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Scary. Okay. I think I accidentally added this entry before I typed this entry. "No title" only. Yikes. Anyway. Terrible news. HA! Well, I'm alive, so it's not as terrible as it could be. The other day I drove over the railroad tracks and something broke in my car and started making an awful scraping noise. Took it to the car repair people and apparently my rear brakes are obliterated. The guy calling me sounded like a doctor who'd just been operating on a patient he couldn't save. "Well, we've looked at your car...." "Yes?" He said the brakes have been broken for so long that they've been ground up into a metal powder. Wow! And that the car is "extremely dangerous" to drive. And he found a few other things wrong with it. Soooo. $852. Yup. I could let the "other things" go, but I don't know enough about cars to know if that's okay to do. Brakes alone is $477. And they have to wait 'til Wednesday before they have the parts. They had to order them because my car is so old. HMM! Which is fine. At least it will be taken care of now.

Not that I had the money. I have to borrow it from my mom. And for good measure I decided to apply for energy assistance and housing assistance. Whatever they are called. The energy application took FIVE hours to fill out. The housing one took 5 minutes. Weird, no? I hope I get something. I have to pay my mom back! And, you know, live. Buy food. That sort of thing. Also, my landlord has not fixed my kitchen sink and I left him a note about it 3 weeks ago. HMM. But then again I didn't pay my entire utilities bill. Who am I to complain? On top of that apparently I, as a new employee, don't get paid holidays until March. So, Merry Christmas to me, I had 2 days off in one paycheck period with no pay. Yay! Doesn't it just make you want to giggle with joy? Me too.

Pfft. Today I have to do laundry. But I have to call my mother to come pick me up so I can do laundry. Pathetic. Yup. I feel like Scarlett O'Hara falling down in Gone With The Wind in a turnip field. Whatever that was. "As God as my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" Hee. I love that movie. But I digress. I'll get everything together again. I won't wear a curtain dress and marry men I don't love, but you know, I'll figure it out.

It's sad. I was gonna give my car a bath this weekend. Sigh.... and now it's all dirty and broken at the car shop. Boooo.... It's like that saying about wearing clean underwear in case you're in a wreck. However that goes. Your car should be clean just in case it freaks out and stops working on you. Heh. I drove across town 4 times a day in heavy traffic for a month and a half in that car. "Ground into a metal powder." Woo! I knew the brakes were not wonderful, but who'd a thunk? I don't know why I'm happy, but at least I didn't get into a wreck. Yeah....

I'm tired. I could go back to bed right now. But, you know, laundry. I went to bed hungry. Which is stupid, but I was so tired I didn't want to eat first. But when I go to bed hungry, I wake up early and then it's hard to get back to sleep, even if I eat something. Grr. Dumb. I couldn't sleep very well the night before because I was waiting for the verdict on my car. And it was so much worse than I imagined it could be. Yay. So, my nerves are shot. Bam, bam, bam. Things happen in threes? No. Uh, when it rains, it pours? Maybe, but isn't that for good things? Whatever. The 3 things being my utilities bill being $200 last month, me not being paid for holidays, and my car being a death trap money pit. 'Curtsy'.

Speaking of -- not that we were -- but how funny were those evil twins on Four Kings last week? I thought I was gonna die laughing when they started singing that song to Seth Green. (Barry?) SO.... FUNNY. That's good stuff. That's a good show. I kinda like Crumbs too. Whoop! Good. It's good to have funny comedies on the TV again. Or more of them, whatever. It's good for the soul! And the stomach muscles. And the nerves and.... digestion, I don't know. But it's good.

Hmm. I wonder what tomorrow will bring. Really. Nothing bad I think. It can't get any worse. Jinx. Kidding. It can always get worse! But it won't. I would like it if things got better. That would be great. Yes. I will wish for that. Hmm, time to ponder something interesting. Just a thought I have to follow. Okay then. Wish me luck. (Not for the pondering, just for life in general. Or whatever you want.... whatever, whatever. ) Later.

Chris on 01.15.06 @ 03:34 pm [link]

"Somebody help me"

Don't laugh. I have that song stuck in my head. The theme song from Tru Calling. Which kicks ass more than I'd like it to. The show. (And the song, sure, but I digress....) I hate it when good things get overlooked! (Meaning when good shows get cancelled and no one's ever heard of them, etc. etc....) Grr. I kept expecting Tru to kick someone's butt like Faith and had to keep reminding myself she doesn't have super powers. Eliza walks around a corner and yells, "Hey!" and you think to yourself, "Oh, somebody's in trouble now! Whoop!" But no, she just has to reason with them. But I like it, I'm not complaining. It's a good show. I just bought it on DVD, by the way. In case none of this makes any sense to you. And now, thank you, I have to buy the 2nd season. Whoop! Which I hear is even better even if it is pretty darn short. What is up with networks? Grr.

In other television news, Surface comes back on tonight. Weeee! I've been waiting for this. Now I have something to do with my couch potato hours. Hee. And Medium, which I also love, but.... it doesn't need my constant worry. It's not one of the shows I fear will be cancelled because of its newness and lack of super huge ratings. It's solidly there. Good. Invasion totally freaks me out, but I will keep watching. What a stupid deputy! I say nothing!

New Year's was fun. I went and saw Narnia. And realized it was a kid's movie. Even if the audience was filled with people in their 60's, not a kid in sight. It was like Lord of the Rings in miniature. Not that hobbits aren't already miniature.... it's just that.... I loved the books about Narnia, and I've had my imaginary vision of Narnia in my head for so long, 2 1/2 decades, that no movie could really ever do it justice. Something like that. Like it's easy to capture the look of something, but not necessarily the feeling. Maybe the old house was too clean. Something. There are lamp posts outside my apartment that come right out of the yard, and in winter they have always reminded me of the lamp post in Narnia. But I like the one in the movie better. It's older and more treeish. Sigh. It was almost like watching something private, watching that movie. Like it's been a part of me for too long already, and now other people can see it too. YIKES. Warped, yes, I know. Sure.

I sure like that Harrison character on Tru Calling. He reminds me of Doyle on Angel. Nice. I am so bummed out! Blame the dark winter. My hair is too long. I need to cut it or let someone else cut it. I just watched a whole season of a show in 3 days. WOW. I kinda got creeped out at one point. Watching murder murder murder all day long. Kinda makes you not want to step outside your apartment in the dark. But I had to do laundry. So, there you go.

And now I have to go back to watching Buffy season 6 again. Or the extras on the Serenity DVD. I bought the widescreen edition, by the way. I did, I did. Ha! It looks much cooler. In many ways. Now that the new year is here, I feel like diving back into my writing. I mean, I think I might be brave enough to publish my second novel now. I'm gonna get started toning it down. I should always be working on a piece of writing in one way or another. So I don't go insane. Writing it or rewriting it. That sort of thing. Blah. I'm tired. I shouldn't be. I think I slept in plenty today. It's a day off. I kind of hate days off, but I'm sure it's good for me. Yeck.

I should go eat some food now. This seems like a smaller entry than usual, but oh well. I don't care. It's a whole lot of me babbling anyway. Good for me! Whatever. Anyway.... yawn. Tired at 3 in the afternoon. Sighhh.... once I stop babbling in here I will have to find other things to do with my day. YUCK! Oh well.... bye for now. Later.~

Chris on 01.02.06 @ 02:59 pm [link]