I'm doing well this week. I've only used a couple points of my 49 for my weekly lunch with the hubs. I WILL lose weight this week. I will.
Also, I really suck at blogging. I want to be all honest and real with you, but.... I can't keep on topic for more than 5 seconds. Luckily no one really reads my little blog, so I guess it doesn't matter right now. *sigh* so I'll just bounce around.
We bought a washer and dryer yesterday, but it'll be April 24th before it's delivered. I suck at waiting. It's a simple toploading HE washer and matching dryer with autodry functions. Spent $1035 when all was said and done. I wanted something fancier, but I just couldn't justify a fancy HE with all the electronic features for a couple hundred more right now. We probably could have held out indefinitely with the ancient washer/dryer we have now, but my best friend is moving into her first grown up house and needed a washer/dryer. I knew I'd be upgrading soon so I offered her mine. It kinda stuck me in a bind after my car decided to be a bitch, but I can't mess up someone else's plan so I just sucked it up and figured it out.
I've also got a plan to buy myself a new car in September as a birthday present to myself. My car (Champ) hates me for some reason. He was fantastic (okay, there was this one time that his fuel sensor broke and he was almost impossible to drive because his shifting was so jerky and my mom got really mad because my dad made her bring Champ home 2 and a half hours away doing that. That was only $50 when all was said and done though) then, sometime last year he just....broke. The A/C went out. It was the tail end of summer, so I figured I could hold out and get it fixed before next summer. A day later (an hour and a half away from home) the engine just... stopped. I stopped at a stop sign and it died. I restarted it, and it died, I got it start barely enough to coast into a parking spot downtown where I was. I missed class so I could call a tow truck, had to stay with a friend because I couldn't afford to tow it all the way back home and was told they couldn't even FIND what was wrong with it because the A/C belt was locked up and if they forced it to keep running it would snap the belt.... so fix the A/C for $1200 when that may just be one thing that is wrong with it, or.... be up shit creek. My parents paid for the A/C because I was still in college. Luckily, for whatever reason the A/C was the root of all the problems. I even asked my mechanic if it was my fault. Should I have come in when my A/C stopped working? I just thought I could be hot for awhile and still drive the car. His reply was that he'd never seen that happen. Oooookay. Then Champ was okay for a little bit, then he wouldn't start. I spent 30 minutes in a Kohl's parking lot trying to get him started and drove him straight to my mechanic when he did start. I don't even remember what was wrong with him, but something got replaced. $300. Then I take him in to get the brakes pads changed and an oil change. Oh. My. God. The brake pads have squealed since I bought that damn car. I hate them. They continued to tell me they were fine, just noisy. I was paranoid that I wouldn't hear the actual squeal when they needed to be replaced so I made them check them every time I got the oil changed. I saved up some money and finally just told them to change the damn things because I hate them and don't care if they still have enough surface. Well, they resurface the rotors when they change break pads and there wasn't enough surface anymore from previous resurfacing so they would need to be replaced. $300. Oil change $100 (synthetic oil) I had a hydraulic leak on the back breaks. Apparently this is really bad. I could have complete system failure in a day, or it could work for the next 10 years. Should be replaced NOW. My parents had to step in, again, and pay my $680 bill. And that's not all the shit that was wrong! I knew I needed a new pair of tires $300 but there was at least $500 more of work that needs to be done on this car. I'm so done. Between now and September I'll be changing the oil once and then trading in Champ for whatever he's worth (or not worth as the case probably is) and moving on with a NOT BROKEN CAR.
It's not even fair. I'm so nice to my cars. I drive them a lot, but I get the oil changed regularly. I always put the same oil in there. Any time something feels weird I take him to the mechanic. I get the tires changed regularly. And I get fucked.
My husband gets his oil changed like twice a year with non synthetic oil, has needed new tires for over a year, never takes his car in, and probably needs new brakes and his car just RUNS.
The thing that sucks is this car is supposed to be like, the most reliable runs no matter what car. I've had mechanics tell me if I keep taking care of it the way I do it'll run forever.... I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you Champ, but fuck you.
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