Level 1 / Day 9

On top of getting a terrible sleep last night, and waking up still in a horrific mood; I woke up with a wonderful head cold, sore throat, runny nose; the works!

Talk about a case of the Mondays! My week couldn't be off to a worse start.
Besides not being able or wanting to get out of bed this morning, my wonderful day started off like this..
I recieved a court summins to my fathers house for a triffic citiation I recieved on the 24th of January; I thought was taken care of (I guess not!). So after a few minutes of him working my nerves.. I spent all morning, while getting ready for work trying to call between two numbers to find out where I need to go to pay this and get it taken care of. The stupis citation has two address and two numbers; apparently I sent it to the wrong one.
Then I get into my car, warm it up for a few and "attempt" to reverse out of my parking spot... WELL due to the OUTSTANDING plowing my complex did this weekend after the 2 feet of snow. My car gets stuck on the six inches of ice surrounding my vehicle. Soooooo after about 20 minutes of "forward, reverse, adjust the wheels, forward, reverse...." you get the point. So at this point I am so agrrivated, I find a shovel on the side of my building and dig out my tires as much as possible. Wearing just my cami's, no gloves, nothing; freezing my ass off, adding to my wonderful cold.
So then I finally get my car out and begin driving to work, and I realize my car is over heating. But since it took me so long to get my car out I continued driving. I am not sure if something is acually wrong or I just beat the hell out of it trying to get it "un-stuck".
I got to work and ate a bowl of Captain Crunch for breakfast and two handfuls of Pepperidge Farms gold fish.

It is now 1130, I am heading out of work to go to the court house to pay my fine, and then my car has a doctor's appointment at 1:00, I am getting the oil changed but I am going to ask them to look and see if they notice anything wrong that would make my care overheat.

The civilian I work with gave me and orange, she said it might help my head cold, that Oranges make your body like OD on vitamin C, hopefully she is right. I don't have time to be sick.

I am off to my appointments I am going to finish my blog when I get home.

Lets see where I left off, So I left work to go to the District Court office to pay my fine, to get this taken care of once and for all. That wasn’t too much of a hassle thank god.

So as I was walking back to my car I was thinking I wonder if my radiator fluid is low so my sensor is going off. I looked under my hood and it seemed to be a bit low, it was halfway below the “fill to here” line.. So I decided to go to Auto Zone to get some fluid, since I rather just put it in myself rather than pay someone $25 to do something I could do myself… Well I filled it and drove to Tire Plus where I was getting my “oil changed” at.. It was still “over heating” of course!

So I explain to the guy, I have this $19.99 oil change coupon so I want what it entitles NOTHING MORE. And then I continued to explain how my car is telling me it is overheating but I didn’t think it really is… He said they can run a series of tests; that take about 30 minutes to rule out any major programs and will find out what is wrong and we can go from there; of course that cost $30.00. Rather than have my car blow up; I was like why not. So my 19.99 oil change is already up to around about $55 including tax, along with my blood pressure and nerves.

An hour later this guy comes out with my “analysis” of my car… My thermostat inside my coolant tank is broken to replace it; the part is $89 BUT the guy said they never replaced one on my car so he can’t estimate how much labor will cost OF COURSE… the ridiculousness begins here: I couldn’t even break down the maintenance this guy went on about breaks, tires, blah blah blah.. my head almost exploded. So needless to say I guess I am going to take the list/estimate to my husband and we can discuss it, the prices seem outrageous to me, I may also call around to get quotes from other people in my area; just to see.

So after being stressed, confused, aggravated, almost crying in the waiting room of Tire Plus, I was at my wits breaking point. Another breakdown.

This has been by far the worst beginning to a year EVER. I cannot get a break, I am tired of being alone, I want my husband here with me.

I left the place so flustered... I didn’t know what to do, so I went tanning to relax and try to take a nap. Since on top of everything I have a nasty head cold. I have been putting off buying a new package since I don’t really have the money. Luckily, I am friends with the owner she let me renew my package for $25.00, and let me go in my bed I always use. That’s about the only plus to my day.
While I was waiting for my car, I ate and orange and then a small bag of raisenets ( I don’t know how you spell it) they were like 70 calories of fat, but whatever.

I then got home and did Level 1 / Day 9.

Almost to Day 10, Almost to Level 2.

I am sore, my arms are getting stronger. I had to find a way to modify the one set of lunges since my foot is beyond irritated today, and really painful, but I figured a way to do it. I got a really good workout even though I am not feeling too well. I think I need to start eating a little better. I don’t normally eat bad, but lately having a lot of stress in my life and eating junk food here and there. More than normal.

Wednesday morning my flight leaves at 715, but we are supposed to get another snow storm Tuesday into Wednesday, so I am not sure what to do. I am hoping for the best. This is just making my week wonderful.

For dinner I ate some ham and stir-fry veggies and a cup of green tea.
I about to go take a bath, take some nite quil, pack for my trip and hopefully wake up feeling better.

I have class tomorrow night so I am going to wake up extra early to do Day 10!! Before work! : )