the past few days have shown about me. christmas eve i woke up to find jack who had crumpled up my beautiful red phone in his jowls. having lost many of my work contacts, i just sucked it up and said that it would still be a good day.
later that day, still christmas eve, my engine died. and i wanted to. but then, as soon as i said 'God, i can't handle this right now!!' a man came along, kept me warm in his truck, and he called a towing service to come get my car free of charge as a favor to sam. (that was the name of the man who stopped to help me.)
so, then, i was car-less. chris came and picked me up so that i could spend the holiday with my family, and then he drove me back on wednesday for work and i stayed two nights with gina and had her to take me back and forth. then i thought, well, i guess i just need to find a way to get another car. so carl, mom's new friend came and picked me up this morning, where we talked about life and love and things of the heart and mind, and then he brought me home so that i could use the net to browse and seek some options. i called my grandparents to ask them if they would help me and they were very hesitant, so i just said i would try to see what i could do on my own. fact is, i couldn't do anything. with my credit being the way it is, i couldn't be approved for anything and i was just really down and beside myself in desperation. so then i prayed, and i thought about how gina had prayed and how barb had said that she hoped i would find something good.
then chris came home after spending some time with a friend the night before and i told him about what all was happening and how i didn't think i would be able to get a car and i didn't know what other transportation i had available to me. but he said not to worry because shaun was going to be staying with us for a few weeks, so that still left us with two vehicles, and shaun could just take chris to work every day. so, that calmed me down quite a bit. we then decided to go for chris's check at the mall before he had to work (i had the day off) and as we were talking about how things would eventually work out, an elderly woman pulled out in front of us and we t-boned her. completely, 100% her fault, and tore up her passenger-side door, and chris's front of the car was just ruined. it looks so awful. so then we were back to square one where neither of us had transportation and we had to see what shaun would be willing to do. after a police report, two sore necks, a badly bruised knee, and a slow drive back home, we were finished with that awful incident.
so then my dad called and he was with my grandparents and they volunteered to come down and check stuff out with me. and i felt absolutely awful because it was freezing and it was raining and it was just really really gross out. but they came and got me anyway. and we went to the kia dealers. and after a few hours, i drove away with my very own brand new car! it's beautiful and i'm so overwhelmed. and i can't believe that i actually have a dependable car to drive to work every day.
and i didn't realize just how overly stressed i have been the past couple days. the amount of weight that lifted as i drove away with a new car was amazing, and i just feel so tired now. no more adrenaline, no more stressing about how i'm getting to work tomorrow. everything is all okay.
we're taking chris's car into a body shop tomorrow to see how much damage has been done and hopefully we'll be able to get something done for him. i don't know; it's just a really awful situation. it would be one thing had it been his fault, but he just didn't have any control.
what an ordeal, you know?
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