They Come in Threes

Well, when the going gets tough, the tough get..... ah hell! We thought that because bad things come in threes that we were in the clear, but apparently not! Sadly for us, Dan no longer is working with his internship. Obviously, this came as a complete shock to us yesterday. This past week Dan had decided that he was not going to stay with his company during the upcoming semester because it was simply not worth the commute. As high as gas prices are the commute has been draining our bank account (over $200 a month just to get to work) and not to mention the fact that it was killing our car. Simply put, we did not have the resources to continue to commute. Regardless of this he was going to stay with the company until he had a new job (duh huh... we are some what responsible despite what some of my family may say)! Now we are on the hunt for a new job under a lot more stress! Our current car has also drained our savings account of the past week! AHHHHH!!! Like I said in the previous post, we dropped over $200 to have it repaired only for it to brake down. The yesterday morning Dan went and had the battery tested and it was a goner, so we replaced the battery for $100. The car started right up and drove perfectly fine all the way down to Provo yesterday. Then on the way home from work, the car died again right after the point of the mountain. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Dan and his brother Chris just left to see if they can get the car back to the house in Centerville so that they can run some test on it with Chris' car computer thingy and see if they can figure out what is wrong with it. Dan is thinking that it may be that the alternater that we bought was bad! Who knows. I kind of hope that is what it is because we can return the alternater and get a new one and not have to spend anymore money on the stupid thing!

Oh, so like I was saying, we thought that we were in the clear because we had already had 4 bad things happen to us. As I was driving out to The Point of the Mountain yesterday I thought to myself, "If we count all of the car troubles as one thing than this (Dan losing his internship) is number 3". So hopefully we are now in the clear. I drove extra careful yesterday on the way to pick Dan up because I did not feel like I could handle getting pulled over that day! Not that I can really afford to get pulled over on any day, but I may have just lost it yesterday had anything else gone wrong on the way there! We know that things could still get much much worse for us, but we are really hoping that they don't! We are also very thankful for all that we do have! Hopefully Dan will hear back from the company that he applied with yesterday soon! The company that he applied for is in Salt Lake City and we could live in SLC or one of the surrounding areas and it be much more reasonable for him to get to and from work, school and home!