Need to whine
Ok, in the last 10 days I've:
- got rear-ended in a hit-n-run
- found out it will take 3 weeks to get the car fixed
- because my SUV was at the shop, I couldn't spend my week's vacation hiking, camping, kayaking and biking, because the rental car I was given is so tiny I can't fit things in it or carry what I need. So my vacation was ruined
- the cost of fixing the 6 year old car with 100,000 miles on it is *slightly* less than its value, so it will be fixed and not replaced.
- found out my neck is so screwed up, I may never be able to play hockey again.
- Lost my credit card while dealing with the police over the car accident
- Had the iOS upgrade screw up my phone for a week. Still having trouble getting voicemails
- have to get a new roof
- have to get a new chimney
- and now I discovered that I have a nest of yellow jackets living in my wall. Bees and wasps scare the crap out of me!
I'm trying really hard to see the bright side - I didn't die in the accident and neither did anyone else. I've got a second opinion scheduled on my neck in a week. The vaca sucked but at least I got some time off. I can manage the cost of the roof even if it depletes my emergency fund, and put off the chimney till I can afford it. The phone is mostly fixed now. And so long as the yellow jackets don't chew their way thru the wall before it gets colder out, I should be ok, as the cold will kill them off, and they rarely return to an old nest in the spring.
The bright side is not helping.
I am not feeling resilient, I am not feeling optimistic, and I am not feeling grateful that things aren't worse. I feel grim and defeated.
I know it will get better, but I'm ready for that to happen any time now.
/whining
- got rear-ended in a hit-n-run
- found out it will take 3 weeks to get the car fixed
- because my SUV was at the shop, I couldn't spend my week's vacation hiking, camping, kayaking and biking, because the rental car I was given is so tiny I can't fit things in it or carry what I need. So my vacation was ruined
- the cost of fixing the 6 year old car with 100,000 miles on it is *slightly* less than its value, so it will be fixed and not replaced.
- found out my neck is so screwed up, I may never be able to play hockey again.
- Lost my credit card while dealing with the police over the car accident
- Had the iOS upgrade screw up my phone for a week. Still having trouble getting voicemails
- have to get a new roof
- have to get a new chimney
- and now I discovered that I have a nest of yellow jackets living in my wall. Bees and wasps scare the crap out of me!
I'm trying really hard to see the bright side - I didn't die in the accident and neither did anyone else. I've got a second opinion scheduled on my neck in a week. The vaca sucked but at least I got some time off. I can manage the cost of the roof even if it depletes my emergency fund, and put off the chimney till I can afford it. The phone is mostly fixed now. And so long as the yellow jackets don't chew their way thru the wall before it gets colder out, I should be ok, as the cold will kill them off, and they rarely return to an old nest in the spring.
The bright side is not helping.
I am not feeling resilient, I am not feeling optimistic, and I am not feeling grateful that things aren't worse. I feel grim and defeated.
I know it will get better, but I'm ready for that to happen any time now.
/whining