You never run on a barge!

Some Phoebe of Friends for you.

Phew! Now is as good a time as any to blog. Wow, am I frustrated. OKAY. So, my car breaks down a lot, right? And with good reason. Anyway, so I sign up for AAA about 3 weeks ago and still haven't gotten my membership #. So today, my car breaks down and I do this:

Call mother, coworkers, no one can give me a ride
Call AAA to get membership #
AAA then transfers me to roadside assistance
I order roadside assistance
I call the car place and say I'm having car towed there
I go outside to wait in the car and the car starts
I go back inside to cancel roadside assistance
I drive to car repair place and they say they can't see it 'til Monday
I say I just called and you said you could
"You said you were having it towed."
(I changed my mind!)
So, they can see it, but not 'til 3
They drive me home to wait by the phone
Which is where I am now, The End

Arrrgh!!!! See, a few lovely weeks ago I had to have it jumpstarted using my mother's AAA, and the car place said, "There's nothing wrong with it." They did however offer to start replacing random parts to see if that would help. No thank you. Thanks, geniuses!!!! (Where's my thumbs up smiley?)

And while we are speaking of unnecessary misery, CHECK THIS OUT. You know how I said I got a raise the same day my rent went up? Hahahahahaaa. Yeah, correction. My rent went up the day I was falsely told I was getting a raise. Then I sign the lease instead of looking for a cheaper apartment, which I had a month to do, then -- hahahaha -- pay day comes around and I am told oops, I'm not supposed to get a raise now, because I was supposed to get one in November before the market adjustment raise I got in February. And the market raise was above what the yearly raise would have been, "But here's $50." Pfft. I mean, the pay stub said that. I got $50 for the time between November 28 and the beginning of February. What would have been my yearly raise had I gotten it on time. Tee hee hee. Panic, panic, panic. Then I completely rework my budget and basically start buying cheaper food, and now I can afford to live again. Yay! And if the government would hurry it's butt up with that economic stimulus check I could afford to have awesome repairs done to my car. And by that I mean basic maintenance. Yipee! Grr.

Okay, apparently I am in a mood. Again. This is not improved by the fact that I am having a sugar withdrawal headache. And they had wonderful chocolatey treats at work today and I couldn't go back after lunch! Ahhhhhh!!!!!!! Phew. Breathe. I mean, yeah, my car broke down when I was home for lunch. Go car. Yeeee! Nice choice.

I'm on this new diet that controls my blood sugar much better than I was doing on my own. Thank goodness. But I decided I had to give up fruit for now, it's sugary. Orange juice and apples. And I had to start eating veggies. Which is fine, except then I got the orange juice/apple slices withdrawal headache. That's right, it wasn't even from unhealthy sugars! AAAAaaaaaa! Wow, I need a cookie. In 6 minutes I will have low sugar rice pudding with peanuts mixed into it. Balanced.

I started watching How I Met Your Mother last night. I mean on DVD. Very funny. What else was I going to say? Oh - duurrrrk - I wrote a novel since I talked to you last. Eeeee! Hee hee hee. I decided to write as many of them as I can this summer while there's no TV on. Then in the fall/winter I will type them up and edit them. It'll probably take into the spring too. Then release them one at a time here on this website. Then next summer, do it all over again! Weeeee....! That was really fun. Writing the novel in a month, I mean. It would have been 2 weeks if I had gotten into this idea sooner. I think it turned out good. Or is that turned out well? Go, writer, go. I think it's good, not well. Okay then. (Does that mean I have bad grammar or good grammar....?)

Ummmmm, where is my mother?! I need to borrow her extra car! I know, who has an extra car lying around? Jeesh. I need water. Pudding break. (And water.) -- Okay. That tastes slightly better at work. Probably because a break at work tastes better than a break from the blog writing at home. You see?

Okay, in my snack haze I remembered I discovered The Guild since I last wrote. It is the bestest funniest web series ever! Okay, I've never seen a web series before, but I really liked it. Here is a link: Link. Mucho funniness. Okay, enough.

Calm. I'm still waiting anxiously for THE CALL. From the car repair guys. You know what? I should probably take a break now and track down my mother with her extra car. Where is that woman????!! -- Okay, I tracked her down. She's been in court all day. As I suspected! As one of the good guys, not one of the criminals. Okay. Phew! She will drive me back to pick up or do last rites on my car later. Excellent. One stress down. Many more to go! "Giles, we get it. Miles to go before we sleep." -Buffy.

I can't wait 'til Saturday when I can start writing my next novel. This is really fun. The novel thing, not the car thing. Eeeee! I had to write a fight scene in my last novel. With kickboxing and other stuff. Hard to describe that in a novel. "She was a blur of feet and fists." Okay, I never said that. But it is kind of vague like that. What else can you do? It's pretty neat. There is this funny part where the main character is kicking butt and says something she thinks is cool, which actually may be, but it's kind of dorky too and it is so much funnier than I imagined it would be. Coming Fall 2009! I know, a long way off. I can't help it. I will have many novels to type up and edit between then and now. Plus I have to copyright them all at once in one big chunk, because I can't afford to copyright them separately. Yup. So, I can't release one 'til they're alllll edited. I hate wasting time SITTING HERE. But I'm too keyed up to write an outline right now. So, this is what I'm doing. Yipee skippee.

Ooo, I could be watching How I Met Your Mother. But that's funny and I'm immune to funny right now. Dammit. I don't want to end this blog entry because then I'll have to do a grammar/spelling check. And I kinda want to tell you what's wrong with the horrible vehicle. Okay, I will put the entry on pause.

[Pause.]

One hour and 40 minutes later. Hi. It's the starter. They are replacing it now. Well, tomorrow. $290. For diagnosing the problem and for fixing it. I got a new starter 2 years ago. And less than one year before that. But the last one was free cuz the first one was under warranty. And now this one I have to pay for. Hmm. Weird. Okay then. I'll try to make this one last. Hahahhaahaa. I'm gonna be better about maintenance to the car. All the fluids of various sorts need to be flushed. And.... it has a crooked axle, which I am ignoring right now. The front windows don't roll down, which I am definitely ignoring right now. It has oil leaks and a transmission leak, which I am ignoring right now. That just about does it. For the things I'm ignoring. Hey, I get the oil changed every 3 months. Congratulate me!

Sigh. Enough about the car. Now, it is officially after work. I've never had to take a sick day because of my car before. And it's not actually a sick day, cuz we don't have those. We have deathly ill days, but you have to use 3 vacation days to get to those. Anyway, I just used half a vacation day. But I guess that's what it's there for. In my mind. Whoopie! Okay. Anyway.

I should probably go now. It's time to goof off and try to wind down from being stressed up waiting for the phone call. And time to check my spelling. Adios!

Chris on 06.12.08 @ 05:20 pm [link]