January 21st, 2011

When I was typing the title I almost typed "21sth"... Alright I typed it, but then immediately thought to myself "wait a second...that doesn't look right... oops"  I thought about leaving it that way to see if anyone would notice. >.> <.<

So, this was an interesting day!  It sent me through many moods that is for sure.  Lets just start off at the beginning.  I'll show you a picture and then I will explain to you how that face and or picture had to deal with my day.

 Alright, so my cars brake light went off again today.  Not sure if I mentioned yesterday that it did as well.  I figure, ok well I don't want to crash and die due to something up with my brakes so I take it in.  I went to Midas because I saw they had a sign for a free brake check.  I'm all for the free! Plus, I have no idea what would be up with my car.

The guy that ran the place was really nice.  Giving crap and making jokes and what not.  He claimed he wasn't gonna have the guys sell me anything I didn't need, and yeah I'm sure that is a line you hear at most places...but I believed him.  I guess he didn't in the end, but lets just say he did sell me something by the end of it...even though my brakes end up being fine.

 Insert this face here in the story.  Why would I make such a face when my brakes are fine?  Because his guy found some other things wrong with my car. Of. Course. He. Did. So he rambled off a bunch of auto lingo at me that I couldn't for the life of me repeat and took some things off the bill that he said I didn't need. (Hey look, not selling me what I don't need...) So in the end I was just paying to fix some part by my wheels and some part that keeps the antifreeze from leaking into places it shouldn't. (I honestly have no idea what they are called...)

Bet you can't guess how much I have to pay! Well I'll tell you. A whopping 1,450 and that's after he dropped the original price by about 200 dollars.  However, he did have a nice payment plan with no interest for 6 months.  So, guess I'll be saving up my hard earned monies so I can pay that back in a timely matter.

He said the car would be done around 3pm. (Pfft)

 Sooooo, my ride for the day while I had no car took me to the Minnesota Zoo to see all the stuff inside because it was also a ridiculously cold day outside.  I took a picture on this turtle to match my picture I took at the como zoo because they had a turtle just like it.

Zoo was pretty sweet and upped my mood.  I mean just look at this sweet plant...wait a minute...that isn't a plant! It's a friggin' sea dragon! Those things were pretty awesome.  No lies. Despite there not being much open at the zoo it was pretty fun.  Plus it was free because we got some of those nifty free tickets from the library. : )

After the zoo I had some tasty chinese and  wasn't able to get my car home until after 5 pm. Oh and I guess I forgot to mention I had to stay up all day after I worked the night before...so when I got to bed finally I had been up for probably 24 hours...Woo.

 P.S. If you look closely this alligator has a leaf on his head.  I'm sure he is laughing to himself thinking "I has this leaf on my head. They cants sees me."