After all the pain in the butt trouble my tires have been giving me with the slow leaks, I was finally able to get into the local tire center and have them checked out. Well, good news! My tires are just fine. They're not brand spanking new, but they've got a good chunk of their life left in them. YAY! But the bad news, and the reason for the slow leaks, is that the rims are basically shot. From what I've read, it's pretty common with Cadillacs, my model in particular. So I get to buy all new rims. Joy. Oh well, it still ended up cheaper than having to replace the actual tires, so I guess I should be happy with that. They didn't have them at the store I was at, but they had them at one of the other branches, so they're having them shipped over and they should have them today. Tomorrow at the latest. At least that's one less worry!
Job update: Well, not much of an update, but the last few days there has been a bunch of new postings that I'm actually qualified for! So I've been putting out resumes like mad, and hopefully something will come of it. The nice thing is, these actually sound like real jobs. And if you've job hunted recently, you know what I mean. If I had a nickel for every "job" that wants me to be their "agent" and deposit funds, etc. for them, I'd be filthy rich. Maybe some of these places are legit, but I really don't feel comfortable with the whole idea. Yeah, I'm paranoid about this sort of thing! Crazy, I know, but then, no one ever said I was sane.
And on a totally different subject, I didn't post anything yesterday, but I did do a lot of thinking about random things. When you're home alone all day, it's amazing what sort of crazy subjects pop into your head! But yesterday I was thinking about Karma. Some folks believe in it, some don't. And it doesn't really matter what you want to call it, it all amounts to the same thing: you get what you give. It made me analyze all the yucky stuff in my life, and I have to say, I think part of my problem is that I'm not thankful enough for what I do have, and I don't give back enough to the community. Sure, I can't say that I can afford to make a huge donation to one of the charities. But since I'm not working, there really isn't any reason that I can't volunteer somewhere. No, I don't think that this would solve all of my problems. But I think it would do me a world of good. Being able to interact with people, being able to give a little bit of myself to help someone else, I think that would be so helpful. The hard part is finding something that I feel passionately about that happens to need some help. I'd like to see if the local humane society needs volunteers. I can't really foster any animals (which sucks), but maybe there's something else I can do. I'm still trying to think of things that I feel strongly about, so any ideas are welcome!
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I think volunteering for your local shelter would be right up your alley. Sometimes, they just need people to come by and walk the dogs to get them out a bit. You could also consider contacting a rescue to see if there's anything there you could do along the same lines. Difference between these two place is that a shelter will have pets you'll see one day and find out they were put down the next, which could be really hard to handle, where as a rescue doesn't do this.
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