Mar 3

My Mom just hopped in her Ford Explorer as she does every day and tried to set off to work – only she couldn’t because the head gasket had blown, oh dear. She has had nothing but problems with that car over the last few years, I have told her to treat herself to a new one that’s going to be more reliable but she says she loves it too much to replace it – I’ve never really understood why people become attached to cars, my dad was the same with his old one and literally drove it until the day it fell to pieces.

Well at least she knows the best Los Angeles auto repair place to take it to by now, it’s almost like her second home!

Aug 18

I have just been trying to find rain barrels for sale for my mom, she wants to know somewhere local that sell them so that she can go pick it up right away. I told her I would be able to find someone online that will sell rain barrels and deliver them for no more than she’d pay in a store and she didn’t believe me.

So now I am on a mission, I like to be right – especially when it comes to online shopping as that seems to be my dedicated area of expertise in our family!

I don’t know why she wants a rain barrel all of a sudden, she has never been interested before when we’ve told her how useful they are – but I am not going to argue, what my mom wants my mom gets :)