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Apr. 12th, 2008 09:43 pmHad a long rambly post about work and blahblahblah.
Instead, I've just decided to tell you all what I did today.
I spent about four hours at the Saturn dealer. My sister wanted to look at a car and while I was there, I saw this absolutely awesome car. Saturn Astra. (Hopefully that link takes you to the entire built one that I was looking at) It's a 5 door hatchback in red and, surprise surprise, a manual. When I drove the automatic transmission - the car "slipped" and hesitated when getting off the line. In the manual (even with how poorly I drive a manual), it fucking MOVED. It's based on the Opal and is geared for the Autobahn. The engine is German, it was built in Hungary and the transmission is Japanese. Only about 3% of the car is made in the US (and I'm not sure that they don't count the Saturn logo put on it as part of that 3% so it's probably less). BUT - I'm still paying my dad off for my Eclipse so I have to wait until I finish paying him on his birthday in about 2 years. However, I do have a two year plan now put into place. And - I think I can possibly pay him off a heck of a lot earlier if I keep up the hours I'm working now.
Then - we went to the house that we've had on the market for over a year. We've had three realtors and, now, 12 deals that have fallen through due to financing issues. Today was spent cleaning, painting and switching out light switch plates. What did we have to clean, you might ask once you knew that the house was vacant? Well, I'll tell you. We've had the water turned off for about 8 months. Someone TOOK A SHIT in the upstairs bathroom and DIDN'T FUCKING TELL ANYONE. OMG the smell was HORRIBLE. And we're having an open house tomorrow and JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ON TOAST but don't people have any sort of common sense? There are multiple signs all over the fucking house that say that the water has been turned off. There is no water in teh toilet. There is no toilet paper. So what do you do? You bring fucking toilet paper into the house, take a shit and then dump some water into the bowl, of course! DUH. Of course any sane rational person would do that. GGRRRRRRRR!
Because of this fucking cleaning (I refuse to blame the car testing out thingy), I totally got home too late to go to a movie with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shygryf. Instead, we're going to see the Spiderwick Chronicles tomorrow. Please let me know if this movie is any good or not.
Instead, I've just decided to tell you all what I did today.
I spent about four hours at the Saturn dealer. My sister wanted to look at a car and while I was there, I saw this absolutely awesome car. Saturn Astra. (Hopefully that link takes you to the entire built one that I was looking at) It's a 5 door hatchback in red and, surprise surprise, a manual. When I drove the automatic transmission - the car "slipped" and hesitated when getting off the line. In the manual (even with how poorly I drive a manual), it fucking MOVED. It's based on the Opal and is geared for the Autobahn. The engine is German, it was built in Hungary and the transmission is Japanese. Only about 3% of the car is made in the US (and I'm not sure that they don't count the Saturn logo put on it as part of that 3% so it's probably less). BUT - I'm still paying my dad off for my Eclipse so I have to wait until I finish paying him on his birthday in about 2 years. However, I do have a two year plan now put into place. And - I think I can possibly pay him off a heck of a lot earlier if I keep up the hours I'm working now.
Then - we went to the house that we've had on the market for over a year. We've had three realtors and, now, 12 deals that have fallen through due to financing issues. Today was spent cleaning, painting and switching out light switch plates. What did we have to clean, you might ask once you knew that the house was vacant? Well, I'll tell you. We've had the water turned off for about 8 months. Someone TOOK A SHIT in the upstairs bathroom and DIDN'T FUCKING TELL ANYONE. OMG the smell was HORRIBLE. And we're having an open house tomorrow and JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ON TOAST but don't people have any sort of common sense? There are multiple signs all over the fucking house that say that the water has been turned off. There is no water in teh toilet. There is no toilet paper. So what do you do? You bring fucking toilet paper into the house, take a shit and then dump some water into the bowl, of course! DUH. Of course any sane rational person would do that. GGRRRRRRRR!
Because of this fucking cleaning (I refuse to blame the car testing out thingy), I totally got home too late to go to a movie with
shygryf. Instead, we're going to see the Spiderwick Chronicles tomorrow. Please let me know if this movie is any good or not.
