My Stud Husband and Other Random Thoughts

Yes, my husband is amazing. I love him for many reasons, but one of them is that smart engineering mind of his. :) Our Altima recently started having some problems. It started randomly dying, but it wasn't the alternator, which we replaced a few years ago. Anyway, it totally died as Jeremy was going to work a few weeks ago, so we had to get it towed to a mechanic (which luckily our insurance covered). They couldn't figure out what was wrong, so Jeremy got a friend to help him tow it behind his friend's truck to the dealer. They said it needed a new ignition switch (or cylinder or something like that, I obviously know nothing about cars) and said it was going to be like $600 dollars or something. Well, Jeremy said "pshh, I can fix that" even though he had never done it before.

So he got that same friend to tow it back to our house ($0) and I checked out the "Nissan Altima Repair Manual" from the library (also $0) and sure enough, Jeremy figured it out. We found the part online for FORTY dollars (can you believe dealerships?) and Jeremy got to work figuring it out. I love this man! He is his father's son. :) So last Saturday he finished it and it only took him a few hours altogether. He had to get a couple other little tools, but all in all I think it only cost us about $65 rather than $600 (of course, plus the $100 the dealership charged for telling us what was wrong; lame). I love saving money! I am all about figuring stuff out on my own and shopping around and around to save a dime, so I am glad my hubby is the same way. We took it to get the state safety & emissions inspection yesterday to renew our registration and the guy said everything looks great and nothing is wrong. Woohoo! Thanks Jeremy for being such a handyman!Some other random thoughts I've had the past couple days:

• I wasn't really feeling in the Christmas mood yet, even though I usually get really excited for it way too early. Anyway, so I wasn't really feeling it until we were at the mall of all places last night. Everything was so decked out (at least at JC Penney, which was the only place we went) and they had Christmas music playing and it was so festive! So now I'm ready.
• My ward choir was AMAZING today! I am so proud (or pleased, I should say) of them. We sang the beautiful "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need" arr. by Mack Wilberg and they did so well. Their sound was more blended than I've heard in awhile and they had beautiful dynamics and vowels and most importantly a beautiful spirit. I had 2 fabulous ladies play the flute with it too and it was so beautiful! I got a lot of compliments, so I hope we can live up to that with our Christmas music!
• I'm so excited for THANKSGIVING! We are going to my sister Amy's house up in Nampa, ID and I'm really excited. I know I was talking about Christmas and it isn't even Thanksgiving yet, but I love Thanksgiving. I was telling Jeremy yesterday that it's one of the best holidays ever because you get the amazing food, you get days off, you usually get together with other people (friends/family) but you don't have the stress of buying gifts. Gifts really stress me out because I am so not a gift person. I'd be fine if everyone agreed not to do gifts ever, but I know a lot of people are really into gifts, so I get stressed making sure I give thoughtful enough gifts because I don't naturally think much about them! Ahh! It's rough.

Anyway, that's what's been on my mind lately. I know I said I would be a better blogger and then I went over a week with nada, so I really will try to improve this week. We're doing great though! Thanks for reading...