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So, my car is no longer reliable. It had no heater, which was fine, til winter hit pretty hardcore and I had to wear about 20 layers of clothes to get to work (30 minutes away) without turning into a popsicle. So I borrowed my dad's van because it's got a heater.
The coldest part of winter is gone, so I go get my car back. Car hasn't been driven in awhile, so it's a little rough getting started. Of course, the A/C needs to be recharged, so even though it's February, it's ridiculously hot outside and the car just blows hot air at me (I've got freon to recharge it, though). Whatever, it still works. Drive the car to work for a week or so. Go to Marble Slab one evening, get my ice cream, get back in the car and... it won't start. Crap. John's just got out of work, so I call him for help. Jumping the battery does nothing. Awesome. Leave car there overnight, have it towed in the morning to my dad's friend's shop. It gets 'fixed'. Pick the car up from the shop and drive it for a grand total of maybe 2 times before it fails to start again. Don't want to get it towed again, so wait for dad's friend to drive down here to look at it. Almost two months later, he finally shows up and claims it's just a dead battery. The battery is only about a year old. Right.
So all this time I've been driving my dad's van around. I am so sick of driving this huge monstrosity. I mean, don't get me wrong. It's nice to have transportation and I'm grateful for that. However, it gobbles up gas, it's a huge minivan, and I swear to god that the front passenger-side wheel is going to just fall off one of these days.
So I've been looking for a car. I've found a couple of new cars that I like, but at this particular point, I think I've decided to get a used one. Don't get me wrong, it would be very very nice to buy my own first brand new, drive off the dealer lot, including a warranty, that no one has had a chance to fuck up Car. However, I'm poor. I was looking for a second job, and even had an interview. Decided that I'm going to take my mom's offer. Her current assistant only works 10-15 hours a week, tops, but she's useless. I can work from my house, or from her office whenever I want (3 in the morning, even) in my pajamas, as I'll just be doing her billing/filing/etc. and not actually interacting with anyone except my mom. I feel bad taking her up on her offer to do this work for her, however, it's true that she's already paying someone to do this job, but this person is ineffectual, and my mom is basically wasting money. She's told me 1000 times that she would rather pay me to do it properly the first time than pay her current assistant to do nothing, and then have to go fix it all on her own in the end anyway.
So, with that extra money going to be coming in (and potentially a raise at my regular job with extra responsibilies I'm going to be taking on this summer. Not sure yet. Not really a good time to ask about it), I'm looking seriously. I test-drove a couple of cars at a little used-car dealership by my house. I've decided that I'm not going to buy from them as things are over-priced and all of their vehicles seem to have really high mileage, which is concerning. BUT I did learn that I really really like the VW Golf. I test-drove a 2002, but I'd really love to get a 2004. 2005 and above, the Golf turns into the Rabbit/the GTI which go up a LOT in price, even for being 4 years old. I found a great one online at a dealership where I've got a connection to get a good price, but I found it too late! By the time I got around to asking about it, it had actually been gone for awhile, but the website hadn't been updated. Found one on craigslist, decent mileage, seems to be in good condition, BUT it's a little overpriced (could probably negotiate the price down, though) and it's from a private seller, so there's absolutely no guarantee or anything. Since I know someone at a VW dealership, I could always get them to check it over before buying it from the seller, but still. Ah well.
But yeah. The one I found online that I wanted but already lost was a cute little 2 door (hatchback, so technically 3-door, I guess) silver one. The private seller one is a 2 door indigo blue. And automatic. Which is nice. Not required, but nice for my poor broken knee. Hah!
If anyone out there in LJ land knows of anyone selling a 2003-2004 VW Golf, Let me know! I'm looking! For real! I think I might go check out the one I found on Craigslist after work on Thursday. It's only got 61,000 miles (which sounds like a lot for a 2004, but it's a Volkswagen, and they'll get 300,000 miles before dying if properly cared for- ALSO most of the used ones I've found have almost twice the mileage this one does), and is a cute color, and looks like good condition. I'm really trying to not get my hopes up like I did on the last one, but we'll see!
Sorry for the long post. Felt it was time for an update :)
In other news, I have become obsessed with Doctor Who (well, specifically, with David Tennant's portrayal of Doctor Who. I'm particular about my flavor of the Doctor), and have already told John that if David Tennant shows up in the TARDIS, I'm going with him. John countered with if Martha is with the Doctor, he's going too. Haha. Good times.
Don't remember the last time I've updated, so I'll do a little recap of what's been going on. I obviously survived the great Starbucks assistant-manager-Layoff of a couple months ago. Still going strong. My manager and I are getting together and doing my mid-year review in a week or so. Hopefully all will go well. Things have been a LOT better at work since holiday ended and I've gotten more in my groove at that store. This summer, I'm going to be leaving my store and taking over a store up the road. Not permanently, mind you. The current manager of that store is going on maternity leave. She's due in July, so my manager figures that she'll be leaving sometime in late June or so. So while this manager is out babying and such, I'm going to take over her store. That's what I mentioned up there about taking on extra responsibilities. I'm going to be completely running her store while she's gone. It's really exciting and really terrifying at the same time. One thing I do know for sure is that I have to blow this out of the park. I've got to get their numbers better than they currently are, I've got to keep markouts good, keep partners happy, and make the store freaking sparkle. This is basically a test to see if I can handle my own store. And I know I can. I just have to prove it. I'm not sure if I'm going to get a raise or anything while this is going on. I e-mailed Charley Vaughn who took over for Kristi when she went on maternity leave right after I originally started at Sbux. He said that he got an additional weekly stipend when he ran our store, but he's not sure if they still do that. I hope they do! So we'll see! Either way, I'm going to rock this store.
I know that a couple of people at my current store said they'd love to pick up shifts at my new store, so at least there will be a couple of friendly faces around every once in a while.
Let's see. What else.
Oh, unfortunately, I started drinking soda again. It was totally unintentional and I plan to try to stop drinking it again. I was EXHAUSTED when I had to open the store last week (or week before??), so I stopped by the Whataburger right down the street and got a large Dr Pepper. Which I completely inhaled in probably 10 minutes. After that, I've been just CRAVING it. I've mostly controlled it, but I had a lot of good ol Pepper tonight at dinner. I regret it now because I'm very full and feel swishy full of liquid. Ah well.
Star Trek!!! Jacque and I went to go see it last night. She'd already seen it twice but was stoked to see it again, so we went on Monday night after work. AWESOME. I am in no way a Trekkie (I liked the Next Generation while growing up, but grew out of that and was never a fan of the original series), but this movie was seriously cool. The effects are great, the action is great, the acting is great (you even kind of forget that Eric Bana is the bad guy. I do not like Eric Bana), it's fun, there are lots of neat references to the original series, but it's a total and complete reboot of the franchise, so you don't NEED to get any of those references to like the movie. Carey and I went to go see it today at the IMAX. Our seats weren't amazing, and to be honest, it wasn't exponentially cooler in IMAX than it was in the regular theatre. I mean, yeah okay, bigger screen, louder sound. But if I went and saw it in DLP in a larger (but still 'regular') theatre, I would pay less ($12 for IMAX now! wtf?), would probably get a better seat, and would miss nothing. Not gonna lie- probably going to go see it again. It's a lot of fun. Oh, and I think Spock is pretty hot. I googled the actor, and have determined that he's really only good looking as Spock. Odd, but there ya go.
Okay, this post has gotten quite long, but at least it's an update. I am still alive! I exist! Here's a post to prove it! :)
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