We’re new home owners?

Today Fred and I got the keys to our new home!! Should be exciting right but it wasn’t the idyllic “new home” turn key moment that I imagined… Instead of owning our home out right we are currently renting the home that we are buying because not all the paper work has been completed, we’re in a long line of other folks just like us not to mention that at the end of the month we’ll have no place to stay since we gave our notice at our current home. I want to just spew negative thoughts here however I feel if I do so I can never take them back thus having them out in the cosmos to come back to me at any point so… I’ll take a deep breath and keep the positive chi going. *Lynn should be proud of me.

The 5 dollar car is no longer

Today I got the news that my little white car is “totaled”. I took it to the auto body shop today and the dude didn’t even want to look at it. With the current state of the house being in limbo I may just be carless for a while. Good times, not to mention that I was almost done paying off my car… now I may have to get into another car with another payment. Could this be a blessing in disguise?

In my current mood, which is bitchy, I want to just have a hissy fit. So I ask all who read this please keep the positive thoughts / prayers going.  Right now I need them…

Down but not out, as I am being critiqued by my husband. Yes it still drives but never the less it’s not like it once was and driving on a doughnut is no fun. Neither is driving 30 mph in a 40 zone and getting flipped off, but I’m dealing. So here’s what happens (back story first so you get the title joke).

My boss has a huge ass truck, which she needs to run her property but she’s not always accurate with parking. One such occassion she almost took out my car but in her angst about parking she says “well if some one knew how to park their 5 dollar car…” and I look at her - laughing - “THAT’S MY CAR!!” That’s how my little car got it’s loving title.

As of yesterday… *sniff* she may be no more. I know that’s dramatic but I don’t know what is in store for my car. The damage is pretty significant to the back passenger door and tire. Fred was so sweet, he drove to meet me the minute I called and told him I was in a wreck.

As we were sitting in the parking lot of the AMPM (with the police) my tire began to deflate at a rapid rate. So when were released by the police with our reports in hand, Fred and I went to the in-laws to fix up the car. Steve -Fred’s dad - said that if the frame is damaged they’ll claim the car as a loss and total it. I’m torn between that being cool and that being a total drag as I love my car. We have a bond and I’m only about 1k away from paying it off. While Fred and his dad were changing the tire it began to pour and the massive collision left the door open at that top about 1 inch so Steve came up with a solution… however white trash… but solution none the less.

Nice huh? Don’t worry… I didn’t drive like that home.