Sara

List for weekend. Now with bullet points!

• vacuum
  
• dishes
  
• laundry
  
• floors
  
• oil change
  
• dye hair (ended up buying a dark brownish red)
  
• X-Files 2 with Mom
  
• shopping
  
• groceries
  
• make weekly food

The car place called yesterday to tell me that they had tried to start my car 25 times and, lo and behold, the damn thing started each and every time. They still needed to rotate the tires, which I had asked them to do since it needed to be done and the tires had been bought there anyway, and run the diagnostic to make sure the starter wasn't going out or anything. My first words to the guy when he told me that it had started were, "Seriously?" closely followed by the sort of frustrated laughter the mechanics and pc techs alike must be used to hearing.

So yesterday I had timberwolfblues take me to pick up my car, which has been starting since. Stupid thing. It does ride a lot better with the tires rotated, though. That might also have something to do with me not having check the tire pressure in a bit. And, yes, I am an evil car owned. I know, I know. The daughter of a mechanic should be a lot more diligent when it comes to oil and air pressure and washings than I am but really. It never interested me in the slightest.

In other news, I also managed to beat the issue I was having with my desktop. I bought four 1GB sticks of RAM for it. The motherboard specs said it was upgradeable to 4GB of RAM. I got a pretty sweet deal on the RAM and had wanted something to punch up the computer a little because I can't really afford a new one right now. The memory comes in. The old sticks of 512 come out. The new sticks go in. Three beep salute, no booting.

Two weeks and many diverse configurations of which RAM in which slot later, I have my computer booting with the 4GB of RAM. I did a BIOS update and then we went in and set the memory configuration to manual and then set it to 667 MHZ of RAM. Lo and behold, the beast works. Due to allocated memory for various things, the most memory that Windows will see if 3.5GB of RAM but still. I fought the law and the law did not win so it's aces for me.

Once I uninstall some unnecessary programs and finish moving things over to Benjy (the external HDD), I'm more than likely going to reinstall the OS on the desktop anyhow. It's more than time for that step. I also need to double check and make sure I have all my discs and .exe files saved somewhere I can easily get to them.

Last night was the concert/my birthday. Not the worst I've had and not the best, either. One upsetting note was the lack of a phone call from my father.

Then I spent too much money on CDs.

Today, I spent too much money as well, but it was mostly to get new tires on Serenity. So $302 later, my car rides a lot better.

I've also been speaking with an Edward Jones associate about investing my money in a Mutual Fund as well as looking into starting an IRA. I think I'll show the literature to timberwolfblues and my father before I commit to anything.

Right now I'm just chilling out, watching some Ghost Hunters before I do some housework around here.

Oh, thanks to Dee and tsylyst for the birthday wishes.

The Ren Faire was awesome, and I would totally go again sometime. There was singing and beer and just a lot of fun for us walking around and looking at all the pretty pretty things.

Yesterday, I watched seasons 1 and 2 of Weeds thanks to On Demand. It was really pretty good. Today I'm thinking about watching Tudors since I might be carless again if the other car isn't done yet.

And ( rp list again: )

Again, poke me if missed something.

Chores done. Mostly. What I originally thought was a post office near the Target ended up being some sort of Veteran work center, which, while cool, does not help me. So I'll just have to try and catch my postman to send the Netflix stuff out tomorrow. Not a big deal.

I bought my mother four DVDs for Mother's Day. I got the oil changed. While at the bank, the teller asked me whether I had ever talked to their investment people, which was something I had been meaning to do but never asked about. I now have an appointment to do that. Apparently the amount of money in my two accounts makes them think I should be investing, which is actually helpful to me because I had just been about to start asking people how much money should stay in a checking account.

I also bought myself a griddle so I can make French toast and pancakes again as well as a couple of CDs from artists who've had music played on Grey's Anatomy, which really showcases some of the loveliest music I've heard in a show in awhile. It's right up there with Scrubs.

Now I'm going to get something to drink and then watch some TV before working on posting.

So the fucking guy who sold us the fucking car didn't give us the right fucking paperwork to take to the fucking BMV to get the fucking car registered. So now we have to call the fucking guy (and wait for him to fucking call us back) to get the right fucking paperwork to get the fucking car registered.

I am so utterly beyond pissed.

After much debate, timberwolfblues and I finally decided to just break down and get another car.

We got a black 2000 Taurus SE for about, um, $4200 after taxes and everything, which is apparently right at blue book value plus now we don't have to pay any tax when we take it to the License Branch to title it. Yeah, it might've been a little much, but we need two cars. Plus I'm hoping that by spending more now we save in the long run since we're not hopping from shitty car to shitty car but from shitty car to good car. timberwolfblues had it checked out before we bought it. The guy we bought it from had the bad tie rod replaced so now all we have to do is really just get it aligned. The money is hurtful but necessary. I went ahead and added it to the insurance so we're kosher there, too. timberwolfblues' brother is apparently going to buy the shit car from us.

So all that is done.

They haven't spray the apartment yet. Or, if they have, they've come and gone while we were out. The new car is so out of alignment that I had to take him to work and will pick him up later tonight.

I'm going to eat lunch and then book so I'm not here when and for the two hours after they spray. I guess I'll just go wander around stores and call people on my cell. Joy.

Posting later tonight.

We're down to one car again.

...yeah, I don't want to talk about it.

Needless to say, I will be home tomorrow and Monday. Good ship Posting a-hoy!

timberwolfblues' car is down...again. Apparently it's the alternator...again. Which is expensive and we're letting another shop repair it because Pep Boys did it wrong twice and this cannot happen every week.

I've got a headache from hell.

timberwolfblues has some kind of stomach bug that seemed to keep him up most of last night, which he was still sleeping off when I left. And now my stomach feels funny. Great. Fun.

Got up at 8:30am this morning because we had to go get timberwolfblues' car and take it from one place to Pep Boys (because, well, the part that's gone bye-bye is something they fixed a couple of months ago and it should not be dead this early again) and then I drove him to work. His new schedule is noon to 10:30pm Sunday through Wednesday. From his work to my work it's about, um, twenty, thirty minutes tops. There's not enough time to go home and yet too much time to kill. I wandered around Wal-Mart for about forty minutes before I went to work. An hour early.

Tonight when I get off work I have to go get him. Thankfully, it's easier for him to work overtime than me as he seems to be able to take it any time while I have to check and see if it's available. Still. This schedule is killing me.

There is good news, though. The car is apparently done. We can pick it up tomorrow. Thank god.

Anyway, I'm exhausted, my period started today, and I think I'm getting a cold. If I owe you posts, I'm sorry, they won't be getting done tonight.