More Drama

I had a long rant composed in my head about how much I can’t stand flaky people. My neighbor, with whom I’ve become friends over the past year, is the worst and I was so annoyed about it yesterday. But then we got the phone call from the insurance company and that suddenly seems like a trivial complaint.

Basically, our insurance company is doing everything they can to screw us. I am not going to go into details because we have a lawyer who is going to try and help us, but do not ever ever ever use AAA for your car insurance. It’s been impossible to get them to actually return your call and they have really treated us quite badly. Suffice it to say that, while we can just pay off the remainder of our loan, they are leaving us with nothing to get another vehicle. We’ve done our research and we know that they are lowballing us about $2K. I am so irate right now. It has been 2.5 weeks now since the accident and they are just finally getting back to us after numerous calls. It’s such a disaster that I either want to cry or break something. I think I’ll use the anger to motivate myself to go to the gym and get in a nice long walk on the treadmill tonight, if I can manage to find the time between everything else.

I’m happy to report that I am down 2.5 pounds this week and got in another 7 miles over the weekend so I’m now up to 127 miles total. I also cooked both Saturday and Sunday *and* have meals planned for the next two weeks. It’s a good thing I’ve decided to start cooking more since we are going to have a hard time affording another car right now.

I have so much I need to do over the next few days (another visit to the chiropractor, grocery store, target, oil change, smog check, etc). And then if my W-2 will ever show up I’ll need to start on the taxes. I may do an estimate in the meantime to see how we’re going to come out because I am not sure this year. I really need a vacation, but the last time I tried to take a vacation was when we had the car accident. Well at least the skiing was fun. I had so hoped that we’d be able to go again this winter and I just don’t see how we’d be able to afford that at this point.

I know that things can always be worse, but I do try so hard to have a stable home, and we do have some savings we could use for a car though I am loathe to use it. I am just so furious that we have to deal with this when we weren’t doing anything wrong in the first place. It just really sucks.