choose to be the person running.

[damkianna]

Not my best morning ever, so far - one of the cats had another seizure, which was quite possibly my fault, as she seems to be triggered by certain kinds of noise; there was some sort of accident on my way in, which meant a brief moment of terror as I was redirected onto a road I have never driven before and needed to navigate back off of; when I made it back onto the right road, there was a giant truck trailer with a house on it maneuvering around, which meant a wait; and then there was a surprise meeting with a technology consultant, which I almost had to do alone because my supervisor was late coming back from a totally different meeting. :P The rest of today had better be boring.

On the upside, idriya and I managed to successfully jumpstart her car all by ourselves yesterday (using my car, which is now officially mine, new license plates and insurance and all); the neighbors' cats that I'm taking care of for ten days really like me; my first genretwisting fic is finished and just about ready to post; and I'm well into the next chapter of ItO, thanks to lingering momentum from finishing the last chapter up. So it's not all ruin and despair.

Still, I'm going to be super glad when this week is over. Yeesh.

Comments

[daemonelix]

YOUR PARENTS FINALLY MADE YOU TAKE THE CAR??? :D Yay!

[damkianna]

Yeah, went to the DMV and everything. ^^ Now I get to pay them $4,000 dollars and pay for insurance to ... use the car exactly the same way I always have. \o?

[daemonelix]

Well, but now you can take it whenever you want—say, to drive down and visit me! And you don't have to ask them, or make sure it's all right, or anything. Plus, you will eventually have to live on your own (sorry!), so learning how to deal with paying for insurance, getting it inspected, etc., is probably easier with your parents looking over your shoulder. Now you can learn how to take care of a car without worrying about screwing it up. ^^

Hey, at least they didn't make you learn how to drive manual. ^^

[damkianna]

^^ Well, the real reason I can now take it whenever I want is because they bought another car, not because I now officially own this one - I mean, I suppose that if they hadn't bought another car but had still let me buy this one, I could have then refused to check with them before taking it even if one of them needed it, but that would be really awful of me. D: And not necessarily; but I could always have used my sister for that if I'd really had to. Sometimes I love being the younger sibling. :D

Ugh, I know. The new car is technically capable of manual, but I'm hoping they won't make me start practicing again. :P I realize there are times when knowing how to work a standard transmission is helpful, but I still hate it.