$500 to Fix the AC! ☹ in 2020-2024

What a shitty day! The AC guy came out and said the blower motor is broken. It’s going to cost us five fucking hundred bucks to fix—a $500 repair on a three-year-old AC, and we already had to pay them $100 just to diagnose it! ☹

It’s like having health insurance in the U.S.: what’s the point if it doesn’t cover everything you need? Same thing with this AC warranty. If you’re still shelling out a fortune, it feels pointless. Like I said, if you have money, you stay afloat, but if you’re low-income, you just keep getting hit with setback after setback. There’s no getting ahead—so damn frustrating! To top it off, they didn’t have the part in stock, so now we have to wait.

On the bright side, Tom called around and another company quoted us $350. Maybe we can switch to them or try to negotiate a discount with the first company, though I’m not holding my breath. You know we never catch a break.

I’m on nights now and crashed around 9 a.m. When I woke up around 4 to use the bathroom and felt how warm it was in there, I knew something was wrong. I went out to the living room, and Tom filled me in. Then I went back to bed, and surprisingly, I managed to get a little more sleep despite being pissed off.

So yeah, not a great day, and I worry this whole ordeal is going to drag on. The only slightly refreshing thing is that, for once, the problem isn’t with my health.

We’re expecting a cold spell with lows in the 50s for a couple of days.

Also, the internet’s been slow, probably because our provider’s still messed up from all the flooding we had after the hurricane.

Feeling pretty hopeless about ever moving, but there are worse places to be stuck, and at least the snowbirds are only here half the year. So trying to see the positive, but yeah, we have virtually no chance of moving if we can’t get ahead. Next, it could be the refrigerator, the oven, the car, or maybe I’ll need a new crown. There will always be something.