Life, Cubed

This is not MY rental, mine is a purplish-brown color.

So since my mom's accident I have been driving a rental car, a Nissan Cube. It... um, well it's cute. It looks cute, but I dislike driving it. I think for normal "going to the store" kinds of driving it'd be fine, but for highway driving... well, it pretty much sucks.

When it was sitting in the rental car lot, I thought, "Oh, now that looks fun to drive!" and I was completely right. After getting used to how much it looks like a super duper small bus and how there is very little of what I call "cradling" by the interior, it's a snazzy drive. But the majority of my driving is highway, going at speeds of 65-70 MPH to school and back.

Who here thinks a box is aerodynamic? There better not be any hands up.

I fight with the darn thing the entire time. Forty minutes or so down to school, forty minutes or so back. The thought never occurred to me when renting it. But I'd be outright ticked if I'd bought that car. I'm not a "drifter" that floats around inside their lane. I'm pretty static. Holy cow, I'm surprised I haven't gotten pulled over because a cop thought I was drunk floating around the lane like I do. You know when it's really windy out and the wind pushes your car in gusts to the side and you have to correct for it? That is what this car does all the time. No bueno.

So we still don't have much information on the status of the Escape yet. The last call we'd had to the repair shop was that they were waiting for the electronic specialist (the person who handles the sensitive airbag electronics, etc.) to get their estimate to them. Part of me wants them to just total it, given the issues I had with my last front-end accident. Sure, the repairs LOOKED like there had never been an issue, but it never ran the same. Then on the other hand, it was paid off and had no payments... so nice.

So now, just the waiting game.

School is going well, I suppose. I'm overloaded with homework and I have no idea what I am doing in one of my classes (which is another story...) but overall things are going okay. I need to find some sort of solution for a new desk though. Generally I sit at the dining room table on the non-padded dining chairs. I noticed yesterday that my tail bone hurts - which I am sure is old age. I mean, it's these chairs. Yes, the chairs.

But good news! I won my first scholarship ever!! I am so excited, I rarely apply for them because I fall into that "middle class" category where we make more than peanuts but I'm not wealthy enough to pay out of pocket for all these classes, etc. And to add daycare for Kiddo #2 in, the gas of driving to Mars and back every day, etc. it's getting expensive.

I know, I know... "first world problem."

Anyway, I was not feeling very confident about it. I've never won one before, why start now?? But the emailed rolled in yesterday when I was at my lunch break. Now I just have to accept, write a letter of thanks, and attend a recipient dinner. I might have to apply for more of those, it's kind of exhilarating! ;-)