God, do I love Fridays! On Monday morning when my alarm goes off, it’s the single worst moment of the entire week. In stark contrast, the moment I leave work on a Friday afternoon is the single best moment of the week. Even though at least two of my co-workers are asleep at this very moment (of which I am aware only because they told me they still follow the same sleep schedule regardless of what day it is), I am enjoying the freedom of knowing I have nowhere to go or any responsibilities to attend to for the next two days. After five days of “Oh shit, I better go to bed or I’m going to regret it in the morning” it’s nice to have a break from that stress. I’m just relaxing at the computer, reading some blogs which I haven’t had the time to do lately, and listening to Nine Inch Nail’s new album via someone’s radio blog (it’s pretty damn good too).
Earlier, Joe picked me up from work and we went to four different stores looking for some tile for our foyer. Man, are we cheap or is everyone overpriced? There is no way I’m paying $2+ for one square foot of tile. Unfortunately there isn’t much to choose from at Lowes. We brought home two samples last week but they are too light in color. The price was nice though (less than $1 each). If only we could find something in a darker color.
After giving up in frustration, we went to the dealership to pick up my car. We dropped it off last night so they could check out this grinding noise we kept hearing. $309 later the strut bearings were replaced, the hazard switch was replaced via a recall, and another part in the engine was replaced as it was covered under warranty. So we just paid for the strut thing, and those two parts were only $70 so you do the math when it came to labor costs. Poo! But I guess it could have been worse, so I shouldn’t complain.
What I will complain about is the pathetic excuse for turn signals I now have in my car. Before they replaced the hazard switch I had some nice, manly-sounding turn signals. Those bad boys were LOUD! Joe could hear them over us talking on the phone click Click CLICKING away. Now if it wasn’t for them flashing in my field of vision, I could envision completely forgetting they were on at all! So not fair!!! Stupid quiet wimpy turn signals going click click click. You suck! Why VW, why?!? Not that I’m surprised: they have ruined the Jetta altogether. Have you seen the new Jettas? Let’s just say if I wanted a Passat, I’d buy one. They should change the name to Jassat since it looks like a Passat now. And what is with the 5-cylinder engine? Oh well, I guess my next car won’t be another Jetta. Damn Germans.
So anyway, after we came home and stuffed our faces, we played Skip-Bo, watched a new epsiode of O’Grady, and watched the pilot episode of Dead Like Me. Wish I had seen that sooner; it certainly explained a lot. Now we have to go back to Blockbuster to rent the rest of season one. I wonder how far into the show they ditch Rebecca Gayheart. I really don’t care for her. And here’s to hoping the Sci-fi Channel picks up DLM; Showtime was stupid to cancel it.