No amount of thinking prepares you for a loosing your independence. Getting in massive fights because you cant have 24 hrs to process.
Figuring out how the hell to get 3 people to work with different schedules.
And working yourself up to fight both the insurance and dealer when your car spontaneously combusts.
Instead I bought a few things for my team. They have been reaching their goals. So i got socks, body washes, face masks, hand sanitizers, lotions, ( four types of )cocoa and some candy. N bought some glass coffee mugs to put it all in. She gave me one with pens a book mark and similar things. Lol. I laughed. Im buying the stuff to do it for her and the team and she made me one. But we both got mad when our boss capped the "company contribution" to like 30 bucks. So she bought 12 mugs for everyone, and I bought all this other stuff. Mostly from Ross or the dollar store. Last thing im going to do is get out my cricut and cut their names out and put them on their mugs with high heat/water vinyl. It sticks to the truck despite heat, weather driving haha. It should last on mugs.
I cant give them a raise or a bonus... When I buy breakfast no one eats it... so this seems like the best thing I can do.
I wanted ot buy them notebooks and pens but I went on a rampage looking for my missing wallet. Its green... it has my gift cards in it, and I cant find them anywhere... I did find ONE barns and Nobel gift card. I wonder if they have cute notebooks. Not like full sized ones, like 5x7 or to do list size. Or bead bracelets? Maybe I can find/make some by Wednesday. Ross had a few guided journals but they were religious and only one gal is religious ( that im aware of, practicing Catholic) There was some art ones. Plus Barns and Nobel is like 15 bucks each and im pretty limited on money considering I have to buy a whole new car and give gas money to anyone who can help me out.
For a "Christmassy" gift for them. I got these dollar store snow globes and snowman heads. I saw it on pinterest. You fill them with treats and make an ornament. Then im going to knit everyone a headband or hat RQ on my knitting machine.
Im even making them for our Philippian remote workers. We bought everyone custom jackets for Christmas for work and im sending one to each of them.
Kinda throwing myself into figuring that out because im just baffled and flat right now.
I can work from home, its a shit week to do it. It always its. Its client appreciation and lots of fun things going on.... So Im going to miss a lot. I gotta be there on Wed. I told T its non negatable. I need to be there to give them their gifts. B's coworkers said he would help give him rides, but he lives 40 minutes away. So im hoping that maybe we can borrow his grandmas car a few days a week. N said she would come get me too, and take B to work. Both she and her fiancee say ive been the best support she had through her nasty breakup with her ex and supporting them despite their remote relationship start and getting together. I dont feel like its fair either. He (fiancée) is already going to sell his old car to my kid for 2k less then what its worth. He just passed his exams to be a police officer so his treat is a new car next month. So I feel like asking for anything is really not... i donno. I feel terrible.
I feel aweful that two days before. My receptionist came crying because her engine blew up and I offered to give her rides. and she was panicking about getting her kids to school. I said I cant help with that but I can bring her in. Their father is a deadbeat and replaced with a few kid and family. So he wont help. And like now, I cant help. I cant get her to work any day. I cant even get my kid to work. I can work remote. Im going to be at a much lower productivity and most of my shit is saved to my desktop so im going to be paralyzed in some instances. But I can do SOME work. I even offered to let her do some from home too. I can route her phone to her actual phone and she would have to use a personal computer. Not ideal but doable. Our remote workers do it. But she refused. Pride, I get it. Same as me I guess.
And before anyone wonders, why I cant use my husbands truck. Its registered to his business for 1. And the only ones who can legally drive a company car are employees authorized and im not an employee. 2. Its brand new and he is possessive. 3. the one time i tried to drive that big ass truck, it didnt want to go in reverse and he got angry and I got frustrated and i donno about driving a truck THAT BIG anyway. Can he take me to work. Some days. Kinda.
So we take the boys at 6 40 to work, the girl at 7 20, He clocks on at 7, it takes 40 minutes to run me to work and get home. So he would be on the clock working and taking me, its not ideal and he can get in trouble ( from the day job, He has his own business too)
Then we take Co to work at 4 pm, Thats when hes been picking me up because B takes my car from my office to his and works till 6. Then go home, Then at 2 am, B takes my car to pick Co up in the county, 40 minutes away one way. So you see how my car was a serious lynch pin to our commuting.
Im considering cars and thinking of a Honda Civic. It gets really good gas milage and its got a pretty good APR right now ( 4% for end of year sales) The accord is 3% so maybe that one, but the gas milage isnt as good. T and I have been fighting a lot lately and he keeps talking about separating, so I want to be sure I can afford a car if he does end up leaving. My 650 car payment previously would have been hard and I probably would have traded it in for something cheaper... lmao.. I should have done it right.. Before the fucker caught on fire. The Accord is more like 35, The civic is more like 32... Is the 1% interest difference really a big deal? The accord gets 28-35 mph ish and the civic gets closer to 40. I considered a hybrid which is what I wanted. But that moves me closer into the 40 range which comes closer to 800 a month. I made like 2500 a month. If he leaves then idk what i would do really. Sell our house? I cant afford 1600 a month for my mortgage. I figure i had 16 left to pay on my suv. I read that they typically pay out at market value when its a manufacture defect, which is anywhere from 22-30K for my model/year in pristine condition. Which mine was in amazing shape. It had a TINY ding in the windshield and a couple small paint chips on the front end. No scratches, dents, anything. But for argument's sake, lets go on the low end of 22K. That leaves me about 5k for a down payment. a baser model civic would be around 500 a month. Which is higher then I want but doable. Its the cheapest of everything really. I donno. Its still just shock I guess.
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