Car update.... plus random intrusions! :)
OK, if you've been around me since Thursday, you might have heard me ranting about suddenly getting the "Check Engine" light in my car on the way to the Switchfoot concert Thursday [BTW, currently on Air1: "Learning to Breathe" :)] but [Sorry, time for another random thought intrusion: I forgot to tape 8 Simple Rules... when it came on at 12:35 this morning! :(!!!!!!! Grrr.... and it was new, too! I hate you Channel 15 for putting it on Sunday night/Monday morning instead of FRIDAY NIGHT when it was supposed to come on! And what did they put on instead? Some crappy movie from the '70s or '80s or one of those decades!!! Well eight-uple GRRR on Channel 15!
You know, they've really been aiming for my crap list lately... First with the "Oh, local news doesn't matter when we can show you a live nightscope picture of ABSO-FREAKIN-LUTELY NOTHING going on in Baghdad right now" attitude and the weird programming choices and the cutting the 12:00 newscast and Jonathan Elias being way too informal on the air (He talked about doing defensive driving!!! They had a story about new online defensive driving classes, and he's all like "Yeah, I know I've been in those classes!" ARRGH!) And don't even get me started on the bias thing I was talking about in TOK today (after advocating for and NPR-ish ad policy... Bad Steven! No commercials except maybe at break! lol)... End random thought intrusion.] OK, back to uhh.... oh yeah, the car stuff.
So we took it to a car place and while we were there I thre in that the brakes had started to squeak a little bit and so yeah I had no car today so that sucked (But I was actually on time to Zero Hour today... kinda b/c I didn't hafta dig for books in my car since I took them all out last night but mainly because my mom speeds! Seriously, it was like this today:
Mom: "I didn't speed!"
Me: "Uhh, you know that the speed limit on _____ Road past __________ is 35, right?"
Mom: "Oh.... Well, I was only going 40-something!"
, which is actually good for her. But anyway, I chilled on campus for lunch and went out 6th hour (missed the fire drill, awww... lol j/k) and then came back to keep Amanda company, rant about the engine light some more (We had similar experiences...), and read YM... LOL! Don't judge me, it's not like that, but anyway... It turns out there wasn't much wrong with my engine, but I need new front and back brakes but we just got new front brakes b/c that was urgent... back can wait.
So bottom line: the Metro is back with no engine light! :) I'll be driving (and probably late, knowing me!) to school tomorrow! :-D