My car is out of commission.

My car has been giving us the red flag for a week or two. It was not getting warmed inside very well. Then Monday it never did warm up at all. Now in some places it might not be such a big deal, but here it was in the negative numbers all the way to work. There was ice on the inside of my windshield as well as the outside. Have you ever tried to scrape the inside? It is shaped wrong to accommodate the scraper and do any good. Luckily there were spots of no ice enough to dodge my vision through to get to where I had to be. On Tuesday my car decided I was not getting the message and just overheated so I had to pull over. Then the Trak phone I keep only for such emergencies had no battery (probably because I keep it in the car and it is too cold for the battery) so I had to get out the charger to try to call my husband. It took three tries but I finally got him and he came to my rescue. Man, I was cold while I waited the 10 minutes it took him to get there. 10 feels like 50 when you are helpless! Well he put some antifreeze in it and it worked till the next morning when I warmed it up for work. It was losing water. So I drove the beater pick-up the remainder of the week. I dislike immensely driving that pick-up. But I'm very glad we have it for a back-up, so I did not have to miss work or make Bob drive me each way, for days.
Let me tell you the background of this beater pick-up. Bob had to have a pick-up for his new job back in 2001. So he went hunting and found a white 1984 Ford cab (pick-up without a bed) in a junkyard for $700 which we felt we could afford. He and his brother got in and started it up and it ran pretty good. We took it home and put a free blue bed on it that did not have a tailgate, shortly we found a brown tailgate to put on it. Pretty, right? Well after a little tuning up he drove it miles and miles without any problems till they had him drive a pick-up they gave him. Then we moved over here and left it parked at the old house as a gate to the garage (where we are storing some of our goods). We started it up 1-2 times a year and then decided to bring it over the mountain to here. I think they did a little work on the brakes but other than that it has not had to have much work at all. So it is a blessing, an ugly beast, but a blessing. Maybe I will have my car back by Wed.-Thurs. It has a gasket leak that takes three days to fix because they have to take it all apart to get to it. Longer because they have to order parts and get them.