Well that's handy. The garage I use for body repair is a State Farm preferred garage. Or something like that. Which means I've had about 5 steps cut out of getting my car fixed because the garage can take the photos and everything for State Farm rather than them sending an adjuster out. Plus when I go in Monday for an estimate he'll have all the information all ready. And State Farm will cover a rental for me. And the only rental agency in the area is one that State Farm deals with easily. So thats good too. Although I'm hoping the repair will be a one day thing so I wont need to worry about getting a rental, but it's good to have a back up.

Now this has been two car damage issues in like 4 months, I'm hoping I can go a couple more years before the next one, or you know not have anymore.

T. gave me one of my Christmas presents early yesterday. It's an interactive tribble. It is wonderfully and cute and I need to name it. And possibly take it to work to stave off boredom at work. It was good timing to get it actually yesterday. Otherwise yesterday sucked.

I was diving to mom's in the morning during the mini snowstorm and the person a head of me wasn't paying attention to traffic. And because she was in a SUV and I was in Jazz I couldn't see around her. Out of the blue she slammed on her brakes and swerved for the shoulder, allowing me to see the car stopped in the road turning. So I hit my brakes and, as I didn't have my snow tires on yet and was going to pick them up, my brakes locked up because I lost traction and I ran into the back of the SUV. Fortunately my car wasn't going very fast and there was no damage to either car but it was unsettling. I much more used to ending up in ditches by myself not nearly taking someone else out.

So I got my snow tires did laundry and made it safely back to Farmington and went to work where I had my snow tires put on. Turns out Jazz needs an alignment as three out of four tires on the car were bald on the inside, which probably contributed to the nearly bad accident. So now I have 4 months to try and save up the money for new tires and should really get an alignment as soon as I have the money. So really the tribble saved the day.

I feel like I'm never going to see my beloved Jazz Spencer Smith again. He's going to be in the garage well into next week because they didn't even get him in until Wednesday. And then to add insult to injury the replacement right front fender showed up damaged and the replacement for that will hopefully be arriving today. *headdesk*

This is going to make going out for Valentine's Day a little difficult where me and T. currently have no transportation.

Plus I misses my car. *pout*

Got the estimate done on my car. Rounding it's $5000 in damages to my $16000 car. Okay so it's actually $4800, but at that point what difference does another $200 make?

Also got my car registered and set up an appointment to have snow tires put on. And the insurance company called me before the auto body shop closed so I called the garage back and had them fax the estimate over for me. The plus side of all of this is that I wont have to re-do the pin striping on the car, that's been worked into the estimate so someone else can deal with it not me.

Got everything I need for food except cereal. Oops. Oh well I'll live, I can have toast.

So Mom is going to buy me snow tires, pay my insurance deductible and my registration fee. This will be my christmas present from her. She wanted to pay down my student loan more, but this is more of a concern than a bill that's paid up until 2011 already.

Also I checked and it was almost exactly 3 years to the day that I went off the road with the beetle and did 2000$ worth of damage to it. That wonderful occasion occurred on Nov. 26th 2005 while driving the back way to my Dad's house in a snow storm. So basically in three years at the end of Nov. if I need to drive somewhere in the snow I should avoid back roads. Because I think it was about 3 years before that that I nearly went off the road with the Beast.

( pictures of my poor car )

I survived my first full day of work. My car, not so much.

I went off the road on the way in, thanks to the road sign I now need a new bumper, head light, fender and mirror all on the passanger side of the car. Ugh. I can't even afford to register it let alone pay my insurance deductible.

I'm trying not to be stressed by all this, but it's really hard.

Oy, my grandmother wrecked her car last night. She usually lasts longer than a year with a car. And I haven't showered in like 4 days and I need to go pick her up now. Oops?

The icon of my car is appropriate because she had the four door version.

Okay the across the road neighbor is doing target practice and scaring the crap out of the dog. He hiding under my desk at the moment.

And I was a good girl and called the call dealership and set up an appointment on Wen. And it's even in the afternoon so I'll still get to sleep in on my day off. And the best part of it all is that my car will probably be there a couple hours and it wont cost me a thing. Score. I'm sticking it to the man or something. Well one would expect them to fix manufacturing defects for free, but still. Free, just the oil change alone will save me over 20$ And Dee will no longer be terrified to ride in my car. Which is problem since I was going to drive to the concerts since she drives some sort of gas guzzling SVU and I drive Jazz the gas sipping Civic.

Now lets hope I still remember how to get to the dealership. And then home again. Augusta is a very scary place to drive sometimes.

Someone hit my car at the freaking gas station. And because I'm tired and fed up with everything I just told the guy to leave. There really wasn't that much damage, well technically the whole front fender now needs to be replaced probably. But it was all cosmetic damage. A crack in fact, which is what happens when large trucks rub up against plastic cars.

I'm not being a responsible adult today, I should be calling VIP and making sure the oil gets changed in my car. But I hate phones and calling people, and I've already been on the phone a lot for this particular trip to the garage and if I'd been smarter I would have made sure they were still changing the oil one of the times they called me yesterday. He-Man told me to buy oil and a filter and do it myself. Frankly with this car I'd rather let someone else deal with it. So if its not done I'll probably just take it to the Prompto next to work tomorrow or Friday.

Meh cars are so much work.