Check Crust for Doneness

You all know how awful the weather has been the past few days. Well, it managed to increase the awfulness in my life by a pretty decent amount. Because of the cold my car decided to be a real bastard. Saturday I had to get a jumpstart from triple A and thus was 2 hours late to work. Sunday, I didn't have time to do AAA again and ended up taking a cab. 50 dollars later I was back home having worked another short shift (this time mostly because I was in such a foul mood after having shelled out so much to go someplace I didn't want to be anyway to earn barely more than it cost me to get there and back). Today, after a second and this time fruitless attempt by Triple A, I ended up not going to work at all. Now obviously I don't much care for my job, but I do need money, and I do have some amount of dedication. If I'm not going to go to work, it should be because I decided not to, not because of my shitty car. It's damn frustrating. Plans are in the offing to get a new battery which will hopefully do the trick. If it doesn't, I need a new starter which opens up a whole new can of awful. I'm fortunate that my mom is willing to help out with all this, since I honestly don't know how I'd deal with all this w/o her help.

In other news, my landlords apparently decided that timely payment of the water bill wasn't necessary. The city posted a shutoff notice on the door last weekend but nothing ever came of it. After getting my mail today I found a letter from the city saying pretty much the same as the notice, but postmarked the first, which is a good week after the shut-off date they listed. At this point it seems the only way I'll know if the issues been resolved or not is if I turn the faucet and nothing happens.

Everything else has been pretty low-key. I've let myself become reclusive again which isn't good, but I'm taking steps to rectify the situation.