So many things have been going wrong lately it's not funny.  This is yet another low point in my life.  My car died about 3 weeks ago now and I don't have the money to fix it.  Then the day after Thanksgiving I was putting up my Christmas window clings at about 3:30 in the afternoon, I saw a green SUV pull up and park where my car normally sits (It's at a friends house now because we are not supposed to have non-working cars parked on housing authority property), and in broad daylight, Me, my daughter and her boyfriend saw a drug deal go down less than 50 feet from where we were.  That really shook me up.  So of course, I called the police.  After I gave her all the information I could, and even the license plate number, all she said was "I'll let everyone know."  I couldn't believe it, I am still in total shock for how that officer was so non-chalant about the entire thing like it was an everyday occurance.  Then on Saturday night, I heard 5 gunshots from one of the 2 problem houses across from the housing units (not part of them), called the police, and it took them 5 minutes to respond, and all they did was drive by, kinda hit their brakes and then kept going.  Another police car was behind the first one, used the spotlight, put it on some cars and the house, and then some woods next to it, and kept driving.  That was it.  I lived in Las Vegas in the roughest part of town for 10 years and NEVER witnessed a drug deal or heard gunshots so close to me.  I am now petrified, no longer let my daughter go outside, even during the day, and I pray that somehow, someway, we get a good car, and some money to get the hell out of Georgia. I was laid off back in Sept 2005, 5 days before my 40th birthday and haven't been able to find any work since then, and now that my car is down and out, I have no way to get to work even if I could find it.  There are no city buses here in this small town, so that option is out.  The few friends I have here, work during the day, so that's out.  The luck just isn't here anymore.  I have a couple doctors visits coming up in December and January, and have no idea how I'm going to get to them without a car.  Bad stuff like this seems to happen to me and my daughter every year right before Thanksgiving ever since 1999.  I can't take an 8th year of this, so pray that somehow I am able to get some money saved up for a new car, and for a move and we are gone from Georgia before next season.  I can't even get to the clinic to weigh myself for my 8th month post op, so I won't have any clue as to how much I've lost in lbs.  I can tell I've lost some more in inches though, that's the only good thing.  We are going to need gorceries in about 2 weeks and I don't know how I'm going to do that as the nearest grocery store is in the middle of town and we live clear on the west side. Well, that's about it on the updates.  I hope everyone else is doing well and I wish for the speedy loss with those of you who have had the surgery and I wish for the speedy surgery date of those of you who haven't.  Take care and God bless!