My Fresh, Shiney New Diary - I will be positive!

Lucy1982_2

Me to, it just makes me feel sick even thinking about it

Lucy1982_2

If the worst comes to the worse I am just going to have to go to the bank and beg!!

Lucy1982_2

Well today is the day I find out how much my car is going to cost. I feel sick and I hardly slept last night. I have made it into the office and depending on how things go I might ask my boss if I can have the afternoon off.

My fingers are crossed that I'll be lucky. Mum has said she will pay for some of the repairs as she uses the car. I just wish I didn't need her help! The garage openned 20 mins ago so I am hoping that they look at me early and I can sort the money out. I am so worried about it I don't really know what to do.

I'm going to try and keep busy, I said I would look into CCCS and payplan for OH which I will do this morning and get all the numbers for him and I will do some job work although that one will be difficult. As I said yesterday, at the very worst I will have to go into the bank and beg for some money/help. I'm just glad that Mum is behind me. Although I know she is worried about it to as she can see I'm stressed and being stressed makes me ill which is not what I need right now. I can feel my heart racing and I just want to curl up and pretend that it hasn't happened and the whole weekend has been a dream.

Ok off to find those numbers, looks like I might be here a lot this morning, I have no brain to concentrate with!!

Lucy1982_2

Just checked my Amazon seller account and I have £25.70 in there. Which at least will give me a payment off my OD this month, but my laptop certainly isn't going to have one.

I hate this, I hate all of it!!

embarrassed_about_my_debt

Glad to hear things are going a bit better with the oh.

What sort of car have you got? As Cambelt and tensioner shouldnt come to £600

Lucy1982_2

I have a beautiful (can you tell I love her!) T reg ford Feista 1.25 zectec. It's whether any damage has been done to the valves etc (I know nothing about cars!) although OH's mechanic friend thinks I will be lucky

embarrassed_about_my_debt

You werent moving so you have more chance of not having done internal damage to the car. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

Lucy1982_2

That's what everyone else has said. I hope so, I will of course give a full report once I have spoken to the garage.

Lucy1982_2

Oh and another good thing that happened this weekend is OH had his LBM and has cancelled the tickets to the rugby!!!! Which saves us £68 + train ticket each!!!

Very good boy and he has got rolls to make his own lunch this week. I have promised to help as much as I can.

Lucy1982_2

Ok, just given in and called the garage......

They are still doing some checks, but my VALVES ARE OK They can't say that something else hasn't been broken, but they are going to fit a new tensioner and cam belt and see if that works and then call me back.

Cost:

Cam belt - £225. (OH thinks that this includes labour)
Tensioner - £35
Other cost - £40

Guesstimated about £300, but subject to nothing else being wrong and labour. That's not to bad is it.

But I wouldn't get her back until tomorrow. And they are going to call me once they know for sure.

A little less panicked now.

Spoke to OH and he is ok with that cost, and has been a good boy and taken his lunch to work with him!!! He is learning. But laughed and said we would both be broke together!