I got to go and spend a couple hours today with my new baby.

She’s all delivered and waiting for her time in the bay. And of course, a little cash to cover the parts and all. I hope by Friday I’ll have about half of what I need. It’s a start.

Joe wanted to fix my van’s window, it has been troublesome from the start. This little plastic clip doesn’t want to hold the glass in the track and all. So Bill and Joe said, bring Lumi down and we’ve got the part, we’ll fix her while you wait and play with the new car! (g) They know me well.

YIKES! The part didn’t work and Bill dashed off to get another part and I offered to ride along and gab but he said he wanted me to have all the time I can with the new baby. They sure do know me.

So I thought, okay. I will do a tour of the new baby and test some stuff out and just well, bond with her. Let her know my scent and just kind of get to know me.

One cool find…. she’s wired for Sirius Radio!!!! How cool is that?

Maybe eventually I will consider that… I know I just have to buy the little receiver unit and then there is a reasonable monthly charge. But the best thing is that it has a 6 CD player in it!!!!! HOW COOL!!! MUSIC!!!! (I have not had a radio that works right in a car for almost 3 years now. Yes, sad but true. And me, so into music! It’s been miserable.)

The previous owner left a handful of weird things in the car. He must have been a flooring rep, as I found a lot of his business cards, and a bunch of catalogs and flyers and floor sample things.

Spent a little time looking through them all. Some nice stuff!

Wouldn’t that second one look nice as a kitchen floor? Hmmm?

Got power everything! Windows, doors, seats, antenna, you name it.

Bill’s messing with the antenna…. (hahaha) We all have had fun playing with the wagon.

It started to rain so we had to throw a tarp over Lumi since her door was all torn apart. Poor thing. At least the wagon got to lend some moral support. I’m sure they are talking and summing each other up. I need to come up with a good name for the wagon.

I thought about calling it Datura. Since that’s the latin name for that weird weed in my yard and apparently it’s Hindu for “dark one”. However, Bill and I discussed it and we decided that seems a little too dark, and he thought Midnight would be good. I dunno. Midnight sounds a little too horsey. Funny how he didn’t think twice about the fact that I was naming the beast… hahaha…. He’s such a hoot, I’m so happy to have met him and Joe and all. People like that enrich your life so much. He’s a wise man. We’ve had many talks on rides back and forth about life, kids, marriages and homes and of course, cars.

I like the name Lena. I don’t know exactly why, but I think of Lena Horne as one really classy dark lady and sexy and I think this wagon is pretty sweet styled and beautiful like Lena Horne. I like a car to be named an easy yet cool name. I have to keep thinking about it. Shadow comes to mind too, but that’s a little too horsey too. Hard to come up with anything to do with Taurus… Toro? Bull? Sigh. Well, I’ll have another week or two to think about it all.

Joe has a cute pair of kittens that have adopted the shop. This little girl was following me all over and plopped down to watch me. You could tell she was puzzling over what I was doing, just sitting there. She was a real cutie.

And look at this little metal plate thing that I found! What an awesome positive statement! And in my new car!!! I am the queen of enthusiasm when I’m into something! That is so cool.

And this was the weirdest thing…. Jeff and I wrote this song called Tempted by the Bible. It’s about this kid on the streets and he’s had a rough life, and all that, but he breaks into a car and finds a bible on the seat and it changes his life around. Cool song…

Tempted by the Bible…. a rough recording…

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But what did I find in the backseat? A bible.

This is SOOOO my car! It has been waiting for me. It even came from Virginia! I CAME FROM VIRGINIA!!!! OH my GOSH…. (haha)

Needless to say, it’s been a little hard for me to sleep at nights. And I just can’t WAIT to get Lena/Toro/Shadow home! And Bill’s already got a family in mind for Lumi and I’m sure she’ll be a blessing to them. It’s not a bad car, just needs a family that really needs the room and all. She’s a good ride and ready to work hard for someone.

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