So it begins again. Got a call from the collision shop. It turns out it would cost $14,000 to repair the car (engine replacement, H frame replacement, undercarriage bent), which means it's only a matter of time before I get the caller ID: TOTAL LOSS UNIT from State Farm, just like last time. So this means I have to get back into the market.
My early goal will probably be to secure a 2008 Malibu (GM's car that works for me best) but I may look around again. I have to pay off the $6600 still owing on the 2005 from whatever settlement I get. It's always a perpetual car payment. People keep aiming for me.
I'm going through the week in a haze from all of this. This is the absolute wrong time of the year for me to have to worry about this stuff!