Why Is It…
Every time I’m out of a job, I end up having to spend a shitload of money on something.
Yesterday I pretty much spent my day at the mechanic’s place. I took my beautiful car in the morning for the e-test, and it passed with flying colours. What the hell are ‘flying’ colours, anyway?
Since my honey was off work yesterday, going off to Hamilton to look at a possible car purchase, when he got back in the afternoon, I decided we’d better take the Lumina in for its e-test. I thought I’d be smart and purchase the new muffler before the e-test (so that it would pass). That was $110 at the mechanic’s place (as opposed to Canadian Tire who wanted $150).
Then we did the e-test. Then the car failed the e-test. Ok, so $37 for the e-test and $110 for the muffler. Then he had one of his guys have a look at it, and apparently some oxygen cable(?) was off where it was supposed to be. So he hooked it up. Well, boys and girls, that was another $40, then another $17 for a repeat e-test. All of that just so my honey will have a car to drive to work until he buys another car.
Then today I had to go get the license stickers for the Taurus, the Lumina, and the Windstar – at $74 a pop, there’s another $210. And I’m not going to mention the fact that insurance for these 3 vehicles is $300 a month.
So, WTF do I care about all these expenses? I do not have any more pay cheques coming in. I have no idea when Unemployment is supposed to start – I haven’t heard a word from them. And I don’t think I’m getting any money for a birthday/Christmas present.
I guess it’s a good thing that I pay for websites by the year or I’d be having a little freakfest about paying for that too.
I did go to the job interview yesterday morning. It went well, but, as usual, I probably didn’t get the job. I talked to one of my former coworkers who’s supposed to give me a good reference, but let’s find out if they even call for a reference, then that’ll be a good sign. I would love to work 15 minutes away, though. C’mon, bring me birthday luck. It’s tomorrow for those of you who weren’t paying attention. 20th. 20th. 20th. Is it on the 20th? Why yes it is, kind of you to remember.
Alright, time to get off. I did buy a timer today for the Christmas lights. So they turn on at 5:00 (cuz it’s pretty damned dark here then) and turn off at 6:00 a.m. (don’t want people to think I’m not at home celebrating that Christmas spirit). I’ll go check in the morning to see if they turned off.
*subliminal message through the internet waves* Camera. Lumix Camera. I love that Camera. She would love a Lumix 10.1 megapixel, 12x zoom Camera. *over and out*
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
“flying colours”
When a military party parades in the streets with banners and “colours” flying in the wind generally after a “win”.
“colours” in this context is the flags that denote the particular branch or small er groupings of the military force, in the old days it was local to the “lord”, or person paying for all of it.
For example my ancestors had the “colours” of a deep red with a silver stripe, on a triangle shaped flag or pennant.
See I am a know-it-all, nah.