Sigh

I made the appointment to meet with the owner of Franklin Plaza a week ago. I was soooo excited to go tonight to hammer out some details for the big day! It was all I could talk about all day and all I could think of at work. I spent my lunch today writing out all the questions I could think of to ask Michael.

I left work an hour early and climbed into my Beetle. I was very excited to be driving it again since I'd just gotten it back from Dodi's shop the night before. I got into a very stupid accident the Thursday before Christmas - a sign just jumped out in the road and took out the front of my car. Stupid sign. I drove home where I met Alex and got my things together to go to our meeting. We hopped in the Beetle and were off.

When we were just about out of town, the radiator light came on in the car and sarted blinking red. I started freaking out. Blinking red light = no driving the car, according to the manual. We stopped the car and checked the coolant level - it was fine. We got back in the car and turned it on. No light - I called Michael at Franklin Plaza and told him we were on our way but would be a little late. Not a problem. I hung up the phone. Blinky red light started beeping at us again. Check engine light came on. Tears started. Alex told me to call Dodi and see if they were still at the shop - she told us to bring the car right over. I called Michael and cancelled the appointment. Hung up. Cried more. What's up with my constant crying lately? I suck.

Dodi got us into a rental car right away and her dad explained that they didn't touch anything electrical with the car, so they're not sure what it could be, but they'd run a scan on the computer to check it out. He said it could just be that the sensors have to go through a cycle (or something like that). I could tell Dodi felt really bad about us missing the appointment - I was IM-ing with her earlier in the day about how excited I was to go. It's not like she knew it was going to happen. I feel bad that I was so upset - but lately everything seems like a huge deal to me.

Sigh. Anyway, sucks that we weren't able to go today. The next time that Alex isn't on call during the week isn't until 1/25, so we won't be able to go again until then... Ah well. I guess I should look at it as a chance to spread out the planning fun for a little while. I just hope that everythings OK with my car!!! I can't afford to have to fix something major!