Okay.
So, a few weeks back (on father's day, actually), Buru broke down. The engine gave out while i was on the highway, though thankfully I managed to get her to the shoulder before she stopped running. We had her towed, arranged the have a place run a diagnostic on her, and went to spend the rest of the day with the family/borrow Tom's jeep to get back and forth to work till we got Buru back. (Tom had been having issues with his z3, but fortunately it seems he got that to work shortly after we took the jeep)
The next day we got a call that told us Buru's engine had locked up and the repairs would be $5000+. So, yeah...no way we can afford that, nor can the parents help with THAT much so...mrf. The call came at work :/ but we're rather isolated in our cubical, so no problem with people seeing us. We cried a bit--mostly Diz, but then we got it together and moved on with work and shite. Had to wait for the father to think on things before we could do anything about it, so just waited.
Found out I handle things like this a hell of a lot better than Diz did but...that's not really saying much. Also found out that when we actually HAVE a real source of stress that might lead to being depressed...we're mostly fine. Dude, seriously? I had been going months being horribly depressed for none reason other than chemical shit (especially around cycle time xP), but when we had a reason to be depressed it didn't weight on us much. It makes no sense ><
finally paid for the diagnostic and cleaned her out today. didn't get to talk to the father until last saturday, so we didn't want to do anything with her before then (and also horribly lazy), so it waited. Also called some place that will buy junk cars to sell her there, though now we have to wait till they call back to arrange her being towed.
Yeah, it kinda hurt to go and clean her out. She was a good car, despite the issues and that we didn't take nearly as good care of her as we should have. I'll miss her.
Right now we're still borrowing the father's jeep (though we dislike big cars) and sorta looking for another car. (I keep getting sidetracked by cool cars on craigslist, lol.) Not sure what we're gonna do about that, since we only make about $165 a week (before taxes and, now, insurance), and this doesn't even cover full bills. (Most of them, but the parents are paying for rent, though I'd rather be able to do it ourselves.) I STILL can't find another fucking job, either to supplement this job or to just replace it. Will have to figure out stuff with Tom, since we'd have to borrow money from him anyway (he said he might sell us the jeep, but i'd really rather something else.)
And we've got Ikasucon in early August...which is in the next state over, so really would like to have a car by then ^^; mrf. rather annoyed at it, but not depressed (sad sometimes, sure, but not really bad or anything that lasts). kinda worried, but not much i can do right now. we'll talk to tom again after we get money from selling buru and try to look at things then.
or something.
lately have found fanmade digimon v-pet program things. they is fun :D just sit there and raise them...the one i'm using now lets you run more than one at a time, so we have to keep us (okay, me) from opening too many. (hee, it makes little id cards for them)
also dug out or d-gather and have been playing with that some at work. found the d-arc, but the buttons don't work so well (it is pretty old), and can't find the d-accels. ah well.
oh, yeah. cancled school due to money issues. also canceling trip to st louis, but that's not so big since i never talked to anyone about arranging things >>;
The next day we got a call that told us Buru's engine had locked up and the repairs would be $5000+. So, yeah...no way we can afford that, nor can the parents help with THAT much so...mrf. The call came at work :/ but we're rather isolated in our cubical, so no problem with people seeing us. We cried a bit--mostly Diz, but then we got it together and moved on with work and shite. Had to wait for the father to think on things before we could do anything about it, so just waited.
Found out I handle things like this a hell of a lot better than Diz did but...that's not really saying much. Also found out that when we actually HAVE a real source of stress that might lead to being depressed...we're mostly fine. Dude, seriously? I had been going months being horribly depressed for none reason other than chemical shit (especially around cycle time xP), but when we had a reason to be depressed it didn't weight on us much. It makes no sense ><
finally paid for the diagnostic and cleaned her out today. didn't get to talk to the father until last saturday, so we didn't want to do anything with her before then (and also horribly lazy), so it waited. Also called some place that will buy junk cars to sell her there, though now we have to wait till they call back to arrange her being towed.
Yeah, it kinda hurt to go and clean her out. She was a good car, despite the issues and that we didn't take nearly as good care of her as we should have. I'll miss her.
Right now we're still borrowing the father's jeep (though we dislike big cars) and sorta looking for another car. (I keep getting sidetracked by cool cars on craigslist, lol.) Not sure what we're gonna do about that, since we only make about $165 a week (before taxes and, now, insurance), and this doesn't even cover full bills. (Most of them, but the parents are paying for rent, though I'd rather be able to do it ourselves.) I STILL can't find another fucking job, either to supplement this job or to just replace it. Will have to figure out stuff with Tom, since we'd have to borrow money from him anyway (he said he might sell us the jeep, but i'd really rather something else.)
And we've got Ikasucon in early August...which is in the next state over, so really would like to have a car by then ^^; mrf. rather annoyed at it, but not depressed (sad sometimes, sure, but not really bad or anything that lasts). kinda worried, but not much i can do right now. we'll talk to tom again after we get money from selling buru and try to look at things then.
or something.
lately have found fanmade digimon v-pet program things. they is fun :D just sit there and raise them...the one i'm using now lets you run more than one at a time, so we have to keep us (okay, me) from opening too many. (hee, it makes little id cards for them)
also dug out or d-gather and have been playing with that some at work. found the d-arc, but the buttons don't work so well (it is pretty old), and can't find the d-accels. ah well.
oh, yeah. cancled school due to money issues. also canceling trip to st louis, but that's not so big since i never talked to anyone about arranging things >>;