Work and life have been quite stressful lately. I just have been down in the dumps and like come home from work super stressed and it doesn't really go up from there. I tihnk a big part is not having a car stilll because then I am trapped here since it is winter and cold where usually I would at least run up to Target or something for some retail therapy (my favoirte kind of therapy) . I really need to get on this car thing soon.

Anywho, so today i literally came home from work, put on a sweat suit , at dinner and laid on the couch for like two hours and since then have read and wrote email and now am gonna read a book and go to bed soon. I hate this. I do not want to become someone who sits in a sweat suit (i seriuosly think this might be the first time in my life that i have worn sweat pants and a sweat shirt at the same time like a full sweat suit) and lies on the couch. Ugh! i need a new life..

So it wasn't that long ago that I was posting about car shopping and trying to find a car. But alas I only had that car for like three months before it was smashed to pieces by a drunk driver. Well as i've said before and I'll say again, I hate car shopping.

I went with (e:maureen) on Saturday and first we went to Don Davis Honda on Niagara Falls Blvd becuase I really wanted to try a Honda Fit. THey only have new ones though cuz it just came out last year. The guy there was super nice. If I remembered him I would recommend him. He wasn't pushy and I test drove a Honda Fit and he told me all about maybe getting a used car instead and offered to look them over with me if i wanted to make an appointment to like go to the used lot and look around because that day was super windy and cold. Anywho I liked the HOnda Fit a lot but they only had new ones. He offered to teach me how to drive manual so I could get the cheaper manual one...

..but frankly if you know me, you know I don't need any more distractions on the road. I barely pay attention as it is now.

..so off to Northtown Dodge...eww....i hated it...i hated the worker who didn't know any of the answers to the questios I asked (remember I know nothing about cars so it would be like ummm is there windshield wipers?) and was just rying to sell me a car more than I wanted...

...so off to Northtown Toyota. I liked the guy there too. He was nice. I test drove a Camry and a Matrix. I really liked the Matrix , it is a sports wagon, like a hatchback. I have always loved station wagons and want one I am pretty sure. It was like $15,000 and was a 2005 with like 35,000 miles but it was like a good versio nwith lots of stuff and all wheel drive which I don't really need but might be nice to have. Plus I fugre I could barter him down a little right? That's what you do with used cars? I don't know, who knows maybe it has been sold isnce then since I haven't made up my mind..

...i can't deicde what to do . Like i could buy a car for $10,000 that I got from the insurance and have no payments but not love the car or I could get a car I love and have just little payments cuz I am only finandcying like 4-5000 dollars of it. Which would not be bad at all? But is that really necessary. But really i spend a lot of the time in the car cuz I just love driving around and stuff and I always drive when I go out wiht my friends cuz i Like too so isn't it worth it maybe? I don't know , that is what I really can't decide about. Is it worth the extra money to have a car i really like? I feel like it is kinda cuz like i had a car I really liked and it isn't my fault it is smashed to pieces and so why should i now have a car I don't like? BUt is it worht 5,000 more? GRRR That stupid drunk girl should have to pay enough money so i can have a car i love equally to the one i had. I tihnk i am gonna write her a mean letter soon because frnakly she is ruining my life in many ways!!!! GRRRRR




that is the car I want except the one i want is like a midnight blue!

As anyone who knows me knows, the Golden Globes are prlly my favorite day of the year, if not , then they are a close second to my birthday. Anywho, like seiruosly I generally start watching at like 10am I satrt watching all the prewshows on E! then switch between the E! shows and the actual channel of the GOlden Globe preshows though E is usually way better. Then I watch the Golden Glose and then a good like 5 hours of post shows and interviews!

BUT ALAS!!!! This year there will be none. Because of the writers strike there is no Golden Globes and so I slept most of the day! And now I am wathcing this ridiculous like interveiw show on NBC that is replacing the Globes. NO FANCY DRESSSES! NO CRAZY INERVIEWERS ASKING INANE QUESTIONS! NO LIMOS! No anything good! Serio0usly, this sets up my year to be pretty bad as if it wasn't already heading that way! GRRRR!!! I hope the strike is over by the OScars but like the OScars are a whole different beast. Much more serious and not as fun and random as the Golden Globes. I WANT MY GLOBES!!! What is going to be in the magazines all week and on E and in my life! GRRR

OMG I did not realize Sweeney Todd would be so terrifying and gruesome. LIke i knew what it was about but I thought it would be more fun and heartwarming (not warming in the sense of your heart being baked in a pie). ok maybe nto heartwarming but I thought not sooo scary and disturbing! YEt it was really good and I really like it and form the back Johnny Depp looked like a man dressed as a cat , like in the musical cats, which is never a bad thing! But seriously wowser, disturbing. No redeemingness ever! But good! But scary, like i am kinda scared to go to bed? IS that ridiculous? It was a musical for heaven's sake. But scary!!! (e:jill) thought it would be lighthearted like I knew it wasn't a raucous good time but I didn't realize how dark and disturbing it was! wowser But good and i recommend it

So like whoa, our store has been dead, and i mean pretty darn dead the last two days. Yesterday was super dead like i just cleaned all day and two people worked on training and it still seemed slow dead! And today was a little busier but like still super dead for a thursday. What is going on? Has everyone transfered out ? Like last week we were really busy? Where did everyone go? I don't want my store to close. Ok so it isn't anywhere close to that as of yet but still it makes me nervous since there is like 4 rite aids in kenmore, i don't want to be at the end of the list!

when the world looks kinda weird,
and you wish that you weren't there,
just close your eyes and make believe,
and you can be anywhere

So I used to love and actually still love the song Fire and Rain, ever since it was featured on the Dawson's Creek episode where his father died. Anywho, I haven't heard it in a while and then randombly three times since last night I have heard itON THE RADIO, on three separate stations. Seriously why was it on 96.1 99.9 and 104.1 in the last like twelve hours. How random? Is there a big James Taylor comeback tour coming soon or something? Random?

Also, whenever there is strife in Africa , like currently in Kenya, mobs of people always attack others with machettes? Does everyone there just have one? I also wondered about this? Is that like how people here have guns, there thye have machettes? It just really rocks my world that like all of a sudden thousands of peoples in roitous mobs have them at the drop of a dime!

Super suprise guest at the party right now!!!!!!! COME AND GET IT!!!!

In my family as (e:paul) detests we have a few christmas celebrations. We have christmas eve with my aunt and uncle and cousins, then christmas day with just our immediate family, then a day with my dad's extended family and then a day with my mom's extended family. Today it is my mom's extended family. Anywho that is not really what this post is about. I was just thinking that I have a warped sense of what you need for a meal. Like honestly does everyone's family gatherings involve so much food? I guess they prolly do, but like it just seems so crazy how much food is involved, do people out there just have meals with like one meat and just like two sides? They must right, but i just can't imagine. I think if there isn't at least 3 pounds of food per person , it can't be enough. Like today we have I think like 12 people ocming over but my mom is making roasted chickens, liek a pot roast, clams casino, asparagus with mushrooms thing, a chick pea salad, another salad, twice baked cheesy potatoes and prolly like at least 3 other things. And she is always nervous there won't be enough, though from (e:paul)'s photos you can see there is always plenty. I think I always think the same way, like if i am having a dinner party there needs to be like 100 things, it makes it very hard to pull off (esp. since i have zero kitchen skills). So i don't know, I love that there is so much food, but is everyone's family like this?

So OMG my aunt's niece (but not my cousin) had some challenge for her elementary school to like make a difference and so she started this website in honor of her grandfather (my aunt's brother) where she wrote for 25 days about something she did to make a difference in somoene's life and then asked others to send in what they are doing. She offered to send $25 (her like monthly allowance or something) to the charity of choice of the person who did the best deed. Well like it got some attention on the news and other places and like some other people have decided to match her $25 and so it is like up to $650 going to charity and like all these classes and stuff got involved in doing good deeds. She is like 9 years old. I think that is pretty awesome... i think it is over now cuz i think it was only until december 25 but the website is

www.twentyfivedays.wordpress.com

check it out

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