Bubbled tires

Merhaba Blogisphere 

Today will be a day of complaining and ranting. If you care not to read, that is fine, that's your business, but it's my blog and I can say what I want to. So there. 

The day started with me waking up nearly an hour late. Thank god for my ability to get ready ridiculously fast, because if not I would have been a lot later to work than I was. Only five minutes. Work wasn't too bad. It was 4 hours longer than I would have liked, but I'm truly grateful for the hours I'm getting right now because I know a lot of people aren't getting them at other stores. 

After work I was driving home and my car started to make funny noises. I knew what it was from. About 2 weeks ago, a piece on the front of my car started to come loose and shake around under my bumper. I saw it sagging and honestly I should have taken care of it while I was still back in DFW, but I didn't because I figured it was fine and I'm stubborn. So today the sound was awful, so I took it to a Honda dealership here in Austin that honors my warranty (which by the way I'm paying an extra like 200 bucks on my note for that "extended warranty"). The service was awful, which is not what I'm used to (the Honda dealership I go to in DFW goes above and beyond to make sure you're happy with everything, although I guess it helps that I've been going to them for service for 6 years). The guy looked at it and told me it was broke (no shit, pardon my French). He said it wasn't covered in my warranty (of course not) but that he could just cut it off. It's at the point where it's so worn out that they would have had to replace it any ways, which is a $100 part, so I told him to just cut it off and I'd replace it when I had the cash. It's a cosmetic piece and it will matter when I'm trying to sell it later, but for now it's something that can wait.  

He came back out about 30 minutes later, after cutting off the piece to let me know that there was a bubble in my tire, apparently I had hit something so hard that it bubbled my tire up. SO now I need a new tire, and that's not something cosmetic that can wait. FML! 

I've been trying to keep sane to just see the good things, but I'm about to go crazy. 

Many of you know, many of you don't, but a HUGE part of me moving down to Austin was to transfer with my other job. I worked at a sushi restaurant in Fort Worth, and had been tending bar and serving for a little over a year. I loved it there. I worked with a bunch of really awesome people who I all considered to be friends. When they announced early in the year that they would be opening a location in Austin, I got so excited. Walt and I had already been talking about moving down here, and it was a perfect opportunity to be opening shop in a new city with a place I already knew. Cooperate and I had already discussed me moving down there and training the new employees for the store to be open at the beginning of July. So I found a place to live in May and started paying rent to hold my spot until the store was to be open. I kept working shifts at the Fort Worth location as usual, and then a week to the day before I was supposed to leave for Austin I got a call from my manager telling me I needed to come in. I figured there was a mix up with something and it wasn't a big deal. I knew everyone in the company and 100% felt secure with my job. Well, come to find out they accused me of something I wasn't physically or morally capable of doing. There was a paper trail saying that SOMEONE did it...so someone had to be fired, that someone was me. 

I was devastated. I felt betrayed. I had spent so much time, in work and out, with these people. I still to this day don't know what really happened. Who did it, why me...I guess I'll probably never know. Maybe it's better that way. Anyways, so that's why I'm in the job hunting mode. I hate it, but hell, who LIKES hunting for a job? It's just days away from bills being paid, and that extra income (the second job) isn't there to help pay said bills. I know I'll find something. I have to right? 

I'm really lucky though. I have crazy supportive parents and friends, and a boyfriend who would hang the moon for me. So I know I have all those things, and I have food, and a house and a nice car, I'm just stressed. Freaking out about whats next. Mad at myself for not having savings, and letting the bills pile up. But there's a light at the end of the tunnel. I can't see it just yet, but it will present itself. RIght? 

-little J