Blog of FAIL.

My car=lame.
Last summer, the window on the passenger side in the back decided to stop working (the motor has officially conked). The last time my mom had a window motor fixed, over a decade ago, it was between $350-400, so I figured one window isn't that big of a deal for that much money, so I'd let it be.
Well, the OTHER window in the back (on the driver's side) has also stopped working as of today. So...I will be saving my pennies so I can pitch in as much as possible to get these windows fixed, which probably isn't going to happen until, like, next summer I'm guessing. One bum window is one thing, but two a little much.
Grrr.
And now, I leave you with the trailer for the LAMEST movie I have ever heard of.

That's right. FBI agent guinea pigs.
Massive fail, Disney!!!!

Frustrations and life in general.

Today my dad decided that he was going to "fix" both toilets, because they both won't stop running (you need to jiggle the handle of the one upstairs to get it to stop, and mess with stuff in the tank of the one downstairs to get it to stop). Upstairs is better now (at least, I think it is), but he doesn't really know what he's doing downstairs, and has already snapped something-or-other in half and had to buy a replacement. My day has been punctuated with the sounds of frequently flushing toilets and plenty of mumbling unhappy things. Of course, he won't listen to my mom and just call the plumber. *sigh*
I had to call Wartburg today because they're taking their sweet time in sending information about what I owe next year, and it's kind of important to have exact numbers so that loans can be procured. The person I talked to in the controller's office said she'd email me a scan of a bill. Which was great.
Except it's freaking last year's bill, with charges for Knights Village and all.
Yeah. That helps. A lot. =P
Way-to-go Wartburg.
(I need this year's bill, because I have a completely different class load and live in a different dorm with a different parking lot and a different meal plan...had I wanted last year's bill I could have just found it with all my other college paperwork)
And, of course, there's extended family drama to top it all off. Like, completely out of the blue, I must live on a soap opera drama. Argh. Save the drama for your llama!
Yesterday the boys had drag races to go to, so it was a mommy and Rachel day, which was quite happy. =] We went to see Angels and Demons. I has a beef with that movie. I don't mind when some things are changed from the book to adapt to the screen better (anyone who knows my enjoyment of the Harry Potter movies knows this). However, I do mind when the events from the first hundred pages of the book are *completely* switched around, when a main character is entirely left out, and when a character that was supposed to die ends up living instead, altering the end of the movie.
*sigh*
I enjoyed the movie, I'm just not sure that it's something I'd want to own or watch a bajillion times. After that, we got some Chinese food and watched Juno. =D Then people came home.
And I watched the Tonys! =D That was super happy, too.
And now, it's off to other things...like piano practicing (BLAH)...and such. Joy.

Summer Jobs and Harry Potter!

First off, after four consecutive summers of being unsuccessful, I have FINALLY managed to land summer employment!!!! =D=D=D
One of my aunts has a really, REALLY bad back, to the point where she's on disability and cannot work. She gets this deal where the state will provide about $1,000/month for her to find a person or people to come over and do a bunch of stuff (house cleaning, dishes, running errands, cooking, etc). She needs more people, and I'm one of them! I just filled out the paperwork today. I'm not sure how many other people she'll have, or how much she'll need me, but I'll be going out there several times a week to help out. Pay is close to $10/hour.
I'm really excited.
In other news, yesterday Sandy and I went to the Harry Potter Exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Holy cow. It was fantastic.
At the entrance, while waiting to go in, they "sorted" people with the sorting hat (there wasn't enough time for me to go, but Sandy did and was in Ravenclaw). The exhibit itself had everything imaginable...dozens of costumes, at least one for each professor and a lot of the students', the list of DA members, and area to throw quaffles and plant mandrakes, Dobby and Kreacher, the Great Hall (complete with stained glass and "floating" candles), the decrees that Umbridge wrote in OOTP, Voldy's robes, Azkaban prisoner robes, the Angel of Death Harry was tied to in movie 4 in the graveyard...I could go on for a really, really long time about all the stuff in there (that wasn't even 1/4 of it all). Tickets were about $18, and Sandy and I lucked out because we happened to find a free day (normally you'd have to pay the $13 for general admission *and* extra for the exhibit ($31 altogether), but we only had to pay for the exhibit because of the free day). There was, of course, a gift shop that I ended up spending an arm and a leg in. Some of the stuff in there was INSANE (like replicas of brooms for $400, and a Maurader's Map for $50), but there was some cool smaller stuff. There was a time turner necklace for only $70-ish, and Luna's radish earrings for about the same price...it was all really tempting, but most of it was out of my range, so I settled for things like magnets, book marks, etc. I still ended up paying about $52-ish for all of the small stuff...
Oh well. At least there's summer employment!!
Oh, and I forgot to mention that all of the museum employees that worked in the exhibit spoke with British accents. Pretty sweet. And while we were waiting in line to get in, there was a dude asking trivia questions...I answered about half of them, Sandy answered a lot too...it was pretty sweet. The only one that tripped both of us up was "What is Snape's mother's name?" Eileen Prince. I couldn't remember it yesterday.
Pictures of stuff outside of the exhibit later (no cameras allowed inside).