Thursday I noticed that my back left tire looked a little low. Friday, when I got home from running errands, I noticed that the front left tire was really low. I figured I'd get some air in the tires before I ran out to turn in alex's enrollment papers.
Chris (fellar who lives in the basement apartment in M&M's house) went to take care of this for me, and lets me know there is a hole in the front tire, damn. He figures that I can put air in it and make it to the tire shop up the street to get it fixed or replaced. Off I got.
The hole can't be fixed. They want to charge me $30 to install a $30 tire, ummm, no thats what costco is for. So, I put more air in it, stop by the school (no staff in site--holiday party), put more air and put some air in the back tire which was looking sadder than thursday and make it home.
Next morning, front tire is flat as flat, put the temp tire on the front. Check the pressure in all tires, all need some. That back left tire had no pressure in it. Damn! So, this morning I'll see if it still has some pressure in it, if so, I'll think it was some freak insaneness and I'm crazy, or that that tire also has a hole that will need fixed or replaced. Hopefully, if it has leak, it is a slow one so that I can drive to costco since it'll be easier to but 2-3 tires that way.
The front tires were looking a like they'd need replaced soon early last year, so it was time to get them done anyways. If the back one can't be repaired, there is a third. Also, I'd like to get them all balanced and rotated which should take care of the slight shimmy the car gets about 80mph, or that helped the problem before.
Crappy part: this might mean 4 new tires in less than 2 years. Early 2003 I replaced the 2 back tires. Early this year, had to replace the back right due to a blow out. Yay for costco, will have road hazard insurance on them this time.
The other budget blow came earlier this week at Alex's dentist appointment. Basically, alex needs braces to fix her overbite and needs that done now. Insurance won't cover any of it, so I'll be scraping together to cover the full cost and that sure won't be cheap. Plus, I have to find someone. This is where knowing other parents would come in handy.
Add all of this to the recent budget problem of an entire month that seemed to have walked out of my account without telling me where/when/why, sigh. I thought I was doing so good too. Maybe I'm just not meant to do good at budgets. Maybe it is time to ask someone else to manage this stuff for me. Sigh, I really thought I was doing good but for some reason, my numbers are not adding up right anymore, and I can't think of anywhere that I spent anything extra either, oh well.