♥Happy Valentines Day

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YOU TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, happy Valentines all round. I hope everyone who has a significant other had fun with them, and everyone who's single still enjoyed themselves.

Yeah, I had a good day with my boyfriend. Basically just hung out and watched a bunch of movies, then went to dinner at Olive Garden. It was fun

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Aww, that sucks. Im sorry.

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my car died on V-day haha, combination of lots of little things going wrong and culminating into massive fail, turns out it was just a $60 fix for everything that went bad (general tune-up parts haha)

That sucks, I drove my previous car into the ground. It beeped at me if I hit a pothole, fixed that by hitting the steering wheel. It started to shake when I drove. Couldnt fix that no matter who I took it to. Then it just started dying when I was driving. That sucked. So I now have a 2005 Toyota Camery which makes my heart smile. Thought the monthly payments make me not so happy XD Moral of the storys, no matter how getto your mini van is- it will eventually die. Deffinatly a Ford.

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I drive a 78 DeVille. 31 years old, 230.k miles and still going strong for the most part, drove my last car (94 Acclaim) into the ground as well (threw a rod through the side of the block while drag racing it ^^; )

Moral of that story, your old beater ass 4-banger Plymouth is NOT a hot rod, even if you drive it like one XD

Haha, that is true. Cars are just not as durable as I'd like them to be.

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I know what you mean, mine started making weird noises last time I got the oil changed, and they aren't good noises either. Hopefully I'll have enough to get it looked at after paying other bills, since I really can't afford to not have a car, not with working about half an hours drive away. There is no way I'm walking that. I'd walk home from work only to have to jump in the shower before turning around and starting the walk back. Not happening

That sucks, I know what its like to have to drive a good distant to work. I would have died if I didnt have a car when I lived in Alaska, no way you can walk places in Alaska during the winter. I mean, unless you really wanted to- but Im not that fond of the cold. And I basically lived there my whole life.

And jobs are really important right now, deffinatly with the economy dying a slow and painful death. I cant even get a job, cause there are none- I picked a horrible time to move.

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Sounds horrible, i've never lived anywhere as cold as that. I used to live in Scotlandd and in the winter it gets pretty damn cold but nothing like that, so we walked everywhere. And I know about the job thing. I spent two months looking for one and the only reason I have the one I have now is because the kitchen manager there used to be the kitchen manager where I used to work and me and him were drinking buddies. Moving to a new town means that you have no-one there to help you find one. I've gotten many a job by getting my friends to put in a good word for me. Well good luck in your search

Yeah, tell me about it- job hunting sucks. I've been here about two months, and I havent found anything... Honestly, I havent been looking as hard as I should, since Im in pain all the time from my car wreck about five months ago. Who wants to work while they're in pain? Not me XD

Sad thing is Im actually homesick for Alaska, cause thats my home. All my friends and family are there, so it sucks. But Im so glad I got out, where I lived was such a dead in town. Hard to find a good job unless its construction. And people never grow up, they just have children and never leave. Pretty horrible indeed XD

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Car wreck? holy crap girl, what happened? if you're still hurting that bad five months later it must've been something pretty serious. I'm assuming that being from alaska you're more than able to traverse icy conditions, and I'm guessing that makes you a very careful driver so did someone hit you?

Haha, your right on XD I moved to Washington in November, and I drove down from Alaska all the way through Canada. And I was only two hours into Washington and I got into a four car pile up. Im unlucky. But I managed to stop in time to advoid hitting anyone, but they didnt managed to advoid hitting me >.> Totally sucked. No one wanted to give me an x-ray either, and I just found out my neck is stright when it should be curved. Haha, so I have like 4-6 weeks of chiropractic care to fix me. But at least its all covered by thier insurance so I dont have to pay a thing. My poor car recieved over 2 grand worth of damage, and I just bought it before I moved. Washington is full of insane drivers, part of the reason why I moved a state over.

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Not surprising at all considering what you went through. If something like that had happened to me almost as soon as I got there I probably would've been rather biased against the place too. I must admit that I'm surprised by the way things work in this country period. In Scotland I never needed a car, they actually have good public transportation. I rode buses or trains wherever I went. It wasn't unitl I moved back to the US that I needed a car. Plus considering that the US is considered to be the most advanced/powerful nation in the world, why don't we have a national health service? i never had to pay to goto a doctor til i moved back here, and I'm not really happy with it being over a hundred bucks just to get a normal check up. I apologize for the ranting.

I rant all the time XD haha, its perfectly fine. Yeah, medical shit is reeeally expensive, and such a pain in the ass. Luckily enough all my medical stuff related to the car wreck is being paid for. It wasnt a nice welcome to Washington at all. I loved visting there before, but living there- at least where I lived- was horrid.

Im not use to public transportation, haha- where I grew up there is none. I mean other then a school bus and a senior citizen bus- you have to drive your own car, or get a taxi. But I grew up in a small town. And I moved to the wrong place in Washington, I was right below seattle- and everything blended together. There was just waaay too many people.

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Too many people can be a major problem. I lived in glasgow which is the biggest city in Scotland. It's nothing compared to New York or Miami, but it's still more people than should really be shoved into one place. But over there even the smallest of places can be accessed without a car. Me and my ex went up to this place called Inverarnan one time to stay in a hotel that was supposed to be haunted. The only things that we saw while we were there was the hotel, about 3 houses, and of course a train station. We weren't the only ones going, and we actually got a car ride up from our buddy Kev who went with us, but being an American boy it was something of a shock to know that even the smallest of places, you know, those blink-and-you-miss-em towns, had ways for folk without cars to get to and fro. it really opened my eyes to just how different places can be.

Yeah, I'd love to go back packing around Europe one of these days- that'd be so fun. One of these days when I save up enough money, or win the lottery. Lol, which is new to me also- there arnt lotteries in Alaska XD they just give us free money every year. I like visting new places because they are differant, but moving is totally strange for me- haha. Its like I have to learn everything all over again, and get use to differant laws and roads and bullshit. Its exciting. Haha.

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That it is. I really wanna move back there, but I moved back here to help my sister with her kids. I've travelled a bit in Europe but not nearly as much as I want to. I've been to France, Germany and Belgium but that's about it. Well on mainland Europe anyway. I've lived all over the British Isles, but that's not really anything special. I kinda wanna try living in a non-eglish speaking country, that would be a blast. I've always been intrigued by different languages, and always wanted to learn japanese, but it's not an easy to learn since you have to learn a different alphabet and everything. At least the French I know is the same letters

Thats awesome, you've seen alot more of the world then I have- haha. I mean, the only other country I've been to is Canada- and thats nothing special. Deffinatly the parts I drove through. It was horrid, I didnt even get cell service til the third day of driving. Didnt see a cop til the third day either. Saw enough suicidal wildlife though.

I took spanish in highschool, the only language we had an option of learning- how pathetic is that? Lol. Totally wasnt interested. So I kinda just drifted along in the class til I could switch out. The teacher was awesome, but thats about it XD I would have loved to learn Japanese- but yeah. Its hard.

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Yeah, don't tell anyone but I downloaded the Rosetta Stone thing and it's actually about as good as they say it is, as long as you keep up with it. Once I got back to work I started slacking off a bit and haven't done any of it in a while. I know some stuff but not nearly enough to even understand what someone is saying. We had the option of French or German in my school and I took French. I know it well enough that I can pretty much understand what someone is saying as long as they don't speak too fast or get too technical, but I can't remember enough of the grammar to even come close to speaking it properly. I know the vocab but not how to construct the sentences properly. That's why I'd like to live somewhere that I'd have to get used to speaking the language every day. I was actually forced to learn Latin for a year but I remember almost nothing of that.

Thats pretty cool, I'd probably go insane learning too many differant languages XD though I do enjoy randomly using various words I know of other languages. But Im just odd. Haha, why were you forced to leanr Latin? Thats a beautiful language, but I cant understand it XD

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