… you know… the ones that promise that to delete them ensures a sudden and long series of bad luck?
I must have trashcanned one too many.
We are starting this new year with a … well… overabundance of expensive and extremely inconvenient occurrences. Eldest moves home - good, she’s safe, we can feel more close again as family, she can save a bit of cash, gather her ducks, so to speak, but her car breaks down, while she still has to drive to old job; then our car breaks down, so both are in shop and we’re borrowing a friend’s car, those both get repaired and all are returned to proper owners, life is good… for a day…; cat (same one that nearly died a couple of years ago from an apparent eagle attack), shows up with another hole in his neck; other friends’ decade plus marriage ends abruptly; comfort friend and help him get his ducks in a row; cat is doctored; eldest still has ten days of work before she can quit driving an hour and a half every day, but is relaxing back into family, more pleasant to deal with; middle is talking about moving even farther away; his girlfriend has some serious ‘issues’; i make appointment to spend some time with him for tomorrow; his work changes his schedule so he works tomorrow … dad goes out this morning to go to work… now our car has apparently shot it’s fuel pump … can I just say, “&@^!%$^#*!”?
Is that why the stupid Amazon parrot at work bit me hard enough to draw blood on Saturday - the same day I had to work a 10-hour shift due to the other cashier calling in sick!
That’s why I have 3 bicycles, a car and a scooter. Out of all those at least one should work. There’s always the bus, too, and the cell phone (please come get me!)
Got bicycles, but we’re out in the boonies, down a mile of dirt/gravel, 5 miles of steep hills from the nearest town and 15-35 miles from DH’s clients. And it’s 20 degrees F. Plus, computers don’t travel all that well on the back of a bicycle. Bus?!? Ha! It is to laugh!
Luckily, we have a couple of friends who have vehicles we can borrow occasionally… it’s the definition of ‘occasionally’ that is getting troublesome.
We’ll get through it. We always do. But it just gets so exhausting. At least we had a way to get to session and band practice tonight. Missed the last 4 weeks due to holidays and weather.
ah well.. I don’t mean to just whine… It could be worse.
… at least we have a roof that doesn’t leak, enough money for food, wood for the stove, hot and cold running water (I promise not to go into the details of the ‘fun’ we’re having in that vein right now), are all still in pretty good health, we have more than one pair of shoes per person, and everybody’s still speaking.
