just a simple reminder

"Nobody puts Baby in the corner"

Hurray!!!! Baby's back!!! so here's the dish. I took her into the dealership yesterday. She was there most of the day and then they called me and told me that they needed to replace the same part that they had replaced 2 months ago. So I told them that and they said "would you look at that you're right" and then they fixed it for me for FREE!!! WOOT. Then comes the sad part. I took the care home and then drove it two blocks to Erin's house. When got back in it to come home..it started doing the same thing that I had asked them to fix. So I though well maybe I should take it back in the morning. When I got up I wasn't planning on taking it in right away, cuz I was tired and wanted to be on time to the museum and stuff and things. I hooped in the car and wa la the check engine light came on, big, bright and yellow gleaming up at me. So i said "oh fine guess its back to the dealers with you little one." So I was an hour late to work after i dropped her off and then when I was getting ready to leave the museum and go home they called me. "It was a spark plug that regulates the part that we put in yesterday" they tell me and I say oh ok, cuz when you put in the same part that you replaced only a few months ago you wouldn't have first checked to see if it was something little like that? Genius i tell you. lol any ways she is all fixed, so they tell me and so I hope. and for now baby is fine I got her oil changed and they boys there washed my windows and vacuumed out the car (the dealers washed her for me so I now have a super clean car that I didn't have to pay them to clean which is awesome!) Other than that not much going on. I still need to schedule my GRE exam (second go at it) and finish my personal statements...eww so i have lots of stuff to do that I don't really wanna to but that I need to get done asap.

P.S. I am totally looking forward to Thanksgiving in New Mexico and moving home in Dec. but imma miss little miss E. (hi friend!)

"It's not just a car, it's my baby"

Me and my jeep have been through a lot together in the past...7 years, wow its been along time but you know I think that she is about done. She is having troubles and it makes me sad cuz I love that old beater car of mine. She isn't the prettiest car around, not the newest, or the fastest but she is mine. It is inevitable though at some point you have to just realize that it is just a machine and that like a person all its clogs and gizmos just wear out, usually sooner than you are ready for them to. I hope that she makes it through the next 11 months but some how I just think that she is on her last leg and going down quickly. My poor little Rieghles, the green machine... I have to take her into the shop on Monday and see what they tell me, hopefully it is all good news a quick, easy, inexpensive fix for my baby. I will let you all know how it goes.

P.S. you know what is even more depressing, I don't even have any pictures of her to put up....what a bad car mommy I am. It's terrible.

Americans...lazy....never ;0)

I know I already posted but check this out:

What happens when you leave your computer on and walk away:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/icons

And you thought PONG was boring lol:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pongoska

"Your Cat Seriously Needs to be Confused..."

You know the funny thing about life is that it isn't always what you think that it should be. Sometimes its a lot harder, sometimes a lot easier and sometimes if you put in that added bit of effort for something or someone it really pays off. Sometimes I wonder whether if anything that we do here, on this earth really makes very much of a difference. If we are using our time as time well spent or if we are just blowing bubbles in the merry-go-round of existence waiting for it to all come to a n end without ever noticing that this is what we are doing. The problem with such methods of self and human examination, of course, is that there is never a conclusive answer so the whole thing, ultimately is a great waste of time that could have been better spend feeding your gold fish, if you happened to have any, or perhaps taking a walk on a lovely day rather than sitting inside working on that ever so important pasty complection and wondering what is all meant and where the time had run off to? Let's face it if time were a person by now it have got tired of waiting around for you to come to the conclusion that you were wasting you time and would have run off with your best friend Pat, or Doug, the ruggedly hansom borrista that works in the coffee shop at the end of your block. By the time that you had noticed any of this they would have been married with six children and you none the wiser, still thought that you and time could make it work. (wow talk about random, sorry folks there was a point but now I have forgotten it)

I suppose the point should be that perhaps we should all stop waiting around for things to happen to us and start making things happen. The difference, though subtle, could change our lives. For example, if i decided that instead of writing this blog I would spend the extra time each day going outside and saying "hello" to one person, maybe then I would start the ball rolling, do you know what I mean, kick start the wheels of destiny or something. Of course, the likelihood of me ever doing something as outgoing as saying "hi" to one person I didn't know everyday are pretty much nill so there goes that idea.

Perhaps it really all is pointless so we should not try to help people improve who they are let them fester in their little world of disorder and chaos and say hang it all pack for a rather lovely vacation to Lisbon. Or better yet we come to the simplest conclusion which is that the great mystery of life isn't really a mystery at all but just a practical joke that God was playing on the Devil and he hasn't quite got to the punch line yet. I am not sure why that is the simplest explanation but who really cares, right?

(Hope that you enjoyed tonight's little excursion in to the craziness that is my train of thought sometimes, but not always, lol take care and have a fantastic evening, whatever evening is, if it really exists at all ;0)

"So robe, kimono, there you go!"

So my sister saw/met Howard Stern, he guy that does the totally obscene radio talk show, while walking in NYC. Which pretty cool. Listed below are some fun things to watch if you have some time, just follow the links.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/walk

This is what happens when you let your computer be smarter than you.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/animator2

Because it is funny and the bus part, if you have ever been to Rome, it very true.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/italy

and it goes without saying, well obviously not since I am say it but that's besides the point, that the last addition to this is not quite in staying with my non confrontational standing in previous messages but no one reads this blog anyways so it really doesn't matter too much I don't think, but to the point that it is all in good fun and no more cynical than some of the e-mails that people send out, so there you go.

When things get bad, be like the Irish

So if this economic issue doesn't blow over pretty soon, which I highly doubt it will in light of the current view of things, yours truly may not be making her all so anticipated trip to the UK this spring. Why you may ask? or not if you don't care.... well lets put it this way, I would rather go to graduate school than this vacation, not that either will really help me at this point seeing as getting a job in a few years rather than right now my be much harder. So in order to be able to pay for my graduate education I may just have to not go on my fabulously desired excursion, which by the way is a point that I will heart broken over for probably a very long time in fact I may be disappointed by it until I actually leave for grad school, depending on if and where I get in.

In other news my sister is off to New York for a few days but not for a vacation for work and if you read her blog you will understand why that is not such a totally awesome thing. I am still in SD where it has been ridiculously hot for the past couple of days and even though it rained on Monday it was still hotter than the top part of hell out there. So perhaps I should be more specific the next time that I wish of rain. I am also currently looking for a job, still :0) but am sure that I will find something eventually, and hopefully soon. I took today off from the museum to do just that and to finish up some things that I need to do for my grad school applications so that every thing is lined up and filled out so I can simply hit the submit button and then make sure that they know my references and transcripts are coming separately. Unfortunately for some schools, aka UCLA, I have a god awful amount of work left to do that I really need the help of the conservator I work under to finish, if she ever decides to come back from her honeymoon/vacation to India.

I hope that everyone has a completely fabulous Wednesday and that they do not get too stressed out about the economic issues of not only our country but most of the western world's.