murphy's law

[litanyofdreams]

just in case anyone is wondering about how part three of 'doves' is coming along, I made a list of all the things that have gone wrong in the past two weeks.

• my father took me off of his insurance policy, which means that I currently have no health care or car insurance.
• thelma, my Beretta (the car, not the gun) is currently useless in my driveway because she needs tires and her brakes are going out and I just can't afford either of those things.
• there was a shooting across the street from my best friend's college, after which the shooter fled onto the campus of his school, right ouutside his dorm, and was on the loose for 8 hours.
• the above caused me to leave immediately after work to pick him up from school with my sister (a four hour drive there and a four hour drive back. I didn't do any of the driving, but the whole incident freaked me the fuck out and I didn't feel better until I saw him whole and safe and in person).
• Laptop crashed, leaving me unable to write for two days.
• a surprise $35 in fees showed up on my phone bill out of nowhere, which I also can't afford.
• work has been cutting my hours so that seasonal hires can have more shifts.

those are just the worst of the batch, the things that hit the hardest. and maybe some of them don't even seem that bad because they wouldn't be, on their own. it's the piling up of small things, stacked high and unbalanced, that topples over to create such a mess; that's what stresses me out the most.

I'm working on 'doves', but only when I have enough rest and I'm not too bogged down with work or school, which isn't nearly as often as I would like. I promise, I'm not going to abandon it, okay?

also, I'm outlining a short christmas-ish fic in which blaine is a cobbler's elf who falls for the elegant apprentice, kurt hummel. I don't know either, but I like how it's coming along.

thanks for sticking with me, everyone, I love you all.