2 posts tagged “car”
My mother just returned from visiting my brother and his family. They've got four boys under the age of 8. I get tired just thinking about it. She booked the flight ages ago during a seat sale.
My sister and her husband are going to Daytona for two weeks tomorrow. They share a condo with her husband's brother's family. She really looks forward to it. I hope the weather is good while they're there.
I've often wondered what a vacation would be like. I suspect my husband could use one right about now. He's never had one either. The likelihood of it ever happening are zero at this point. The most immediate issue being a POS car that we've got to get running again.
Apparently I jumped the gun when I said it was headed for the junk heap. It didn't make it that far yet. There seems to be some hope of reviving the patient but I think that's overly optimistic. Oh I'm sure it can be done. But a transmission for the POS is 3800$. Which is more that it is worth. Which is more than it was ever worth. Have I mentioned I hate this fucking car? Because I do.
DH [that's short for dear husband for those who aren't familiar] is tired, irritable and stressed. He has a lot on his mind. Which is why I can forgive him for being a total ass this evening. But he turns tired and cranky into "You always" or "You never " or he'll find a reason to use his favorite phrase "You know what? Fuck it!". Usually followed by him breaking something and pretending not to care. Like we don't have enough broken computer parts stacked from end to end of the apartment already.
The cat is waiting for me to go to bed. She likes to flop down next to me or on her climbing post and make impatient noises every five minutes. She knows it's time. She's waiting for me to go to the kitchen and put her night time snack in the bowl. She also knows DH is in bed so it's time I was going as well.
I don't sleep well. Neither does he. I expect we both need to get more exercise but that's true anyway. I also grind my teeth at night. I've been doing it since I was a child. It's always given me problems but now it's beginning to take a toll on my teeth. I've lost one and am in danger of losing another. I'm breaking them. Do you believe that? The dentist asked why no one had done anything about it when I was a child. Good question doc. I do recall my parents getting after me a few times. They didn't like the weird noises I made in my sleep. Apparently you could hear it all over the house. I've often wondered what that would sound like.
I guess the cat has waited long enough. Come on cat. Let's eat.
And nothing much has changed.
Or everything has. Depends on how you look at it.
We're down to one chinchilla, one cat and one guinea pig and the guinea pig isn't feeling well. After Bandit we lost Skeeter and Gizmo. A mated pair of chins. The female passed after some illness and her little mate simply could not live without her. He died a week later. Very sad indeed.
The war in the middle east is ongoing. The US military is all but spent and so is the treasury but that's ok with the reslug dictatorship that runs the place like their daddy's business. I wouldn't care so much but they're like a neighboring willow that has it's tentacle roots wrapped around our own, strangling us slowly. It's very much a "If we go down we're taking you with us" kind of relationship now.
It's been more than obvious that our government was bought and paid for by 'merkan reslugs ages ago. Piglet harper and his porcine posse have yet to force Canada into a major commitment in the middle east but they are still playing the public with that bullshit about how our soldiers are "Peace Keepers". Yeah. Show me how you keep peace in the middle of a war zone?
We get it. It's the best lie you could bother to come up with.
Fuck you too.
We've been to the states twice to visit. It's usually a major health crisis that sends us flying down there. This time was no different. DH's mom gave us her old car. That was nice of her. She can't drive any more so she thought we could use it. It made it all the way back here and then promptly died. We scraped the money together to get it going again only to have it fall to pieces two weeks later.
I'm glad it's getting warmer now. At least it won't be freezing cold while we're walking. For a while.
Gas is hovering at $1.30/L. depending on where you buy it and the warm weather is only just upon us. I can imagine it will go a lot higher once the summer travel season is upon us. The result of that being no travel for most. We'll be lucky if they continue to truck to retail outlets if it gets much worse. There are already problems with the supply line due to the fuel crisis. Then there's Monsanto and it's seed empire and the fact that some idiots want to replace all our food crops with corn for totally inviable biodiesel.
You'll forgive me if I lack optimism.
But I do not welcome neofeudalism. Where we're all just serfs to the global megamarkets and their owners.
In a previous post I remarked that I was going to ignore the rest of the world and focus on my own reality. Not an easy task I will tell you. In fact it's pretty much impossible. But I suspect I could do without most of the propaganda spew that is blasted at me daily via TV. So I have stopped watching it almost altogether.
My husband and I do have some shows we enjoy but we both find the commercials and constant interruptions so offensive that we simply can't bear to watch any more. So we download all our viewing material and avoid the rest. No news, no commercials and other than the questionable viewing we choose, no crap.
I have to say it has helped.
I recommend it to everyone. I'm not missing a thing. Anything I'm that desperate to see I can find on Youtube any way.
I have no idea if I'll maintain this blog any better than I ever have. So I might be back tomorrow and I might be back sometime next year.
Either way I've got to go now. I've got to try and find the cash to get the POS car towed to a junk heap. It really is painful losing your only means of transportation but I'll be glad to be rid of the bloody miserable thing.
