Life Journal #003: RIP My Dear Volvo (Patreon)

Been about a month and I figure I should be writing these at least that often, so here I sit at 2:46 am when I started—Trouble sleeping lately and it’s a mix of can’t get TO sleep (like tonight lol) or getting shitty quality and it’s left me rather more tired than usual these past couple weeks but I suspect it’s just a wave of side effects from medication. Just absolute nightmares of bad things cobbled together from fragmented memories I haven’t thought about in over a decade or more.

Never before in my life have I woken up like, actually panicked and yelling out loud, but it’s happened a couple times lately. Medication maybe stirring up memories and emotions coupled with the looooong process of brain healing from when I bonked my head last year pretty hard.

Pausing to sleep now lol

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Good afternoon! In good news, I’m no longer having to do rather frequent check ins at the hospital so I’m free to travel again! Back to Quebec with me very soon, and I have an Rx for a muuuuch better wheelchair that I am hoping will make things easier over all, especially for attending, and potentially vending at cons—eventually.

In bad news, my beloved ‘05 Volvo XC70 that I’ve had for nearly a decade finally kicked the bucket. Just after hitting 150k miles the poor thing, through no fault of its own, croaked and barely made it around the block before spewing actual smoke and cutting entirely just as I got it parked; totalled. Fuck me, shitty timing. I’ve been on the hunt for a new car, but it has been a waking nightmare trying to get a good replacement here in this part of the country.

Everything I’ve gone after has gotten sold out from under me or been lied about on the condition, rust buckets the lot of them. In my price range anyway. And the used car dealers around here are some of the scummiest I’ve ever had the misfortune of trying to buy from.

But, close friend of mine has offered to help out this weekend and I’ll be going down to Connecticut where the grass is greener, the garages more plentiful, and less salt is chucked on the roads lol… so hopefully I can find a decent Corolla in my price range. I am small and a small car is what I need, so yea, those are rather reliable I hear too. Hopefully one that’ll last and not look TOO shitty is in my price range lmao.

Anyway that’s all, I’ve let the car situation get to me a bit too much and seriously stressed out to the point of making myself sick, so I’m decompressing a little.

I’ll try to get the monthly reward drawing up maybe tomorrow, and what I’ll do is post it up in sketch form and colour form for the two tiers since I didn’t get around to doing the second poll this month, sincere apologies my little eggs. <3

I will do my best to more than make up for it next month. And a new poll will be incoming, keep an eye out~!