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Some regulars here may have seen my post at the beginning of August after I was laid off. Unfortunate, but I had my finances in order and was keeping a positive attitude about finding employment again.

Fast forward a couple weeks, and I had decided to move from MA to GA to look for work. All my friends and family are in GA, and my brother just bought a house here so I could avoid paying rent while looking for a new job in the area.

I rented a UHaul and trailer to pull my classic Volvo, and used Uship.com to find a car driving service to transport my "daily driver" Mazda wagon down to GA. The car driving service was several hundred dollars cheaper than shipment on a trailer, and about 10 days faster as well.

The guy picked up my car saturday night, and I was scheduled to pick up the truck and trailer sunday to start driving myself. I got a call at 4 am from the guy driving my car letting me know he had hit a deer somewhere in southern PA. Not a phone call I wanted to get!

So anyways, now I am safely in GA with all my stuff and my classic Volvo . . . but my poor little Mazda is in a repair facility in MD having about $4,500 in repair work done on it. It's covered under my comprehensive policy, but the zinger is my $1,000 deductible. Not what I want to be coughing up while collecting unemployment! To top it all off, I won't have the car for another 2 weeks.

With the way things are going, I'm expecting a health emergency in my near future, because bad things always happen in threes right?!