evile

Jan. 26, 2004

Things hanging over my head
1) Car lease expires 4/1. There are items not considered 'normal wear
& tear' wrong with the vehicle:

a) piece of trim has fallen off. I still have the piece. I hear good
things about Gorilla glue.

b) large crack in windshield due, I suspect, to improper setting of
windshield at the IN factory followed by intense TX heat.

c) dent & chip down to the metal on passenger side rear door,
doubtless from the door of someone in a truck or SUV who parked next
to me in the 'compact parking only' area of the lot.

d) similar scratch, not as bad, on drivers side rear passenger door

e) scratches on bumper

Which all lead to

f) do I have the repairs done by the lease manager at the dealership,
or go elsewhere and bring the car back in pristine condition? I'd
really like to just dump it and get one big bill at the end, but when
dealing with a dealership as opposed to a body shop whose service has
been used in the past, the emphasis words here are "BIG BILL". Is my
time in scampering around getting repair estimates & paying several
smaller bills worth the possibility of having less of a BIG BILL in
the end?

2) 21 days until my fun experience with radioactive liquid in
unmentionable places to determine if the Essure procedure 11/5 was
effective. (I suspect it was not.)

3) Taxes. 'nuff said.

4) 44 days until my follow-up appointment with my Dr. to discuss
results of Xray of you-know-where.

a) followed by depo shot if Essure didn't take

b) that followed by old-fashioned tubal & (hopefully) endometrial
ablation at the same time. OR a big fuss & fight to get them done, at
some point this year.

5) upon completion of all medical garbage, which could be end of
March or drag out indefinitely, depending on how hassley the Dr. is,
I need to find a new job.

None of the above items are life-threatening or in any way ruinous in
& of themselves, but in combination they are stressing me out. I wake
up sweating every damn night. My innards are in knots. I have 6 *SIX*
blemishes on my face from the stress.

And, of course, these items are all things that fit into the que sera
sera pocket--worrying about them will not change, solve, or improve
any of them.

I have to turn in my car. It might be painless, it may end up costing
me thousand$.

I have to get this womany stuff taken care of. I might or might not
have to escalate from asking nicely to throwing a hissy fit. It may
be accomplished in 3 visits, or I may have to go back a bunch of
times.

I have to get a new job. I can't do that while I am still getting
procedures that are mostly covered by insurance.

feh.

one more thing, not mentioned in LJ: I did a consolidation from many
pc of plastic to just 1. magpies & personal, all to one card, since I
wasn't taking the magpies deduction anyway.

And from the latest cap 1 and ppl bank card statements, it
didn't 'take' :(