Just one more thing ...

That's all I need before leaving for vacation on which I am supposed to relax and forget my worries. But life is making that virtually impossible. Mostly because I'm not sure if we'll even have transportation to get to our destination. That to me is the most frustrating of all of this.

I can handle the stupid-ass parking ticket I got from the City of Sacramento for parking in a wrong space between the wrong hours in a parking garage that I have a monthly permit for. I can handle the fact that I'm 30 pounds overweight. I can even handle the fact that no matter how hard I try to save money, things come up that shove my money right into the hands of someone else. What I cannot handle, is not having reliable transportation.

We took Neil's saab in to the shop last Saturday to have the a.c. recharged. Well, they found a leak with a hose. Tried to repair it. New hose also has a leak. So they replaced something else. A.C. still doesn't work. So each day we get the message "oh, well, we're going to need it for one more day." Even though he knows we need to have it back by Friday to go on our vacation. I've had an entire engine rebuilt in under a week and an entire side of my car rebuilt in two. I have no idea why it's taking them 5 days to fix an a.c. I have a running theory that they either took it on an extended vacation, or they wrecked the car during a test drive and are doing the body work to cover it up. I honestly don't know if we'll ever have that car back. It's a dramatic thing to say, but I'm feeling very emotional right now so bear with me.

To make matters worse, my car decides to crap out on us at the exact same time. The only form of transportation we have between the two of us to get us to our places of work this week and it decides to be a little bitch. At slow speeds it shuts itself off. Yeah ... it should be snuffed alright. I should have bought that Subaru when I was tempted. At least then I'd still have transportation to go on vacation ... whether we could afford anything beyond that is a problem I would deal with at a later date.

I'm so stressed out. Work is insanely busy with people demanding more from us than we have time for (and most are silly tasks) and now all this crap is going on when all I wanted was the peace that was promised with our getaway. Yeah, it's just the cabin ... but that means no cell phones, no internet, no computers. Just me, Neil and the dogs.

But who knows what will happen in the next two days. I'm stressed. And the last thing I need ... is one more thing.