i took a short road trip today to take care of my bank situation. i would think with all the technological advances in this day in age, there would be an easier way for me to do it. my odometer hit 126000 miles today! whoohoo. speaking of my piece of crap car...let me mention my piece of crap cd player that's in my piece of crap car. during the last week of camp this summer, i was driving greer and josh to get some dinner on our night off. josh was in the front playing around with the cd player. he was talking about some louie giglio cds i had. and all of a sudden...my cd player starts freaking out. the volume turns itself all the way down. so josh reaches over and turns it back up. and it turns itself down. josh turns it up. it turns itself down. kept doing it until it finally stopped. josh turns to me and says, "everything i touch breaks." nice, josh...really. so after that day, my car wouldn't start. i was freaking out because i was suppose to be driving from charleston to ky in a few short days and my car wouldn't start. didn't even think about josh telling me that everything he touched broke at that point. it was only later i realized the curse the camp pastor had really put on my car. so eric looked at my car and told me that it was the starter...it was going out and i could drive it, but it could go out at any point. (to this day, i haven't put a new starter in...and it's been doing that for months). but that's beside the point. so i drive home. during the drive home i listened to a ton of cds and music. and every now and then, it would turn the volume down automatically. so i'd sigh, then i'd reach over and turn it back up. it'd turn itself down. this would happen anywhere between 3-20 times. it would only happen about every 20 minutes or so. but when it happened, it was definitely annoying. so i'd just turn the cd player off and pray, or think. since i've been home, the curse has only gotten worse. last week, i couldn't take it anymore. i couldn't even listen to a full song. and it wasn't even just the volume thing. it started doing other crazy things. i'd be listening to a cd and it would kick off to the radio. or i'd be listening to the radio and it'd start playing my cd. or it would pause the cd, then start playing it again, then kick off to the radio, then back to the cd. it was so weird. and it was so annoying when i'm trying to drive and this is going on. so i decided that it wasn't just a stuck button, but a screwed up, possessed cd player. josh had put the curse on it. i was convinced. it makes me think of the part in say anything where lloyd is driving to graduation and his tape player messes up and he grabs something resembling a match book and sticks in it to fix it. anyway....so when roy was home last week i told him about it. he told me that he had one that i could have. so i wanted to save money so i asked my brother if he thought he could take mine out and put the new one in. he said it wouldn't be a big deal at all. so he took mine out...no problem. and it was out for 3 days. the other one still wasn't put in. so i came to the conclusion that he really had no idea how to do it...so i had the piece of crap hooked back up because i couldn't dish out the money to pay someone to install the other one. so i'm driving around today with this ghetto, piece of crap cd player that has a mind of it's own. and it's driving me absolutely insane. i wish their was some way to fix it. i wish i had money to get a new one. i wish i had the money to get a new car. but since i don't have a job, i don't see that happening anytime soon.
while i'm on a rant and rave about money...i was seriously debating all day long whether i should even go to atlanta tomorrow. jason called to talk logistics of our road adventure and for the next 6 hours i debated whether i was going to go. so i make the ultimate decision. yes. i was going to go. i need to get out of here, clear my head, get things straight, fellowship with other believers, spend time with some peers...and all those other great things. i had originally thought (or hoped) that this trip wouldn't cost me more than $60, but with gas prices at an all time high, and the email i got that said girls were forking over $35 for a hotel room, i'm thinking that it's going to cost a lot more than just the $60 i was originally hoping for. so the girls are paying to stay in a hotel, which will be better than 20 people staying at jeremy's...but the boys are staying there for free. yet another disadvantage to being a girl. with the braves game definitely crossed off the list of things to do, i'm wondering what other expensive things i'll encounter this weekend. i hate the fact that i'm poor and i'm trying to live like i'm not...but i have to do something for my sanity. ugh. so i'm hoping that this decision to get away and visit people (some of whom i won't see again until i'm in heaven) is the right thing for me to be doing. hopefully after this weekend, my decision will have been a good one.
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