Dyson Dyson Dyson

okay so i have been meaning to write about this for like a week now, but last tuesday my friend jen let me borrow her new dyson vacuum. O MY GOODNESS!!!! i was shocked at the amount of crap it picked up. i vacuumed my living room dining room and hallway and had to empty the canister NINE TIMES!!! can you believe that?? i felt so dirty knowing what i had just picked up out of my carpet. but for the first time in a long time i was able to vacuum my carpet without breaking out into a sneezing attack. it was so nice. i will deffinately be buying me one of these marvelous sucker uppers.

What do you do. . .

. . . when you just cant do it anymore? This last week my family had a big come apart. My little sister got caught in a bunch of lies, my mom and dad fought like you wouldnt believe, and I kinda got caught in the middle of it. For the first time, I saw a side of my dad that I was not too pleased with. He was very angry and hostile when he got home from a long week in new york on business. But on the other hand he kinda had a right to be. The house was a mess and nothing was picked up, the dishes werent done (in fact they were overflowing) and my sister handn't tried to help with anything. But some of his words spoken and actions made probably didnt help the situation any. I now know what my sister goes thru with him. He puts her down a lot and it breaks my heart cuz no one needs to go thru that. You cant expect a child to succeed with no support, and the childs actions will only reflect the negativity that is being put onto them. But how do you turn this around? When the parent is being hurtful, and the child wont listen. . . who makes the first move? The child has no respect for the parent in this case, but neither does the parent for the child. My mom always asks me what I think that they could do better to improve the situation in their household, but I just dont know what to say anymore, and I cant take the stress anymore from wanting to fix things but not being able to. Okay well I just had to get that off my chest and vent a bit.

i hate being a girl

there is too much drama! i hate it. i hate how girls turn everything upside down and sideways and backwards and everywhich way other than the right way. Why over react when you can just talk like about it with each other like grown ups? why do all girls have to go off and just assume that someone is mad at them, when really its just a simple miss-communication that could be solve if they would talk about it and solve the problem at hand from the beginning?

sometimes i wish girls would just fight like guys. throw a couple of punches and then everything is fine and dandy again. life is too short to jump to conclusions when you dont know the whole story. I CANT READ MINDS YOU KNOW! you have to tell me what i did wrong and then i will try to do better in the future. you cant just avoid the situation, because that just makes it worse. okay so that is my venting session. . . can i not be a girl now! PLEASE?!?! i dont wanna do it anymore if this is how it is gonna be for the rest of my life.

i have done nothing. . .

ALL FREAKIN WEEKEND!!! and it was so great. it has been one of those L...A...Z...Y weekends where you just lay around all weekend and do nothing. and the best part was that i didnt have to work or go to class today (which is monday by the way) so it was actually an EXTENDED lazy weekend which is even better. So all i've done is stayed on my chouch and watched some dvd's of a tv series that i just got into. my friend amanda let me borrow her ANGEL series dvd's and i only have one more disc to go before im done. its a really good show tho. :-) its got action, humor, and some romance here and there, which is everything i like! Waaahooooooo. and after im done with that i am going to start watching her dvd's of the tv series SUPERNATURAL. its all her fault that i am into all of this ghostly, vampire, supernatural shows. lol. but i have to hand it to her, they are all really good.

A Car Named Murphy

today i took a trip down to our local midas shop. . .

i had previously called them to get an estimate on the cost of new brakes. they told me that they usually run about 90-120 depending on the car. so when i headed down there today it never really crossed my mind to think that i would end up paying OVER 240 BUCKS!!!

First: they tell me i need new pads, which i already knew. . . and of course the pads for my car are the ones that cost the most.

Total: about 120. . . and counting apparently. . .

Second: they tell me i need to have my rotors resurfaced. so i ask how much that will cost. they tell me about 50 total for both. so i decide to go ahead and do it cuz they need to be done and i can probably afford it.

New total: about 175. . . and still counting apparently. . .

so im sitting there in the waiting room and the guy comes through the service door with a not so good look on his face. he asks me if i have ever had a wreck with the vehicle in the front end??? so i tell him that back in 2003 i had a MINOR fender bender when i was in highschool. he then says that the bolts (aka Caliper Pins) on the drivers side were stripped (which meant i needed new ones) and he was just wondering if it might have been from a wreck or something. but my brakes have been replaced since then so i know it wasnt that. his next words were to tell me that the bracket that holds the caliper (which is the thing that holds the brake pads) was also bent a bit, and that it might need to be replaced in the future. he also says that he has had to order the pins and that they were on their way over to the shop, but that they were a slightly bigger pin and he was going to have to shave them down and re-thread the new ones to fit inside the wholes that they also had to re-thread. so i ask him how much all that, the new pins and re-threading, is going to cost. he says that the pins are EACH 40 DOLLARS!!! but without them he cant put my car back together due to the old ones being damaged when they were put in the last time, this causing them to be ruined when he took them out.

OH HOW LOVELY, JUST FREAKIN LOVELY!!!

New total: about 235 dollars, PLUS TAX!!!

and 245 dollars later my car is fixed, sorta. they want me to bring it back in 2 weeks so that they can check the pins to make sure the bigger ones are working and not coming loose.

i have realized today that my car's name must be Murphy!!! its like Murphy's law: Whatever can happen WILL happen. nothing is ever easy with my bug. c'mon people, cant i catch a break for once!?! i love my car but this one thing after another, or one thing leading to another
is really getting old, and im getting sick of it.

o, and did i mention?, the back brakes will need to be done this summer.
WHOOOOP DEEEE FREAKIN DOOOO!!!!!!!

As MY life turns. . .

Okay so this past month has been really busy. My mom had surgery on her knee on December 23rd and got out of the hospital on Christmas day. Between all that and getting ready for school to start up again in mid January I didn't have a lot of time to get on here and up date this thing. But any-whoo, now school is back in and im pluggin away at the studies. Im taking College Algebra and Psychology on campus, and then im taking an online Chemistry class. I feel like I am always doing homework for one class or another. I think that chemistry will be my most difficult class this semester, but I did get an A on the first test over the first chapter :-) Next week I have 3 tests, one in each class. Its gonna be a rough week which means the Agenda for the weekend will be: STUDY STUDY STUDY!!! o damn the superbowl is this weekend. Well shoot, I guess I wont get as much studying done as I should. He he he. Reina is doing good still. Her eye has completely healed and you cant even see where the stitches were. :-) she's such a good girl, I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!! well this is just a little update for now, I will try to post more regularly (key word is TRY).

Confessions. . . .

So i have a confession to make. . . . i started reading twilight. . . and i love it. i had criticized everyone i knew that was reading because i tought it was a silly concept, vampires and all y'know? but its actually really good. i saw the movie and really enjoyed that as well, and that is what made me want to read the books. for those of you who know me you all know i H A T E to read!!! but i started the first book this past friday night . . . and. . . well. . . i have read close to 440 pages. . . I KNOW!!! I KNOW!!! crazy for me to do such a thing but i just got so wrapped up in the book. so my appologies go out to those of you who i said you were crazy for reading the books. lol.

Basketball dog

happy halloween!!! or at least that's what we were all saying a couple of days ago. well reina is too big to wear doggy costumes so i went and bought her a human costume. . . she went as a basketball player. isnt she the cutest basketball player you have ever seen??? i think so. she is sporting a red white and blue jersy and wearing a pretty matching bow around her neck. she hit nothing but net on most of her shots. lol. well she would have im sure if she would have attempted any shots. well we didnt get to go trick or treating because we could only take the cone off of her head long enough to put the costume on and take some pictures. and just look at her cute little behind. that shot was worth everything. its so cute how her tail sticks out of her shorts . i just love her and she is such a good sport with what i put her through. we didnt keep her in her costume for long because i wanted to get her cone back on. she's only got a week left with it on now and her eye is doing great.

Post surgery for reina. . .

this was the day reina had her surgery. we brought her home and she wandered around the yard for a bit and then layed down to rest for a bit.

the poor little girl, she had to come home sporting a brand new "BONNETT" also known as a cone. she hated it and it took her forever to get use to, but it is a must have so that she doesnt pull out those loosely stitched stitches.

and look at how big it was, you cant even see the tip of her nose. she couldnt get to her water in her dish or her food to eat it. so my mom made and executive decision and cut it down a bit. she is now able to drink and eat just fine but still cant get to her eye

look at my dad holding her hand. you cant tell he loves her at all. he says he doesnt really care for animals too much but i know deep down inside he would be sad with out reina. lol. he loves her so much. he talks to her and plays with her and just adores her, but shhhh you didnt hear that from me.

and then it was night time. she likes to sleep with her head on the pillow. i swear she doesnt know she is a dog. and she is such a bed hog too. but she was so comfortable and slept most of the night through just fine. she looked so peaceful. she has to leave the "bonnett" on until monday november 10th. and then she goes in to get the stiches removed and the bonnet taken off. we have made it through a week and only got one more to go. i think she can do it. im so proud of her for putting up with it this long.

FIREPIT FUN!!!

okay so a couple of weeks ago i bought a firepit. for anyone thinking about doing this i would say DO IT!!! i love mine. its so relaxing and i have roasted hotdogs and marshmallows over it a couple different times now. there is a funny story behind this tho, and that is: i ripped out a couple sets of wood shelving units out of my garage a while back but i left all the nails in. well when i was sawing them up my friend amanda (who is the one in the pic besides me) kept tellin me i was gonna step on a nail. i didnt believe her and i kept tellin her i knew what i was doing. well then came that inevitable time when i did step on a nail. o my holy hell did it hurt. but i kept my cool and acted like nothin happened, cuz i didnt want her to know what had happened because then that would mean she was correct. but she saw right through me and asked me if i had stepped on a nail. and of course i denied it at first and then i figured i needed to take my shoe off and look at the battle wound and the only way for me to do that with out being suspected was to tell her the truth . so i did. it wasnt too bad so after my mom came over to look at it, cuz she is a nurse, we went back to sittin around the fire and enjoying ourselves. so ya thats the funny story about the firepit.