Four trips to Gaylord and about a thousand bucks in the hole, but I was finally able to get the van home today. We left right after I got out of work and I was so relieved when I turned the key and the engine turned over. The tension didn't really ease off though until I got about 10 miles out of town and the van continued to run even when I kicked it up to 60mph. This whole fiasco has been such a major source of stress, but I'm glad that it's all over now and things can start to fall back into the normal routine - starting tomorrow of course. Right now I still feel a little out of sync. It's nine o'clock at night and I am still in my work clothes! (That is something that just never should happen.) The living room is a little trashed right now too. Kevin is playing an acoustic gig at Chief's tomorrow night so his PA equipment is strewn all over the living room floor. But it isn't really bothering me, he has to make sure it's all in good working order - better safe than sorry. It's just a good thing that we got the van back today; there is no way that he could have hauled all this equipment over there without it.

In any case, my world is mostly back in order and I know for sure that I'll be spending some quality time with myself this weekend. Giving myself a 'girly spa day' is well overdue!