Quick Musing - 8/18/15

-The car problems, both the rental and the real car, is just the nightmare that won't end.  On one hand, I have to take my real car back to the shop due to a matter with tire pressure; considering I just replaced a tire a while back when I had that huge blowout on Easter.  On the other, I nearly got charged a late fee for the rental after the vacation (got it worked out luckily)...before discovering the big news: that apparantly I was using the rental's insurance the whole time, and I have to pay for everything from early July (when my real car went into the shop) until its return Sunday!  That alone is over a thousand! (I think I remembered signing on for that when I first got the rental but...) Considering how little I spent outside some of the matters of the hotels on the trip, this is the real cost I was worried about in renting a car...and sort of why I don't think I want to take a vacation like this for a loooooong time. (or at least with a rental; next time I want my own car like the original plan!)

-Unless I can figure a way of making money through DA (and with me being a writer and not an artist like...everyone else on DA it feels; and Patreon won't work for me), my guess is after the current set of comms (and maybe renewing my DA membership), I may take some time off from ordering anything, even with the big holidays coming.  I won't stop making my own stories or anything but I really need to start considering figuring ways to prevent myself from being an impulse buyer until I'm recovered enough from the vacation to feel confident in buying again. (or go back to "one or two small comms a month" like I was doing pre-vacation)  If anyone wants to collab on a project with my girls, I'm open to it but I just need to recover from all these money matters.

-Its not like I have anything to really take a breather with, since the vacation was chaotic, not to mention since I've come home I've had to run around helping mom out, deal with the never-ending car crisis, and am completely locked into events this weekend I have zero interest in doing but have zero means of escaping (a museum trip that sis won't drive for 100%; and the birthday for the father of her boyfriend)  Which leads to this: is there any way to escape from...well, everything (family, the vacation chaos, etc)