The Continued Adventures of My Weekend
I resolved that I would actually start posting regularly, so I kind of need to start posting regularly!
First things first: I have a new car! I got it on Saturday after test driving an Infiniti and then test driving my car again. It is a 2010 Lexus IS 250 and it is white and very, very, very pretty. And comfortable! I swear to god, it's like driving a La-Z-Boy. It is also much smaller than Wolfgang was. I'm okay with that, considering that I really don't NEED an SUV anymore. It also gets better gas mileage and has a bunch of extra goodies that I'm excited about, namely an MP3 player input and adequate cupholders. So that has been extremely exciting. I'm not sure what I'll name it yet. I'm pretty sure it's a boy car (most of my cars tend to be male) but no name yet. Normally I try to give my cars ethnically appropriate names (ie my Japanese Nissan was Yuki and the German Porsche was Wolfgang) and Lexus is a Japanese brand, but... he isn't striking me as a Japanese car. We shall see.
To back up a bit, I spent almost all of Friday cleaning my apartment. Dusting, vacuuming, straightening up, cleaning the mirrors (and there are a lot of mirrors), the whole nine yards. This was partially because it needed a good cleaning, but mostly because at that point my car was still broken and the weather was TERRIBLE and I was cleaning as a last-ditch effort to avoid getting complete cabin fever. So I ended up spending the majority of the day cleaning. And probably playing Final Fantasy X, because I've started playing that again.
Saturday involved lunch at Trudy's with Mom, Kiddo and Tarryn, who is in town for SXSW and then was mostly spent doing car things with Mom and Dad. Car things, for whatever reason, tend to take an extraordinary amount of time by themselves. This, compounded with the newly-minted Curtis Clause (which states that whenever my dad is involved with any activity, you add a minimum hour and a half to the usual time you'd expect it to take) pretty much ate up the whole day. But at the end of it, I had a new car and I can't complain about that. I finally got home, got all PJified and was prepared to spend an evening snuggled under my blanket playing FFX when Tarryn called me and asked if I wanted to meet up with her at Ego's for karaoke. Ego's happens to be within walking distance of my apartment and I was feeling particularly awake, so I agreed and walked over there. I met up with her and her friend Cynthia and hung out for a couple of hours singing and dancing along to other karaoke, but we didn't do any ourselves. And then I took off because I had agreed to go pick Bree up from the airport at midnight. She had spent the week in NYC with some friends, so it was good to see her and to hear about her trip and to show off my new car. ^_^ So I dropped her off and then went the hell to bed.
Sunday.... Sunday I think I slept in really late and then played Final Fantasy and then ran around getting ready for the evening's plans. Jackie had gotten into town on Friday for her spring break and had told us a while back about this live stage production of Ghostbusters that her cousin was involved in that was free to go see, so we had made plans to meet up Sunday for that. I borrowed some folding camp chairs and a small ice chest from Dad and Bree met me at my house and we made quick brownies and picked up fried chicken for a picnic lunch and headed over to Metz park, where the performance was. Jackie and Kim were already there and a bunch of Jackie's family came and in the end there was actually a pretty big crowd! The performance itself was AMAZING. It was done all by amateurs as a labor of love and you could tell that they just had a ball with it. The had altered it to be set in Austin instead of New York, so there were all these Austiny references (like the university they worked for was UT and the haunted apartment building was on Riverside, etc.) and the cast was all mixed up. Egon was played by a tall black dude and Winston was played by a short white chick. It was so much fun and I'm glad that I got to go see it!
Today involved doing a lot of crap for my upcoming job, such as filling out paperwork and the like. I had a minor heart attack when I couldn't find one of the documents I was supposed to have, but I asked and it turns out that they forgot to email it to me. Whoops. ^^;; Later on, I headed over to my house and met up with Jackie and we proceeded to have a hang out day. There was Chipotle and we watched Blades of Glory and the original John Carpenter Halloween. She hadn't seen either and seemed to like them both so yay for that.
And now I'm back at my place, typing up this entry as the last thing I do before I brush my teeth and go to bed. I need to start going to bed earlier since I start work in less than a week (!!!!) but apparently not today. Whoops. Tomorrow I think I'm going to go meet up with Mom at her office since I need to fax a bunch of stuff in for my job and she has a free fax.... Hmm...
Night everybody!
P.S. Ain't no one fucks with tiny hippo. Also, new layout!
First things first: I have a new car! I got it on Saturday after test driving an Infiniti and then test driving my car again. It is a 2010 Lexus IS 250 and it is white and very, very, very pretty. And comfortable! I swear to god, it's like driving a La-Z-Boy. It is also much smaller than Wolfgang was. I'm okay with that, considering that I really don't NEED an SUV anymore. It also gets better gas mileage and has a bunch of extra goodies that I'm excited about, namely an MP3 player input and adequate cupholders. So that has been extremely exciting. I'm not sure what I'll name it yet. I'm pretty sure it's a boy car (most of my cars tend to be male) but no name yet. Normally I try to give my cars ethnically appropriate names (ie my Japanese Nissan was Yuki and the German Porsche was Wolfgang) and Lexus is a Japanese brand, but... he isn't striking me as a Japanese car. We shall see.
To back up a bit, I spent almost all of Friday cleaning my apartment. Dusting, vacuuming, straightening up, cleaning the mirrors (and there are a lot of mirrors), the whole nine yards. This was partially because it needed a good cleaning, but mostly because at that point my car was still broken and the weather was TERRIBLE and I was cleaning as a last-ditch effort to avoid getting complete cabin fever. So I ended up spending the majority of the day cleaning. And probably playing Final Fantasy X, because I've started playing that again.
Saturday involved lunch at Trudy's with Mom, Kiddo and Tarryn, who is in town for SXSW and then was mostly spent doing car things with Mom and Dad. Car things, for whatever reason, tend to take an extraordinary amount of time by themselves. This, compounded with the newly-minted Curtis Clause (which states that whenever my dad is involved with any activity, you add a minimum hour and a half to the usual time you'd expect it to take) pretty much ate up the whole day. But at the end of it, I had a new car and I can't complain about that. I finally got home, got all PJified and was prepared to spend an evening snuggled under my blanket playing FFX when Tarryn called me and asked if I wanted to meet up with her at Ego's for karaoke. Ego's happens to be within walking distance of my apartment and I was feeling particularly awake, so I agreed and walked over there. I met up with her and her friend Cynthia and hung out for a couple of hours singing and dancing along to other karaoke, but we didn't do any ourselves. And then I took off because I had agreed to go pick Bree up from the airport at midnight. She had spent the week in NYC with some friends, so it was good to see her and to hear about her trip and to show off my new car. ^_^ So I dropped her off and then went the hell to bed.
Sunday.... Sunday I think I slept in really late and then played Final Fantasy and then ran around getting ready for the evening's plans. Jackie had gotten into town on Friday for her spring break and had told us a while back about this live stage production of Ghostbusters that her cousin was involved in that was free to go see, so we had made plans to meet up Sunday for that. I borrowed some folding camp chairs and a small ice chest from Dad and Bree met me at my house and we made quick brownies and picked up fried chicken for a picnic lunch and headed over to Metz park, where the performance was. Jackie and Kim were already there and a bunch of Jackie's family came and in the end there was actually a pretty big crowd! The performance itself was AMAZING. It was done all by amateurs as a labor of love and you could tell that they just had a ball with it. The had altered it to be set in Austin instead of New York, so there were all these Austiny references (like the university they worked for was UT and the haunted apartment building was on Riverside, etc.) and the cast was all mixed up. Egon was played by a tall black dude and Winston was played by a short white chick. It was so much fun and I'm glad that I got to go see it!
Today involved doing a lot of crap for my upcoming job, such as filling out paperwork and the like. I had a minor heart attack when I couldn't find one of the documents I was supposed to have, but I asked and it turns out that they forgot to email it to me. Whoops. ^^;; Later on, I headed over to my house and met up with Jackie and we proceeded to have a hang out day. There was Chipotle and we watched Blades of Glory and the original John Carpenter Halloween. She hadn't seen either and seemed to like them both so yay for that.
And now I'm back at my place, typing up this entry as the last thing I do before I brush my teeth and go to bed. I need to start going to bed earlier since I start work in less than a week (!!!!) but apparently not today. Whoops. Tomorrow I think I'm going to go meet up with Mom at her office since I need to fax a bunch of stuff in for my job and she has a free fax.... Hmm...
Night everybody!
P.S. Ain't no one fucks with tiny hippo. Also, new layout!