I found an entry from my old blog about the day that Lolla (my old car) died:

Lolla’s gone. On Wednesday I was driving home and the engine was clanking so I pulled over to check the engine while it was running and the engine was literally clanking up & down with a valve coming off. I got my sidekick out and scrolled down & up on my AIM buddy list to see if there’s any boys out there at RIT that know stuff about cars. Seriously there’s almost none? except troy, but he had class. I ended up paging Tyler at work and he came to my rescue. We left my car there and went home and waited for the tow truck to come and tow it to get a diagnostic test and see how much it’d cost to repair. They called my dad and said it’d cost $4,000 to fix. So goodbye Lolla.

I talked with my parents on Friday night and told them I wanted 3 things back from Lolla. 1. Gas, I just filled Lolla up the day before she died. 2. My wipers, I just bought new ones last week. 3. My all weather tires. So I’m going back to see Lolla 1 more time tomorrow to get my license plate off (Arizona represent!!) & my wipers.

Soon it’ll be 2 years since I’ve had Zella (my car) and I’m ready to give her up. Zella has been acting more & more like Tigger lately – bouncing like crazy because of the struts that needs to be replaced. We’ve decided we’re not spending more money on Zella & won’t be replacing the struts. We’re hoping to buy a new car sometime early next year. Until then I’ll be bouncin’ (hopefully it’s not that obvious to other drivers).