Today was a pretty lame day. I’m sweaty, I’m grumpy and I don’t feel like writing 100 words right now. Unfortunately I have to if I want to keep up with this daily. Thankfully I’ve only missed one day a long time ago. With the mood I’m in, it’s quite tempting to skip today too. I just want to get what I have to get done and go on to reading one of the books I’m reading. It’s a pretty good book and I enjoy it a lot. I think it’s called, “I Capture The Castle” or something like that.

Plugs: Southern, Princess_00

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The other day I made my favorite food, bbq chicken. I just love it, and I hardly ever get it. So when I found chicken on sale for $.79 a lb the other day, mom picked it up and I made Aubree and I some. It came out so good, too. I took off the skin since that is just fat and stuck with just the meaty part of the chicken. It was hard, though. I absolutely love the skin. I successfully resisted, though.

Speaking of not exactly healthy goodness, I have been keeping up with exercising daily and such.

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It's awfully sad that I can do a repair post. Their really is that much stuff broken around here in need of repair.

The Car

Mom took the car in to get fixed on Sunday. I can't remember what part it was thought to be. But mom called Monday to see how it was going and they told her it was fixed and it wasn't what they thought. Turned out to be a broken hose going to the radiator. They fixed it and ta-da, the car is working again. It was only 1/6th of the cost of what it would have been if they were right about what they thought the problem might have been. As for the oil that goes into the radiator fluid, they told her that the leak could be anywhere and if it's only a small leak, she shouldn't worry about it right now.

Turns out the car my mom had borrowed from her friend was a standard. I don't know how to drive a standard. Mom was going to have to take me to and from work. She wasn't looking forward to it. So thankfully we got the car back and I was able to drive to work after all.

The Washer

I did my work laundry on Sunday. The washer didn't drain the water. I turned on a heater in there. The washer still didn't drain the water when set to do so. So we had a repair man come in [he just left] to check out that, and the dryer since that doesn't give off heat to dry clothes anymore. Well, the washer worked for him. That's right. Worked. He said that he thinks it froze. I told him I had the heater on in there in case that was the problem, he tried again and it still worked. He told me that all he can figure is that it froze. Or he's seen a couple cases where the hose that takes the away the water got a clog. But it seems to be working just fine now.

The Dryer

It is so old that he doesn't think parts are made for it anymore. I told him that it came with the place when we moved it, it's our landlords dryer. He said it's not even worth fixing, if he could get the parts, because it'd be too expensive. The berrings are going out amongst other things. And the no heat problem is because it needs a new gas intake valve. He said that alone could be around $150 - not including labor.

So in the end? $45 for labor... where nothing needed or could be fixed. He's a nice guy though, and he is good at what he does. Unfortunately labor is some expensive stuff to pay for. The car was $110 just for labor. I'm not complaining, though.

Know what's cheaper than a dryer? Hang drying everything all over the house. Looks like what we'll have to do from now on.

If you want to read about my shopping adventures, feel free to go here. It's wayyy too much to retype and I have to get some online work done before I can get offline. My goal is to find the time to write a letter to one of my penpals.

Plugs: ikimashokie

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Demandez L’Ange, my personal - yet random - blog, got accepted by Review Me to do website and/or product reviews through their site. This is an exciting moment for me because up until know I would only really made any money off of Ask Angel. By doing sponsored posts on Demandez L’Ange it will help up my income potential. An increase in my income means I will have more money that I can afford to save for important things. I could also afford more for Aubree and I.

My ultimate goal? Get a car and move out on my own!

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My mom is home tomorrow and Friday. That means I gotta find a way to work around her so I can still get everything I need done without staying up late.

I was once asked why mom getting home meant I had to get offline, the answer is simple. When my mom is home she is online. So on her days off she wakes up, gets online, goes to store, comes home and get online, go to sleep for the night and repeat. It’s the same for when she works, except ‘goes to store’ is replaced with ‘goes to work‘.

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I can definitely say that yesterday was not all that bad. It was so nice out. I took Aubree out to play in the warm sun. We ran around kicking a ball. I swung her on the swing. She went down the slide. We had lots of fun.

Now that we get closer to spring. I look forward to more days like this. As soon as all the snow is gone, I can bring out her little kid car so she can drive it. She loves that car. It’s a cute little “little tykes” car. I got it on sale.

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