!

Yesterday was Christmas in June for me. My custom designed Pirate Girl Tire Cover came, along with matching T-Shirt. It looks so much better then what I expected, you really can't tell that it is airbrushed. They then put a shiney sealer and protectorant on it for longer endurance in the hot sun.

And this is my matching T-Shirt. Can't wait to wear it this coming weekend..