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Entry tags:	christmas, excersize bike, new years, rant, road trip

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Ok, my New Year's resolution is to BLOG MORE. I don't write enough ;_; there's so much I want to say all the time and I don't, so these journals are for it!



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So... for Christmas! I got many things. I gooot:

-GIR t-shirt
-What Part of MEOW Don't You Understand oversize t-shirt
-moneys
-little tiger puzzle
-jewelries
-House of 1000 Corpses DVD (my old copy was dead)
-Nightmare Before Christmas poster
-lots of socks and stockings and tights and leggings and underthings and YAY
-big box o' art supplies including lap desk and color wheel
-far side calendar
-book of visual illusions
-Bodyworlds and Gorillaz DVDs
-Body Shop bathstuff (mmm smells so yummy!)
-animal print bathing suit coverup
-hand mirror
-picture of Langly, Farore and Nocturnophile together by Savannah! Although that one I kind of bought myself X3
-lots and lots of chocolate and candy

It was such a fun holiday! Although Langly was kind of down most of the day.. but we had tasty tasty ham for dinner which we are still having leftovers of X3 and I made fresh string beans and mashed potatoes and YUMMY.

We had a bunch of friends over for New Year's, which was SO FUN omg. SilverwingsDragon, Jacek, Nashiva and Rayven were all at our house.. there was a power outage! It was so scary...but we got by X3 Nezumi made these wonderfully delicious custard cream puff things too, and we had lots of booze heh. And Peche Lambec which is the BEST instead of champagne.. lots of Jolly Ranchers, strange and wonderful mixed drinks, and of course BEER. We had pizza for dinner too which was SO good, mm Papa Murphy's I adore you. There were some hiccoughs in the night with some people getting scared by the blackout and some people being really, painfully emo but other than that it was all good. SilverwingsDragon and Rayven stayed an extra day and we spent the day watching movies--oh god we watched so many movies the past few days, we saw Flight of Dragons (old favourite), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (which I hadn't seen before and UNF it is a great movie, I asked SilverwingsDragon if I could borrow it an extra few weeks XD), The Last Unicorn (another old, great favourite, and I leant SilverwingsDragon my copy of the book, which is falling apart so I hope it makes it home ok *cross fingers*), and The Fox and The Hound 2 which I just LOVED to DEATH, go look at my dA scraps for fan characters >.> Dixie and Cash, so great, loved it so much it made me SO HAPPY.

However on the way to drop SilverwingsDragon and Rayven off there was a big huge lot of FAILURE. See they live like 2-3 hours away from us, in the Twin Cities, and they paid us gas to drive them home.. so we did... it wasn't so bad except that Langly had to come along and he didn't really want to, but we were going to buy me an excersize bike that he had arranged a pickup for so he came along instead of sleeping (<3 sweetie, thank you).

We got to SilverwingsDragon's house without incident, I got to meet all her tons of kitties (SO CUTE OMG I WANT) and Nocty installed Photoshop CS2 and Corel Painter on her computer while I played with her kitties Oreo (who has cancer :C but he's not in pain), Luna, Courage and Pinstripe, and drooled over her art books and collection of old awesome cartoons. We ended up borrowing The Fox and The Hound (the first one, which Nocty never saw), Brother Bear (which I love), Brother Bear 2, and Watership Down (omg BEST ANIMAL MOVIE EVAR except maybe Plague Dogs.. I have the book and it's so great and Richard Adams yay and you probably knew I liked it if you ever saw my bunny characters Nildro and Pfeffarah/Tybalt). On top of Spirit XD at first she was like 'only borrow three please' but then she kept giving them to me XD She gave me a little sketchbook thingy too, it's so cute and pretty, I will take it with me and not put any prons in it XD so I can show it to upstanding folks.

Anyway we left her house (after I shuffled the words 'HI CARRIE' into her lawn and Nocty forgot he had the E-brake on), got back to the highway ok, and set off for the fabled House Of Person From Craig's List Who Is Selling Us An Excersize Bike. ... and get lost. Very very lost. As in we drove in circles for almost two hours lost. See, the HOPFCLWISUAEB was in a newly developed area.. and the streets had different names than they did on our Google Map (curse you, Google Maps!). So we FINALLY found it.. by accident no less.. we are now three hours from home and have been driving for about 4-5 hours. The PersonFCLWISUAEB had given us a cell phone number, but it didn't accept incoming calls.. yay.. and they had our cell phone number and had been asked to give us a call if anything came up as we were going to be on the road. This was stated explicitly.

So ANYWAY we FINALLY FREAKING GET THERE. And Langly and Nocty go knock on the door while Rayven and I watch from the car... and.. they don't answer ;_; Langly is not about to give up after the last two hours of being lost torture and arguing (being lost makes me, Langly AND Nocty all very touchy and aggressive so we fought a lot), so he whacks on the door pretty hard just in case. Lo and behold a light turns on! And this hideous, disgusting, suburban FAAAAAT woman answers the door. Langly says 'we're here about the excersize bike?' and she says 'oh, we sold it around dinnertime. Someone down the street came and picked it up'. She tries to shut the door but Langly and Nocty stop her and like STARE in disbelief for a second, and then Langly says 'But.. we drove for three hours to get here' and she says 'OH SORRY' and slams the door in his face. So we get back in the car... use up ALL of our self-restraint in NOT bashing our big van through their garage door, and drive away...

GOD WHAT A DOUCHEBAG. I am SO ANGRY at them. I seriously cannot stand that kind of person. The cruelest thing and the funniest though, is that without that excersize bike, that whale woman will probably die of a heart attack within six months. So that's some comfort, but not much ;_; SO ANGRY AT THEM. RRRGHHHH *stomp around pulling out hair and breaking things*

Anyway we got back on the highway with little incident except passing a road and going OMFG THAT WAS OUR TURN and having to turn around a lot.. oh.. and we almost ran out of gas and stopped at a Super America station where this POOR GIRL was working the night shift and she was like, visibly sick. Pale face with red streaks, shaking, couldn't stand up for long, etc. and none of her co-workers would cover for her, they all basically told her to shove it, and she felt like she might be having a heart attack.. I hope she is ok. Gas Station Girl, if you ever read this, I hope you are ok and everything turned out for you. PS You're pretty even when you're sick. 83 We also got stuck in a snowbank when Nocty decided to turn around in a snowy parking lot (he loves doing donuts on icy parking lots much to our dismay) and it took like 15 minutes to get out of there.

ANYWAY we get to the area where Rayven's house is, and I get confused and we end up driving in the wrong direction on the right road. So we waste like 1/2 hour turning around. About 45 minutes later we FINALLY make it to Rayven's house.. now see.. Langly had a backup excersize bike that we were going to get on the way home, he called the seller and they said it was fine.. but.. it took us so freaking long to get Rayven home and to get back on the highway from there, that it was like midnight by that time (we left the house at 6.30pm to go to a city that was only 2 hours away, remember). Langly calls the guy and says that he fell asleep and we drove right past the seller's house, and he's sorry, is it too late? The guy says yes, so we can go straight home and maybe try to get that bike later this week or next. SIGH.

And Langly got a migraine on the way home, which always makes him really cranky and prone to picking fights.. so that really sucked. Eventually I went and laid down with him in the back of the van and we got home by like TWO THIRTY in the morning and were probably asleep by three am maybe? And then we get to wake up at 6.45am. YAY. I am SO DEAD right now. At least I got a lot of art and doodles done this weekend though I guess...

But yeah. I WANT TO KILL THOSE PEOPLE. Oh and when we got home, we had an email from them that they had sent like AN HOUR after we had left (and our email to them had EXPLICITLY said WE WILL BE ON THE ROAD, HERE IS OUR PHONE NUMBER, CALL US DON'T EMAIL) saying 'The phone number should work. we might have another buyer'. THAT WAS ALL. No 'don't bother to come' or 'we'll call you' or 'the bike sold'. Just that. GODDAMMIT. DEATH TO YOU PEOPLE. YOU TURNED A 4 HOUR EXCURSION INTO AN EIGHT HOUR MONSTROSITY. GOD. I just want to sleep so bad ;_;

So yeah, how as everyone else's new years?