So... oops. I know I didn't post when I said I would. Long story short, I just didn't feel like it. I did get a vehicle, it's a (really nice condition save for a few minor scratches) 1994 Chevy Lumina van. It's great, I love it and it's name is Manny the Vanny. My dad said I can't name my own vehicle (what?! I've done it with all my previous cars so I don't know where he came up with that) and in a fit of inspiration at the color has dubbed Manny 'Redbeat'. As in redbeat eggs. As in no, Heather will not be substituting Manny for Redbeat. No matter what dad says.
I moved into my dorm room yesterday. Well, almost everything is moved in, I forgot my fan at home. Which really sucks actually, since it's stuffy in this room and my roommate's fan is on the other side of our room and so it doesn't help too much when I'm hot. Our room is bigger this year!!! As in... all of our stuff actually fits in the room AND we have room in the middle! It's so strange to have spare room, we're not sure we like it. And so we've vowed to keep it semi-messy so as not to notice the huge expanse of white tile. Cause ick, who wants space just laying around?
I didn't have any classes today. My classes start tomorrow and so that'll be interesting. Everyone keeps telling me I suck cause I didn't have classes today and I won't have any on Friday and I know it's a great schedule but let me tell you it's not that much fun to just wander around all day either while everyone goes off to do stuff. Boring. I even took a nap (as did my roommate) from about 5-7 just because I was tired from being bored.
My sleep schedule is all thrown off. I've actually been going to bed early, around 11 maybe, which is good I guess? But it sucks because I'll want to be online but then I'll get sleepy and want to go to sleep. Plus Mush is MIA :( and so that makes me just want to go to sleep even earlier. And then when I go to sleep early I wake up early. As in pre-9am!! It's insanely weird and I don't really like it. I mean the 9am schedule thing works for school but I still don't like it.
Umm I don't really have a graceful way of ending this post, so I'll just say this: class starts tomorrow and I'm looking forward to it so I have something to do. Even though I know this time next week I'll be hating it. Le sigh.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
car shopping
I've never really thought about it, but car shopping is a huge pain in the arse. Today my dad and I went to 5 different car lots and only found a handful of cars that were in my price range or half-decent size/model wise. Very few of that handful were both in price range and a half-decent model.
The fourth place we looked had sent out a flyer with "cars from $76 a month" and so since that's in my budget we decided to go there. HAH! What they should have put was "1 Car that is sold on first day if it really exists at all is $76 a month the rest are over $200." And like an idiot I gave him my information before finding all that out so I'm probably going to get spam/calls from their stupid business. Boy are they in for it if they call me, they really pissed me off. And the "free" MP3 player that I won according to their flyer? Yea it's free but they don't keep them in the dealership and so I have to send away for it with a money order for $15 to cover shipping charges. Whatever happened to free???
The next dealership (and last one of the day) I almost bought a car for a really really good price, but after considering the little things that were wrong with it my dad decided it wouldn't be a good deal... and considering what I know about cars mechanically could fit in my little pinky finger I trust him to make that judgement. Certainly trust him more than myself. And we hadn't even taken a test drive, that was just from looking at the outside of the car and the undercarriage (it looks like it had serious front end damage at one time in the undercarriage).
And then when the car dealer finally got there (he was away so we had to call his phone) and he attempted to start the car... it didn't start. So he pops the hood and says its just the battery and it only needs to be charged. Ok, fine. The car dealer gets the battery charger out, puts it on the battery spots and the car alarm starts going off! Right at the exact time that my dad's head was down at the engine, so he got a nice loud ringing right in his head (he had a headache after). Figuring he could get the alarm off from the inside he had my dad put the charger on the battery as he tried to start the car... nope! More alarm. Over and over and over again this happened as the guy tried to figure out what was wrong. Finally my dad said we'd come back tomorrow and maybe they'd have it fixed by then.
We'll go back, but chances are we'll be looking at another car on the lot. That one just seems like way too much trouble. So we're taking it as a sign that we should keep looking...
Dad said we'd go looking more on Monday but I think my pesting is getting to him because I've already kind of gotten him to say we'll go to that place plus another place tomorrow. Yay!
Now if only one of these places would have a decent car for a decent price...
(I'll update tomorrow with the car quest results)
The fourth place we looked had sent out a flyer with "cars from $76 a month" and so since that's in my budget we decided to go there. HAH! What they should have put was "1 Car that is sold on first day if it really exists at all is $76 a month the rest are over $200." And like an idiot I gave him my information before finding all that out so I'm probably going to get spam/calls from their stupid business. Boy are they in for it if they call me, they really pissed me off. And the "free" MP3 player that I won according to their flyer? Yea it's free but they don't keep them in the dealership and so I have to send away for it with a money order for $15 to cover shipping charges. Whatever happened to free???
The next dealership (and last one of the day) I almost bought a car for a really really good price, but after considering the little things that were wrong with it my dad decided it wouldn't be a good deal... and considering what I know about cars mechanically could fit in my little pinky finger I trust him to make that judgement. Certainly trust him more than myself. And we hadn't even taken a test drive, that was just from looking at the outside of the car and the undercarriage (it looks like it had serious front end damage at one time in the undercarriage).
And then when the car dealer finally got there (he was away so we had to call his phone) and he attempted to start the car... it didn't start. So he pops the hood and says its just the battery and it only needs to be charged. Ok, fine. The car dealer gets the battery charger out, puts it on the battery spots and the car alarm starts going off! Right at the exact time that my dad's head was down at the engine, so he got a nice loud ringing right in his head (he had a headache after). Figuring he could get the alarm off from the inside he had my dad put the charger on the battery as he tried to start the car... nope! More alarm. Over and over and over again this happened as the guy tried to figure out what was wrong. Finally my dad said we'd come back tomorrow and maybe they'd have it fixed by then.
We'll go back, but chances are we'll be looking at another car on the lot. That one just seems like way too much trouble. So we're taking it as a sign that we should keep looking...
Dad said we'd go looking more on Monday but I think my pesting is getting to him because I've already kind of gotten him to say we'll go to that place plus another place tomorrow. Yay!
Now if only one of these places would have a decent car for a decent price...
(I'll update tomorrow with the car quest results)
Sunday, August 12, 2007
l-o-v-e.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to love somebody, even when they don't deserve it. What I've been raised to believe (and I really do believe it) is that love isn't all about flowers and good times. When you love someone, when you really truly love them, you know that times are going to be rough. Sometimes you wish that you didn't love them. But you can't help it, that's just how love is. You love someone even when they don't deserve your love, you love them inspite of themselves and whatever actions they take.
I'm not saying that someone should stay in a situation that is bad for them, that's not what I mean at all. If the bad are outweighing the good by a long shot, if your life (children, etc) is in danger... that's not what I'm talking about at all. All I mean is that sometimes someone does something stupid or says something that shouldn't be said or acts a certain way during a certain time... and it's not easy to just get away from that. You love them through the bad until you get to the good again. As long as there's good to hold onto.
Sometimes the good times with my dad are so unbelievably good. Happy and fun and joking around like the person I know he is. And then you find out something stupid he's doing and you want to just hate him. But its so hard cause you remember the good times and you know you can't just give up on him even though he might deserve it.
But if we didn't love him- or if we thought he didn't really love us, our world wouldn't exist. It'd be some crumbled shadow of what used to be. Every aspect of our life would change. And we would all be so incredibly crushed.
I just wish he'd keep acting like the person we all love so much.
I'm not saying that someone should stay in a situation that is bad for them, that's not what I mean at all. If the bad are outweighing the good by a long shot, if your life (children, etc) is in danger... that's not what I'm talking about at all. All I mean is that sometimes someone does something stupid or says something that shouldn't be said or acts a certain way during a certain time... and it's not easy to just get away from that. You love them through the bad until you get to the good again. As long as there's good to hold onto.
Sometimes the good times with my dad are so unbelievably good. Happy and fun and joking around like the person I know he is. And then you find out something stupid he's doing and you want to just hate him. But its so hard cause you remember the good times and you know you can't just give up on him even though he might deserve it.
But if we didn't love him- or if we thought he didn't really love us, our world wouldn't exist. It'd be some crumbled shadow of what used to be. Every aspect of our life would change. And we would all be so incredibly crushed.
I just wish he'd keep acting like the person we all love so much.
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