Snow and Cars

Yeah, it’s been snowing here for two days. And the furnace stopped working this morning.

But all is well in our little corner of the world. Things calmed down remarkably. I didn’t actually do the WHOLE move thing with the woman at Avenue Q, but Rob and CJ did. Mindy and I went to the funeral home instead.

Yesterday was spent working at the Funeral Dinner. It was good to see my old friends at Branton and spend time with my parents and Grandma. And it was nice to come home to Rob and Mindy and the guy installing the Invisible Fencing for my doggy.

Mindy is spending the next two nights with her dad, and then she wants to move in here, she says, permanently. I think she’s entranced by having her own huge, beautiful room and by being the only kid. In my heart, I don’t think she will be here very long… or  maybe I’m not sure I want her to be here very long… and at the same time, I do.

I know I’m not making any sense… it’s just that I am used to being the only toad in the pond, and it’s funny for me to have spent the greater share of my time in the past week thinking about washing Mindy’s clothes and vacuuming her room when I do the rest of the house, or about picking her up to bring her back home.

Perhaps when it’s time for her to do her homework, she won’t think that this is such a great place to be.

Used Car Salesman

I get the feeling Rob’s about to be fired from his job. Not fired, really, but downsized. He won’t take a job that’s a 90 minute drive in heavy traffic, and he thinks his job where he works from home is about to end.

I told Joan today at work that Rob is amazing when it comes to cars, that he knows every little detail about almost every make and model of car, and that he reads Kelly Blue Book for fun. I also said that if she ever bought a car without first checking with Rob, she was just plain stupid, because he can tell you which one has the better crash test rating, and which has better gas mileage. He’s amazing and smart.

This evening, I related the story to Rob and told him he she be a car salesman. He agreed. “WHAT?!” I though. But he said that post-his current job, he was thinking about selling cars. “Well, you’ve already got the suits,” I said.

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