Dear Car,

It's been fun.  We've had some good times over the last year.  However, the last 3 days have felt terrible due to the fact that you haven't been working.  After 4 calls to AAA and 2 to the dealership that finally has you, the annoyance you have caused is finally over.  Hopefully you'll be working by the weekend so that I am able to drive myself home.  Bu, my lovely Malibu, I just hope that when I pick you up from the dealership in the next few days you will be running as good as new and will stop dying on me while I am driving you.

Anyways, to explain fully:  It all started about a month ago.  I noticed my car was doing funny things like not start up, or when it would start, all of the speedometers would flicker up and down and then the car would completely shut off.  Of course I told my father what was happening (he is a mechanic after all) and he couldn't get the car to act up that way.  Therefore all he really did is clean up some stuff on the engine and it was good to go.

Next, my car completely died this Monday.  I went down to my car to drive myself to work and all of a sudden as I was turning on the car it did the speedometer thing and then gave out completely.  My immediate reaction was: how in the hell am I going to get to work?!  Lucky for me Ana was visiting and I was able to drive her car to work.

When I got home, I had to deal with the car situation.  First it started with a call from my father telling me what dealership to call here in Minneapolis so that I would be able to get it checked out and fixed.  So when I got off the phone with him, I called the dealership and talked to some guy named Jerry about my whole car situation.  So he told me to call AAA since I have a membership with them and have the car towed to Walser Buick GMC Store in Roseville to have it get checked.  Well, when I called AAA they decided to send their "battery expert" out to help me with my car.  Originally, he told me that my battery was fine.  Then when I came back from letting Syressa back into the building, the guy told me I needed a new battery because the 1500W output was too much for my current battery to handle?  Honestly, I dont believe him. Either way, I was charged over $100 for him to replace my battery.

Next, I go downstairs 20 minutes after the battery guy leaves so that Ana and I can go to IKEA and MOA.  Well, wouldn't you know it, the car won't start again.  So I yet again have to call AAA to come back and this time I insisted on a tow truck.  So the tow truck guy shows up and says that the problem is that the battery isn't connected properly.  Therefore all he does is tighten the battery cable or whatever so that the car starts again.  This time it actually worked.  I asked for a second time whether or not my car needed to go to the dealership to be checked.  Just like the "battery expert" the towing guy said no.  So from about 3:30pm on Monday until 3:15pm Wednesday, my car works just fine.  It starts up and everything.

So I go to pick up Kate from work today, because it is ungodly humid outside and I decided it was too much to ask her to walk back here.  She gets into my car and while waiting for the stop light (with lots of cars behind me) my car's engine completely shuts off, yet again!  Luckily that time it was only for a few seconds and I was able to make it all the way back to my apartment, drive into the garage, and am just about to get into my spot when...yup...the engine shuts off again and will not start.

Next, I must call AAA for the 3rd time.  Lucky for me the lady was finally understanding and sent me someone that actually listened and took my car to when I wanted it to go.  (of course at first they thought I wanted my car to go somewhere in Bloomington, which was totally wrong, I wanted it to go to Roseville!)  Well anyways, this time I had to wait from 3:15 until 5:30 for my car to finally be towed away to the dealership.  The long wait was because 3 different drivers had to be called and since my car was stuck down in my parking garage, a tow truck can't get down there.  So it just became the biggest hassle in the entire world.  Plus, now I ended up skipping preseason color guard practice tonight because I was so upset about the situation and starving by the time it ended.  Not really that big of a deal, but I enjoyed the last one so I kinda wanted to go again.  It just didn't seem worth it after how stressed I got.

I feel prepared to deal with situations like this again, but it was just a pain in the ass to have my car keep dying on me!  Such a frustrating time.  It was almost never ending.  Hopefully my car will be fixed and ready in time for me to drive home this weekend.

The Beginning...

Okay, I give in.  I've created a blog.  Not that anyone was honestly pushing me to make one.  I figure it's about time I created a new one.  After all, it's the main reason I started a MySpace in high school.  Either way, here I am...blogging.


I just wonder what the deal is with Universities cutting funding for students.  I realize they have had million dollar cuts in their own funding, but really?  Why was all of my work study money taken away for my final year of college?  I'm so frustrated with this, which totally sucks because I finally am starting the year with a good job.  Problem with them cutting my work study, my current job depends on those funds in order to keep me on staff.  No matter who I email or talk to, no one seems to be able to help me out.  They have me on a wait list for funding, which may or may not work out.   Everything depends on how many other people decide to accept their work study funding.  I just don't know what is going to happen if I don't end up getting some funding.  Will I still have my job?  Should I start applying for other jobs again?  Can I survive Fall Semester without a job if I don't end up getting the funding?  There are so many questions and I just don't know what is going to happen.  What's worse is that I could have been done with school this past May if I had just filled my schedule a little more the last 2 years.  I spent so much time thinking I was going to be an Interior Designer, and when that finally went to hell I settled for a major is something similar (and in my opinion better) to Interior Design.  Hopefully everything will work out and I'll get my work study funding.  So for those who have a heart at the University of Minnesota...there will be a few of you that will not take your work study financial aid.