What Goes Up Must Hasaam

Countdown: 183

Goal: $7500
Current Funds: $1800
$5700 to go!


Ahhh the ponderings. Car wouldn't start yesterday. Dad caved and let me drive his after ranting for a while about how I shouldn't have let the petrol go as low as I did (we've noticed it happens most when I'm lower than a quarter tank). It was very frustrating because it made me 10 mins late for work, and so I didn't have time to drink coffee. This is probably a good thing because it would have been the 8th day in a row I'd woken myself up with it, but instead had a grumpy little shift filled with withdrawal symptoms. Today it still wasn't going which cost me a coffee again, only this time it would have been coffee with Adila, so I grumble a bit more. An hour after I bailed on her I tried it again and of course it started as if nothing had ever been wrong, so I hurried to the servo and filled her up halfway. The plan now is to get her somewhere where they can help her, or at least tell me to give up hope. I'll do that Saturday, not now, because my shift starts at 5 in Endeavour Hills and I can no longer drive there - don't wanna leave now and can't assume it'll start for me later.

So I looked up some information on the good ol' metlinkmelbourne.com.au. It's gonna take me about an hour instead of half an hour to get there, but during that time, perhaps I'll read something, write some stuff down, or just get some pondering done. I'll be out in the open air, I'll have to actually walk to the station and so on, it'll be good for me, it really will. In fact, I've also decided on Saturday that I'm going to fix up that crappy bike J'Mak sold me (crappy cos I basically killed it through overuse and subsequent neglect), that'll be a project and it'll force me to be more active. What do I do with the extra half hour I save by driving to work? I'm usually online, facebooking, watching TV, never anything useful. Instead I will exercise, and save considerably on petrol money! I am hoping my car will turn out okay, because there will still be problems if it's not - wet weather is not ideal for bike riding, in fact it's downright insane, good thing today features a beautiful blue sky or I'd probably be feeling a lot bitchier about all this!

Between the bike and getting the car fixed, I may get flung back to triple digits on my savings, hopefully not filling up on petrol so much will make some difference, but this really is just even more incentive to get a real job which sees me working set hours, maybe even full-time. Or else, maybe it just means I'm ever more likely to be looking for a job rather than a good language course in China next year =P


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Pondering helps. Activity helps. Existential quandaries? Less helpful =P