My Car Is Sickee

My mechanic just left me a voicemail and my car's misfiring, which means my coil burnt out. He said he's gonna call me with a price tomorrow and it's not a cheap job. Surprise, surprise. Anyway, it looks like the expensive part is the labor, 'cause I looked up the cost of parts (spark plugs, coil insulator, coil boots) and they should be no more than $30-$50 put together.

Don't get me wrong, my mechanic is amazing, and even when we're living all the way out in our new apartment (which will be 40 minutes away from him), I'm still taking Roxanne to him. I'm just getting tired of my car having issues this year. The water pump was slowly going when I first got her about 3 years ago, and then I needed new tie-rod ends, and then last month my vacuum tubes went on me (which is a cheap job), and now the coil blew. I need new brakes soon (and roters, but with GM cars, it's a cheap job), and my power steering pump has a slow leak (again, back from when I first got the car).

Poor Roxanne, her previous owners didn't take very good care of her, so I gotta pick up the slack.

Oh well, we find out if we got the approval or not on the apartment tomorrow. Aaaand, I found out my friend Jay from college who currently lives over an hour from me will be living in the next town over from our apartment--10 minutes up the road! I'm so excited! I'll get to see him lots instead of every 3 months 'cause of the distance. Yay!

Oh, Oh It's Magic, You Know . . .

Finally, we are moving out! Yep, Kyle and I applied for an apartment today and although the approval isn't "official" until Tuesday, she told us we basically have the place due to making adequate monthly income and having awesome credit. We move in November 28th, and although that's Thanksgiving weekend, we only have to pay for December's rent and plus we have off from work Friday, so we have three whole days to get settled. Not to mention stores are gonna be having all sorts of crazy sales on stuff we're gonna need. :)

I thought it was funny that the landlord refers to us as the "handsome couple." She was trying to convince Kyle to start a modeling career, lol! I need to start warding off the ladies from my man, hee hee!

But, of course, as my life always is, if one thing's going right, another goes wrong. Since they need proof that you've had at least one job for an entire year, our landlord wanted to see a paystub from Car-Tel for me, and a paystub from Herff Jones for Kyle. So, we went home (we had Kyle's car), and got in mine to drive it back. Well, my baby Roxanne's engine starts thumping around really violently and when we got onto the main highway, the shaking got worse and the "Service Engine Soon" and "Trac Off" light went on. Immediately, we called our mechanic and he said he'd look at this sometime this week, which means Kyle and I are carpool buddies for a few days. I tried researching online what the problem might be, and it's a sensor of some sort having to do with the transmission. It's most likely the speed sensor, which looks like it should cost me no more than $200, which I can handle.

I know I haven't posted the Halloween pictures, yet. I'm working on it, I'm working on it! Maybe I'll post 'em tonight. For now, I'm gonna go eat the yummy dinner Kyle cooked. :)

PEACE~LOVE~EDITING

PS - I totally added that picture of Kyle sticking out his tongue for you, Preston! Ha, ha, ha! :p

Never-released Song Magically Ends Up in Movie . . .

I went to go see Zack and Miri Make a Porno with Laura tonight and what a fantastic movie it is! Hilarious (all I have to say is: "Shut Up Before I *bleep* You In the Mouth!), awesome acting (Justin Long is particularly awesome in this movie), unique story line, and most of all: amazing soundtrack, which brings me to the point of this post.

In the main love scene of the movie, a song by Live (Ed Kowalczyk's beautiful voice is ever-so-unmistakable) I had never heard of plays and I fell in love with it. When I got home, I looked up the movie soundtrack. No songs by Live. Then I figured, "Well, it must be off an album I've never really listened to" [I really looooove Live]. Found tons of spam-filled sites with the lyrics to the song, but no signs of discography origin. So, after lots of research, I found out it's called "Lift Me Up" and was an unreleased demo song off the original Throwing Copper--which I do not have, dammit. I have Throwing Copper, but not the demo!

I am quite disappointed that this gorgeous song is impossible to find. The closest thing I could find to satiate my desire to hear this song is this very raw-sounding YouTube video of "Lift Me Up."

Enjoy this wonderfully rock-a-dellic song and I will be posting Halloween pictures sometime this week, for those who are anxiously awaiting to see this holiday's festivally hilarious get-ups.

PEACE~LOVE~EDITING

Today's Lesson: Adverbs

The latest find, by my best friend Ally while she perused one of our local farmer's markets, makes me wanna add a little extra cream cheese to these extra bagels:


So, they didn't have bagels in the first place? I thought they were just bagels! Now they're bagels, too? I'm so confused--I don't know what to do. If you're in the same boat as me, don't give yourself an aneurysm. We'll survive. Maybe we'll get a bagel . . . too.

Despite the misuse of both a negative and an adverb, looks like they've got a nice selection. Although, I'm pretty disappointed about that only hot dog.

I hope you all learned a great lesson here today: There's always not just bagels . . . too. There's a big world out there to explore. A world outside of bagels. A world without a single hot dog. Take risks, and don't let adverbs get the best of ya.

PEACE~LOVE~EDITING

Oy Vay

So, just when I thought I was getting better, the pain flared up again. I'm going to another doc for a second opinion as soon as possible, but this is getting just goddamn ridiculous. I know I keep whining about it on here, but this is my place to vent. So here I am. Venting.

Anyway, in other news, my mom just biked 200 miles over 3 days. I am so proud of her, and she could probably whoop my ass with her pinky, lol.

Kyle had his first day at Panasonic and he said it went very well, which included him meeting/making an impression on the President of Panasonic, which is incredibly awesome. I'm really proud of him, too.

He's writing a science fiction/fantasy novel, and it's really great. He asked for my fantasy writing expertise tonight, and I didn't realize how knowledgeable I truly was on writing the subject. Now if only I could get my lazy bum back to working on The Fall of Euphoria. I basically decided to rewrite the entire thing after 3 years 'cause I've deemed it as "sucky." And I think I've only gotten about half-way through the second in the series. Maybe I'll finish the third one by the time I'm 40.

All righty, I'm going to write a separate entry on the latest grammatical find, which my best friend Ally found during her Farmer's Market adventure--strictly for the enjoyment of the grammar whore deep down inside all of us. :)

PEACE~LOVE~EDITING

Why I Deleted My Facebook and Myspace

Since everyone's been asking me this whenever they see me for the past two months, I figured I'd explain in one simple sentence on here for those of you who actually read this:

It stole my soul.

Strange response, correct? But none too strange for moi. I would spend hours on both of those damn profiles, communicate with friends through it, and most of all--it was a huge frickin' popularity contest. It made me sick; still does.

I prefer to go and do better things with my time, communicate over the phone, and actually hangout with people in person. Way too many of my friends were using those profiles as a communication device or would just look to see what I was up to instead of even contacting me. And it annoyed me. So, I deleted them, and after the deletion, I see who my true friends are. Not just my facebook and myspace "friends."

Anyway, now that that's out of my system, I'm feeling much better abdominal pain-wise. It was pretty scary for the past week, being able to barely walk and have docs tell you they don't know what's wrong with you. Everyone's telling me it had to do with the ovarian cyst they found, which makes sense 'cause the pain emanates from my left side, which is where they found it. Got blood work done yesterday, so hopefully they find out what's wrong through them. The tiredness is fading, too. Still pretty sleepy though. And I still hurt, but can move around and take care of myself now.

As for fun stuff, here is a wondrous picture of my friend Erin at the Dollar Store when Kim, Donna, Erin (work buddies) and I went there on our lunchbreak:


Good times, good times. Found some awesome stuff for Kyle's and my apartment, too! Anyway, I love my co-workers; they're awesome people.

Pretty much been chillin' around the house after work since I had been in too much pain to really do anything or go anywhere. Hungout at my fuffy buttmuffin (Ally)'s house last night watching Wife Swap and Crusoe.

Going to Olive Garden today with Kyle for lunch for the never-ending soup, salad, and breadsticks, and I am whoah excited. Barely ate all week, so now that my appetite's back, it'll pay off today, lol. Then next week we have his friends' wedding, and of course Halloween. Pumpkin smashing good time!

All righty, I leave you all for now. Sorry I've been too lazy to post anything on here lately. I'm gonna post some artwork on here soon. Stay outta trouble!

PEACE~LOVE~EDITING!

A Very Happy Unbirthday!

As promised, here are the pictures from last night:

My Mad Hatter attire turned out amazing, especially Kyle's suggestion to put reddish brown eye shadow underneath my eyes to emphasize lack of sleep, just like Disney's delightful version of him. :)

Kyle's Ron Burgundy? Yes, he is the arrogant, yet sophisticated and talented personality that is Channel 4 news in San Diego's own Ron Burgundy.

























Posing between rocking out to the band at Kyles friends' house. Unfortunately, I didn't catch the band's name, but they were a pretty decent cover band:






The first video clip is of their version of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The second clip is of Kyle's rendition of Weird Al's "Smells Like Nirvana." Enjoy!

PEACE~LOVE~EDITING!