InsaneJournal

Current mood:	disappointed
Current music:	NEVER CHANGE YOUR MIND - loudness

Well, That Kind Of Sucked
this morning i went out to start my car like i do every day before work. i noticed it was raining. i didn't think any thing of it. i proceeded to step off the porch. i about slid the whole way to the car. LOL. everything was coated with a nice transparent sheet of ice.

when i came back in i called work to warn them that, although, i would try to get there i didn't really know if it was going to happen. honestly i had my doubts. just to get off our street would be tricky. there are tons of stop signs and no matter which way a person tries to go there in a slight decline.

so the time came. Aki and i slid our way into the car. slowly we made it to the end of the block. we slid slightly at the stop sign. then came the decline that i was dreading.

i went as slow as possible. instantly the car slid and control was lost. sideways we slid down the hill. we were headed for a very nice truck that was parked along the street. just about two feet from the truck the car finally stopped. i sighed with relief.

there we were. sideways. in the middle of a lake of ice. luckily the car was pointed towards the alley. going in the alley was clearly the only option at this point. i got enough traction to move the car briefly. just enough to get the front end in the alley.

luckily i still had cat liter in the trunk. while i was pouring it around my tires i saw another vehicle head down and i watched as it to came down sideways and headed for that same truck. it too stopped before actually hitting the parked truck. the driver asked if she hit my car. i answered no. she asked what we should do. o tld her my plan about going down the alley if i could get my car to actually go. she offered to help push if needed.

after a few tries some burning of rubber i got my car to go. i stopped to talk to the other driver to see if i could be of any help. her plan was to go through the snow and up on the sidewalk if she could. i told her if she could back up a bit and turn her wheel a certain way that her plan would work. it did.

some how we managed to get through the alley, and around the block to where we originally started.

i had called work again and tracey said not to worry that we couldn't make it. she didn't think we would be able to.

----OMFG!-----
"Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a woman accused of killing her 1-month-old daughter by burning the child in a microwave oven...."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/28/baby.microwave.ap/index.html


-----Over night shift-----
aki and i made it through our first over night shift. i must admit it was nice. i think that it being different from the usual work day is what made it so pleasant.

it certainly has its perks. for one there is NO DEBBIE. so, there is no yelling or getting bitched at. we only had maybe 5 customers in four hours. it was easy to get around the kitchen because there was only five of us in the building.

the night went by so quickly. again i think its because it was so different from what i am used to. i am sure after a few days of that it too would become tedious.

there is one major reason that would make me work the over night for at least a couple weeks. MONEY. people that work the over night shift get an extra 50 cents an hour, plus being that the night crew is so small a person is pretty much guaranteed to get their full hours. working overnight would give aki and i each a couple extra hundred a month. now that is a good reason to want to work over night.

i dread seeing the next check. we will be missing alot of hours with not being able to make it to work today and having been sent home early so much lately. being sent home early is what really hurts us. instead of getting 72 hours every two weeks we are averaging 52 hours. getting hours cut really makes for a small check and it also cuts into our chance of getting our paid vacation. for the paid vacation a person has to average 32 or 35 hours a week for a year straight. i'm not really sure when we'll hit that mark.


------OUCH! He pissed her off.------
"A British woman who ripped off her ex-boyfriend's testicle with her bare hands and tried to swallow it has been jailed...."
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23102177-5012895,00.html


------Amusement park ride.------
a few days ago my car was bouncier then usual. while leaving work one day it became very bad. while going over the drain thing my car let out a very horrible and loud noise. it sounded like my ass end fell off or something. LOL. after that the bounce was beyond noticeable. it was very embarrassing actually. one tiny bump made any passenger nearly hit their head on the roof.

while turning to get on our street my car rubbed. i knew that wasn't right because my car has always been high enough to avoid rubbing. after parking i went to check out the back of the car. i was a bit surprised to see that the ass and had dropped a good four inches or so. it was impossible not to notice.

yesterday on the way home my car stopped bouncing so much. this confuses me. clearly something was very wrong to cause it to have that kind of reaction in the first place. suddenly it stops? how?

i am so anxious to get that other car. i just keep hoping that Takanori will last just a couple more weeks. i should have the other car in two weeks. hopefully less. Takanori has made it this far so maybe he has a couple more weeks in him. *crosses fingers*


-----Rebate package.-----
i am hoping that congress passes this rebate thing. from what i understand low income people would receive and additional 600 dollar rebate (in the summer). it would also give businesses tax cuts. why i don't know.