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Goddamn Ohio roads were horrible on the way home. All snowy and slick and shit. Mother Nature has now been upgraded from spiteful bitch, to a cunt.

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Can I never be on time for anything. Actually I will most likely be on time, but still, why did I sleep until 2PM? I had my alarm set for noon, yet I slept right through until 2PM. Argh! Maybe if I got off the computer and started getting ready, I wouldn't be late!!!! There's a concept...

Gotta be in Cuyahoga Falls by 4PM.

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I hate Ohio:

What the hell is Mother Nature trying to prove? That she's a spiteful bitch? That's the only thing I can come up with.

Don't you hate when you get one of those blemishes that go into your face instead of out? I have one on the side of my nose and it's irritating the crap out of me. I'm going to stick a Biore strip on it later tonight, that'll show it who's boss.

Britney Spears is a skank.

No work until Tuesday and for that I'm thankful.

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OK, obviously I'm a moron. Today is Wednesday, not Thursday. CSI and Without a Trace are not on tonight. Dumbass.

Guess I'll watch a DVD instead since I'm all settled on the couch and shit. Dammit.

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Goodness, I'm certainly on a sugar kick as of late. I've been killing Black Cherry Kool Aid and rootbeer Bottlecaps candy. I had to buy Wyler's Black Cherry drink mix today, and it's nowhere near as tasty as the Kool Aid brand. I think I'll protest if Giant Eagle is out of the Kool Aid brand this weekend.

Drove my car to the grocery store, and around town so he could warm up fully prior to my returning home. He runs fine, finally.

My AOL mail is still all jacked up. Hopefully no one is trying to get in touch with me. Bleh.

I've been lazy on returning emails that are sent to my sbcglobal account. If you've emailed me and I've not replied, I apologize. I'll return everyone's emails tomorrow after work.

K, I'm off. Have to finish up my laundry then it's CSI/Without a Trace time. Then it's time for bed!

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First day of work was today. I'm really going to enjoy this job! I spent my day searching online auto ads, seraching for car shows and eating at Burger King. I have to try and design a flyer to hand out at car shows. Anyone who knows me is aware that I have zero artistic talent. This is going to be interesting.

On the way to the auto show Saturday, I saw this:

What exactly happened to this Mustang??? And I thought the BaronBomb looked bad!!

If you've emailed my AOL account and I've not replied, please email me again. The last couple days I've had problems with my AOL account. I'll click on an email to open it, and AOL will freeze. When I log back on to read the email, it has vanished. I'm not ignoring you, I just didn't get the email!

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The GTI runs fine. Finally, he's OK. Not quite as fast as before due to a missing Oxygen sensor (fucking up the air/fuel mix or something), but he runs really well.

Saw the first 4 episodes of the Soprano's 5th season; they are awesome! David Lee Roth has a cameo in the 4th episode. How awesome is that?! Some good quotes from the first 4 episodes:

Do you want a fucking apology? Whitman's Sampler? (Tony)
Go shit in your hat! (Uncle Junior)
Oooooooooooh! (Pauly Walnuts)
He's still twitching, this one. (Chrissy)

Many more that I can't remember. If you don't have HBO, get it. I don't have HBO, but I can watch the series screener tapes so it evens out. LOL

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Whee, I worked today from 4PM-7PM and it was nice! I arrived at work around 3:15, but we didn't leave until 4, so I didn't get paid until 4PM. That's OK, though, as it was a lot of fun. We photographed a 1956 Thunderbird in Peacock Blue (think teal) that was in very good condition. The guy selling the car was nice too, so that made the time go quickly. I start my regular Tuesday/Thursday schedule on Tuesday, but I have a feeling I'll be doing listings a lot sooner than I'd first anticipated.

The GTI ran fine and scooted right along. I caught air on a bump in the road! That wasn't fun, and I do not plan on going airborne again.

I rock, by the way.

It was soooooo nice today. Thankfully I was outside, and able to enjoy the 78 degree weather. It's only supposed to be in the 40's tomorrow, which sucks, but it's better than freezing or below.

Cleveland Auto Show tomorrow, then plug changing and various other GTI tasks. I have to take a drive on the ho track too (Arlington in Akron) as the hos may have rotated since I was last up there. Heehee, the dumbest things entertain me and Dr. Dork.

I'm burning a CD then it's off to bed; gotta be in Cuyahoga Falls by 1:30 tomorrow afternoon.

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It's 76 degrees today. OK, if you're in Florida or California that's no big deal. I'M IN OHIO. I am going to roast on my first day of work. Yes, I'm going in today for a couple hours. Chris (the bossman) and I are going to a customer's house to photograph a car for sale. My first day on the job and I'm all ready doing the fun stuff! Woohoo! I really think this job is going to be a lot of fun, and there's a lot of money to be made outside of my regular hourly wage. I can't wait!! My first payday is the 19th, but it's only for one week. Ick!

The drive to work will be my first "trip" in the GTI since he came home. Of course I'm a bit apprehensive about driving him because of the trouble I've had with his chug. But if Don says he's fixed I will try to be optimistic.
The wind has me worried too. It's windy as a sonofabitch outside; my car is little and light. I'll be blown across the street!

OK, gotta go change then leave for WORK!!

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Shit, I totally forgot to update about my car. Duh! Anyway, I picked him up yesterday around 4:15PM. Don called yesterday morning soooooo excited because he'd figured out the GTI riddle. Turns out the dumb asscrust who sold me the car is a complete stupid fuck. When he changed the header (yeah, the GTI has a "performance" header) he ripped the oxygen sensor out of its little cubbyhole. Well he twisted the wires all together, then twisted the wires around the swaybar. There they sat, shorting out everytime they got wet and grimy, or everytime they touched each other. So Don fixed all that up and only charged me $53.25 (he worked on my car for at least 3 hours)! I drove my GTI home and drove my Mom to the dollar store last night; he ran fine. I do believe he's fixed. Don stuck him on the scope thingie, and the engine code thingie; all is well. The coil is fine, as are all of his other operating systems. Now I need new struts, the tranny seal and a master cylinder to have a good as new GTI. I'm having the tranny seal replaced in 2 weeks, when I receive my tax refunds, and I'll probably have Don do the master cylinder too. Then all I'll need to replace are the struts, and that's going to wait for a long while. Oh well, at least he's running again and being cute and stuff. I do need to replace my driver side body trim thingie; the grey piece that runs along the door. It fell off when Don opened the door last week. Nothing a little alcohol and 3M adhesive won't fix. LOL And I need to change the plugs on Saturday as well. There's nothing quite like changing the plug wires, and not changing the plugs too (it was 5 degrees outside, come on now). Heehee!

Confirmed "upgrades" to the GTI:
Performance header/exhaust (Brospeed)
Neuspeed springs (3" lowered)
Tokico rear struts~adjustable
Neuspeed strut brace bar thing
Special cams (plural as it's a dual overhead cam engine)

I would like to get Recaro seats, new front struts (obviously), some ignition thing Dr. Dork was babbling about earlier this evening and a new paint job. Around $3500 and I'll have him just as I'd like him.

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OK, now it's supposed to be in the mid-70's tomorrow! Rain is likely, but mid-70'S! Yeehee!

Got a new cell phone today, and a new phone line in my room yesterday. It's been phone week or something.

Start my new job tomorrow, but I only work from 3-5. We're going on an appointment to photograph a car that's being put up for sale. My first day and I get to do fun stuff! The bossman may want to take my GTI instead of his Infiniti, though, as the GTI is pretty pimping. LOL

Not doing anything tomorrow other than work 3-5; Saturday is the Cleveland Auto Show. That'll be fun. I may even drive the GTI to the auto show, we shall see.

OK, I'm off to bed and hopefully I'll sleep until at least 9AM. Last night I went to bed at 10PM and woke up at 2AM. I was up until 5AM then slept until noon. What the hell?

I had an appointment today to get my eyebrows waxed, but I totally forgot about it. I was scared too, so that may have had something to do with my memory lapse. I suck.

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Holy hot fuck, it's supposed to be 66 degrees on Friday. Woohoo! Right now they're calling for rain, but who cares? 66 degrees!

Yes, I am awake at 20 til 6 in the morning. I went to bed at midnight, then woke up at 4AM with insane heartburn. What the fuck??? I think I'm OK, now, so I'll try sleeping again.

Have to be up at 11AM just in case the phone company guy is actually on time. I'm getting my phone line installed today sometime between 11AM and 3PM. I decided I'd break down and get my own line, with voice mail, so I don't have to worry about not receiving my messages. I also have unlimited long distance for $20 a month which comes in handy since 98% of my friends' phone numbers are long distance from my house. That's always nice.

I smell a car wash for the GTI in my near future. I'll even wash my Mom's car; sure why not?

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Got a job today! I'm now the eBay and office girl for the Canton office of First Trade Registry. I'll only be working Tuesdays and Thursdays to start, but it's $9/hr so it's better than nothing. Besides, I'll work more this summer when I begin doing listings on my own. Right now I'm responsible for the data entry, dictation and customer contact portions of the business. In a month or so I'll be comfortable enough to start collecting the vehicle data, taking photos and approving cars for sale. I will have the power!!! By the way, I'll get paid to attend car shows. Now who's the pimp???

The GTI has a bad coil and will be home by the end of the week; hopefully Thursday at the latest.

Going to bed.

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OK then. Happy Leap Year Day or something.

It's taken me this long to recover from Friday. Here's a rundown of the shenanigans that commenced as soon as Jenny and I left my house:
8:15PM-ish Jenny arrived and we leave.
9PM-ish we arrive at El Campisino in Massillon for alcohol absorbing food (2 cheese enchiladas for me, of which I only ate one.)
10PM we arrive at Jenny's bar selection; Little Country. She enjoys this bar as they have Karaoke and we were on a skank hunt. As Jenny said, to find a skank one must go skanky for the night. This bar sucked ass, please and thank you. We each had one Zima and decided to leave.
10:45-ish we arrive at Party's bar which is actually called Iron Tales Saloon. I've known Party for years and met him through my ex-husband. Party realizes it really is me sitting in his bar and comes over to harass me. He gives me hell for not coming out last summer for his outdoor concerts, and proceeds to get me up to date on all the happenings. Turns out one of my old friends from those days wound up dying from AIDS. She started shooting up and caught the virus that way. I wish I had known she was sick; I could have visited her as she was always very nice to me and never did anything like shooting up around me.
Party then proceeds to tell me this was the first Friday in ages that Crypt hadn't been in the bar; he had to work. I'm supposed to come back when they get back from Daytona (bike week) and see all of the old buddies. These are all older biker guys and for some reason I'm very comfortable with them. I would even go into this bar by myself as everyone is really nice, and I know most of the people. Anyway, Jenny and I were asked to go home with two guys, one guy told me I have nice boobs and another guy told us he would have bought all of our drinks be all of his money was in the bank (yeah, right). And one other guy told us not to drink all of the Smirnoff Ice as they only had a case left. LOL I had quite a list of beverages at Party's;
5 or 6 Smirnoff Ice
2 White Russians
1 shot of Tequila Rose (all they had left)
4 Jello shots (3 watermelon and one orange)

I didn't puke, nor was I hungover on Saturday. I was tired though as I got 2 hours of sleep on Thursday night and I didn't sleep on Friday night. I caught a nap from 2-4:30PM on Friday afternoon, then I slept from 10PM Saturday night to 9AM today. Woohoo!

Sorry, off track. Jenny and I left Party's bar at 2:15AM or so then drove to Taco Bell in Canton South. We then drove to Jenny's house where her husband made fun of us for about an hour. We stayed up talking until 5:30AM then they went to bed and I sacked out on the couch. I couldn't sleep though, because I'd hear a noise and think one of her kids were coming into the living room to poke my eye or something. Her husband drove me home around noon so he could listen to a noise Jenny's car was making, and I needed to get my tired ass home.

Didn't do shit Saturday night.

Today my Mom and I went to Target, Bed, Bath and Beyond and PetSmart. Bought new lamps at BB&B and also a new tablecloth/napkins. I was finally going to buy a fish but the one I really liked was dead. How nice. They had no red guinea pigs, so we didn't get one. Woohoo!

Oh yeah, my sister and nephew came over from PA for the first time since my Dad's funeral in June of 02. I'm not even getting into that tonight.

K, I'm off. Hopefully I'll have hella good, and cheap, news in regard to the GTI tomorrow afternoon!!

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Waiting on Jenny...

My hair is cut by about 5". That's OK, it looks much better now.

The GTI will be diagnosed on Monday; a computer would only be $100 used, so even if the whole computer is bad I'll still be fine.
I drove him today for the doctor, but of course he ran fine. It was hella nice today, around 60 degrees, and I guess it's supposed to be just as nice tomorrow. Woohoo!

Need to brush my teeth.

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Busy, busy, busy tomorrow. Haircut at 11:30AM, job interview from 1PM-4PM then out with Jenny at 7:30PM. I'd rather be busy than spend another weekend sitting around the house. Good thing my Mom doesn't work tomorrow as I need to steal her car from 11:15AM-4:30PM. Bleh.

I guess I'm not the only one spanking ass today. Dr. Dork called me about an hour ago all happy because he'd fixed his speedometer cable. The damn thing has been broken for at least 3 years; his car shows 136,000 miles on the odometer and it's more like 200,000 miles. There's a Quaalude project for Saturday as well, but I've totally forgotten what it is. Hmmm...

Speaking of cars...The GTI doctor said he'll find out tomorrow what's doing with my car. I'm almost afraid to venture a guess as to what I'll have to pay. I'm really hoping it's just a fuel pump, but with my luck, it'll be both fuel pumps and all 4 injectors. Shit, why not just throw in the whole CIS-E assembly while I'm at it? Argh!!

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I just grabbed that HTML by the gonads and showed it who's boss. I finally have the font I like (Century Gothic), and the page layout pretty much as I'd envisioned it to be. I'd like for my entries to not be so snug against the table, but I'm sure I can figure that out later today. Whee, I'm so proud of myself.

I'm going to try and sleep now.

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See what happens when I'm up all night? Bad things happen to my blog! Actually I like the new style and background. The best thing is I did all of it myself; no more blogger codes!!!!

I am too happy about this.

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New link in the "Places to Go" section; check it out.

Heehee, I talked to Jenny today about an old "friend" of ours having another kid. This girl gave up custody of her last two kids, yet she has another one. Anyway, Jenny and I are going out on Friday in hopes of seeing this girl at the bar. Yeah, we're losers. LOL

I took a nap from 5:30PM to 11PM so I'm going to be up all night. Yay.

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How's this for bad karma? I go upstairs thinking I have to pee and wind up yakking my toenails up. I know to not drink milk, yet I do it anyway. Bah!

The GTI is now at the doctor, and he's very scared. I need to go visit him and tell him it'll be OK as he's probably scared sitting out there all by himself.

Can you tell I have too much time on my hands?

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Here's what pisses me off...I missed the entire Jimmy Smits death sequence on TNT!! What the hell? He only gets 3 or 4 episodes for the entire sickness/death thing? Come on now!!!

Had to reschedule the interview for Friday at 1PM. I needed to use my Mom's car today, but the interview/testing/application process takes 2.5 to 3 hours and I needed to have her car back by 1PM so she could get to work. I did get the GTI to the doctor today; no word yet on his condition. LOL

Where's the fucking mailman?

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I think I may get my tongue pierced. I've wanted to for a long time, but I'm a chickenshit. I just called Kustom Culture which is where I get my tattoos, and the guy was really nice. He said it's way better than getting a tattoo, and it takes about a second for the needle to go through the tongue. I'm still scared shitless, though. LOL I'll probably punk out and not get it done, but then I may wind up getting it done! I have a job interview tomorrow at 10AM. If I get the job I'll be so happy that I probably will get my tongue pierced this weekend! But then, it's not like I'm going to get a job so I guess my tongue is safe. LOL

Yesterday...Went grocery shopping with the biddy, and then went to Family Dollar where I found the cutest Easter purse for a DOLLAR!! Family Dollar is my friend. Not only did I find that cute purse, but there were 4 pairs of Calvin Klein Jeans at Family Dollar! They were all brand new with all of the tags still attached! 2 pair were black jeans, and the other 2 pair were black Khakis. I was shocked!!

After shopping, the biddy and I stopped at the local Chevy dealer to check out the new Aveo. It's actually kind of cute, but really cheap feeling on the inside. The back seat is huge though, and it seemed comfy enough. My Mom thought it was cute though, and I'm afraid of any thoughts she may be having. Heehee! A brand new car for $10,000! That's too awesome!

That's all we did yesterday. Oh wait, we went to the post office too. LOL

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Saw this here, here and here, so I figured I may as well jump on the bandwagon since I'm not usually a bandwagon jumper. LOL Besides, it's a cool thingie to do...

Step 1: Open your mp3 player.
Step 2: Put all of your music on random.
Step 3: List the first ten songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.

1.) AFI "Silver and Cold"
2.) Ministry "So What" Live
3.) The Gathering "Proof"
4.) Savatage "New York City Don't Mean Nothing"
5.) Mary J Blige "No More Drama" (Hey, it has the Y&R theme as they main line!)
6.) Madonna "Don't Tell Me"
7.) Fleetwood Mac "Goodbye Baby"
8.) The Gathering "Leaves"
9.) Ministry "Supernaut"
10.) Savatage "Summer's Rain"

Nothing too bad on there, I don't think. Where's all of my Depeche Mode??? The random setting on Windows Media doesn't like me very much.

Heehee, I was really bored so I took a picture of my car keys.

I'll update this thing later on today as to what I did yesterday.

Headache, going to bed.

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