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Currently debating while I should be asleep:

Do I go see 9 tonight, even though my car is still doing that overheating at stoplights thing?

For: I am going stir-crazy and want to leave the house. Also, when I first noticed this problem, I made it back okay and nothing seemed to burning or noticeably wrong, and that drive was roughly the same distance I'd be going this time.

Against: It's a scary thought that my car might crap out on me, and for all I know it would do further damage to make the trip. But it's something like 15 miles on the interstate, a little over half an hour drive time. Compared to the 8ish miles to work, something like a quarter of an hour depending on stop lights for work, it doesn't seem like that huge of a distance...

*debate debate debate*

I have been driving with it like this, and it's been okay. Dad thinks it may be a sensor problem, in which case there's nothing wrong with the engine, it's... what, basically a faulty thermometer. Hrrrrrm.

Gah I need to sleep. More thinking about this, and possibly poking yulechat, later.

This is not an icon post, because that icon needs improving. But.

It amuses me. That scene always amuses me. It evokes a brain-hurting image of Xaldin and the Beast going to a salon or something. Seriously, look at that man's eyelashes. :P

I am sleepy. Feel free to confuse this with other brain-altering states.

Weekend so far: Much much better than last weekend. When the car fail started. Now I am minus car fail and plus trip to the bookstore, so. Yay!

Though the trip itself was interesting due to my trying to keep calm and not freak out. About halfway on the trip I realized I'd already made it past where I broke down before, which felt weird for some reason. Made it all the way to the bookstore, breathed a sigh of relief, and spent more than an hour wandering around because I didn't exactly want to get back in the car. Also, books. <3

Forced to leave by the closing of the bookstore, I got my book and coffee and a metal puzzle I didn't start on these because of Lexaeus. Seriously! ...am I fooling anyone? and got back in the car. Which of course started. And seemed to run a little smoother on the way home, even, which I think might be the new part settling in? I. Do not know. And I made it all the way home, felt much better for pulling into the driveway, turned the car off -

- and the handle of the glovebox twists in my hand. %$#@ To understand the importance of this, you need to know that the glovebox contains the garage door opener, and said opener is the only way in the house because everything else is blocked up or lost keys. x.x

So I spent a couple of minutes out there fiddling with this thing and thinking that I'd have to go and wake my Dad up to let me in the house, oh joy of joys. I mean, it's not like he hasn't lost enough sleep helping me with the car, right? Need moar breakage. But luckily, it was a twist and not a break, and I was able to sort of ease it back into place.

And no more keeping the garage door opener in there.

Plans for tonight: I need a new bra, and have a promotional coupon for 15% off which will soon expire. So, mall run! (and coffee) and then, I dunno. I am this close to beating Reverse/Rebirth (damn you and your deliciously evil voice, Ansem!) so I'll probably be doing a lot of leveling then trying to beat him, repeat until dead. (Him not me.) And maybe more screencaps, speaking of which:

Screencapping post now updated and stickied! New scenes have an asterisk.

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So. Another update full of happy?

Or not so much. ( Water worries and car drama )

So. I will not let this get me down, even though I am a bundle of moody and on default All Is Bleak And Woeful. x.x Because even in the above drama and freaking out, there is much of the good.

Other good stuff this weekend: Inauguration! We can haz President Obama! \o/

I got my very first gold dragon egg, which I've been wanting since I started collecting dragons at the Dragon Cave. Psst this is me.

Story for me: The Orgy vs the Twelve Dancing Princesses It is funny! And full of the lovely simple imagery and Lexaeus! ^_^

And I have got some screencapping done, and intend to do more in a minute, and perhaps actually make a post sharing them at some point tonight.

And I'm almost done with Reverse/Rebirth - past Lexaeus now, which was rather sad because. Now it's only Zexion and Ansem left to go through, and it's bad enough I had to beat Lexaeus, I don't wanna beat Zexion because I know what happens next.

But. Right now, I shall step awaaay from the computer. That I might cook my dinner, since we stopped at my work for groceries after everything else.

We have rain! Wait, lemme rephrase that: RAIN. It probably wasn't too smart of me to go out after my mint coffee in this weather, in fact. There were some scary moments, especially up the road where an intersection looks about flooded out.

But I need mint coffee to waken me for playing with my shiny new camera! :D :D :D

Well, new to me, it is actually a hand-me-down from my grandma? Ask me if I care ;p It is also my early and combined Christmas and birthday presents. Yay me! :D :D :D

This thing is so much nicer than my old camera, which was really a starter anyway but I loved it. :/ But! Now there shall be picture taking! :D

http://www.flickr.com/photos/18114232@N00/1473237663/ Like so! ^_^

In other news, I had to take home the latest math quiz, one of about 5 of us I think? Who had to. It is sitting there waiting for me to finish it up, and I'm to turn it in first thing Thursday. x.x I'm sure I've done horribly, which makes me feel bad because Mr. Lasky was encouraging. Like 'you're good at this stuff, you won't have a problem' encouraging.

And I couldn't finish on time. -.-

And, a squealing has started up in my car that may or may not be the brakes, and I won't know until Friday as this is the earliest I'll have the money and be able to get out there. x.x

Right now, though? No worrying. Only playing with my shiny new camera, and playing FFX. And maybe re-reading the entirety of http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2903858/1/Those_Lacking_Spines, as there is a new chapter out. ^^

Last night, I get into Elizabeth and start her up, only to be shaken so badly that I slowly backed out (afraid of getting stuck in the garage) and then turned her right back off.

The shaking was not so bad next time, but still scary. So I took her into Pepboys today. You never want to hear "I've got bad news" from the mechanic. Apparently, the problem is my AC compressor. It is running. All the time, even when the AC is off.

Fixing this would involve a full AC job (?) of which the relevant bit is the cost: $1,200. Cue the !#$#%$&$ ohmygods on my part. Only not so much outloud.

Outloud, it was "Oh my god. I do not have that kind of money." Then, very sensibly I think, I asked the important questions : Is this going to affect the engine and does it have to be fixed?

Answers: Only if I run the AC, it might cause a belt to slip (? must research) and therefore, not really.

I am still slightly freaked out at the thought of those repairs. But since I don't need them, I'm also kind of relieved. Then, this solves the minor mystery of why the check engine light never came on, even with the continuing really horrible noises. Also, they didn't charge me anything. Which was decent, since they did have to spend some time poking around, I was there for nearly 3 hours. x.x

And I don't have to spend that money. So now I have a nice little overage, still, and I'm not so upset at what I did spend. -.-;

Must squee later over the cocoa and mints which arrived a day early, and the lovely packaging they arrived in. Also need to update my YGO squee, because. Seto!!! <3

( FF12 )

Well. And I meant to make this part a long, thoughtful post about me and my Mom and how little we get along, but I have no time now really.

Just sitting here, running through packing lists and hoping I'm not forgetting anything, hoping that this half of the trip won't completely drive me insane - if it gets too stressful, I will come home early. That's what I'm looking at.

And I mean, listening to me talk about Mom, a work-friend pointed out that I'm driving and I could leave before things got too hostile and it damaged our relationship more. x.x

But! After all that? I will be meeting up shusu in Chicago! Chicago, baby! :D OMG.

Laters! ^_^

Success!

Well. Halfway. ;p

On the minus side : I fell asleep for an hour after getting up.
I got lost on the way out there, a whole hour's worth of lost and navigating twisty little roads and a small construction site to get back to the 295.
While making my way back, I got so upset about being lost and worrying that I wouldn't make it back home in time that I almost turned around and went home.

On the plus side : I didn't go home.
I did get there, and even though there was no time to get out and do anything, I got to see some of the lights and horses pulling buggies and trolleys and such.
Most importantly, I've decided that since I know my way now? I'm trying again tomorrow! ^_^ (Maybe I'll even manage to stay up once I wake up, and have that much extra time down there.)

On the one hand, insanely sleepy and still headachey (have been all night) and yes, my mood is being determined by the Wheel o' Moody. Current stop: errmm... yay? ^^;

On the other, the above mood was influenced by getting the car insurance bill mailed off (yay insured! ouch, money. -.- ) and in one long run making up for an entire night of senselessly goofing off and missing two days' worth of NaNo - my word count's now current up to today. Erm.

I can do today's when I get up. Who knows, maybe I shall finally reach the insane goal I've had this entire time and get a day ahead before I go back to work. >.>

Land Before Time - If We Hold On Together Gauranteed to make sad people feel happier! ...or in my case, painfully sappy. But we can't have everything. :P

Well, I made it back home. I got Dad to give me directions there in the first place, since he knew how to get there without crossing the horrible Matthews bridge. (of which I have complained many times previously, and will try to restrain myself. x.x )

It was wonderful, I went over the Fuller-Warren (he insisted I'd see a sign reading thusly, but I never did - however, I went over a bridge not the Matthews, so that must have been it) and made a couple of very widely spaced rights and came straight to it. None of the irritating twists and turns and cutting through downtown that I usually have to deal with, and I'm pretty sure I've got the whole thing memorized.

If only I hadn't gotten lost on the way back home, it would have been perfect. x.x But - I think I know where I went wrong, I need to remember North I-95 coming home, not South.

*insert chanting of 'North to come home' here*

And they didn't even have my Yu-Gi-Oh, but they ordered it for me and I'll be able to come get it in about a week - thus giving me an excuse to get coffee again. Meanwhile finally noticed a copy of the first issue of Yami no Matsuei, and The Snow-Walker by Catherine Fisher, which looks interesting. Also I found the most wonderful little things: they're called Book Darts. Paper-thin little metal arrows for marking a place and line you want to remember without dog ear-ing a book. 18 to a pack, I'm wondering how long it will take me to go through them.

And when I opened it (they're packaged like bookmarks, a thin plastic sheath with two rows set on the adveristing slip) I found the most perfect quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson used inside: "Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page."

And having done the ransacking every page bit myself... *dead*

ETA: I have been gifted with Watership Down fic! *_* Go, go read here: The Story of Marli-hrair and the Black Rabbit of Inle

Work soon, but at least I have Elizabeth back? Turned out to be a crank shaft sensor. At least they didn't charge me for the towing or diagnostic, considering the first turned out to be wrong. >:/

Aggravated and moody right now, but that will pass. And it's not like I entirely wasted my weekend, what with the progress made on the shiny project of secret. >:)