5VI...something something.

Saturday night, September somethingth, 2006


Friday was such an awesome day. Yeah, ok, I had to get up and be to work at 8...but other than that and my eye issue, I got paid. So 11 am rolls around and I am checking the parking lot for Gordon...he's usually not more than five minutes late, and it's usually on account of the coffee shop being busy. Long story short, he came along at noon when we were busy. It was very busy right up until around 1:40. The lights flickered, went out. Came back on. Then went out for good. People still came in, but we pretty much instantly went dead. I went and got the calculator from the office in case we had complicated orders. For the most part though, unfortunately I have all the prices after tax memorized. Writing everything down on paper (what they ordered, price, paid with) and kept the key in the drawer. Fun fun...I honestly was happy at that moment. It made me glad to have been there when it went out, so I could relax for a bit.

We started wondering after 15 minutes or so if it was even going to come back on at all. I figured it better be time to either call the power people or go find someone in this plaza who already has. So Gordon searched for the number and I went in search of news. I came back with this new knowledge: everyone nearby in the plaza is very lazy. Nobody knew anything. Bill lost his cell phone but was going to call once he found it. A few of the regulars worked up in the tax office that I didnt know about, otherwise they would have gotten their discount a long time ago....and last but not least, the guy who works at the taquaria across the way who is always watching me is alot hotter than i had first thought.

Gordon still hadnt called.

After he did call, found out that on the other side of the freeway the power is on and that 1500 people are out of power. There were trucks on their way to the site and it should be on within the hour. I divied up tips and caught a ride with Rolando and made it down with my car to REGISTER MY CAR.

Every single person I talked to who worked there I could tell that their first language was not english. I started being sarcastic with the car inspector guy but he just looked at me ans said "what?" I think he was from Europe. It was all serious, I couldnt even try to be slightly social to the people to lighten their day because every time i tried they didnt understand me. Ugh. Ironically, my licence plate starts with 5 (five for may, the month i was born) VI (the first two letters of my last name).....I dont really remember the rest of my plate. Oops. But now that I have a car running I can do laundry gladly and if I need something I can go to the cheaper place not the one closeby...and I dont have to do it on my way home from work. No more hauling a 70 pound duffel bag down the hill and through the long parking lot full of prissy people who watch you struggle as you walk by and say "gee, that looks mighty heavy." but dont help in any way. (that's doing laundry without a car.) No more only getting a few things at the store because I have to carry it all back up the hill, which usually always gives me a headache if it's more than 15 dollars worth of food.





Sunday evening, September somethingth, 2006


Ok....I have a major problem now. My car..it stalls now. It runs fine until I go under 20 mph, then it starts to shake and jump and almost stall until i give it more gas. I'm pretty sure it's not the alternator since I've been through that with this same car last winter and it's not acting like that. Yes, there's plenty of gas in the car. I am so confused....It was running just fine until I picked David up...maybe it doesnt like him. But really though....it was a horrible drive home and I was all shaken up after it finally stalled in my driveway. I dont think it is the idle, since it idles low in park, and it only stalls in drive...well actually i havent tried it in neutral...but i started it from neutral earlier and it didnt stall. this really, really sucks. I just spent all the money on the damn thing to get it road legal and it does this. i could cry...i hope it is something easy. something that i can just slap my forehead and laugh and be glad it's over. But until then.....AAAAHHH my car is broken!!!! Help!!!

Happy

Ok, so I might miss my friends...but damn it, i am with someone who makes me happy. Yes, he is a litle crazy...but well, i'm kinda crazy too. I didnt ever think there'd be someone more out of it than me. But he helps me be more sane...or is it insane?? i dont know...i am happy. and i am glad that i am where i am.

my car hopefully soon i can get it registered...friday. YES this friday is THE date. my car will be 100 percent legal which it hasnt been for quite some time.

Did i mention there are black widows around here? AAAAHH!!!

Just dont put your hand somewhere that you havent checked yet.

so uh...skype.com

Free until the end of this year. So use it now while it's still free!!!

I cant wait until spring semester, I get to go to school for almost free!!!!!

Life is pretty good. Yeah i can get sad sometimes but really, it's better than it ever was.



Just wanted to share that burst of light while it still shone. Now the sun is setting and i must go. I will join you again my friends at another time when I have more important things to say.

Ginger Marrie

MY CAR! MY CAR!

We changed the spark plugs....which costedddd very cheap.

Today...I took thy GMARRIE down to the shop and handed the keys over and look look an hour later the owner of the place who is really cool tells me Yer all set...

What???? i think. He's not telling me "ok, well it looks like something failed..." no...MY CAR PASSED THEIR TEST!!! My car is a smart car...very smart arentcha....good car...you just costedddd me 67 bucks. (They charged 12 bucks for a new gascap...which is outrageous but meh...the one on there had no seal. most gas stations around here i've found do not save the gas caps found, stupid morons.

But yay...now online the price comes out to 155 bucks for registering my car, total. Ugh...I only have 84 bucks until next friday. (plus or minus my tips, which feeds me.) But that money goes to other things too, like 300 for rent and then 120 of it for phone and insurance....which leaves us with almost nothing after i go to register my car. Why do people take my money? this sucks.

Anyways....C'est tout! I'm so happy!!

Ginger Marrie


Oh by the way...as for the walnut tree....I went out to it FOUR days later hoping for some ripe walnuts since the last time i took some there were NONE ripe.....and i couldnt see any. I thought...well it's probably just because I only have one contact in and the sun is setting...yeah that's it...but as i circled the tree over and over i realized GOOD GOD, this tree was FULL of walnuts a few days ago and IT'S BARE NOW. Every single one has been taken by some greedy squirrels or big ugly black birds or maybe even some coons???? And as I was feeling so glum, I suddenly saw one. One, all by itself, with the outside starting to blacken. OOO, it's ripe. So I guess i'll never see another walnut out of that tree for another year. Why would animals take walnuts that arent ripe??? grr....unless all the ones that i couldnt get to were...but i climbed pretty high up in there. stupid squirrels......they took all my nuts. :(n her husband's television show and in his 2002 movie.

Vrmm vrmm

That's what I hope to hear soon...like every day when i get in my car. Yeah yeah you guys say...so much about your car.

The other day we decided ok, time to fix the tire today and give your car a health inspection.

After tracking down a tire iron in the back of Debbie's car, we get the rear driver side tire off. David rolls it...and bounces it...

"There's no hole in this. Where is the nail?"

"What?", I say...confused. "Dude...it was a freaking screw, how could it have came out."

"Well, there is no hole in this tire. Look. There is nothing in the tire either. You made me take this tire off all because you are crazy."

It was on the ground next to where the tire was on the car. Apparantly when he spun it around and around to take it off it somehow came off. There was imprints on the tire of where it was....but no puncture......YAYAYAYAYAYAAAAYYYYEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poor him, took the tire off and put it back on for nothing. At least it got his blood pumping and got him dirty. Off we went and brought it back new spark plugs. Too bad it's Labor Day weekend....GRRR.......stupid car shops all closed down because they are taking a day off from labor.....

i guess i cant complain too much, I (coincidentally) got the day off too. Actually I suggested to the manager that we close down shop for the day, seeings how that's what that holiday is all about...but I think most of the people that are going to work that day are going to be people that dont really believe in this holiday...it's the first time i've actually celebrated it for myself.
Woo...yay.Let's make a cake.
Santa Claus does exist!!!

Ginger

NUTS

oh baby i love nuts....walnuts....i like having a walnut tree except i have to fight off the squirrels....i had to climb the tree today to get to the walnuts before the squirrels did. maybe i should hang out around it for as much as possible....then the squirrels will be afraid of the tree and always think i'm in it and wont come around....as my brother says (about me for some reason...) be like a squirrel girl, be like a squirrel....oh oh oh oh oh. (ok so he sings a song that the white stripes made and thinks i'm a squirrel or something...) weird.

YUM I LOVE NUTS!!!!
Thank god I wasnt born allergic to them. they're too damn good to not have.

Ginger Marrie

GMARRIE

ARRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY CAR DID NOT PASS THE TEST!!!!

STUPID CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ON MY WAY HOME I HEARD A NOISE....

WHEN I GOT HOME I LOOKED AT MY TIRE

THERE IS A NAIL IN MY TIRE

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!1

they said it could be my spark plugs

or it could be my catalataic cicicici

converter thnggy

which is 300 bucks. it needs a new gas cap

and it needs a tune up

who the hell knows maybe all i need to do is

go out there right now and clean the spark plugs

take it back down there and test it again

and maybe it'd pass

but it has no gas
they ran it until it was dry

fkers.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now i have to go pay 70 bucks for my insurance bill, all because i wnt it insured but who knows maybe after i get all the bullshit signed and paid for it will DIE and i'll be out a bunch of money. Damn it....i need a new tire.....alsdjfdkl;salsdkjf



it's like a sign.....i'm not supposed to drive the damn car...i'm supposed to let it die.




but then i'd be carless and have to buy a new one. ugh. please just someone tell me what i should do...i am lost.

Car facts...

Ok...so this monday I am going to smog my car and maybe if i have time register it. Fun...I expect the price tag on the smog to be around $50 (if it passes i will be blessed...if it doesnt it will be free but i will have to fix something...but a mechanic i talked to today has faith in my car...and so does Gordon...please oh please pass.....)

Registering it will be somewhere around 100 bucks. Looking at all the fees that the online site gave me it estimated all my fees to be exactly 101...but the lady at sos told me "under 150..." We'll see...

My car is clean...i like clean cars they make me happy.

After those are taken care of i will have to get an oil change (if i havent already to pass smog...) and a tune up (again...if i havent already) And new tires...i've gone over this with you all before. it sucks. money money money....ugh.

It's so bad that my car is all i can even think about anymore...i dont know what else to even bitch about on my blog. Well..until i can think of more (or i actually do something to my car)......

Ginger Marrie

Rite Aid once again

Ok...I was standing at the register yesterday...waiting to help the next customers once they were done deciding...and over their shoulders I see the most evil person I know around here...the supervisor from Rite Aid. Now, for those of you who can recall how much hatred I can have within for someone...this woman is the only person that I actually can say I hate that I have seen in a very long time...so you can imagine that all the hatred I have stored for people has all been deflected into this woman. I throw the pen down on the counter and ask my manager to please take over because here she comes. When I come back there is a note written...it's a good thing that she remembers things I mention to her, because I had asked her to write her name down if she ever came in...and she did. Deborah. I have written Rite Aid once again for this psycho lady. I dont think I will get any reply because I didnt get one last time. but this time I had her name. Oh boy do I hate her...her evil black frizzy hair and so much makeup and ugh.....just thinking about her i am making a horrible face, i feel as though i should spit, right in her face.




Ok....now for the brighter side of things.....i talked to Marta today!!! And as usual, we had perfect timing. I love my Marta. She'll be back in college in a week.

Speaking of college, I think that spring semester I am going to be eligable for free school. Yay!!! Time to start planning for classes, even though unfortunately this college is incomparable to LCC...LCC ROCKS!!! THEY had the best goddamn media program around the entire state of Michigan, and I WAS GOING TO IT!!! I was lucky enough to have the best teacher ever in the entire world who knew just how to teach what he was teaching and teach it well didnt you teacher teach teach teach MR. HAGGADONE!!!!!!!!!!!! World's best teacher and influence. Well...best media teacher. i had some excellent english teachers too...

Yeah yeah, shut up i know i failed english alot of times...

but i got a B+ and an A- in french class!!

c'est impossible.....

Also, I got an invitation to my cousin's wedding! Wow, she's the first of all us cousins to get married. Not sure if i'll make it back or not yet...but i would really love to. The cheapest tickets i'm finding are at 270 after tax. Round Trip.

Too bad i dont have any of those frequent flyer miles...............







~$150 for a one way ticket...Heidi...out of Detroit.




My car is happy.

I am happy.

~G~

Things I want to do/have...

or need...

-my car to be legal to drive
-my car to have new tires and stuff it needs to be a happy car...

-a passport
-free college (soon...very soon)
-surf (i just need a wetsuit)
-my miranda and my heidi out here now
-pauly and robbe too
-maybe mr. love too
i miss my friends...

-a pet (i wish david didnt hate/wasnt allergic to cats or my pretty kitty would be shipped here instantly...my pretty kitty i hope he is doing well...)
-a laptop
-a digital camera
-a working camcorder (or just fix the one i got)




How much is all of this? I dont know. alot. My car stuff all by itself is alot. Tires, not getting away with four without paying at least 100...

Tires-100
Registration-150
Smog-50
approximate cost to pass smog-150 (and that's a low guess)
Blower motor-20
Tune up-?
Oil change-?
Passort-80
College-free in a few months
Wetsuit-? alot...
Heidi-300 for a ticket
Everyone else...same price but i dont think i'm buying
Pet-0 since we'd probably get lucky
Laptop-400
Digital Camera-200
Fix my camcorder-anywhere between 5-50...i dont know what needs replaced.


ok...so i need 2 grand to fall from the sky right now to have all that i want...call me greedy but damn it my car is insured now and i need to have 600 for my car and be able to eat too...rahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11



that's that story............the world needs money. ugh.

Ginger

I LOVE MY CAR!!!

About a week ago i applied for my new licence...i got it in the mail yesterday. Today i freaking got insurance on my lovely GMARRIE but it's not registered yet....when i register it they will take my GMARRIE plate away from me :"( which very much sucks...i paid 35 bucks for that plate. i should get to keep it goddamn it and hang it on my wall. THAT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hm.........i am happy...well...except that NO ONE KNOWS what Jessica's number is. Aunt Beckie emailed me it today but it "is no longer in service" as usual...my dumb ole sister always has a disconnected phone by the time it makes it to me...HER SISTER.


oooh, nevermind about the plate....someone just stole it.

Lots of stuff going on

Yesterday was David's birthday...he doesnt want me to mention it though...he's 24. Big deal. We ate really well for his birthday. Steaks, lots and lots of veggies, sitting around a bonfire in the resivoir on that beautiful day. It was fun. And now today is grandpa's birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA!!!! he's only 22. ;) And definately acts his age.

Seems like i'm forgeting to say something else about today but i'm not quite sure what that could be...hmm...........

Oh well.

Anyways, i'm doing fine. My potatoes are dying, does that mean it's time to eat them? must be...gonna pull them up today. I got a letter today from grandma Schneider and unfortunately...i cant read any of it. Now...and i kinda feel bad about this...i used to be able to decipher it for everyone else when they couldnt read it but now.....now i cant even read it. There are a few words i recognize but...not many.

I'm making an afgan too i dont know if i told anyone that or not...it's a pretty simple one. it will be very expensive and warm. i've only got a small amount of it done though. i need 70 squares and i've only got 12....gotta get to work!!!

I think that's about it...not as much going on as i thought...it's too bad i cant remember what other occasion today is because i could have sworn something else happened today in the past too...but nothing is more important on this day than grandpa's birthday. Happy birthday grandpa, dont eat too much candy now, remember to smell the roses and sing as loud as you want. We all love you!!

Ginger Marrie

Electric Car

Stop paying for gas!!! Read this and understand that your govt IS against you!!

http://www.keelynet.com/energy/teslcar.htm

HO LEEEEE SHIT......

OK...the last post mentioned how DAVID cut his dreads off......well, i'm at work about to go home and there is Gordon's face.......but just his face. No dreads. He cut HIS off last night, the day after David did his....and neither one knew that the other had/was planning such a shocking thing. They both saw eachother today...no dreads.....

A new thought...how will I describe them to people now if i lose them?? I used to say "two dread locked hippies" but now.....i have to tell them a more vague thing... "two tall handsome hippies with very short hair..."




Wow...

WHOA

HOLY SHYTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David just cut his dreads off....YEAH. OFF. Whoa........no really....WHOA. um.....whoa.

i uh....he looks like Chris kinda now....


oh yeah....and to update you, i bought a guitar. A fender.

David's hair.......i've never seen it short except in pictures.

Holy Cripe'n Crunch...

I love cereal...



I've been trying to tell Miranda for a couple days but we never get to talk long enough for me to spit anything out so i'm just gonna say it here....i have a geee-tar. Yes, yes, I BOUGHT MYSELF A FENDER. Yeah yeah, Jordan, i hear you in my head...you dont deserve one...and you're probably right. But the fact that it's not that good of one should make up for it...maybe some day i'll play it for you Jordan...the day after you TAKE ME TO OZZFEST!!!!!

Sorry...got carried away...anyways, what i really wanted to say is...i love the sun. it keeps me warm and happy. I like to play frisbee in the sun. no one would ever play with me, at least not for very long. i like it when people will play until Ginger wears out, because most people wear out quick playing frisbee...but not me. I just get better until i cant run and dive anymore without tripping myself...that's when i need a break...when i crash into a big wall of sand...we had loads of fun today. Oh boy. And my legs hurt from our small hike...dumb us we should have gotten out the compass before we attempted to cross the freeway...at least we were sure footed...except when i let you fall in the river......sorry about that...

Fun day, wish i could do it tomorrow on my second day off in a row!! at most i'll go to the beach and find some cute guy to play frisbee with. neh...i'll just work on my sunburn....yay...

ginger marrie i love me

This friggin sucks

I dont know what to say, other than he was a very inspiring man.

Who is this you say? Shame on you...

Today's Story, as told by me

I woke up this morning around 8:43. I remembered that *she* was working. Before I continue, there is something you mus know about her...

*She* is trying to get fired so she can get unemployment. However she is a bad employee and won't end up getting it. Right now she is only on once a week because she is really rude to customers and employees. Back to today...

I rolled out of bed and found a bowl...no cereal. Grrr...ok, I'm going to work early since I dont think *She* will show up at 10 like she's supposed to, and me at 11.

I make it to the plaza. I see Nancy, she tells me she has my hoodie and she'll send it my way. That made me happy but i'm still hungry...I decide to walk in the back and if *her* car isn't there, i have to go in......her car's not there. My manager was hoping i'd be psychic today and show up knowing that *she* wouldnt be there.

Work work work...starving...super busy...work work....time to go play with money for an hour yay...time to leave. Wait, I have to go get a money order so i can pay my bill...go next door to Rite Aid and a smiling man says over the intercom for me "Supervisor to Western Union please."

Now...maybe i'm wrong, but isnt Rite Aid supposed to BE a "western union" station? The answer? YES. Now i've had trouble before cashing a western union money order, but they said they did everything except cashing them, last time...

Supervisor walks up, looking like she thinks she owns the place, with her dark thick makeup and her long evil black hair fried to a crisp...She stands directly face to face with me (ok so i'm short, but still...she got in my face instead of behind the counter) and pointed at the computer. "Our machine isn't working right now. We can't do western unions."

"So you can't do money orders right now??"

"We dont do money orders. Our machine is down."

"Ok, so you cant do anything western union right now."

"No. We don't do money orders. Western Union IS WIRING MONEY."

"If you don't do money orders and you can't cash them, why do you advertise "western union" even if it were working?"

"Because Western Union is *pause* wyyyering *pause* monnney."

I could have chocked the bitch. I left angrily and came home. (on my way home i found a ripe blackberry and ate it, which made me stop frowning, but i was still upset a few minutes later...) I have since emailed customer service about the incident.

And now, the computer's not working right...today sucked. That is my day.

Adventures

Check this out...I wish i could have bathed under it...I would have except it was a tiny beach surrounded in very high cliffs, and it is a huge fine to get caught down there since they rescue so many people from there. If it wasnt part of a big park where people were coming just to see the waterfall...i would have played in it. Trust me, some day i will bathe in it...


Fourth of July...

VERY VERY VERY CRAZY.....DEFINATELY THE CRAZIEST FOURTH OF JULY I HAVE EVER HAD. Tons of fireworks, bombs going off almost hitting me and oh boy the freaks were out... loads of fun. Cant wait for another such holiday to come where people just feel the need to go crazy...


As for the Heidi....will someone tell her to call? We really miss her and dont know how to get ahold of her...and we need to know where to send the next Amtrak ticket.......WE LOVE YOU HEIDI.

Also, someone, anyone, go find Robbe and give him hugs and kisses for us. We love you and hope you are becoming Superman, Robbe. Nothin' can defeat titanium. Give it time and you will be undestructable.

I love me,

Ginger Marrie

Fixing Template

Sorry everyone...i'm trying to fix my template and well...i'll just be blunt. I'm a little rusty on the html stuff so it's harder than i remember. It wont do what i want it to do and i just dont want to put up with it right now...so please bear with me.

Not that anyone ever reads it anyways....

Cha Cha, and the beat goes on

(sorry allison...)

This game is the greatest game online. I do suggest trying it out, it is alot more fun than you may first suspect. The best one is Yeti Sports 5....

i'm obsessed......

thank you.


I figured out what our plant is called, it's a type of agavé from mexico. it cant handle the frost, sorry you guys i cant send you one. they are a really cool plant though. it's amazing how fast they grow. When we first picked ours it had around five leaves, now (a couple months later) it has filled up it's huge pot and it has thirteen leaves. wow!!!






also, the other day i went for a walk and came back with one large aloe plant. Now, mind you, the aloes around here are very different from the ones i remember at home. As a matter of fact, i cant even remember what the ones at home look like, i've seen so many different kinds!! There were so many of them that i only grabbed one but went back with a pickle bucket (thank you deli) and put two more in it. That's right...a five gallon bucket could barely contain two of these aloes. I think i broke a few of their leaves just easing them into the bucket. And you wont belive this...on my way back with the bucket i also found a free gardening tool in the park. a limb cutter thinggy... i did fantastic for just going for a walk!!

Well, that's all for now...until next time

Ginger Marrie