One day my life is great, the next I'm having a panic attack and feeling like I've lost control of my life. I guess I don't have such a great handle on the "quarter-life crisis" like I thought. Yesterday I was crying so much that the bags under my eyes got so sore that I couldn't even wear make-up today. Why am I letting my life spiral out of control, you may wonder? Well I'm here to tell you that it's not my fault and that when things go wrong, it really does seem like everything goes wrong.
When I last posted I had just moved to Pittsburgh with Boyfriend. Fine, good, no problems with that. I even managed to almost fix my teaching license problems! I got ETS to resend my Praxis scores and I managed to find a place open on Black Friday where I could be fingerprinted for the background check I was missing. Only problem now is that Ohio has yet to let me know if they have received either of these things and what is happening with my application. I'll probably have to end up calling them next week...
Onto the frustrations: You know how I was getting excited about going running and how I was getting better? Well now I'm just getting worse! Thanks cold weather and lungs/vocal chords that don't want to work properly! I really enjoy looking like I'm having an asthma attack and getting lightheaded earlier and earlier on my runs!
Finally, why was I having a panic attack yesterday and crying so much? Well as if I wasn't broke enough already, it looks like I'm going to have to buy a new car over winter break! There goes all of my savings and stocks! I'm really excited to have actually $0... NOT. But basically, my car has been leaking coolant for the past year which is not fixed but my temperature gauge no longer works and there is a mystery problem that may or may not be the car's computer dying but which causes the engine to randomly cut out (luckily it got me from MD to Pitt before cutting out yesterday... in the middle of a street...). So my car is going into the shop tomorrow and I'll either fix it if the fix is less than $500 so that I can get the trade in value of $1000 or I'll leave it and hopefully get a trade in of around $500. Either way, I need a new car because I cannot continue to drive my death-trap of a vehicle any more. Plus side is that it looks like I might be able to buy a NEW Fiat 500 with the money that I have to spend. Which, if you don't know, looks like this:
Not too shabby, right?
