Crap
OK so we all have those times in our lives where crap happens... well this week has been one of those times for us. Its nothing drastic really... our health isnt in jeopardy, we have a roof over our head and so on. It was our car... it pretty much went crazy and the end result was us forking out a fair bit of cash to get it fixed. It was pretty stressful for the past few days... not sure what to do... get it repaired, trade it in, sell it... we had so many people telling us what to do and so much advice coming at us we just really ended up confused. In the end every option we had was going to be a gamble in some way... and I think we have made the best decision we could as far as what we could afford to do and what we knew to do. Some times I guess you just have to hope everything turns out ok and have a little faith in your decision.
This is going to have flow on effects naturally... our plans to get a second car in the near future are now completely out the window. Im not sure that I will be able to get my licence before the kids go back to school... depends on how much thats going to cost. And then when I do get my licence we have one car... making it difficult because Rod works so far away its not fesable for me to drive him to work.
But we have come up with a plan... Rod has decided that he will catch the train to work! So this is a positive because not only does it mean I will get the car to run the kids around etc but his train fare each week is going to be way less than what he is now paying in petrol to get to work every week. On top of that we should save money on petrol as well because I wont be doing as much driving as he does now. (mostly short trips to drop the kids at school or dancing). Then add to that the bus fares we will be saving... hopefully we will at the very worst come out even to what we are now... but I am guessing we will come out better off. (And certainly better off than we would be running 2 cars, paying rego, maitence, insurance etc)
So out of something crappy has something good I think.
And here is hoping that we have had our quota of stress and crap for 2008.
Other than that... I got two layouts done today... the light is too crappy right now for pics so will have to take some tomorrow to show off.
So thats todays entry... Im doing well so far this year... lots of blogging getting done!
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