February 19, 2026 - Thursday


Today ended with absolute bullshit. But it started well, at least! We went to CACH this morning and class went great. Haha mostly because half of my kids were out sick! It was wonderful. There were only five of us and it was so chill and so nice. We made rainsticks and had a great time. Then I went to help with the self-defense class and she actually let them do physical stuff today! I got to encourage the kids to hit me as hard as they could while I blocked 😅. A little nerve-wracking and slightly painful, but fun for them! We headed home after group and I had to leave in the next five minutes to get to the car appt. 

So. The car appointment. I have been operating over the last week thinking that nothing was actually wrong with the car; that some electronic thing malfunctioned and they just needed to turn it off, then back on. I dropped the car off and went into the waiting room. It took suspiciously long. Hours and hours of sitting in the waiting room with no update, just wondering what the heck is going on. Finally, the representative guy comes out and blows my mind by showing me pictures of this enormous nest in my engine and a big old wire chewed through! I was absolutely shocked. I guess I shouldn't have been, but I really didn't believe anything was actually wrong! Then, he shows me the freaking bill for this chewed through engine harness: $6,321 for a repair. It felt like the floor dropped out from under me. What the heck am I supposed to do with a bill like that??? Is that what everyone would charge? Is this just another example of Kia being insane and charging insane prices for small issues? The guy told me that my insurance should cover it and they would give me a loaner while we get it all figured out, so I call Ben and he's absolutely floored too. I call dad and he tells me that it is actually a really expensive repair, so I take the loaner home. I just am so in shock still. It feels like I could get a new freaking car for 6k, honestly. I skipped cell and filed the claim tonight. Just going to wait to hear back from them about it and keep my fingers crossed that we're not stuck with the entirety of this incredibly high bill. I am so angry. I want to kill every squirrel within a square mile of my house. 

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