So I took my kid to the doctor today. She’s not sick or anything, but she’s worried something is not quite right with her. Given that she has a phobia about needles and she’s willing to have blood drawn to make sure there is nothing wrong with her, I figured it would be a good thing to ease her mind. Frankly, I think better eating and exercise habits would solve 80% of her concerns, but what do I know, I’m only the mom.

Anyway, I made her drive home from the doctor’s office. It’s only a couple of miles, but this was the first time she’s driven my car. It’s a bit bigger than the Scion they used for driver’s ed. She was totally nervous. She drove maybe 25 mph on the main drag through town which has a 45 mph posted. She did great. No hitting of anything. I am relieved. I am the only one allowed to put dents in Casper.

Speaking of Casper, I spent way too much time today trying to locate roof racks I can install on him. I even went down to the Toyota dealership in search of answers. The problem being he has a moon roof and rain gutters. All the after market roof racks I have been able to locate say they work on cars WITHOUT rain gutters. I even emailed one place with the question. I don’t think they read my message since the product they recommended also said clearly ‘not suitable for cars with rain gutters.” Grrr.

I did find an after market roof rack for the model but not the year. I emailed to ask if it could be used on Casper’s roof and if not why not. It is the same car, right? Just a newer model. I have a month to get this all set before it is absolutely necessary to have an exterior luggage option. And I thought this would be easy. HA. That’s what I get for thinking.

I have not been able to figure out why my doddle images won’t show up on LJ. I have been over and over all the settings in both word press and my host. I give up. Folks will just have to surf over to my blog to see the doodles. And sadly, the image link goes to a forbidden error page. So much for easy cross-posting options. I guess it’s a week where the easy way isn’t available. Maybe next week will be better. One can always hope.