10 August 2011

Death, and falling into a hole.

My car has died in a most spectacular manner. I've had it since it was new, about 14 years ago and, while we've had a bit of a love/hate relationship, I'm oddly devastated. She's been rough for a while and it didn't exactly surprise me...

...but I didn't expect the wholesale failure of the engine. Its blown. I'm not sure I can keep my job, as it is farther than I am comfortable taking the bus to. And there isn't really an easy way to get a replacement right now. and now, I'm back to feeling relatively useless.

And with the critical failures of several things in the past month, not to mention the things hanging over our heads that are coming up in the last part of the year, we are both reaching the end of our ropes.

Neither of us is really able to do much of anything at the moment, which worries me.