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Given that my Christmas present from my mom is the rest of the money that she owes me (and that I got the rest of the insurance money from the wrecked car), I can now afford to buy another car. I don't want to get another Vibe, mainly because I need a little more horsepower than it had (only 123 for the awd version...that's insane!!!!!). Right now it's looking like I'm gonna get a used Saturn Vue. Unfortunately, the cars that I really like are all new for the 2005 model year, and thus a wee bit over my budget. And my dream car, an Infiniti FX45, isn't going to be happening until I find $45,000 by some miracle. I'll be pleased with a Vue, though. I can get a used one with 250 hp v6 (it's actually a Honda engine...weird), AWD, heated seats, side airbags, sunroof, etc for under budget, which is awesome.
In other news, I got another tattoo. It actually is more an add-on to the previous one on my foot. I got a cloud with light-blue shading put right under the previous wording, so now you don't even notice that the "free bird" is crooked. It looks really sweet, too! I will have to scan my foot in on the scanner again so you guys can see what it looks like.
Things with la familia are still very fucked up, but I'm not going to get into it. There was a rather amusing occurance while at my Aunt Jane's house in Alpharetta last week. My grandma, who always bitches about the fact that Aunt Jane has a gas stove (um...who cares?), cought on fire! My cousin, grandpa, and I were all watching the Falcons-Saints game in the living room, when all of a sudden we hear my Aunt screech "Grandma's on fire! Grandma's on fire!". So I grab my cup of apple juice and run in to the kitchen. By the time I got there, the fire was out. When my grandma turned on the burner, a big burst of gas came out and got on her sweater. According to her, the flames were all over the front of her sweater, right up to her neck (because it was gas, you couldn't see the flames, and there wasn't any smoke). She smothered it herself, while my Aunt stood there and screamed frantically (Aunt Jane is never helpful in emergency situations). The sweater my grandma was wearing was made out of some sort of synthetic material, so you couldn't tell it had even cought on fire unless you smelled it.
Amanda, my cousin, got incredibly excited about the whole situation and was laughing so hard she fell down (she's 6, and has a multitude of developmental problems from being premature). Aunt Jane said that she kept thinking about that song "Grandma Got Runover By a Raindeer", and that's why she was screaming "Grandma's on fire". When my uncle finally wandered downstairs an hour later, his explaination as to why he didn't come to help was that he thought Amanda had stolen a piece of ham or something...right...because that would cause Aunt Jane to scream fire...
The whole situation could have been very tragic, but instead we can all laugh about it. My family has very National Lampoons-esque holiday seasons, so I guess we can file the "Grandma's on fire" incident under that.
if i were a month... January
if i were a day of the week... Saturday
if i were a time of day... 12 am
if i were a planet... Pluto
if i were an animal... Snow Lion
if i were a direction... North
if i were a piece of furniture... featherbed
if i were a liquid... icy water
if i were a tree... Gingko
if i were a bird... Eagle
if i were a tool... chain saw
if i were a flower... rhododendron
if i were a kind of weather... late night lightning storm
if i were a mythical creature... phoenix
if i were a musical instrument... Tibetan singing bowl
if i were a colour... green
if i were a feeling... contradiction
if i were a vegetable... squash
if i were a sound... wind
if i were an element... carbon
if i were a car... Wrangler (I'm a bit uncivilized, and I'm often found running away from the beaten path)
if i were a song... "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd or “Let Me Die in My Footsteps” by Bob Dylan
if i were a movie... Touching the Void
if i were a book... “Walking with Spring” by The First of the Crazies (aka Earl Schaffer)
if i were a food... pumpkin pie
if i were a place... the Khumbu Icefall
if i were a material... fleece
if i were a taste... spicy
if i were a scent... coconut
if i were a word... supercalafragalisticexpealidotious
if i were an object... race car (stock)
if i were a body part... foot
if i were a facial expression... curiousity
if i were a subject in school... global studies
if i were a shape... circle
if i were a number... 9
if i were an article of clothing... big comfy hoodie
if i were a weapon... swiss army knife
if I were an alcoholic drink... Southern Comfort
1.What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before? : attended the Southern 500 (or the so-called November version of it) at Darlington
2. Did you keep your new years resolution: didn't make one (I never do)
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? : nope
4. Did anyone close to you die? : not anyone I was *really* close to
5. What countries did you visit? : Bahamas, Canadia
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004? : a living situation that doesn't require me to be cought up in family drama
7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? : October 24, because that's the day that the Hendrick plane went down
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? : don't really have one...not jumping out of the car at 85 miles an hour and rolling across 4 lanes of traffic?
9. What was your biggest failure? : continuing to struggle with my tendency to put up emotional walls and seem cold
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? : car accident, several illnesses, continuing health issues
11. What was the best thing you bought? : a car...but alas, it is no more (and the money I got from the insurance company had disappeared into that black hole known as my mother until a few days ago)
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? : my cousin Amanda's, for one (it was feared that she would never be able to learn to read, yet she is now devouring the Junie B Jones series)
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? : my mom, numerous politicians
14. Where did most of your money go? : now-totaled car, computer
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? : having my own car, going to the races, travelling
16. What song will always remind you of 2004? : which part of 2004? “Young” by Kenny Chesney; “When the Sand Runs Out” by Rascal Flatts; “Burn” by Usher; “She Will Be Loved” by Maroon5; “Hey Ya!” by Outkast; “Tipsy” J-Kwon
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
I. happier or sadder : about the same
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner (I'm losing weight right now…yay!)
iii. richer or poorer? poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? : reaching out to people
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? : worrying about things that i cant control <---I'm with Megs
20. How will you be spending Christmas/Eve? : with my crazy family
22. Did you fall in love in 2004? : nope
23. How many one-night stands? : none that really count as one night stands (key word being one)
24. What was your favorite TV program? : Nascar Drivers 360; Countdown with Keith Olberman
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? : no...I try not to hate (spread the love, people)
26. What was the best book you read? “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’brien
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? : Big & Rich
28. What did you want and get? : a car, good grades, to travel
29. What did you want and not get? : don't know of the top of my head
30. What was your favorite film of this year? : Kill Bill vol 2
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? : 18, and this is gonna sound so bad, but I actually don't remember (I have the worst memory!)
32.What was one thing that would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? : having a better relationship with my mom
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004? : sweats, jeans and beanies
34. What kept you sane? : haha nothing...I'm INsane
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? : Brian Vickers,
36. What political issue stirred you the most? : all of them!
37. Who did you miss? : lots 'o people
38. Who was the best new person you met? : not sure...
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004 : keep the hope, I’m not stuck in this situation forever…there is life after Mom
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: “I’m gonna stop looking back start moving on” (Rascal Flatts “When the Sand Runs Out”)
In other news, I got another tattoo. It actually is more an add-on to the previous one on my foot. I got a cloud with light-blue shading put right under the previous wording, so now you don't even notice that the "free bird" is crooked. It looks really sweet, too! I will have to scan my foot in on the scanner again so you guys can see what it looks like.
Things with la familia are still very fucked up, but I'm not going to get into it. There was a rather amusing occurance while at my Aunt Jane's house in Alpharetta last week. My grandma, who always bitches about the fact that Aunt Jane has a gas stove (um...who cares?), cought on fire! My cousin, grandpa, and I were all watching the Falcons-Saints game in the living room, when all of a sudden we hear my Aunt screech "Grandma's on fire! Grandma's on fire!". So I grab my cup of apple juice and run in to the kitchen. By the time I got there, the fire was out. When my grandma turned on the burner, a big burst of gas came out and got on her sweater. According to her, the flames were all over the front of her sweater, right up to her neck (because it was gas, you couldn't see the flames, and there wasn't any smoke). She smothered it herself, while my Aunt stood there and screamed frantically (Aunt Jane is never helpful in emergency situations). The sweater my grandma was wearing was made out of some sort of synthetic material, so you couldn't tell it had even cought on fire unless you smelled it.
Amanda, my cousin, got incredibly excited about the whole situation and was laughing so hard she fell down (she's 6, and has a multitude of developmental problems from being premature). Aunt Jane said that she kept thinking about that song "Grandma Got Runover By a Raindeer", and that's why she was screaming "Grandma's on fire". When my uncle finally wandered downstairs an hour later, his explaination as to why he didn't come to help was that he thought Amanda had stolen a piece of ham or something...right...because that would cause Aunt Jane to scream fire...
The whole situation could have been very tragic, but instead we can all laugh about it. My family has very National Lampoons-esque holiday seasons, so I guess we can file the "Grandma's on fire" incident under that.
if i were a month... January
if i were a day of the week... Saturday
if i were a time of day... 12 am
if i were a planet... Pluto
if i were an animal... Snow Lion
if i were a direction... North
if i were a piece of furniture... featherbed
if i were a liquid... icy water
if i were a tree... Gingko
if i were a bird... Eagle
if i were a tool... chain saw
if i were a flower... rhododendron
if i were a kind of weather... late night lightning storm
if i were a mythical creature... phoenix
if i were a musical instrument... Tibetan singing bowl
if i were a colour... green
if i were a feeling... contradiction
if i were a vegetable... squash
if i were a sound... wind
if i were an element... carbon
if i were a car... Wrangler (I'm a bit uncivilized, and I'm often found running away from the beaten path)
if i were a song... "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd or “Let Me Die in My Footsteps” by Bob Dylan
if i were a movie... Touching the Void
if i were a book... “Walking with Spring” by The First of the Crazies (aka Earl Schaffer)
if i were a food... pumpkin pie
if i were a place... the Khumbu Icefall
if i were a material... fleece
if i were a taste... spicy
if i were a scent... coconut
if i were a word... supercalafragalisticexpealidotious
if i were an object... race car (stock)
if i were a body part... foot
if i were a facial expression... curiousity
if i were a subject in school... global studies
if i were a shape... circle
if i were a number... 9
if i were an article of clothing... big comfy hoodie
if i were a weapon... swiss army knife
if I were an alcoholic drink... Southern Comfort
1.What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before? : attended the Southern 500 (or the so-called November version of it) at Darlington
2. Did you keep your new years resolution: didn't make one (I never do)
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? : nope
4. Did anyone close to you die? : not anyone I was *really* close to
5. What countries did you visit? : Bahamas, Canadia
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004? : a living situation that doesn't require me to be cought up in family drama
7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? : October 24, because that's the day that the Hendrick plane went down
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? : don't really have one...not jumping out of the car at 85 miles an hour and rolling across 4 lanes of traffic?
9. What was your biggest failure? : continuing to struggle with my tendency to put up emotional walls and seem cold
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? : car accident, several illnesses, continuing health issues
11. What was the best thing you bought? : a car...but alas, it is no more (and the money I got from the insurance company had disappeared into that black hole known as my mother until a few days ago)
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? : my cousin Amanda's, for one (it was feared that she would never be able to learn to read, yet she is now devouring the Junie B Jones series)
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? : my mom, numerous politicians
14. Where did most of your money go? : now-totaled car, computer
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? : having my own car, going to the races, travelling
16. What song will always remind you of 2004? : which part of 2004? “Young” by Kenny Chesney; “When the Sand Runs Out” by Rascal Flatts; “Burn” by Usher; “She Will Be Loved” by Maroon5; “Hey Ya!” by Outkast; “Tipsy” J-Kwon
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
I. happier or sadder : about the same
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner (I'm losing weight right now…yay!)
iii. richer or poorer? poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? : reaching out to people
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? : worrying about things that i cant control <---I'm with Megs
20. How will you be spending Christmas/Eve? : with my crazy family
22. Did you fall in love in 2004? : nope
23. How many one-night stands? : none that really count as one night stands (key word being one)
24. What was your favorite TV program? : Nascar Drivers 360; Countdown with Keith Olberman
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? : no...I try not to hate (spread the love, people)
26. What was the best book you read? “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’brien
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? : Big & Rich
28. What did you want and get? : a car, good grades, to travel
29. What did you want and not get? : don't know of the top of my head
30. What was your favorite film of this year? : Kill Bill vol 2
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? : 18, and this is gonna sound so bad, but I actually don't remember (I have the worst memory!)
32.What was one thing that would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? : having a better relationship with my mom
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004? : sweats, jeans and beanies
34. What kept you sane? : haha nothing...I'm INsane
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? : Brian Vickers,
36. What political issue stirred you the most? : all of them!
37. Who did you miss? : lots 'o people
38. Who was the best new person you met? : not sure...
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004 : keep the hope, I’m not stuck in this situation forever…there is life after Mom
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: “I’m gonna stop looking back start moving on” (Rascal Flatts “When the Sand Runs Out”)