well.. Ive been busy... went to the local chevy dealership.. thursday night.. found a 98 seabring convert.. went to talk to someone about it.. and was talked into looking at a '00 chevy camero.. used.. 27k on it.. rear wheel drive. The car is long, but surprizingly little room in it. but it was cozy to sit in... we were talking monthly payments, etc, when I got shaky from too little sleep too little food, and a moutian dew to try to stay awake. Went back friday night... thinking that maybe that wasn't the right car for me. Turns out its a rear wheel drive car too.. which I really don't want. Im a creature of habit when it comes to driving, which is why I'm looking for anti lock breaks.. :)

Anyway.. went back and looked at the 98 seabring again.. its metalic blue with a tan top. Leather seats, cassette, cd, the works.. (heated side mirrors for goodness sake.. lol) Its also in my price range. Haven't bought it yet cause a) they won't come down to a price I like b) Im hoping to sell my car on my own to get the price I like.. I don't think anyone is going to want my car anyway.. I don't really want to have to not tell someone that it leaks. Ok it doesn't leak bad or often, so it wouldn't be such a bad thing to not say..

Oh well.. I doubt anyone is going to be interested in it anyway.. so that's pretty much going to end that.. I'll have give in.. ugh.. took my dad down to see it today.. he knows the guy we are dealing with.. I don't think even he's going to be able to squeeze any more out of the sale price. Im hoping to get a remote car started out of this some how.. I asked if they could install one I bought.. they don't do that.. maybe I'll ask if they can get me wholesale cost on getting one from the guy who does it for them.

Ive always gotten good deals on cars.. or at least I felt I have, which is the most important part when you think about it.

Sigh.. Im tired..

We are watching/recording Enterprise at the moment.. there was a preview for roswell for next tuesday, I sooo have to see it..
Ive got the first for episodes of Enterprise on tape.. I wonder if Im going to keep this up..

Also went and saw 13 Ghosts on Friday.. talk about spooksville.. Interesting story, some weird twists.. I think that it had to be a book due to some tangets that went nowhere, and some totally unexplained things. I hate it when movies made out of books do that. Im hoping to go see K-pax this weekend too. I read that book.. Should be an intersting movie.. at least this time if there are unexplained tangents, I'll know where they were supposed to go.. lol Wanted to go tonight, but Im not up to it.. woke up in the middle of hte night last night with some major sinus problems. My head feels like it is going to explode still.

Went in town today.. they had the first annual pumpkin festivle. They lined the streets with pumpkins carved by local kids. Some were really clever. One whole class seemed to carve theirs in tribute to September 11th. Towers, usa, flags, etc. One in that class put a fire man hat on his, and used a corn cob for a nose :) another class painted the carved pumpkins. Some cut out ears, and used the pieces they cut out to simulate ears.. some didn't travel well, some were moldy.. but on the whole they were very good, and impressive. I missed the lighting.. I had come home for a nap, and just realized a little while ago that it had already happened :( well since it was the first annual.. I can go next year.. I should go to the Keene NH pumpkin festivel one year too.. that sounds like a lot of fun.

I like pumpkins :)
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 8:14 PM

In my head.. I don't know why

Drops of Jupiter
Now that she's back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey, hey
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's time to change, hey, hey
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June, hey, hey

Tell me did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated

Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star
One without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking at yourself out there

Now that she's back from that soul vacation
Tracing her way through the constellation, hey, hey
She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo
Reminds me that there's time to grow, hey, hey

Now that she's back in the atmosphere
I'm afraid that she might think of me as plain ol' Jane
Told a story about a man who is too afraid to fly so he never did land

Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back to the Milky Way
And tell me, did Venus blow your mind
Was it everything you wanted to find
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there

Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken
Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you're wrong
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance five-hour phone conversation
The best soy latte that you ever had . . . and me

Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back toward the Milky Way

Repeat 1st Chorus

Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:36 AM

Went to the Saturn dealership last night.. Sigh.. I don't like the saturns.. the dash board is too narrow, and I feel like im kissing the windsheild when I drove it around the lot.(both the S and L series) I saw one on the lot that had the 'tricked out door'.. the c series I think.. that was ok.. but it had no head room it was also a bit more than i wanted to pay, and wasn't a convertable.. :( Looks like I'll be buying a used car.. cause I can't stand these new cars.. they all feel like they are way over priced for what they are offering (you sit in the drivers seat and you feel like your in a yugo.. everythings kinda cheap) and they are built for morons.. (WAY too many lables on the different levers and buttons. Ok yes.. seeing for the first time is ok, so you know what they are, but the lables stay there for the life of the car.. Once I figure out where the button to open the window is, you don't have to tell me again)

I saw chevy is having 0% for 60 months.. so I stopped in there.. but the caveleres all had tweed seats.. how tacky.. and they had a loop in the middle of the back seat, incase you wanted to pull the back seat down.. but in the middle of the seat???? again, very very tacky.. Im telling you, I need to go into car design and tell these people a thing or two.. lol

Im spoiled by my car.. I love my car.. sigh.. I don't want to give it up, but then again I don't want a car that leaks, and I don't want a car that doesn't have anti lock breaks, and I don't want a car that downshifts with out reason when im going down a hill.. (that REALLY bothers me) Maybe I'll be lucky and find my 'dream' car in a used lot cause the owner bought a car at 0%.. .. although Im not holding my breath..

anyone know where I can find a convertable w/ anti lock breaks for sale?
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 9:52 AM

my dream last night was kinda freaky.. I was the heroine of the story, but I wasn't always looking out of her eyes..
the first thing I remember was getting prepaired in a beautiful golden dress to be presented to a guy who would be my husband. Someone saw the dress and deamed it inapproprate for some reason but wouldn't tell me why, so they got me another golden dress, that was slightly more revealing. I then went into a large room, where I was 'tested' by having to put on a pair of weird looking sandles, which I was easily able to do. But instead of letting me put on the second one, they forced my foot into it using a pair of chopsticks.. . I was then placed next to the guy, when a giant robot came crashing into the party.. (don't worry, it gets weirder) I and my sidekick a tiger thing beat it up quite easily, separating the head. The tiger then went off into the woods, and I followed it. The guy came with me. Now though I was no longer wearnig the golden dress, but something more approprate for the woods. I think the guy asked where we were going, and I think I told him we were following a vision, when I saw a whole bunch of old fashioned bikes (from the 30's/40's) being pushed around by squirrels. They were behind the back tire, but somehow they were able to direct them where they wanted to go. I followed one bicycle in through a path in the woods, and came up to a river. In the river there was a grouping of rocks, and we went out onto the rocks, and had a conversation about something. Then all of a sudden it was many years in the future.. the rocks were all covered in algea, and the river was quite poluted. There was a bridge out to the rocks. I explained that the rocks had been used by the local kids for parties through the years, and they had ruined the beauty that once was. We carefully made our way off the rocks (no easy feat since they were covered in slime) and crossed the bridge. We talked about separating there, and going back to our homes separately. There were yellow and green mushrooms involved in the journey. I knew though that if I let him go alone, he would die.. but I also knew he'd never let me accompany him..

and that's when I woke up..

someone please explain the squirrels pushing the bicycles..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 9:43 AM

I just checked out my geo stats for my website.
312 people have been to my main index page, but only 252 have made it to my second index page with my site map.
but a whopping 448 hits have made it to the page about my father's surgery.. Im kinda proud about that..

and somehow there have been 118 page views to this blogger.. I bet most of them were me.. lol
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 5:09 PM

arrgh..

sorry.. this hasn't been a good day. I recently won an auction at Ebay for some beanie baby boxes.. the auction was for 50 of them, but seven of the boxes I got had broken coveres. I am trying so hard to find a solution with the seller to get new covers, but their one and only acceptable to them solution is for me to unpack all the beanie boxes I have used, and pack them all up and send them back to them. Well I have beanies in all but 8 or 9 boxes.. Unpacking all my beanies, packing up all the boxes, and sending them back and then hoping the next set she send me isn't damaged. My solution, to buy another set of boxes.. and have her replace that set (cause I'll take out seven unbroken covers, and replace them with the seven broken covers) seemed so much more logical, and would provide her another sale.. but nooooooo she doesn't want to do that.. why I have no idea.. grrrr..

I think im just going to hide in the corner for the rest of the day.. I hope the car dealership sales guys are nicer to me...

somehow Im not thinking they are going to be though..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 4:46 PM

btw.. I passed the buck..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 11:19 AM

*stands up and screams at frustrations at work*

why oh why cant people do things themselves.. but noooo got to pass the buck.. got to say this isn't THEIR job.. nooo.. they know all about the problem, but do they fix it.. NOOO.. they pass it off on to someone who doesn't have a clue and figure they can figure it out when they have all the information infront of them and they could take care of it themselves..

*grump grump grump*

Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:41 AM

Going to go car shopping tonight.. I was hoping to sell my car locally for more than the dealer would give me for it, so I could by a slightly better car. I need to have anti lock breaks, and the webwmn mobile doesn't have them (a 99 mitsubishi eclipse spyder.. a beauty of a car that I don't really want to give up, but I NEEED anti lock breaks, and I NEEEED a car that doesn't leak) With all the zero percent financing going around till the end of the month, I thought this would be a great time to buy a new car. I said Id never buy a new car, cause the minute you drive it out of the lot you owe more on it than its worth, but with zero percent financing, that would very quickly change.. Im thinking about getting a saturn.. or a focus.. gonna go looking tonight, and see what's in town, and what can be gotten to me by the time the deal is up..

but oh I don't want to go through the hastle of registering a new car.. ugh..
*considers getting anti lock breaks installed on my current car, but that wouldn't stop the leaks..*

sigh

any suggestions?
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:37 AM

had a dream last night about our town's christmas parade.. Its a pathetic thing where the local towns send their school bands to march down main street and the local girlscouts and boyscouts and jaycee's give out candy to the kids on the street.. its about half a mile.. but its cute. I dreampt they made the local paper and I wanted to send the picture to a few friends..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:33 AM

its so dark and dreary out.. and im feeling quite cold and tired.. although ive been tired all week. Almost stayed home both yesterday and today because I had such a hard time getting out of bed.. but.. I did.. and im here.. (at work).. and im getting paid... at least Im a little more mentally with it than i was yesterday.. yesterday I was just plain toxic.. a complete waste of space.. its a good thing someone cut a cable and we were useless all afternoon anyway.

Im starting to think about Christmas.. and what I want to get people.. and what I want to do.. etc.. Im thinking Id love to go to NYC again.. see all the lights and window displays.. but I didn't have much fun shopping there last year.. Btw.. i went to Macy's thanksgiving day parade last year.. If you have a chance to go, I do recommend you going.. once.. It is an experince.. that is for certian.. but seeing the floats up close, and all the patches, and stuff.. kinda disallusions you.. and since we couldn't get a spot near macy's (well I could have not that Id really want to wait 10 hours in the freezing cold) I didn't get to see anyone preform. Did get to see the celebraties on the floats, was nice that they actually road the floats the whole way.. cause I have to tell you, the rockettes didn't make the march.. not one rockette walked by me.. giggle I bought a macy's snowglobe as a souvineer.. it has the twin towers in it.. Anyway.. I went to macy's the day after thanksgiving, and I have to tell you it was a darn good thing nothing happened in that store, cause there was no way everyone. infact anyone .. would have made it out of that store.. took me 20 minutes just to get out the doors..

Since the inevitable question always comes up 'what do you want connie' I hopefully will be expanding that list over there.. and probably moving it off to its own 'list for santa' page..

But.. I still have to get through thanksgiving first.. sigh.. Im not big into going out for thanksgiving.. im an at home kinda girl when it comes to that.. ok so I hate family functions as a whole.. this year though Im sure im going to have to go to the other side.. which is going to be even more miserable.. sigh.. blah blah blah.. its one day out of the year.. I can suffer through.. as long as we don't have to leave before santa makes his appearance in front of macy's.. *grin*

well anyway.. that's a little more than a month away.. no point in ranting about it now
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 4:19 PM

had a dream the other day, where I had an assignment to bring in a few healthy plants.. but mine were all sick like and dying, so I severly overwatered them.. Did I mention I was in the parking lot of Arby's? we'll it used to be arby's.. then it was a chinese food place and now its currently a bank.. but in my dream it was Arby's.. but it wasn't.. It looked like Arby's looked at the time, but it didn't say arby's.. Infact I think it was a school dorm type area.. (down stairs in Arby's was a big storage area.. I know cause I used to work there for a while)

Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 4:01 PM

btw.. did I mention I REALLY REALLY hate time warner.. My connection went out last night, and I couldnt get it back due to a dhcp error.. had the other half call TW so I didn't go postal, and he said it was my modem.. but an hour later my connection came back up.. I didn't know till this morning, when it was off line again. I unpluged everything and rebooted, and poof, here I am. I should make the tech come out to the house anyway.. *rolls eyes*

I hate time warner..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:28 AM

well i was able to copy the songs. The quality sucks the big one.. I can't wait till 25ft stanley actually creates a cd.. :)

I had some more weird dreams last night.. I was traveling in NYC.. during the collapse of the WTC.. but not really.. I was just trying to get around the city.. I think I was in a seminar.. cause I was with some people I 'knew" everything was fine, then everything was crappy, then everything was settled again. I was walking around a tall building, and I came to a window, and I was looking out at the skyline, and I was still amazed at how beautiful it was with out the towers.. The image I saw in my dream almost seemed computer generated.. so then I decided I had to go to ground zero. I left my 'friend' and went down to the subway.. there was a comotion down there.. some half known celebraty was there.. I had to get off on a wrong stop.. and I was lost and disorientated.. then I woke up. Im kinda glad I didn't make it to my destination..

I also had a dream about a church.. but it was my local library.. I was talking to someone about contributing to it.. and then I started exploring the building. I have a lot of dreams where I explore big old buildings.. Once I was exploring one, and I found a beauty parlor/tanning salon in one.. and outside was the inside of an aquarium amusement park.. that was a weird dream.. :)
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:25 AM