This N That

DGS's Bug You can't drive in SoCal without the occasional fender-bender or worse. My turn came up last week. Someone pulling out of a parking lot onto the street before checking to see if there was any through traffic tagged the right rear quadrant of my car. She was driving an Expedition. Ouch. Didn't do too much damage though - dented the side, scraped the paint and messed up the wheel-well. To the tune of apx $1500.00 which her insurance covers. However, the body shop says they need my car for nine days which seems like an awfully long time. Thought I could get by without renting a car (which her insurance also will cover) but no way I can juggle using DH's car for that long.

DGS is almost ready for his driver's test. Things will be a lot easier for all of us when he can drive. Though he loved his orange bug for a while he now wants to trade it in on something a little bigger. Not enough room for his musical equipment and I think he's not crazy about driving a stick.

Don't know if "happy anniversary" is quite appropriate but it was two months ago today that DH had his radical cystectomy. The operation was long, the hospital stay was borderline horrific and there were times when I thought we'd never figure out how to get his appliance to stay on and his diarrhea would never end. All of those problems are in the past and the future looks pretty good.