2008

Sorry I have been so scarce lately, work has been crazy hectic.

The other portion of my time seem to be firefighting various issues in my life that I sincerely hope will be coming to an end soon.

Jan 1 - car gets wrecked. I was out of a car for almost two weeks and $500 in deductible.
I was really hoping everything would stop there, but no.

Two weeks ago the chip in my window decided to spread. It has been there for a year with no problems, but I think the cold weather finally got to it. I have not had this fixed yet, though based on the price quotes I received, that will cost $200 - $300 to replace.
Throughout my travels that week, my brakes started pulsing when I would slow down at high speeds, like exiting the expressway. On Thursday of that week, after returning from Fort Wayne my passenger rear door would not close.

Grand total $550 to get me door to close and my brakes fixed.

Last week I was back on the road and driving through a snow storm and I am literally scared to death that anything else will happen to my car to cost me more money. Aha, come to find out, it will not be my car the next time. After noticing a shift in our water pressure, not to mention the obnoxious noise coming from our pump in the basement, our well pump has decided to go out. While we are still okay for now, but that will need to be replaced very soon. The quote on that? You guessed it, another $500. Fortunately, we know a couple of plumbers and will probably be able to get it replaced for $200 - $250.

Lastly, a credit card that was supposed to be settled almost 2 years ago has cropped back up and this 3rd party company who supposedly bought my debt that wasn't supposed to exist now wants $3,000. Do you know how hard it is to research an account that you thought you settled and closed 2 years ago? It is crazy difficult, I have no documentation and only 12 digits of the account from my credit history report. I have been transferred and put on hold so many times that I can't see straight.

On top of $2500 for property taxes, $250 to get my income taxes prepared, and another $200 that I still need to pay for my re-finance closing I am feeling broke and beat up.

Okay, God I get it. Can I please get a break and some big sales to to replenish my savings account now? Sheesh!!!

Back to normal and back on the road

Finally, I feel back to normal today. I was seriously worried that I was going to need to cancel my whole week and stay home, but fortuantely I woke up this morning and felt good.

I am back on the road and currently nestled in Gas City, Indiana. Driving down it was fog off and on due to the warm temperatures. Even at 8:40 PM it is still 42 degrees and supposed to reach the mid - high 50's tomorrow. However, this has also brought major thunderstorms (the radar is bright red, yellow, and green) and a tornado watch until 2 AM. I can't tell you how not excited I am to be in a hotel during a tornado watch, not thrilled at all.

Tomorrow I will continue to take myself north up the east side of Indiana until I am back home on Thursday night just in time to catch Jason's basketball game.

Hate being sick!!!

I returned from Vegas on Monday night feeling fine. Tuesday night I came down with a fever and those flu-like pins and needle feeling all over my body. I took Theraflu and slept 13 hours - 1 great benefit of working from home!! That broke the fever, thank God! However, it is Saturday and the pins and needles still reside in my scalp and back. I can't stop blowing my nose, coughing, or sneezing. With the exception on Thursday night, I have been sleeping between 11 - 13 hours a night and still took a two hour nap this afternoon and yesterday during lunch.

We have even postponed our monthly dinner tonight. Why pay $50 for a meal that I am supposed to review if I am not throughly going to enjoy it.

I am supposed to start traveling again on Tuesday, I am really hope this crud goes away by then.