Because that’s just how life seems sometimes.
Basically, we made it to August before having to spend money from savings. Over a week ago we had to fork over a lot of money for health insurance because ours expired at the very end of July. That wasn’t too horrible, but I knew in the back of my mind that this left us very little in our savings and usually that’s just an open door for more money troubles to come our way.
Ahem.
So Saturday morning, the morning of Teresa’s wedding, we are driving to run some errands… We are almost to Wal-mart and the truck starts acting stupid. We end up making it back to campus, where I was going to run, and Gray proceeds to call my brother and his dad. Thirty minutes later I’m halfway through my 4 mile run but decide to quit and we make it home. See, we were supposed to go to Teresa’s wedding Saturday afternoon and we had to make arrangements for Trina to come get us instead of meeting at her apartment. Stupid truck.
On the way to the wedding, Gray is talking to my brother and they work out a deal on a car my brother has. For only $300 he will fix it up for us and get it running. There goes our savings. The next day we wired the money to him and got a friend to take us to Wal-mart where we bought a bike for me.
Monday morning we leave the house at 5:30 on said bikes and ride all the way to campus. I complained the first few minutes about the bike seat and the fact that I was sweating… AT 5:30 IN THE MORNING. When we got to school, I mapped the route out on dailymile.com and yes… 2 miles and some change… crazy. I can see how it’s a good workout and better for us, but it’s just so humid and hot outside that it’s torture!
We rode our bikes to work for the entire week and I must say, it ended up being alright. I did trade with Gray and used his bike until Thursday when we got me a new bike seat. However, that was rather rough and we ended up returning my bike and got another one, similar to what Gray already had. I rode it on Friday and was well pleased, haha.
We do have the car and it works, but has the “check engine” light on… and that is a whole spew of problems in itself. We’re taking it in tomorrow to be looked at because the tags expire in September and apparently the car will automatically fail the emissions test if the light is on, regardless of whether or not it’s an actual emissions problem… great, I know. The car itself is not worth putting a lot of work into it so I imagine that if it’s too much money we might just sell it back to my brother because he can use it back home without passing an emissions test. ugh I hate grown up problems.
We’re actually starting to shop around for another car because that was what the plan was for this fall, get me a car so that I can drive to clinicals in the spring.
So yeah, a lot is going on and to top it all off I have a dentist appointment on Tuesday that I might have to cancel. My eye twitch has returned, I’m pretty sure it is stress related and so I need to work on getting rid of all this stress in a better way.
