A novella featuring a day in which nothing goes well and everything is wrong, perfectly capping off two bad weeks.

( All of this might as well happen )

It turns out that I also have a cut on my left forearm that's 1 3/4 inches long from falling down passing out that I didn't start feeling until this morning and has been hurting and annoying me ever since.

My car's "check engine" light came on again late this afternoon, only two weeks after the last time despite me driving much less and not ( Read more... )

Today my 17 and a half-year-old car's timing belt and water pump blew. Age-related. I wasn't far from home when it happened and was able to drive it, making scary noises and leaving a trail of fluid, to the service station. My mechanic gave me the news that it's a difficult and laborious thing to fix, requiring the mechanics to take the whole front ( Read more... )

I got Civic's overheating problem fixed, though it's $525.35 added to the $800+ I spent on front wheels/axle-related stuff in April. I need my car to stop breaking important, expensive stuff for several months though ( Read more... )

It was a dark and stormy night. Sorry, couldn't resist ( Read more... )

The whole left side of my body seems to be in revolt and getting nostalgic about past health issues. The ankle is getting better, but my left arm and shoulder have been getting bad out of nowhere. It'd get better, it'd get worse, and in the last two weeks there's been enough "worse" that I'm finally doing the official medical gauntlet to figure out ( Read more... )

Three and a half weeks after spraining my left ankle, I took a 2.34 mile walk through my neighborhood today with an ankle brace on, no podiatric boot or cane, because I was feeling like a sloth from all the keeping off my feet I've had to do recently. I had some pain at times, though sometimes that's just from the brace, and some occasions when I ( Read more... )

I went to my general practitioner Monday and got X-Rays done Tuesday on my left ankle. No X-ray results yet. It doesn't feel like it's broken, but my roommate said she fractured a bone once and didn't notice. The doctor, before X-rays, says it's a sprain with hematoma. The bruising is horrific and there's still a lot of swelling, but it doesn't ( Read more... )

Wednesday I called the Paragon Honda salesman to see if any new used cars came in that I'd like, and he said the only two in my price range are SUVs, which he knows I'm not interested in. Also, if they're SUVs at that price they must be old or really beat up. It turns out the two cars I'd already nixed are still around, but I nixed them for good ( Read more... )

It's amazing how no one wants to sell me cars. I didn't go to Paragon yesterday because my head was exploding, making me unsafe to drive. I called to let the salesman know and that I'd try to tomorrow, now today ( Read more... )