Madame Fortuna

So I've been trying to be more optimistic. I found myself looking on the sucky side of things in almost every scenario...I have no justification in saying that a lot of crappy things happened to make me feel that way, but I digress. Today I did something as an adult, all by myself, and daddy wasn't there to have my back, as he does in most of my sticky situations. This may sound ridiculous, but as I have previously blogged, I was pulled over and got a citation for three different counts (when I referred to my "car crap" on January 18 that's what I was talking about).

To make a long story relatively short, I was pulled over because I had a tail light out, which made the cop run my plates, he said my registration was out (bull crap), and I of course didn't have the most recent copy of my insurance on hand. Say it with my now--- "that sucks". Yes, it did suck. It sucked so much that I had to spend a lot of money that I didn't have on a trip to Texas (yes the trip was necessary and it was good to see my family, but once again my pocket book was looking sparse). Let's see, we are in the New Orleans Bureaucratic checkout line and:

1. Tail Light= $125 ouch
2. NO insurance proof=$175 (heart is slowly decreasing)
3. Expired registration=$250 (and she flat lines)

So, with this being known, I have consistently for the past 2 1/5 weeks been freaking out a little bit on the inside.

Today I woke up, I got out of bed, and I drove my booty down to the court house, waited for 3 grueling hours, met with an attorney that the city of New Orleans so graciously allotted to me, and walked out of there with only paying $25 dollars.
and cue hallelujah chorus
******************************hallelujah!************************

So given my circumstances...I will now choose to look on the brighter side of things. I've been in a few tight spots financially over the past couple of months, but now I will look forward with my head held high. If I could get through this, I can get through many things.

cheers
--M