And there is a lot to see. At least a lot of potential positivity to see.
Yes I have to fix my car and go broke in the process but the gas savings will actually help us get caught up that much quicker. Right now my wife is driving me back and forth to work so once that stops, even though we'll have two cars our gas bill will be cut almost in half. That will free up money for other things we need around here. My Firebird is a V-6 in case you were wondering and for all you car guys and gals NO I WILL NOT PUT A 5.7L V-8 IN IT!!! At most I'll hook up some headers, a new intake and maaaaybe a custom ground camshaft. Kick it up to about 200HP but even that will require a full engine rebuild since the block has nearly 200K miles on it. The tranny is newly rebuilt though so I intend to get some bolt-on goodies for that. Its an automatic but with the right parts you can modify it into a slow sequential gearshifter. Well relatively slow, it'll shift just a hundreth or two slower than speed shifting your stock manual. Not enough to really matter for the kind of playing around I intend to do with her.
Anyway I digress, there is positives to be seen with the current fiasco but they will take time to kick in. Some remain to be seen like how much stress this will relieve of of my wife's schedule. Since she tends to be a worry wort I'm sure she'll freak out at first but after my car makes a few successful trips sans breakdowns I'm sure she'll calm down. Then again she may not even care and life will be good. Who knows? Even people you've been with for over seven years can surprise you. :) Last but not least of course is loosing all the stress that has been associated with not being able to fix her for so long. Lack of stress is a very good thing.
So while it's going to suck for the next month or so once that has passed us by we'll be in better shape overall. I don't want to say someone did us a favor because I have a bonus coming in about three weeks that would have allowed us to accomplish the same thing stress free. All this really does is make the inevitable a bit rougher than it should have been. That tweaked my nuts for a while but as long as I stay focused on the bigger picture then I can rest easy knowing all will e well and good in the end.
Plus now I don't have to strangle somebody.