The "NO CAR BLUES"!!

Ya know, all things happen for a reason, I truly believe that.

I advertised my car, thinking it would take a week or so. Was lambasted with inquiries, people wanting pictures, you name it. (Oh, and if you use craigslist.com? You can't delete the ad for a while, so now I have email every day... do you still have the car?)

A lady emailed me, and I responded. She called. Ok, we'll call this Point #1. She was a nursing student. Has 3 weeks before graduation. Has children, is divorced, and trying to make her own way in the world. That's Point
#2. She had a car. It was totalled while sitting in front of her parent's house while she was out with her parents. Thank Goodness she has insurance! Her mom let her use her car........ for a month, while she looked for a decent vehicle. She had an offer for a part time job while she finishes school, and they will work around her school schedule. She was to start today. That would be Point # 3, and is also the reason that I am now carless, and still have over two weeks to survive here! (She paid cash, which is Point #4.)

Ok, I can walk to work. It is only 3/4 mile. That I can handle. However, everything else happened so fast, I have money that I need to put into the bank, and I'm not walking 5 miles to do it. I have bills that are ready to go out, but am not mailing them because I don't know when the money will be there. And talk about smoking! This may make me quit! I count my cigarettes out, and lay them in a line...... I can't have THIS one until, oh, say 10 at night. If I smoke all before them by 7, then its a loooooooooooong way till 10!!

I have done such a good job cleaning up all foods in the apartment, that I may starve to death. I am not walking to the store for food.

Tomorrow I'm going to check into renting one for a week. After all, I still have to get my PPD at the Health Department. ( The new job said I could get it here, and bring or fax the results, so that there won't have to be a break between when I get there and when I start work. Hmmmmmmmmmm, starting to think about that now. I might have wanted to take a break between moving, situating, breathing, and starting a new job. But never mind.)

I'm tripping over boxes now. And I am OUT of boxes now too. And with no car to go get some, today I took a nap! lol

Anyhow, things are moving right along. As I said, all things happen for a reason. At the present time, I'm just looking for the reason!!

?????? Wtf????????

Ok, its been a while. I have tendered my resignation, last day is the 26th of October. And I have already got a new job..... in a huge nursing facility in Pittsburgh, 20 minutes from Shiela's house, and I start there the first Monday of November, whatever day that is. I'm excited and scared. Its a huge place, and all the elite send their family there. (choke, choke..... its a JCC, I just know it is!!!!!!)

So I am selling my little car. Makes less for me to worry about getting back home. If I tow it, I have to get a 16 foot rental van. If I have nothing to tow, I can get an 11 ft. van. It is all a matter of money.

So, I put my car for sale in Craigslist. Local. 2001 Toyota Corolla. 4 dr, 4 cyl. a/c. That is the extent of the description, because it is your basic car.

I am surprised at the number of people who have called, and asked if it has power windows. (They need instructions on how to raise and lower a window???). And asked if it has cruise control. Gimme a break!!!!!! Its a freaking FOUR CYLINDER!!!!! What they gonna set cruise on? 12???????

I've had like 50 calls. The last was just a few minutes ago. Some of these people are serious about it. One guy said if you sell your car before you are due to leave, what do you do? I said, I can walk, or I can rent a car. I only have 3 weeks left in your fair city. (Oh, and as an aside, one guy called from.......... ready???....... Pittsburgh! He goes to IUPUI downtown, and is looking for a car to run back and forth to PA!!!!!!!!)

So, anyhow, today I cleaned and packed. My kitchen cupboards are all cleaned out. My bathroom has been scrubbed down, and all I will have to do is touch up in those rooms. The other two, I may have to hire somebody. Gawd, I hate moving and I AM NOT doing it again!!!!

This move does get me to within an 8 or 9 hour trip to Em's though, and now THAT will be my vacation destination of choice!!!!! Esy and I are already planning a trip to the race in Loudon next year. Wooo Hoooo.

Anyway, that is all for the present. I will post when I am ready to rip down my computer, and go into withdrawal until it is set up in PA.

Oh, and I talked to Mom tonight. It was her Birthday. My sisters were there, and they called me, so I could be there with them. I should have been there!!!!! I will be soon!!