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My Life Thus Far
2011-06-23 04:58:48 (UTC)

This Little Life Crisis

Oh goodness, what a day... It started out well enough, but quickly went awry :( Our usual routine on Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's is as follows: I go to the gym (with whatever children come with me. Now that school's out, that means all of them). Snookums gets off work and comes and picks them up and after my workout I go straight to work at Haselwood. I should have known when Snookums came into the gym in uniform something was up. I was sitting in the sauna and one of the guys in there with me said "isn't that your husband?" I catch up with him and the first thing he says to me is "Paula won't start". Oh shit. I knew this day was going to come...

I didn't have time to deal with it at that point. I had to shower and go to work. Snookums drove me in the RAV and we left the Impala in the Bremerton Y parking lot. All I could think about at work was what could possibly be wrong with the Impala. Thankfully, I was booked solid, so I didn't have too much time to dwell on it, until the last 30 minutes. I had nothing to do. Of course I seemed distracted, so one of my coworkers asked me what was wrong and I told him what was going on. He thinks it's either the battery or the alternator. I thought it was the battery and I don't know what an alternator is, but either way I hope he's right. Either one would be a simple enough fix.

After I got off, Snookums came and picked me up and we headed back to the Bremerton Y to jump "Paula". It worked! She started up no problem and we got her home, but a couple hours later when I checked to see if she had held the charge, she hadn't. I knew it was just a matter of time before something went wrong with that car. I've been driving the hell out of it for 7 years. It has over 120,000 miles. Something is bound to go wrong at some point. That point has come. Ugh. Tomorrow is my birthday and I get to spend it getting our vehicle back in working order. Awesome. Sometimes being an adult just sucks ass. I try to be positive as much as possible, but sometimes life makes it difficult.

I'm going to do my best to get through this little life crisis in as calm and collected a manner as possible. It's not the end of the world. Thankfully, our schedules make living with only one vehicle do-able if that's what has to happen for awhile. This too shall pass...




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