I'm pretty sure I mentioned this months back, but I've been without a car since October. I managed to finally get a 2001 Saturn L-200 from my uncle on the 28th. Rather rough around the edges, especially when you get in the thing, but I'll be damned if I didn't like driving it. Finally got it in the garage for an inspection and to get the muffler attached since, well, it didn't have one attached at all, and... they never got to the muffler. I'm not sure how far they got into the whole process, but they got it in the air and pretty much an instant fail because the sub frame was pretty rotted. To the point where it isn't really safe anymore. So that on top of all the other issues that were out standing, I'm pretty much without a car again. One week. Pretty good record.

This of course makes getting back and forth to work a pain in the ass, and I'm glad I waited till I got home from work to rant about this cause I got something more to add. My boss has been awesome in helping me out with this since I'm not very far out of his way at all, but he's going on vacation this week so I thought I'd ask my other coworker for help while my boss was gone since it's not very far out of the way and it puts him, in my opinion, on safer roads for him to travel back home on. Not that that's too big an issue since it's gonna be in the 40s this week and he just got brand new snow tires on a car thats already pretty good in the snow. So what's he have to say? "I don't wanna have to drive up the hill." So at least now I know who not to trust to help me out.

And on an even better note, I woke up yesterday morning and had a text on my phone waiting for me. Seems the night before (Thursday I guess, still not sure on the times) one of my aunts had a heart attack and died. Now I'll come right out and say that I wasn't very close to her at all. She was on my father's side of the family and I'm not too close to anyone there but it's because of distance more than anything else by far. But still, her and all the other aunts (or maybe they were like great aunts cause they were all noticeably older than the usual aunts and uncles, but I always get lost when it gets to specifics about it), they were always really nice to me whenever I saw them and it really goes far to remind me how out of touch I am with the other side of the family, and how for some I'm really starting to run out of time to fix that.

So yeah, 2013 you suck already. Knock that shit off.