Oh man, I feel so dumb.
Now that I work from home it was easy to check. I just drove it around the neighborhood for 5 min to make sure it's warm (last ran 6 hours ago) and checked it while running.
I feel both bad and good:
It is REALLY low!!! - so I feel bad that I've been driving it like that (ignorant of the proper way to check the tranny dipstick
), and I feel good that this is probably the whole issue and it should be easily fixed (I hope) with a couple o' quarts of Dextron III.
Thanks EVERYONE!!!!! And I'll keep you posted. I have to go pick up my daughter soon so I'll take her w/ me to the store to get some ATF.