i don't eat special k bars because i'm fat

Yesterday was not all that great.

Spent a lot of money on school.

Spent nearly $300 on 3 books, and I still have to get another for my creative writing class (they were sold out). But their machine didn't want to accept my card. So I had to get on the phone with the bank for about 30 minutes and deal with all of their shit. Finally got it done. Got kinda stressed out and put into a bad mood for the rest of the day too. And then all I could think about was, "that $300 could've bought my plane ticket to Canada."

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Car went to the shop to get the dash lights fixed. Apparently the dimmer switch on 1998 Ford Mustangs likes to go out. It should have taken no more than an hour to fix. I took it a little before 8:00am. It's still there. And it's noon. The next day. What makes it even better is that it's my cousin working on it.

Also have to buy new shocks soon. At least two. I'm not exactly sure though. I'm just tired of all the squeaking when I drive. And the wind noise from the NEW top I had installed because they didn't do it correctly. They left a gap. Ass holes.

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(I want this car)

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I guess my mum is officially going crazy. I'm not a big proponent of taking medication, but I really think she needs to be on some anti-depressants. And now she's running Brandon and his new wife off. Christin came over while Brandon was in Wisconsin for military duty, and my mum told her something along the lines of, "I don't know why you and Brandon moved here. All of your family lives there, and you don't even really know us." Leslie witnessed this event and the way she said made it sound terrible. Obviously this really offended Christin. We don't think Mom really meant it that way. She sometimes has serious trouble communicating. But mom's getting really down lately too. About everything: money, relationships, me, etc. Just anything and everything. Finally we've all started talking (Leslie, my dad, and I anyway) and hopefully something good will come of it.

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Actually some good stuff happened too. For example, I went to Danielle's house and jammed for about 3 hours. I wrote about 10 new songs that we've been working on. Everything is going really good. She even tried her hand at some lyrics. They didn't turn out half bad. Really, they remind me of some of Metric's lyrics, with a little Radiohead influence.

Saw an interview with Beck that was really interesting too.

Oh and I ordered Tegan and Sara's new album The Con for Danielle online so that she could get the DVD with it. Of course, I'm ripping it from her. It's really good stuff.