Never give up

What a horrendous adventure I had this evening. I left work early at 4:25pm, because I wasn’t feeling well and waited 45 minutes for my bus (it appears that one never showed up), then when the next bus finally came by, it was full and I had to stand all the way home, in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Two hours after I leave work, I arrive at home.
I have to find a job that doesn’t require a daily commute. ;)

Two bad days in a row! sigh
This afternoon, my son called me at work to tell me that he had crashed my car coming home from his school house-building program job site. He was driving some chums home and came upon an unfamiliar corner (and must have been going too fast) and the front tires aquaplaned on the wet pavement and he didn’t make the corner and ended up jumping the curb.
Fortunately, my son was not injured, nor anyone else nor any pedestrians. And he didn’t strike a pole or another car.
Unfortunately, the whole front suspension, front rims and one fender are toast and the initial word from the collision shop is that they would recommend “writing the car off.”
I can’t afford to repair the car and I can’t afford to get another car to replace it. I guess we better get used to not having the Maxima around anymore. This is a very expensive lesson for my son to teach him to drive more safely and keep the car under control at all times. The problem is, the incident happens to affect me, as well. I keep on thinking that it could have been much worse, but that is very cold comfort at this time. :(

If I make an insurance claim to repair the car, my son’s insurance rates will go sky high for the next 5 or 6 years. We seem to be beat either way.

It’s sunny this afternoon and I was supposed to drive up to the trailer today and close it for the season, but we have more trouble with our station wagon. The power steering is tightening up and two garages have inspected it and told us that it needs a new rack and pinion mechanism. I looked it up and sooner or later, the rack does go on the steering systems and our car has over 225,000 km on it now. It seems that every other week, there is something else that acts up on that car. It’s been a great vehicle for us, for over 8 years, but, I don’t know how long we can continue to sink money into it.

“You can do anything you want, as long as you stick to it long enough.”—Helen Keller

After 5 months of applying to my dream job, I finally got it! I will start working Sept 14.

i’m more steps closer to my dream job. i just need to work on that a little bit more. more paperworks, more waiting… but i’m getting there

i am one step closer towards my dream. i am so happy.

i’m not giving up. i will be persistent. i will find a job. i will find my love. i will live happily. in the end, everything will be ok. now is the darkest moment before dawn. i will survive this.

i feel like giving up already

I will persist.
I will pull through.

i’m just reminding myself that never never give up. i should say it more often. i need to keep on going. life will be fine. everything happens for a reason.