Sable=cursed but sold

Welp, sold the cahhr. I called around a few places to fix the brake line and it would have cost at least $200 so I was frustrated and put it on craigslist as is. A guy called me right away for his daughter and came out last night. He talked us down from $500 to $375, but considering the repairs and tow will be around $300 he is going to end up paying far more than it's worth, which is probably only $50-150. It sucks that it's so crappy and we had to put in over $1000 last year to get it this far, but at least it's gone and I can move on to a new car. I need to find a place that will sell me a car with bad credit and with little or no down payment. We'll see how it goes.
School is going well. I'm starting to get in a groove and the kids are great. I have a few stinkers that I'm sure I'll get figured out sooner than later. We're doing this Leopold Idol thing where every time the class get five or less "talk tallies" for 4 weeks then they're next class gets to be a competition between whoever signs up to sign, dance, play, etc. They are super excited about it and there is already a significan difference in their behavior. Two girls made flyers and put them around the school! haha. Then 3 little black boys stopped in at lunch yesterday to help decorate the L.I. bullitan board instead of having their first recess in the snow! They were so sweet about it.
I enjoy working with the other music teacher, Cindy, although she's really long-winded and teaches a lot more out of the book than she admits. She keeps coming in a seeing my "props" and stuff and I don't know what she really thinks. I'm doing a lot of cool things, thanks to Liz and Owatonna, but it's like people would prefer that we just taught the boring old stuff so that they didn't have to feel guilty. The hispanic classes are very interesting to me. They are respectful and easier to handle, but are so much more excitable that their hyperness and giggling are starting to hold us back. It's more likely a language barrier and nervous reaction to my directions/sillyness. I'm able to email teachers and take care of things right away so it should get better if their teachers help me out a little bit. Recorder orders in the next few weeks...can't wait.
I'm nervous about money, something that I'm sick of feeling. My last paycheck was supposed to be $1300 from subbing, but they took $100 out for union dues, which really ticks me off. What if I wasn't a sub and wouldn't have gotten paid until Jan? They wouldn't have been able to take money from nothing so I called and they are going to call me back (fingers crossed). I got hired on Nov. 19th and the check was for dates through the 15th so I don't think it's fair that they did that. I need every penny. The lady kept saying that it's for the month, because I was hired for the end of Nov. but still, like I said, what if they had nothing to take it out of??? They can take $200 out of Jan. for all I care, but I needed that extra $100 badly. Between rent and bills and paying Liz $200 of what I owe her (the minimum we agreed on and she deserves) I don't have much money left. Even with the money from the Sable I don't know how I'm going to pay for a new car down-payment if they want me to pay more than $150-200. I have no idea. It sucks. I keep saying "next paycheck I'll be fine" and then I just can't keep up. Hopefully in January some truth will come to this...
Dad's in Sauk to pick up a new van so the weekend just got a little more interesting! More later.