Yesterday
We cleaned out our white minivan thoroughly, to take it over to Decatur to get a new engine put in. We drove both vehicles to Huntsville, where the blue 15-passenger van's oil pump gave up. We pulled into a Taco Bell parking lot, and had a snack while waiting for my mom-in-law (on her birthday, no less!) to come up and drive with us the rest of the way to Decatur and then bring us back home. The blue van is now at my inlaws' house, where Robby had it towed, and he is in the process of trying to get the parts and such to fix it. So while we are currently carless, theoretically by the end of next week we should have one working blue van and one practically brand-new white minivan.
In the meantime, I really SHOULD work more in my bedroom... sigh.