Mercury Sextile Uranus

Well here we go again with Whenever-I-Feel-Like-It astrology, but hey, we all do the best we can do, right? <choke>

All I need to do to give me a panic attack at the moment is to see Mercury showing up anywhere in a transit search, and when I saw this for this morning all I could think about was getting home safely after playing tennis.

Since my accident of two weeks ago today, I've been obsessed with the - for me - horrific task of buying a "new" car, veering from a Honda CRV with 149,000 miles on it to a reasonably new Nissan Versa and then switching gears (ha!) when I get feedback from other people.

Living in Silver City means the closest (!) big cities with auto dealers are Las Cruces (two hours away), El Paso (three hours away) and Tucson, a mere three and a half hours away.

Living in Silver City also means that when you go to rent a car (from the only rental agency in town) you request a compact and get a Town & Country minivan, as that's the only thing they have available. This puts paid to any notions of driving to any of those big cities to see what might be available.

So - and this is the VERY abridged version of the last two weeks - I decided last night I would call the body shop where my poor old Volvo was towed and ask if there had been any structural damage to the car, thinking I would pay for the repairs myself and at least be driving the devil I know rather than one I don't.

And what was the manifestation of Mercury sextile Uranus, you might ask? Being told by the body shop that the car was towed away for salvage on Friday, meaning there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that I have to bite the bullet and buy some kind of new used car ASAP, even if it does mean driving a Greyhound Bus to look at the *choices*.