Any one get the licence plate of that semi truck?

Just because a last straw was all I needed, I got one in spades.

For the last year, my drivers side door on the 1985 POS Chevy Celebrity has been difficult to close, as in you need to roll down the window and SLAM the damned thing.  I tolerated this, hoping to get through to next spring and have a sizeable piece of change to put down on a new or newer car.

Today, the weld holding the window mechanism snapped and now I can't roll up the window because it's not attached.  Now, this would be less of a problem if I lived in a warm climate, but I live in a place where it can and does frequently get to -50 C with the windchill in winter.

I'm so fed up with this just getting by bullshit that I could scream or start drinking heavily.  Maybe both.

Going to bed, gotta hit the scrap yard in the morning and see if I can get a window mechanism off a car that will work til the damned spring.

Fourteen days til vacation and it can't get here soon enough.

When the going gets tough, the tough get fucked

So I went to the scrapyard, rooted, dug and hunted and found a replacement window.  Normally, I wouldn't have done it but I needed to do something to try and stave off the pity party the last straw set in motion.

Not only did I get the window assembly and a new window, I also picked and pulled the parts to fix the stubborn door, so I might get one last winter out of the old beater yet.  This is assuming one ot the other things that can (and usually do) go wrong with a vehicle doesn't happen.  I'm also going to keep my eyes open for a 2000 model year Intrepid.  I've wanted one since Chrysler debuted them and the last few beaters have been right price at the right time cars.  This time, I get what I want.

I still feel like boiled hell over my personal life.  This was not the life I wanted or dreamed about, but I guess it's the one I have.  I have to make do and try to come to terms with what I have and have not.

Not easy at all.