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Today was just a bad day....overall.

 

I woke up at 6:45 to my phone going off.  Who could it possibly be??  CARLOS. grrr. I told him never to call me at that hour again unless he has a death wish...

 

I went to the doctor and had my appointment at 10:00.  In there were kids upon kids (yes, I was at the women doctor).  This one girl would NOT listen to her mother!  Just when I was about to lose my mind, they called me back to the room.  Thank the lord.

 

After the doctor, I went to Jiffy Lube to have my oil changed and tires rotated.  I love the guys down here.  I have been going to them for years and they have always looked out for me.  After that, I noticed that something was just OFF.  I knew my alignment was off and I needed new brakes, so I decided to go ahead and take my car to Midas to have them taken care of.

 

Couldnt' find midas, however.  Ended up at Firestone.  The estimate was 145.  I signed it, and then left becuase it was goign to take awhile, and I had other things to do.

 

Went and got my passport.  Was told I could get them at the DMV.  Went there.  WRONG.  I was sent downtown to the city hall where I was sent to one place, then to another, and then finally got to the right place. I realized that I didn't have my pictures.  I went to Walgreens down the street to have my picture taken.  as soon as it was about to print, the printer went down.  When they rebooted it, my picture printed purple.  (i looked sexy let me tell you).  So, it took 1/2 an hour to re-align the ink settings accordingly.

 

Finally, I went to the place to hand over my passport information.  I left and then my mother started freaking out that I had to give my original birth certificate and have it mailed to get my passport.  I let her know it was going to be mailed back to me with my passport.  Nope, had to go back to get a copy of the stupid thing.

 

SOOO, I went back and they sent me to the library to get a copy.  Only took $1.  I only had a 5.  So, after some pursuasion, the ladies up front gave me change. 

 

I went back, gave my original back, and then headed home.

 

Got a phone call about my car.  a million things wrong with it.  I said no to some things, but I guess one of my tires were torn on the side (in his words..."slashed").  I thought itw as weird that they caught it, but not Jiffy Lube, since they have alwyas looked out for me since 5 years ago when I first started going to them.  (wow, I feel old now).  At first I said no to having it done, but the guy made it sound like I was going to have a blowout if I would have left the parking lot with it on my car.  They then said that if I didn't get a tire rotation, it could have lasted a little longer.

 

So, after I paid the 585 to fix my car, I went to jiffy lube to find out why they didn't tell me shit.

 

The guy at Jiffy Lube immediately gets ont he phone with Firestone and started screaming at them.  Saying that they took advantage of a young woman and how dare them. 

 

In the end, after a lot of stress, I just paid the money and said fuck it.  I'm tired...and I didn't want to fight anymore.

 

So now, i'm at my parents house for the first time today, eating a bowl of chicken noodle soup, and i'm still starving.

 

Oh well....just...oh well...

I just might want to log mine into yours...


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I havent been on the computer since Tuesday (which is really unusual considering before I used to use it each and everyday not mater what) so I have alot of blogs to catch up on, and I will be in a bit, but I figured I better blog first since alot has happened in the past few days...

 

So my doctors appointment is in 5 days...and im really nervous. Im really hoping that he'll listen to what I have to say and not just say that I need some pills, or worse: say that im faking it or its just teenage hormones or something. I know that this isnt just normal teenage mood swings, and i know its not caused because of how i look or what i choose to listen to or anything like that. This has been an ongoing thing, and in recent months its gotten even worse, so Im hoping there will be some kind of more "natural" way to help me with this, such as councilling or medatation or something on the lines of that. I really, really dont want to be put on antidepressents or things that I will get addicted to or will take over my life. People already take in enough unnatural subtances into their body through food, the air we breath, and products we use that soak into our skin like deoderant, and frankly I beilive I dont need anything else screwing with the way my body functions. I see everyday what drugs can do to you..sure, not specifically antidepressents, but drugs are drugs, and im pretty much against all of them. But thats a different story...

 

In other news, Friday I had to miss the first 2 periods of school (so basically half the day) to get my pasport all ready so that I can go to Florida for 2 weeks in February. Thing is though, lately Ive been having a harder time than usual getting up out of bed in the morning, so on Friday I slept in till after 10am and my Dad flipped out really bad on me until I finally got out of the house and into the truck to go to the place to get the passport all signed and stuff. But even as my dad, my mom and I were driving there, my dad was still sort of yelling at me, and my mom was trying to stand up for me. I was just sitting in the back, looking out the window trying to hide my tears from them (and I did so very successfully) until we got there, and basically for the rest of the day I barely spoke because of how shooken up I was because of that morning. It may seem like I'm sort of cry-baby like the way I talk about myself and why I cry, but seriously it really, really does take alot for me to cry, and ive been doing alot more of it lately, which isnt really good. If you have seen my dad and heard what he was saying and how intimidating he was being, then you would be able to understand, but its just something i cannot explain. I had to go to school for the last 2 periods of that day, but I was very very close to just skipping last period, because I really felt like crap. Not only did I feel like crap because of getting screamed at all morning, but on Thursday I was stupid and didnt eat breakfast and lunch and did the beep test in gym on basically an empty stomach, so I was really sore to(after the beep test on thursday i had really bad chest pains and I swear i could have passed out).  But I guess everythings back to normal now...

 

Oh yea, I should mention that on the 21st I broke up with Ryan.  Its really interesting though..last year when I dated jordan, I started dating him on a 23 (just like Ryan) and broke up with him on a 21 (just like Ryan). Of course, it wasnt of the same months, but it was still an odd coincidence. But this time when i broke up with Ryan, I was actually the one to break up with him (last time I got my friend Cole to break up with Jordan for me). And I didnt wimp out and do it over msn, so thats good I guess. Ryan and I barely spoke to eachother, even though we hung out with eachother every lunch period. He is a really, really nice and great guy, but I just never felt anything super amazing between us...

 

So now that I caught you guys up, im off to do things. Byebye.

 

-:|Kristal:(

 

My passport had been at the visa office (to get my work visa valid until August 2008) since right before the National Day vacation and was supposed to be ready on the 9th-- but wasn't.  It wasn't ready yesterday, either, but i was promised it would definitely be ready/get picked up today and the foreign affairs lady told me she should be back by 16:00, at which time she would call me.  At the height of my frustration--of course i shouldn't have let myself get at all stressed since a part of me knew i would get it back in time since Nancy and i had said the Remover of Difficulties (and other) prayers for it-- and that prayer has always removed my difficulties!-- i finally did get my passport back!  At about 18:30... and i'd been waiting since 16:00, so i was beginning to wonder if i'd need to skip my morning classes to go there myself, and even sent an email to the foreign affairs officer to that effect.  As a last ditch effort i went to their office from where i was able to have someone there call her cell phone and only then found out that she had been able to pick it up and would be back soon!  So she gave me the passport and i gave her a postcard of Colorado i had written a thank you note on around noon in anticipation of getting it back today.  Andi (her English name) then offered to try to reserve one of the 2 school cars to take me to (and bring me back from--upon my return) the airport-- I gratefully accepted the offer. Then i had dinner with a student friend-- he doesn't have an English name yet-- can't remember if he wants one or not... He's very sad that i'll be gone for 3 weeks!  After dinner, I was going to help him find a good English book to help him improve his English at the Library but it was closed, we'll try again on Saturday at noon.  On getting home i sent an email to Andi thanking her some more and also giving her the exact time of my return with flight number.  After passing through the Foreigner Teacher's compound gate a gate guard hurried up with some mail :^)  One of them was a snail-mail from my mom, using the new address labels i sent out.  They work well and it doesn't seem like it was opened before it got to me.  It was a short letter and 2 photos of their 40th wedding anniversary :^)

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