Well, it's certainly been a while since I last posted here, eh? Not much has changed, to be perfectly honest.

I'm just declaring today Murphey's Law day. I get up, I get ready to meet my grams and everyone for lunch... my car breaks down. I call the cops to let them know, they call a tow truck... I really thought it was just because I ran out of gas (the gas gauge in the car is a bit wonky). We get to the gas station... and that wasn't the problem. The guy towing me takes me to Monroe and, thank the gods, only charges me 45.00. Originally when the police call them it's 200.00 + 4.00 a mile.

Because I wasn't freaking out or a bitch he only charged me the 45.00.

I just hope my car can be fixed. Ugh..

~*[update]*~

Okay, so James, my car, is still in the shop. It was the fuel pump or distributor like they originally thought, but the garage did find some leaks that were causing some problems. It's been decided that it's the computer in the car that's causing it to muck up.

So I relay this info to my big brother... which I got the car from. His response? He called me an idiot because I clearly should have known better than to leave my car at their shop (my James that would not budge a bloody fucking inch down the road despite my begging and pleading). Okay... I promptly told him bye and haven't called him since. Yea... one of the things that tends to really upset me is someone calling me an idiot when I know what I'm doing or I know I have no other choice but to do that. "Oh, but you could have had it towed home." Yea, uh-huh, riiiiight. Like I have extra money lying around to get it towed AGAIN. The 45.00 I gave the mechanic was all I had left. Period. Luckily I did get paid that day, but that money went toward bills and my student loan.

So, James is still in daycare, and I need to buy him a computer. Joy. I can't even get myself a new one.

~*[update numba 2]*~

Okay, I've just found out I need to write James off as dead. I got an estimate from the dealership on how much it would cost to look at it and, because it's the wiring and it'll take sooooo long I'm looking at $200.00. I'm just gonna have my brother tow it to my gramma's and figured out something from there.

So, I'm out a car, out of a lot of money (at least I can refund the comp), and kinda (very) upset. I'm gonna start working on my demo reel again (I put it on hold due to life), and see about getting a light table and some animation paper. Maybe I can get someone to fix the charging port on my laptop so I can use it so I don't lose my programs.

I'm looking into getting a used car... though I may just bite the bullet and see how much monthly payments on a new car will be. Goddess knows I can barely make ends meet right now, but, hell, if I can live off of 100.00/month in food in college I can do it here, and I don't want to inherit someone else's problems with used car.