This week has been a treat, let me tell you. I don’t know how I haven’t flipped my shit, in all seriousness. I guess it’s because I know it wouldn’t actually do any good to do so.

What’s been going on? Thursday night, after the husband spent his day blowing me off and ignoring me, I finally get a call from him telling me our car’s been impounded. WHAT?! Yeah. Initially he told me that a police officer drove by where it was parked while he was at dinner with his dad, came in to find out who owned it and impounded it because of expired tags. WHAT?! That didn’t make much sense to me, but I didn’t question it because whatever the case was, our car was impounded. I come to find out, after taking the citation and reading it that he was actually pulled over for going 10 MPH over the speed limit, was cited for that, driving with a suspended license and lastly for the expired tags.

I think you’ll want to know WTF is wrong with him and us in regards to his license and the tags. His license was suspended after he received a fix-it ticket for too-dark tinted windows and he was slacking on sending in the paperwork from the tint place (and subsequently the repossession paperwork) to satisfy the ticket. Since he didn’t fix it or didn’t pay the fine in a timely manner, on they proceed with the suspension. He finally sent the paperwork in, but we just find out that it takes 8 to 12 weeks for the process. It hasn’t been that long.

As far as the tags, we paid our registration so that was taken care of, however the DMV withheld our stickers since we apparently let our insurance lapse late last year. We took care of it shortly after we renewed the registration and sent paperwork in for it to the DMV offices upstate, but they never put it in the system, let alone send us our tags. Many many attempts to contact the offices via phone were fruitless since their voice recognition system SUCKS and the hold times are in the hours to talk to an employee.

I suppose leaving the husband to take care of everything and not following up, making sure he did all that he was supposed to is part of the problem since he can be as effective as I am with getting shit done. I’ve learned my lesson in that respect and hopefully¹ he has too. *sigh*

We’ve taken care of the registration & tags. We’re all good there. Unfortunately, they won’t release the car until he gets his license unsuspended, regardless of the fact that my name is on the car as well and my license is valid. Since the process takes so damn long, we’re having to pay the fine. The con is, that brings what we have to pay to get our car back right now to DOUBLE now that it’s not just the impound & storage fees. We don’t have the money. So we’ve been trying to ask family for help and seeing what else we can do in such a pinch. The plus is we’ll be reimbursed the fine once the appeal process is approved and complete.

Thankfully my trip to Arizona is still on. Wait, what trip to Arizona? I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here, but I’ll be spending a week with Angel, Kristen & Robby over Halloween! They bought me a plane ticket and I’ll be flying out there tomorrow afternoon and returning the Thursday after Halloween. EXCITING! I haven’t decided which old Halloween costume I’ll be taking and wearing and because of all the car crap, I haven’t had an opportunity to pick out the clothes I’m taking to wash them. Hopefully I’ll get some clothes cleaned while we’re out doing our errands. I think the only other time I’ve been less prepared for a long-distance trip is when I had to fly last-minute to CA from SC because my Grandpa was in the hospital² back this time in ’08.

Hopefully it’s a real vacation, the husband gets everything sorted the eff out and we can move on with our lives and work on becoming more financially responsible! Ha.

I think what’s fantastic is that everything that seems to go wrong is always made just a little worse by the arrival of my monthly friend. What excellent time is that? My cramps were pretty awful tonight and I had to drive while suffering them. Blerg. Isn’t my life nothing short of exciting?! :D