Nerd Alert

Not much has happened since the last post, but its been a crazy couple of weeks.

* We picked out a car from my dad's lot. An '05 Ford Focus. The selling point was it's low mileage. I wasn't planning on sticking the name on the car like Sister Rosalina, but then my dad called me and said he had the stencil guy at his lot and wanted to know it's name. Long story short, we named him Toki :/

* We got a loan for Toki. Then, miraculously, Matt learned that because of his GPA, he is receiving extra grant money in the spring that equals our car payments for one year. He's so smart :)

* I got a hair cut.

* Matt did not get a hair cut, but I'm diggin it.

* By the grace of God, and our generous friends, we've managed to find rides to work for the last three weeks!!!!

* I have successfully gone without a migraine for one month!!!

Lastly, its fictional character week on facebook. This is who I picked. Ten points if you know who she is. But most of you probably don't. *shrugs*



This is Yuna from the video game Final Fantasy X and FFX-2. I'm not really sure if we have a similar personality, but I do like her, and have cosplayed her on a few embarrassing incidences. She's not a stupid girl, like so many in popular lit now-a-days. Boys were none of her concern in the first game, as she was too busy saving the world. Granted, the second game was based around trying to find the cute boy that disappeared at the end of game one, but when it became apparent that he was history, Yuna easily moved on with her life. Of course the story would have sucked if she wasn't reunited with him after all. But Final Fantasy has never let me down. And she has guns. AND she flies around on an airship with her two best gal friends fighting monsters and conspirators. That sounds like fun to me.

Here are some other candidates that may be in some part close to my quirky personality:

* Rouge from Xmen

* Sheldon from Big Bang Theory

* Alice from Wonderland (the book version)

* Bio Robot Girl from "The Outsiders"

* Gwen Stefani

The Wizards of Winco

Its been one helluva week.

Rosie is still at the shop. Kenny spent practically the whole day taking her transmission out. I knew the task would be time consuming, as he has cursed the engineers of my Dodge on countless occasions. I was with Aubrey today when he called her, and I heard him mumble that Sister Rosalina needed to go back to the convent.

Aubrey was kind enough to pick me up from work and let me tag along with her to Winco. Ah, Winco - such a magical place. I don't know how they get away with it, but somehow this grocery utopia is able to offer the commoners of Rigby, Rexburg, and Idaho Falls namebrand goods at peasant prices. Aubrey and I don't get there very often, but oh when we do - the treasure is certainly worth the quest.

Enough of that...

New Years was a bust this year. *shrugs* A couple of years ago, My roommate and I threw a kick ace cocktail party for all our friends. We decorated our apartment, dressed up in our cutest dresses, and invited the cutest boys we knew. Matt and I agreed it was the best New Years ever. I figured there was no reason we couldn't do it again. Well, turns out there were a lot of reasons we couldn't do that again.

Reason 1: Walmart. Matt was scheduled to work till 11 that night. And I was scheduled to go in at 7am the next day. Yeah, party not happenin. I had planned on just going to bed. Of course that didn't happen. I have to many family and friends on the other side of the country who love me too much :)

Reason 2: Matt felt like he was dying. A day or two before he had been complaining of a pain in his belly. When it moved to his lower right side I panicked and took him to the doctor. (new years eve) Turns out Matt's blood work came back fine, but the doctor was confident it was the early signs of appendicitis. He told us to go home and wait until it was "for sure". Well we did go home. And the pain went away. And we read on the internet that the pain goes away for a lot of people. And then weeks later it comes back 10 times worse. *shrugs*

Reason 3: We live in a shoebox.

So this last week I've tried not to get too stressed. Preschoolers don't respond well to stress. But it's hard.

We have great friends, and have been relying on them for rides lately. But I'm not sure that we will still have great friends if we do that for three weeks. If the transmission just has a leak, we will just wince and pay the four hundred dollars. If the transmission is ruined...that's another story. My dad has a couple cars we could buy, but we won't make it to Missouri until the end of this month.

Since removing Rosie's transmission is an all day project, I'm not sure if Kenny actually had a chance to look at it. So he has yet to tell me my fate. If he does know something and is hesitant to be the bearer of bad news, well then...he's a mechanic. He should get use to ruining people's lives.

JK.....*shrugs*