brokenrecord

wtf I want my car back! 2-3 weeks ago when I first took it in they said it would be ready on the 5th, which was last Thursday. My mom told me it'd be like 3-4 weeks, so I was really happy with that, since it was sooner than I expected. But then Thursday they were like "We're almost done, we just got to do this thing, and you can have it Friday." Friday it wasn't done, but they said definitely Saturday. Saturday, still not done, but Monday! Monday it was almost finished, and on Tuesday they'd deliver it themselves to my house. Well, it's Tuesday, and now they're saying it'll be for sure done tomorrow. For some reason, I don't believe them. I mean, I'd be fine with if it they'd just told me in the first place it'd be like three weeks because I wasn't expecting it to be done so soon. And it doesn't even seem like they underestimated the time it would take, because each day they keep saying it'll be done the next day. It just makes me think they're saying it'll be done the next day to placate me when they know it really won't be done for like another week. The thing is, I'd rather they just tell me the truth about when it'll be done then lie to me.

Anyways. Hello to new friends from the fall friending meme! Just to let you (and the rest of my friends list who doesn't already know), I suck at checking my flist on Mondays and Tuesdays because Mondays I get home at 5:15, have until 8 to finish homework (and Mondays I usually have the most amount of homework), watch TV from 8-11, then sleep at 11 so I'm not dead at school the next day, and Tuesdays I don't get home till 8 because of Symphony, and then I watch TV till 10 and that usually doesn't give me enough time to do anything online. But I'll catch up on everything tomorrow afternoon.

Now for TV stuff! Some of this probably doesn't need to go behind a cut, and I don't think I have a lot to say about anything, but here we go anyways:

( Heroes )

( Studio 60 )

( Gilmore Girls )

( Veronica Mars )

blah. I still have French homework to finish. Off to do that now.

So yesterday morning the mother of the girl that I hit in the 5-car crash on Thursday came over to my house. I guess the girl picked my picture out of the yearbook and she was able to track me down, or something. She wasn't angry at me or anything, she just wanted to get the bumper of the car fixed because it was slightly dented and she said she felt bad seeing how smashed up my car was, but yeah, so she's going to report it to the insurance company so that means we also have to file an insurance claim, which means that my insurance rates are going up majorly and I'm also probably going to have an at-fault on my record now, because CA laws are ridiculous and if you hit another person's car it's automatically your fault. She'll also have one on her record, but wtf, this is ridiculous. Us two and the guy who hit me are the least at fault for the crash, but we're still going to have it on our records, while the guy who was swerving in and out of the lane and the girl behind him who I found out could've swerved to miss him but instead chose to crash into him are going to get off scot-free. My mom was saying she was glad that the woman found us because it's fairer now, and I'm like "wtf, how is this even fair? I'm not at fault for this at all, I don't care what the law says, and I'm going to have this on my record?" gah.

Yeah, so these past couple of days have just kind of sucked. Everything just seems to be going wrong, everything in the house is breaking, and it's just all... blah. I'm looking forward to it being several months from now, when this is all over.

Ok, so if I'm going 5 mph above the speed limit, you don't get to tailgate me. I mean, I can understand it if I'm going under the speed limit. I'd tailgate me too, then. But if I'm already going over? I'm not going any faster, so just quit it.

Also, today it seemed like it was everyone in the world's goal to get me into a car accident. I mean, first, I'm driving to the animal shelter and this car who clearly sees me decides that it would be the perfect time to just pull out in front of me. Then I'm going back and I'm merging onto the freeway and all of a sudden these two cars go over to the right side of the road and stop right in front of the onramp to the freeway. I mean, wtf? Who does that? Could you maybe try to find a better place to stop that's not right where a bunch of people need to go through? There was a little room to get onto the freeway past them, but for some reason today there were a million cars zooming down the freeway and usually there are, like, none. There was finally a small break and a managed to get on, but it was very irritating.

On another car related note, I went to get gas in the afternoon and I failed miserably at it, and not even how I usually fail at it (not being able to get the gas to start going in when I put the nozzle in). I went to this one I've been to a few times before and a car was in the spot I usually go to. In fact, most of the place was filled, there was only one spot in. But it was on the wrong side for where my gas tank is, so I pulled into the space in reverse. But then once I got there, I was like "No, wtf, wrong side!" So I pulled back out and went the other way, except I realized that, no, I had been right the first time. And I kept driving around doing U-turns changing my mind everytime I got into the spot until finally I figured it out. As if the people didn't think I was insane enough after that, once I was done I was such in a hurry to leave that I totally didn't close the gas tank thing. So as I was leaving this man honked his horn at me and I looked and he shouted "GAS CAP!!!" to me a bunch until I got it and closed it and then raced out of there. sigh. Why do I fail so much?

Anyways, after all that, I went to the Woodbridge theaters with Jackie, Emma, and Soan to see Brokeback Mountain (my third time). sigh. I love this movie so much. But this is my second time buying tickets to a rated R movie since I turned 17, and wtf? WHY WON'T ANYONE CARD ME? I mean, seriously! I could've been going to rated R movies all this time, when I was like 15 and 16, and I never did! wtf is wrong with these people!

I know this is just about everywhere, but it looks fun: Tell me of a fandom you know I know of and I'll tell you:

01. The first character I first fell in love with
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't
04. The character I love that everyone else hates
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer
06. The character I would shag anytime
07. The character I'd want to be like
08. The character I'd slap
09. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise

Anyways. Lulu! So we're going to Brokeback on Saturday, right? We could go at like 12 or 3:45. Any other time is probably too late for me. So yeah, let me know which one, and if you need a ride.

Ended up taking my car to the SAAB dealership and I think they found what's wrong so I should have it back today all nice and not stopping in the middle of me driving it. So, that's good.
moulin rouge?

I watched Serenity after I got it, and oh, it's so good. I love that movie. I'm forcing my mom to watch it because I think she'd really like it, too (it's totally up her alley - she's a science fiction and fantasy writer, and she loves that sort of stuff). Also, the outtakes are the awesomest thing ever.

Doctor Who!!! Oh, how I missed you. And will continue to miss you until... what? March? May? Sometime far too long away.

( Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion )

Anyways. So. Today, we went car shopping. The plan was just to like... look at cars and test drive cars and see what there was, and it was supposed to end up being a several day process and by the end of break I'd have a new (used) car. Well, it was a good plan. We first went to the Honda dealership and saw a Honda Civic and a Honda Accord. The Civic was about $13000 (and my mom said originally we'd look around $10000, but I figured there was a little room to go up from that) but when I test drove it I didn't really like how it handled, and it felt like sitting in a tin can. And it had a lot of miles on it, too. The Accord was a lot better, but it was like $17000 and had 77000 miles on it but at least it was roomier and I felt more comfortable driving it. So we left the Honda place and went over to SAAB because my mom's car is in getting fixed and she wanted to check to see if they had made progress and then said we could look at cars around there to see if there was anything in the price range, even though we doubted it, because SAABs are like... more expensive in general, I think (though they are nicer cars). Anyways, we looked and then we found this 2001 SAAB 95 that had only 47000 miles (which isn't bad at all for a 2001) and it was only $16000. I mean, it was less than the Accord and I liked it a lot better and it had less miles (and it was older, too, than the Accord) and it felt comfortable because my mom's car is a SAAB and so I'm used to it, and before I knew it we were inside and discussing our finance options.

So, yeah. Guess what I have now parked in our driveway? :D Ah, it's really nice and I love it and I'm so happy. And right now I have the urge to name it the Tardis, but that's probably because I am a huge dork (and I don't know that I'm entirely serious about that. I may just be still coming off the Doctor Who high. We'll see what I think about it in a month). I'll post a picture of it tomorrow (along with a few Christmas pictures). Also, I got one last Christmas present that my dad forgot to give me yesterday (or maybe he couldn't get it today? I don't know): a little... thingy that plays your iPod over the radio. I had the iTrip thing before but it stopped working with my iPod, and this thing is like... an iCar? maybe? Anyways, it'll recharge your iPod while it's playing in the car, which is really awesome, and you can have multiple stations preset and then change it to whatever's clearest, and yeah, it's just awesome. So yay for that. :D

Anyways, yeah. Good day.