“All you need is love, is a lie cause we had love but we still said goodbye, now we're tired, battered fighters. And it stings when it's nobody's fault cause there's nothin' to blame at the drop of your name ,it's only the air you took and the breath you left”

Misery doesn’t always love company, and tonight since I am feeling extra miserable I decided to write this blog from my basement hovel and tell you yet again of the tales of my unfortunate luck.

Last Monday I traveled with my classmate Matt to Toronto to shoot an interview for our Current Affairs project. All was well until we headed for home, and my muffler started to make a horribly loud and scary noise. We thought we might die as we headed for home but were fortunate to arrive unharmed. Not to worry I thought, I get my awesome new car this week and I’ll never have to worry about things like this again. Wrong. So very wrong.

I have this strange belief that luck and misfortune continuously balance themselves out for me, some people get lots of luck and some people have loads of bad luck, but me, one good thing one bad thing or vice versa usually seems to be the case. Therefore making it only possible a majority of the time to remember the bad things because they overshadow the good, which brings me back to the new car. Tuesday evening I picked up my dark red 2007 Ford Focus from the dealership with that ‘too good to be true’ feeling. Sure it’s going to cost me and puts me even deeper into the bowels of debt hell where I already reside, but to be free of future car trouble for the next little while would be worth it, foolish me. Today I started the car and was driving when I noticed that the speedometer wasn’t moving and the engine light along with many others were on. Please note this was only the fourth time I had been in the car and it has been less than a week since I picked it up from the lot. Please tell me why a brand new car’s engine light comes on in the first week?

I’m feeling frustrated, like a lot of things are beyond my control right now. I’m trying to sell my room in Oakville but people who show interest in it seem to keep flaking out, and I still don’t have a place in Toronto to move to, and I can’t move at all unless someone takes the room I have now. All I can do is wait and all I want to do is plan to move forward. I don’t need to be in Oakville after April and Toronto is the most logical city for my hopeful future profession. Frustration and uncertainty, it’s all I got tonight.