OMG. OMG OMG OMG.

On the way to work this morning, things seemed as per usual for a December morning.  It was cold, there was a light snow overnight, and it was cold.  OK, I said it twice, but winters here are seriously cold.

So I'm driving down the interstate, and about a 3/4 mile to the next exit (my exit was the one right after), I start hearing THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP.  I immediately slow down to ten above the minimum, and as I do, the car suddenly SWERVED and I almost lost control!  The truck that was behind me slowed WAY down when that happened, and I didn't blame them-- I wouldn't want someone who was losing control to hit my car, either.

The portion of the interstate I am on is in town (obviously) so although I'm in the right full lane, there are ramp oncomings and incomings one after another, so you literally have this mini lane that never tapers off into the lane next to it, it just leads to the off ramp of the next exit.

There is space off on the left, but I'm positive at this point there is something wrong with my tire (or even TIRES), and I decide crossing three lanes of traffic traveling about 20 mph faster than me is not the best idea, especially during a Midwest December.  So I finish the half mile to the exit before mine, which is really spacious and had a triangular space where my car was able to fit without ever reaching the road the off ramp lead to, or obstructing traffic in any way.  As I get out of the car, I notice that the same person that was behind me when I nearly lost control is also directly behind me.  He starts to get out as I cross the front of my car to the passenger side and immediately says, "You lost your whole tire." at the very same moment that my eyes fell on the place the tire was SUPPOSED to be.  All I had left was a rim, and what looks like the other side of the tire.  In fact, I took a picture as proof to my boss that I nearly severely hurt myself on the way to work to explain my tardiness. 

See where the tire ripped off?  I still have tire on the side of the car!  Black thing in upper right corner is one of my rescuers getting ready to jack up my car :P

The man asked me, "Do you have a spare?"  I thought back to when my boyfriend was working on my car from the first bad thing happened to it.  Since he was dealing with some electric components, we had to access my battery to disconnect it, and in my particular vehicle model, my battery is located in the trunk. 

FYI, this is a huge design fail.  lets say that in the process of doing this, the trunk is inadvertently closed before the battery is reconnected.  If you have your original key, this isn't an issue, but if you have happened to lock your keys in with the trunk, or  if you've needed a key replaced, about 50 bucks a pop, thanks to the electronic chip, for some reason your "universal" key can turn your car on, but couldn't open the trunk for anything--which I know from experience, you are basically SOL.  Automatic trunk opener from inside the car?  Electronic, of course--requires the battery to be connected, which it is NOT.  You'd think that you might be able to lay down the backseats to get in, but a different design fail makes this impossible--in order to lay the seats down, you have to pull a lever unlocking them.  Guess where the lever is located?  Yeah, the trunk.  fail fail fail fail fail.  If anyone ever happens to read this, try and guess what kind of car I drive, if you didn't already figure it out from the photo I posted.  My feud with my car, however, is a completely different post.

ANYHOW, (I really have tendencies to get off subject, obviously), when Tony was working on my car had me come out to help him access the battery.  The trunk has somewhat of a false bottom, and he needed me to lift it so he could have two hands to work.  While holding it up, I couldn't help but notice the doughnut tire lying under the false bottom, though at the time, I thought nothing of it-- I was much more concerned with going to Target at the time to get a new steering wheel cover, because when I want something, I want it.

Anyhow AGAIN (see?  off track!), I remembered this moment in time and told the man, "I think I've got a doughnut thing in my trunk.  I popped my trunk, and lifted the false bottom.  He took the tire out and unsecured the jack that comes with the car (Design win).  As we went over to begin jacking the car up, another truck stopped, and ANOTHER man came out to help!  In hindsight, I think the guy behind me just wanted to make sure I'm OK, but probably didn't have much more car knowledge than I did.  the guy that pulled over seemed to know exactly what he was doing, setting the jack up with ease and removing the rim from my car.  Between the two of them, I didn't lift a finger and they had my car driveable again (albeit with a 45 mph speed limit) within fifteen minutes!  (I only know this because I was only fifteen minutes late, and I usually arrive at work precisely when I'm supposed to be there.)

So I have to get a new tire, which I plan on taking care of on Saturday, but until then, I'll be leaving for work ridiculously early because now, a ill-lucked girl must travel through the city to go to work instead of zipping to work in ten minutes using the interstate.  And I'm still in shock that it actually happened, I know I have bad luck, but it's never usually THAT bad!  I'm hoping that's it for car issues.  Between the cracked radiator (what Tony was fixing in the lovely anecdote earlier), the transmission that was replaced for $1,220.27 (a price I'll NEVER ever forget), and now this, I feel I have racked up my amount of incidents in the "rule of threes".  that's it cosmos!  Find someone else to pick on!  Bah!

I'd rehash all the being quiet and keeping to myself I managed to do today, but I'd rather not bore myself.

So the last couple days?  Sixteen and Stupid (bwahahha) was just an "unseen moments" episode, even though there is apparently a completely new episode with a new girl next week.  But this girl is another one dealing with the adoption option.  Seems like it's alot messier than Catelynn's situation, and that's pretty tough to top. (Again, for a completely different post, I feel pretty bad for that girl!)  So that should be interesting.

Oh, and the challenge is over hurrah.  The red team won surprise surprise.  It was really, really really anticlimatic. It was completely bittersweet though to see Laurel crying her ass off like a little kid, and the bane of her existence, the mysterious Cara Maria, trucking on like a champ. The reunion, which can be a hit or miss, ended up being this emotional clusterfuck of a group therapy session.  We have Paula bawling her eyes out after being told for the millionth time that she's weak and can't hack the game, and Easy shows up only to call Laurel out for being a complete bitch.  (Who by the way, should have just shut the fuck up long before she opened her mouth.  She spent the entire thing lashing out at people for being weak, and just hearing her voice was so annoying.  Even annoying ass SARAH apologized to Cara Maria, and Laurel STILL thinks that she's weak and didn't deserve to be there.  Like really honey?  Pretty sure she wasn't sobbing her eyes out about how tired she was, hint hint LIKE YOU WERE.  I think though that she's absolutely incapable of apologizing to people, she's one of those people who cannot stand to be wrong, and will go to the ends of the Earth to make herself the "winner".  Even sitting there on stage, when Easy is calling her out, she tries to turn the entire thing into an argument of if she tried to call him to apologize or not.  JUST APOLOGIZE AND SHUT UP!  That girl needs not just a slice, but an entire humble pie.

No pictures, because anticlimatic makes me frustrated and mad and all sort of other unpleasant things, and so does Sixteen and Stupid.  (If I see one more fucking southern teen get married to her baby daddy and talk about values and fall on her face when she realizes that they can't afford shit with one of them working a part time job, I'm going to to scream.)

Well, it's 1 AM, and if I don't go to be soon, I'm going to be one pissy missy tomorrow.

Until then--

OMG!!! IT'S BEEN ALMOST A WEEK!

I seriously can't believe how long its been since I've posted here!  I wish I could say I have been busier than normal, but I really haven't.  The boyfriend came in early this week, and we've been enjoying time together watching Christmas movies and of course, caught up on our favorite shows.

Not having him here has been quite the situation, but we make it work.  We definitely appreciate each other more when he comes home!

So, since I've been away for so long, and even though I don't think anyone actually even reads this, I'm going to make this entry rather lengthy and go through what I've been up to the past week.

Monday was pretty uneventful for me.  I didn't work that day, so I had the day to myself after school.  When class was out, I went to the courthouse to take care of a couple of tickets my boyfriend had gotten a couple weeks ago.  Since he was working out of town, I brought down his insurance card to prove he had insurance, and a check he had written out for a traffic violation.  Before I went in, I spent a good amount of time talking to my friend Autumn on the phone.  She's going through a terrible breakup, and I hadn't had chance to touch base with her until that day--plus, I wanted to give her time to herself, and didn't think having Miss I'm-So-In-Love around was going to help cheer her up in the least, especially right after it all happened.  So I sat in the courthouse parking lot in my car for 45 minutes talking with her about everything.

When I got home, I did some housework and then sat down to have some lunch.  Also got a little bit more decorating done-- we bought this great cityscape wall art that we hung above our couch, and have our eye on a few more things at different places in town.  Decorating has been going really slow with our budget, but at least its been going...right?

Anyhow, Monday's marks the night of my guilty pleasure, Gossip Girl.  I have been a HUGE fan of the books since I was in junior high, and actually own the entire series.  This season definitely has not been a disappointment-- and this weeks episode was one of the best!

To make the recap a short one, Blair and Dan team up to find Juliet and bring her down for attempting to ruin Serena's life.  They don't find her, but do end up finding Damien and Juliet's entire past in her hometown of Cornwall, CT.  Slowly, they piece together the history of how Juliet and Serena are connected, while Serena simultaneously fills in the holes to her psychiatrist during treatment regarding her past--starting with her betrayal of Blair which caused her to flee to CT to begin with, and ending with her return to New York.  The story in between detailed a relationship Serena attempted to persue with a teacher at her boarding school-- a teacher who turns out to be Juliet's older brother.

Flashback scene of Serena persuing her teacher, Mr. Donovan

When Lily uses the rumors to help improve Serena's school records to get her back into her school in New York, the plan backfires and the police become involved, which ends up with Lily signing her daughter's name on an affidavit stating that there was an improper relationship between her and the teacher.  On a plea bargain, Ben ended up in prison for five years, and Juliet was left vengeful over her brother's tarnished name.
All the detective work in CT is pretty pointless, however, because Juliet made her way back to New York to confront Serena once and for all and come clean about why she did what she did.  Serena realizes what her mother has done, and allows Juliet to get away before going to a business party at her mother's home being held by Lily and Chuck in regards to Bass Industries, and calls her out in front of everyone.  Lily admits what she did when confronted, and at first has Chuck coming to her defense, until Rufus steps forward and forces Lily to admit she was going to be selling Bass Industries--exactly the opposite of what she had told Chuck that she planned on doing just earlier in the day.  Thus begins the fall of Lily Van der Woodsen/Bass/Humphrey, and the start of what is likely going to turn out to be alot more trouble for Chuck-- as it seems like he has every intention of getting ahold of his Uncle Jack to stop the sale of Bass Industries.  As Blair warned, Jack can't be trusted, so it will be interesting to see what the next few episodes have in store.

Juliet coming clean, and getting away with it all

Long recap, but ALOT happened on this episode.

Tuesday was another night alone, and after work and school work, I decided to wind down with some red wine and a little Sixteen and Pregnant.  There's really no need for a recap of this episode; completely boring up until about the end.  I think the biggest thing I learned is that the stereotypical Southern accent DEFINITELY comes from Alabama.  So, a quick and dirty for you:  Southern pageant girl.  Supportive boyfriend. Supportive parents. No risk of not graduating.  No risk of giving up secondary education.  Baby daddy proposes.  Southern pageant queen accepts.  Premature delivery.  Healthy baby boy.  Baby daddy is helpful.  Family is helpful.  Baby daddy wants own house.  Southern Beauty queen has a brain.  Refuses to leave stability for instability.

The only thing of interest on this episode, besides the fact that yet ANOTHER teenage girl either agrees to or gets married on the show, is that this girl was actually idiotic enough to climb on top a horse with a four week old baby who was born prematurely no less!

She practically laid on top of that baby to climb on that horse.
Photo from MTV.com

Wednesday, Tony came home from Aberdeen early, so I've been spending the remainder of my week with him!  We did end up watching our favorite shows as of now through the week.  I'll recap them both, because writing this is just taking me forever.

On The Challenge, Laurel once again just annoyed the crap out of me.  That girl talks ALOT of shit.  I seriously can't stand her.  The whole thing was this huge bitch fest where she talked down to Cara Maria as usual instead of just ACTUALLY performing better.  Honey, there is a reason why SARAH is your only friend, because SARAH is right up there with you in being ridiculously annoying as fuck.

Photo from MTV.com

Nothing really else to say, other than two "to be continued" episodes in a row is kinda lame!  But we're reaching the end soon.  I like these shows because they involve an elaborate game, but then you end up watching The Real World because you want to know who that is when they show up on a challenge. 

Thursday, we picked up some champagne and watched the new episode of The Office!  I am a huge fan of the show, although I haven't really mentioned anything quite yet.  I even own the first three box sets on DVD, and record old episodes on my DVR.  I'm so sad it's Steve Carell's last season.  Every episode I'm afraid it could be his last, haha.  Tonight was a new Christmas episode, and I was so glad because Holly was in it.  It wasn't especially happy, but I've waited awhile for Holly to come back!

Holly returns!

I didn't really like the whole snowball thing through the episode.  I laughed when he threw the snowball in Dwight's face, and at the end with the snowmen, but the buildup to the ending was just weird... one one hand, I like that it broke the mold of Jim playing stupid tricks on Dwight, but on the other, the prank just seemed to be alot more brutal, which I know was the point, but I guess the only thing that got me is that it was so uncomfortable to watch, and normally, I can still find the things Dwight says and does funny, but this time, I didn't.  Kind of weird.

Darryl's storyline was really sad too, but I'm glad that it ended up having that same Office ending I love.  That little girl was cute too, and Andy didn't fail as the guy with good intentions who always seems to mess things up.  I'm excited to see what happens next, especially since Holly is here to stay for awhile!  I really want to see how this "ultimatum" issue pans out.

And in between all of that, we have gotten ridiculously drunk and watched Christmas movies and Harry potter movies.  Definitely making the most of our long weekend!  Last night we bought everything we needed for Tequila Sunrises, and tonight, we plan on getting our drink on.  I was supposed to work today, but even though I went to bed to a street with no snow last night, when I awoke this morning, there was a blizzard happening!  It's still going on right now.  So at least we have plenty of entertainment tonight!

Back to spending time with my boo.  I'll do my best to keep up better.

Oh, and I've FINALLY listened to Loud.  My thoughts coming soon, hahaha

Until then--