If it's not one thing, it's another

This morning, as I backed out of my driveway, the temperature light on my dash started flashing and beeping at me (very annoying!). I didn't think anything of it since the temperature guage on my dash was still at the lowest reading. I just figured it was an electrical issue and that it would go away on its own. Well, it did...only to reappear about 2 minutes later. This time, though, it stayed on. And as it beeped and flashed at me, the temperature guage crept ever closer to the maximum reading. ARGH! Here I was, driving down Westheimer at 7AM, with my baby girl in the back, panicking and hoping that I could just make it to Bella's daycare.

Of course, as luck would have it, I managed to catch just about every light on Westheimer. I also managed to get stuck behind a school bus that was picking up kiddos, so every time it stopped, I had to stop, too! Oh yeah...and a light was out at Old Farm and Westheimer. You have got to be kidding me, right?

Steam is steadily rolling out of my car by the time I pulled up at Bella's daycare. I park my car, turn it off, and I swear it looked like I was in a Cheech and Chong movie: there was thick, heavy steam just pouring out of my car! Ugh!

I manage to make it to the repair shop which, thankfully, is right next door to Bella's daycare. What started off as a cracked casing (fluid reservoir) turned into a broken fan and then a broken thermostat. YUCK! I knew when the repairman called me to tell me it was *only* going to be $130 to fix my car that it had to be too easy. VW's are notorious for expensive repairs and I've never had a repair job that cost less than $500! Well...this repair job was no different.