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My car keeps having internal troubles. The problem now is that a radiator hose is split. A radiator hose brings coolant/antifreeze into the engine. Coolant allows the engine to try to stay cool when running, and the antifreeze allows the engine fluids (ie- gas, oil, etc.) to not freeze (in the South, that's a very unlikely situation, so it's mainly the coolant part that's the problem). The radiator hose is a simple fix, but this is just one thing on the entire list of repairs we've had to do on the car. The fix isn't the problem though. The problem is is that I'm starting to think that the car is just sucking in my parents' money. Right now, they're paying for my school, food, and everything else. My parents have put more money into the car than what it was originally worth when it was released for sale in Fall of 2000, and I am very grateful for everything I've received for my car. However, I'm starting to think maybe it's just not worth it anymore. The previous owner of the car wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. He wouldn't know a flat tire if run slapped him. The only thing he did to get my parents to buy the car was putting in after-market parts (stress bar, xenon lights, and new engine cover). But I guess used cars will have their problems. Should I sell the car and just find another, or keep trying in hopes that these repairs stop will one day slow down? Don't get me wrong, it's been a load of fun driving a BMW and being my age with one. I've had a lot of good times with one of the best kinds of cars, and I'm so happy that my parents even considered buying one for a 17 year old kid.
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Events leading up to today: January Started 2nd semester of my Junior year, everything was going smoothly. Nothing in general even happened this month. February I turned 17. Got some random stuff for my birthday, don't even remember what. Short month with nothing in it. March Finished up the first half of the 2nd semester went to Gulf Shores for Spring Break. Best vacation I've had in a long time. April Sister turned 20. May Finished up my Junior year with all A's and 1 B. Blasted Chemistry. Got my Senior ring presented to me from one of my buds in the Senior class. June Started my annual R&R sleeping. Played the stuffing out of my 360 on CoD4, Halo 3, GH3, etc. July Celebrated July 4th by myself. A few fireworks while everyone else was somewhere, can't remember. August Started my Senior year with the best teachers I've had in my high school career, ever. Started the 2nd hardest class schedule a Senior at my school take. It would have been first if I didn't transfer my Freshmen year. September Realized that I seriously made a boo-boo by messing around the first few weeks in Pre-Calculus and ended up with a B. It was like a sucker-punch to the face. October Slow month. Nothing in general happened. November Remembered my Grandfather's death for the first week, it's kinda hard to really let go of the only Grandparent you ever knew. November came to a quick stop with Thanksgiving Break. December Really fast month. Always a different time of the year. Sister's boyfriend turned 21. Mom's birthday was today. Now I wait for the end of the year. Wrapping up another year and opening a new chance for enlightenment and enjoying life altogether. I'll also be coming to a quick stop in my High School career in just 4 months and 2 weeks. It's time to really get with my friends now and actually do stuff. 2009, it's about bloody time.
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I don't really know the meaning of 'Yuletide', though. Merry Christmas, everyone! My MacBook has been returned from repairs, though I still suspect a few things still need to be tweaked. And now it's Christmas - on this side of the globe. And I have a small present count, but that's okay. And today, the cinemas released a movie that I reallyreallyreally wanna watch: Ip Man! Kung-fu fighting on Christmas! Right, now's time for the Christmas church service. Hope that everyone has a good Christmas today! (My last Christmas found me with food poisoning. Eck.) -<dd> (off to sing carols)
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They'll be in town on the 27th, which is also my Mom's birthday. She's been wanting to see them, and I've been wanting my guitar to get signed by the guitarists . TSO = win.
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I am that.
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They are indeed win. Now for Christmas, new wheels.
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Wasn't a bad day out. I got to see a lot of what Baylor offers, which is quite a lot. Full Gym (I mean everything a gym can have in it, even though I could hardly use it due to a bad left leg)Free Dr. Pepper Floats on Tuesdays A great science facilityAll-You-Can-Eat Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner (Their Food=Win)Fairly decent dorm/apartmentsCampus is compact, but there's a lot to do. I'd list more, but I'm tired from a long day. Time for the Zzz...
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It was a good 5 day break. Wish it could have been longer. Now it's time for the 3 week rave of school and exams. Then Christmas. Oh, my car mysteriously got a flat tire yesterday when I was about to drive across town. I had to jack it up and fix it. Quick note: make sure when you get a car, that the spare tire isn't the one the owner replaced (my spare tire was the bad tire, it had a nail hole in it). After jacking it up, I noticed a sliver of metal in a crevice, so I pulled that out and used Fix-A-Flat foam to fix the flat. Tire works fine now, but I've been warning my dad that I've been needing new tires seeing as how they are becoming bald. I did the penny test on one tire, and I couldn't see 1 mm of the penny. It's pretty bad. Maybe my dad get's the message now? I don't know. And now, time for the last day of November in a few more moments.
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I need a cane. Teehee. I'll be needing new one anyway. I'm totally getting a copy of House's cane with the flames on it. "It makes me look like I'm going fast." Heck yeah.
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I need to know what would be a good choice for new exhaust for a 2001 BMW 325i (E46). I like the sound of the Scorpion model, but the Remus is good as well. Please provide any suggestions. Seriously, Christmas is around the corner. B)
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At least I don't have to be somewhere tomorrow. Although, I have to head out of state on Sunday, be back on Tuesday, then head out again on Thursday. To freakishly busy now-a-days. At least I've had time to fill out my Personal Application to Tulane. KIE, I might actually be headed to the big NO. -Might-
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After following my dad to his friend's guitar store, I finally decided to pick up a guitar. A nice Axl Marquee. It's much more rustic looking than this. Also it has EMG Alnico pickups which are pretty darn good. Also, my dad met the guy that played with Stevie Ray Vaughn, the one who's a Peavey seller now, at his friend's store. My dad liked Stevie Ray Vaughn since he started playing and the guy gave him a card and said, "Call me if you need anything." I know that doesn't mean much to some you guys, but to my dad, he was ecstatic (not to the point of jumping up and down like a kid... ). I'm borrowing my friend's pedal for a while just to see what my guitar can do. Lol.
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I was an usher today at my cousin's wedding. She decided that her wedding colors were pink and white... and that's what I wore for the most part. Black tux, pink vest, pink tie, white shirt, black pants, black socks, and black shoes. The only things that stood out in that entire outfit were the vest and tie. Meh, I have my first In-Laws today. Whee.
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I don't care if you miss school on Monday. You're going to have to meet me up at Auburn's main campus. Well, not really, but that'd be sweet action. Seriously. Sweet. Like, seriously. Seriously. I'm serious. No lie. O_o
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School's a pain. A seriously bad pain. The assignments are piling up, my final year project is due in 3 weeks and I still have nothing. My inspiration has dried, and I feel the loom of a comatose ready to swell over. BUT - life isn't all that bad. I've finally taken an order in my non-existent order by using the 'Getting Things Done' system - and it's been working wonders. I'm actually getting things done! I also had fun during the holidays I had. I went on a 3-day outing with my boyfriend and a friend of ours at Malaysia, and I had a good and relaxing time in the mountains. My school sent me as one of a few representatives to take part in a forum for all schools - and I ended up playing 'Lids' on a trashcan with friends to an audience, along with a samba rhythm. It was seriously fun, especially when the audience roared during our samba piece. When school started, I felt very sour. But I lightened up when I did a techno remix as an assignment. Who doesn't like techno/dance anyway? Anyone who loved Caramelldansen proves my case. I did a good job on it, and I feel very good about it. I wonder if I can implement this into my final year project, doing a techno remix or making my own techno song. If it becomes viral - like Caramelldansen - things will get interesting. Recently, my friends and I picked up a video camera and started video-ing for fun. We started a videography club, but never took the cameras and ran like sugar-high people through the school. We made that up that evening, playing in a dark corridor. When the camera turned my way, I squeaked (Serious!) and ran pell-mell down the corridor into the darkness. We got the perfect Cameraman-is-running-in-Cloverfield look, right into the dark, until I finally opened the door and ran into 'safety'. The clip worked perfectly. I even managed to do my own rendition of Ninja Cat playing Red Light Green Light. Our club's thinking of taking that session out of fun, and doing something artsy with it. I had lots of fun - I ran a lot. So, here I am again. I finally updated the Epic Critics Club list. I'm doing a bad job at running it, am I not? -<dd>
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Yay.
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My car is in desperate need of new tires, seeing as how I nearly fish-tailed into a bus while I was turning at 10 mph. There is almost no tread left on my rear tires and my front tires are starting to get a bit skiddy. So yeah, good performance tires ideas please.
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*hugs*
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Graduation car idea.. '09 Dodge Challenger? My Dad owned a '70 Challenger, but sadly sold it off later on. I thought I would keep the tradition going.
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'09 Camaro?
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Car door came in today. I also have a list of things for the guys to fix/look at. My car should be in the shop for like 2-3 weeks now. No more driving to school for a while.
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Due to complications of Gustav, I now have a five day weekend. This weekend will be somewhat bittersweet. My new car door is supposed to come in Tuesday, but that's exactly when Gustav is supposed to make it to Shreveport as either a Tropical Depression or Category 1 (more likely a Depression). I can't leave my car out when it rains (especially the heavy rain that is with Gustav) because the driver door is bent open, so water will get in. Good news is I got my car back for the weekend and it's going to stay inside the garage until the whole system is gone. Not exactly the perfect weekend, but I have more than enough time to finish my Physics homework now .
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Well, I've been working at a day camp this entire week. Let me tell you, kinder gardeners are extremely hyper. Plus, giving piggy back runs across a 1,000,000 square foot building (all one story) wears you out. Good news is, I'll be getting the necessary number of service hours by tomorrow. The kids were fun though . School in 7 days. Oh joy. One more year of high school and that's it. Here we go.
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School starts in two weeks. I'll be taking a full schedule, along with only 5 other seniors, and I won't have any time for myself when this year starts . I'll be taking Bible 4, English 4, Latin, Biology 2 (College credit), Physics, World History, and Pre-Calculus. I've heard all of the classes were on a scale of 1-10 in toughness, each hit 10. Biology 2 because each tests have at least 5-20 essays only. Pre-Calculus because the teacher teaches the class -his- way, so the book doesn't really help. English 4 because of the massive research paper and having to know many of Shakespeare's stories fact for fact. Should be an interesting year, right? Out of the 2 years I've had a membership on RuneScape, I cancelled it yesterday. I haven't been on it in months and I've just lost interest. Saves money anyway. Oh, I sent in my XBox 360 for the FIFTH time now. First 4 times were for RoD's. This time, it's the CD Drive. It does not read any of my discs, and I'll tell you why: it's a Hitachi drive. To be honest, it's the worst hardware that could be used. Philips or Samsung Toshiba, but not Hitachi. Microsoft used Hitachi drives for the first models, and unfortunately, I own one of them. The first four times I sent in my 360, they only fixed/replaced the motherboard so they didn't touch the drive. Maybe I can get some good out of the repaired 360 this time. Also, Microsoft likes to use cheap CD's for games. I've had a total of 3 games that don't work anymore due to inexplicable CD damage: Guitar Hero 3, Ninja Gaiden 2, and Chromehounds. GH3 has a large crack from the middle that tore through the data area of the disc, so it's gone. Ninja Gaiden 2 just stopped working. Chromehounds... I don't even know. 'Oy Microsoft, there's a thing called quality, not quantity. My blog/rant for the day. :wakeup2:
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Finally, as of today, after a year and 4/5 months of waiting, I've finally moved back into my old - now new - home. Even though I walked my rounds around the place over and over, I still am trying to get my bearings down straight. The house doesn't feel smaller, even though it is the result of the old house being halved. Adding a pseudo third storey made this place seem a lot bigger! During the house-moving, I managed to get permission to sleep over in this gargantuan house between the two moving days (Yes, it took my family 2 days to move everything over.) because my mother pulled a stunt and removed the internet at our temporary residence. It was not the funny. So I surfed about the Internet till 2am before realizing that I was in a big house, on my own, in the dark. That's cool. And today was the final Moving Day, which saw everyone up on his or her toes, getting the right furniture into the right place, and all that sorta stuff. It took the whole day, but now everything's about done. The number of boxes are overwhelming, but not impossible to unpack one at a time. So, I'm kaput. I'm going to bed now and see if I can actually get to school without any triple eyelids. -<dd>
