suck.
English: 2
Calc BC:4
AB subscore: 4
Government: 5
Funny, cause the entire year, I never did anything for gov or calc, just sleep and not turn in homework. Yet, those are the two APs I passed. Oh well.
a summer update, week 3
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I like how the weather's finally cooling off a little.. like 6 degrees, which is better than nothing I guess.
What have I done in my free time at home during this week? I read manga, Soul Eater and Fullmetal Alchemist from beginning to current. Talk about long chapters. For Fullmetal Alchemist, I like the anime more. Its a nice story. The manga on the other hand, just keeps going, and going, solve a problem, new problem appears, someone dies, repeat.
I like Soul Eater though. The manga is fun to read, though annoying at times since I still do get confused during fight scenes.. The anime has very nice animation, and follows the manga exactly. Anime more fun to watch, but anime is slow. Oh well.
What have I done in my free time at home during this week? I read manga, Soul Eater and Fullmetal Alchemist from beginning to current. Talk about long chapters. For Fullmetal Alchemist, I like the anime more. Its a nice story. The manga on the other hand, just keeps going, and going, solve a problem, new problem appears, someone dies, repeat.
I like Soul Eater though. The manga is fun to read, though annoying at times since I still do get confused during fight scenes.. The anime has very nice animation, and follows the manga exactly. Anime more fun to watch, but anime is slow. Oh well.
my nose exploded!
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I sneezed and it went sloosh all over my desk. Halfway through cleaning it up, I thought it would make a interesting picture. Now if it was on my arm it would've made a nice emo picture.
Oh, and while I was cleaning the blood off my face, my mom told me to stuff ginger up my nose to make it stop bleeding faster...
life with clearer vision
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I got my eyes checked today. The computer test of my eyes says that they're pretty much the same as before, about 75° on both eyes. The letter on the wall reading test says my eyes are about 175° on my left with astigmatism, and 200° on my right. So the doctor gave me contacts of 125° for both eyes.
So my mom was horrified as I learned how to put them on. The assistant that was teaching me kept laughing at me. SHUTUP I KNOW I HAVE SMALL EYES. She kept saying, "you need to open your eyes bigger, bigger, bigger, now move your eyelashes out of the way, open eyes bigger" So yes, it is hard putting soft contacts into small eyes. Plus she kept laughing at me cause I kept poking my eye with my finger instead of with the contact. Its actually kinda fun poking my eye, it feels funny. Oh, and every now and then, she would tell me my contacts were dry, I would ask how do you tell, she told me I should be able to feel that they are dry. They feel the same to me. She thought I was weird. During all those times I kept putting on, and removing my contacts, one time, one of my eyelashes fell off, and got caught under my contact. That hurt.
During my eye exam, my mom kept asking the doctor, "are you sure his eyes arn't too small?" He said they're not abnormally small, they only seem small because I have single eyelids. Plus, there are advantages to small eyes. They don't dry as easily and less stuff flies into it. Doctor is cool.
Now what life is like with contacts...
-Our house's carpet is ugly. Before I wouldn't notice because it would just appear as a big blob of beige.
-My room is very dirty. I can actually see all the doghair and dust everywhere now from far far away. Before I had to be within arms length to see dust and doghair.
-I can't read my computer screen from where my chair is with contacts on. It's actually less clear. However, I can read my computer screen from my bed. Not too sure if thats a good thing, but not being able to read my computer screen from my chair is definitely a bad thing.
-I can't rub my eyes when I'm tired.
-Everything looks ugly because suddenly, everything is sharp and dirty looking.
Don't really need to wear contacts or glasses around the house, don't really need them anywhere unless I'm driving or trying to read very small font from very far away.
So my mom was horrified as I learned how to put them on. The assistant that was teaching me kept laughing at me. SHUTUP I KNOW I HAVE SMALL EYES. She kept saying, "you need to open your eyes bigger, bigger, bigger, now move your eyelashes out of the way, open eyes bigger" So yes, it is hard putting soft contacts into small eyes. Plus she kept laughing at me cause I kept poking my eye with my finger instead of with the contact. Its actually kinda fun poking my eye, it feels funny. Oh, and every now and then, she would tell me my contacts were dry, I would ask how do you tell, she told me I should be able to feel that they are dry. They feel the same to me. She thought I was weird. During all those times I kept putting on, and removing my contacts, one time, one of my eyelashes fell off, and got caught under my contact. That hurt.
During my eye exam, my mom kept asking the doctor, "are you sure his eyes arn't too small?" He said they're not abnormally small, they only seem small because I have single eyelids. Plus, there are advantages to small eyes. They don't dry as easily and less stuff flies into it. Doctor is cool.
Now what life is like with contacts...
-Our house's carpet is ugly. Before I wouldn't notice because it would just appear as a big blob of beige.
-My room is very dirty. I can actually see all the doghair and dust everywhere now from far far away. Before I had to be within arms length to see dust and doghair.
-I can't read my computer screen from where my chair is with contacts on. It's actually less clear. However, I can read my computer screen from my bed. Not too sure if thats a good thing, but not being able to read my computer screen from my chair is definitely a bad thing.
-I can't rub my eyes when I'm tired.
-Everything looks ugly because suddenly, everything is sharp and dirty looking.
Don't really need to wear contacts or glasses around the house, don't really need them anywhere unless I'm driving or trying to read very small font from very far away.
random costco story
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So today I went to Costco with my mom and sister. We ditched my mom right when we got in, like we normally do. When we found her later, she was standing next to a shopping cart looking at meat. We saw a sample cup with some nuts inside, so we both took some.
Then came the interesting part, mom took the meat and walked away, to our shopping cart. Turns out the shopping cart with the nut sample wasn't ours. The cart with the sample's owner didn't seem to notice half her nuts missing, nor did she seem to care.
So now you know I steal food from people I don't know too. Now if your mom comes home, and tells you some random kids stole her nut sample, I'm sorry!
Then came the interesting part, mom took the meat and walked away, to our shopping cart. Turns out the shopping cart with the nut sample wasn't ours. The cart with the sample's owner didn't seem to notice half her nuts missing, nor did she seem to care.
So now you know I steal food from people I don't know too. Now if your mom comes home, and tells you some random kids stole her nut sample, I'm sorry!
i did have a nice, relevant title for this entry 10 minutes ago, but forgot it as i began to type
tickets
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My summer sucks. Yes, that right, it sucks so far, really only because of two things, which is really caused by one thing. I'm stuck at home, and I have to deal with the morons in the government.
Super short version of my bad luck and error in judgment. Its dark. Police officers blocked road with their trucks with all headlights facing me. They're not moving. I thought they were opposing traffic on the other side of the road. They're on my side of the road. I ended up about 10 ft away facing the front of their truck. Pissy pansy officers take away my license and write me up for speeding and failure to yield. May they die in a traffic accident for poor road blocks.
Now so far, every government employees that heard that story, and/or the officers story pretty much had the same confused response. The DMV safety clerk told me it was a very minor violation, and I could still drive. I told him the officers took my license. Then he asked his boss, who asked his boss, who then called up half the employees in the office and had a super long discussion about what to do. Their answer? Police officers were not supposed to take away my license; they wrote up a temporary one for me. They're still confused. Same goes for the officer that took my statement on what happened. She couldn't make sense of the officers report. She took forever to understand my side of the story. In the end, she still let me drive, but I had to pass another behind the wheel just to keep my license, or so she said.
So I go to the DMV for my behind the wheel. I'm pretty sure I pissed everyone else off there cause even though I was behind like 20 people for the drive test, I was the first to actually take the drive test. They gave me the extensive test, not the simple short 5 minute test that only takes up a few columns of the score sheet, the full test that used every box and every line of the score sheet, plus freeway that takes 30-45 minutes. I also got the supervisor of all the proctors to test me. I swear he catches every mistake possible. So thats, 30-45 minutes of change lanes, change lanes again, right turn, left turn, right turn, left turn, left turn, left turn, right turn, lets go on the freeway, lane change, lane change, exit the freeway, right turn, right turn, etc. You'd think after 20 right turns he'd assume I'd know how to right turn before making me turn right 20 more times, then on the 39th right turn, oh, you turn was not sharp enough, you were a little bit farther away from the right curb than you needed to be. I ended up getting 5 errors(20 to fail), 2 of which were driving slightly off center in a lane, 1 for not being right enough on a right turn, 1 for doing a California roll on a stop sign (oops. bad habit), and 1 for slightly speeding, I think 28mph in a 25mph residential area. He told me I was a very very good driver, and had no idea what I was doing in the DMV for a reexamination. I told him my story, he laughed cause he thought I totaled a car and killed several people, or something like that. Course, then he also told me it didn't matter if I passed or failed, they wouldn't take away my license away unless they thought I had serious serious problems operating a car.
So what was my first week of summer like? Two trips of the DMV safety office, one trip to the West Co. DMV. Two vision exams. One traffic laws exam. One behind the wheel exam. My mom calling me stupid every time I talk to her. My dad passing trucks on the dirt part of the on ramp for the freeway in my car. My mom calling him stupid. My dad having no ride to the airport because both licensed drivers were at the DMV (my mom ended up ditching me at the DMV to take him to the airport. Connie had to find herself a new ride because I couldn't drive. Thankfully, most of this is over now, except the DMV wants another vision exam, but I can drive again without restrictions. Mom still calls me stupid though (I'm starting to think her evaluation of my intelligence is highly dependent on her current mood), and now she's panicking over the whereabouts of my actual license, since the DMV has no idea, and those incompetent officers probably have no idea. Identity theft paranoia. At least I still have my government ID card, so I can still use my credit cards. Oh, and there's all the work I have to do for my court case, which as of right now, I will go to to contest my citations, unless heavily advised against by people with more law experience.
Other than the hectic driving issue, my summer so far has been very busy yet very slow. My mom managed to make a super long to do list for my and my dad to do before I leave for college. So its fix the garage wall that I crashed into 3 times with the Mercedes, get rid of the Mercedes, buy insurance for the Mazda, fix our wooden deck in Monterey Park, don't fix the deck, replace it, kill the fat yellow snake living under the wooden deck, take a family portrait, cover windows, fix the couch, fix one of our dining table chairs, move a file cabinet from the office into the master bedroom, dust the house, vacuum the house, return all the bowls we borrowed from my cousin, wash dishes, clean my room, laundry. We didn't finish half that list, oh well. That fat yellow snake can live happy for a few more months (gopher snakes are harmless anyways).
Then theres the few big events parents had planned. I went to a wedding, ditched the banquet for Char's BBQ. I went to my cousin's 8th grade graduation (sure, we call it a promotion). I ended up having a long text message conversation after the 2nd of 5 speeches lasting until my phone died cause my dad called his office.
I feel fat since I don't exercise as much now, even though I'm actually slowly but surely losing weight. I need to find somewhere cool to exercise during the summer. Sister says my 4am jogs might scare the old grandmas walking around during that time, I think shes psycho for jogging during daytime. Time to get myself a gym membership!
Everyones also out of town. Vacations are nice.. when you're on them. Last vacation with my mom caused more stress than it relieved, so my next vacation will probably be without her, or with someone other than her, or both. It feels like everyone just disappeared.
Since there's no one to hangout with or talk to, and I'm poor and unemployed (like everyone else in the U.S. yay poor economy) I find myself sleeping a lot. Sleeping in the daytime isn't exactly great, since it's hot, which makes me sweat, and it screws up my internal clock, which is pretty screwed up anyways, hence 4am jogs! All that sweat during my daytime sleep pretty much made my room smell more like a guy's room. My mom is still mystified by how my sister can stand being in my room for such long periods of time. Oh, and it's impossible to walk around without stepping on dirty laundry. Something else I didn't do on that list.
Half my time not sleeping is spent playing video games with my sister. Because our Wii is outside in the living room, and my mom is watching that TV 24/7, and she hates us playing the Wii, we relocated to the TV in her room, playing the SNES. :D Hours and hours of Tetris attack. Awesome game, my first video game actually. Since we both grew up playing that game, were not too bad at it. Even my mom knows how to play decently, apparently she pulled her first all nighter outside of college trying to beat the one player for that game. Which was funny cause when we woke up when we were like, 6 years old or something, she was super happy cause she finally beat the piranha plant. Though now she hates it cause one night we were playing it at 2am in her room when she was trying to sleep, and it's pretty hard to sleep when you hear a bunch of "HOCAS POCAS! hehe~ hehe~ hehe~ hehe~ HOCAS POCAS! HOCAS POCAS! hehe~ HOCAS POCAS!" all night long, followed by "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH! You lost again! You suck, make your difficulty harder, harder, there we go..... HA! I win! That's because you're on easy and I'm on hard..." She started attacking us with pillows half an hour later.
Now all the remaining free time I had was spent on, surprisingly, not eating, since we have no food at home cause I am no longer employed in a supermarket and my mom just doesn't do grocery shopping, watching American dramas on the computer. Well, not exactly, my sister watched them on my computer, I had nothing better to do so I watched them with her when I'm not sleeping. I slept through pretty much all of Gossip Girl, catfights! one hour at a time, 18 times. Only thing I remember form that is just some girl sleeping with a gay guy.
Now the other series I ended up watching with her is One Tree Hill. I've seen like, 10 minute segments from two different episodes when it aired on TV. That's just how I watch TV, I watch something until the commercials start, then I leave the room to get food or something and I end up not coming back. I ended up watching the first Pirates of the Caribbeans that way, after it aired 5 times, though I'm still not sure what order the events happen in. One Tree Hill I actually like, they have wonderful friendships with crappy events that ruins their otherwise wonderful life. It'd be boring to watch otherwise though. I'm sure my sister was very annoyed with all my questions since she tended to watch episodes out of order cause some of them shes seen before, and some of them just didn't download correctly. So it pretty much sounded like "Who's she? Brooke, oh. Who's that? Thats Rachael. Which one's the cheerleader again? They're all cheerleaders. Why does their school have pretty cheerleaders? Because we go to Walnut. Now who's that? That's still Brooke. What's she doing in her house? Who's house? ...Haley's...? That's not Haley, that's Peyton. Now that's Haley. So what's.... Brooke doing in Haley's house? They live together. Oh. Then how'd she get into Peyton's house? and whose house is she in now? Lucas'. Why is she so good at getting into people's houses when they're sleeping? Shut up" or random comments like "Look! He has a pimple right there. Move your finger, you're blocking the screen. But he has a pimple~. Yes. -_- high schoolers have pimples. But he's an actor! Actors aren't supposed to have pimples. He's still a hot actor. So pimples are hot? really now? Look, he has another one right there. That's the same one, now SHH. Oh, it disappeared, I like how his pimples disappear overnight. Pimple. Singular. He had ONE, and he still good looking, now SHHH." I seriously need better to something to do.
Super short version of my bad luck and error in judgment. Its dark. Police officers blocked road with their trucks with all headlights facing me. They're not moving. I thought they were opposing traffic on the other side of the road. They're on my side of the road. I ended up about 10 ft away facing the front of their truck. Pissy pansy officers take away my license and write me up for speeding and failure to yield. May they die in a traffic accident for poor road blocks.
Now so far, every government employees that heard that story, and/or the officers story pretty much had the same confused response. The DMV safety clerk told me it was a very minor violation, and I could still drive. I told him the officers took my license. Then he asked his boss, who asked his boss, who then called up half the employees in the office and had a super long discussion about what to do. Their answer? Police officers were not supposed to take away my license; they wrote up a temporary one for me. They're still confused. Same goes for the officer that took my statement on what happened. She couldn't make sense of the officers report. She took forever to understand my side of the story. In the end, she still let me drive, but I had to pass another behind the wheel just to keep my license, or so she said.
So I go to the DMV for my behind the wheel. I'm pretty sure I pissed everyone else off there cause even though I was behind like 20 people for the drive test, I was the first to actually take the drive test. They gave me the extensive test, not the simple short 5 minute test that only takes up a few columns of the score sheet, the full test that used every box and every line of the score sheet, plus freeway that takes 30-45 minutes. I also got the supervisor of all the proctors to test me. I swear he catches every mistake possible. So thats, 30-45 minutes of change lanes, change lanes again, right turn, left turn, right turn, left turn, left turn, left turn, right turn, lets go on the freeway, lane change, lane change, exit the freeway, right turn, right turn, etc. You'd think after 20 right turns he'd assume I'd know how to right turn before making me turn right 20 more times, then on the 39th right turn, oh, you turn was not sharp enough, you were a little bit farther away from the right curb than you needed to be. I ended up getting 5 errors(20 to fail), 2 of which were driving slightly off center in a lane, 1 for not being right enough on a right turn, 1 for doing a California roll on a stop sign (oops. bad habit), and 1 for slightly speeding, I think 28mph in a 25mph residential area. He told me I was a very very good driver, and had no idea what I was doing in the DMV for a reexamination. I told him my story, he laughed cause he thought I totaled a car and killed several people, or something like that. Course, then he also told me it didn't matter if I passed or failed, they wouldn't take away my license away unless they thought I had serious serious problems operating a car.
So what was my first week of summer like? Two trips of the DMV safety office, one trip to the West Co. DMV. Two vision exams. One traffic laws exam. One behind the wheel exam. My mom calling me stupid every time I talk to her. My dad passing trucks on the dirt part of the on ramp for the freeway in my car. My mom calling him stupid. My dad having no ride to the airport because both licensed drivers were at the DMV (my mom ended up ditching me at the DMV to take him to the airport. Connie had to find herself a new ride because I couldn't drive. Thankfully, most of this is over now, except the DMV wants another vision exam, but I can drive again without restrictions. Mom still calls me stupid though (I'm starting to think her evaluation of my intelligence is highly dependent on her current mood), and now she's panicking over the whereabouts of my actual license, since the DMV has no idea, and those incompetent officers probably have no idea. Identity theft paranoia. At least I still have my government ID card, so I can still use my credit cards. Oh, and there's all the work I have to do for my court case, which as of right now, I will go to to contest my citations, unless heavily advised against by people with more law experience.
Other than the hectic driving issue, my summer so far has been very busy yet very slow. My mom managed to make a super long to do list for my and my dad to do before I leave for college. So its fix the garage wall that I crashed into 3 times with the Mercedes, get rid of the Mercedes, buy insurance for the Mazda, fix our wooden deck in Monterey Park, don't fix the deck, replace it, kill the fat yellow snake living under the wooden deck, take a family portrait, cover windows, fix the couch, fix one of our dining table chairs, move a file cabinet from the office into the master bedroom, dust the house, vacuum the house, return all the bowls we borrowed from my cousin, wash dishes, clean my room, laundry. We didn't finish half that list, oh well. That fat yellow snake can live happy for a few more months (gopher snakes are harmless anyways).
Then theres the few big events parents had planned. I went to a wedding, ditched the banquet for Char's BBQ. I went to my cousin's 8th grade graduation (sure, we call it a promotion). I ended up having a long text message conversation after the 2nd of 5 speeches lasting until my phone died cause my dad called his office.
I feel fat since I don't exercise as much now, even though I'm actually slowly but surely losing weight. I need to find somewhere cool to exercise during the summer. Sister says my 4am jogs might scare the old grandmas walking around during that time, I think shes psycho for jogging during daytime. Time to get myself a gym membership!
Everyones also out of town. Vacations are nice.. when you're on them. Last vacation with my mom caused more stress than it relieved, so my next vacation will probably be without her, or with someone other than her, or both. It feels like everyone just disappeared.
Since there's no one to hangout with or talk to, and I'm poor and unemployed (like everyone else in the U.S. yay poor economy) I find myself sleeping a lot. Sleeping in the daytime isn't exactly great, since it's hot, which makes me sweat, and it screws up my internal clock, which is pretty screwed up anyways, hence 4am jogs! All that sweat during my daytime sleep pretty much made my room smell more like a guy's room. My mom is still mystified by how my sister can stand being in my room for such long periods of time. Oh, and it's impossible to walk around without stepping on dirty laundry. Something else I didn't do on that list.
Half my time not sleeping is spent playing video games with my sister. Because our Wii is outside in the living room, and my mom is watching that TV 24/7, and she hates us playing the Wii, we relocated to the TV in her room, playing the SNES. :D Hours and hours of Tetris attack. Awesome game, my first video game actually. Since we both grew up playing that game, were not too bad at it. Even my mom knows how to play decently, apparently she pulled her first all nighter outside of college trying to beat the one player for that game. Which was funny cause when we woke up when we were like, 6 years old or something, she was super happy cause she finally beat the piranha plant. Though now she hates it cause one night we were playing it at 2am in her room when she was trying to sleep, and it's pretty hard to sleep when you hear a bunch of "HOCAS POCAS! hehe~ hehe~ hehe~ hehe~ HOCAS POCAS! HOCAS POCAS! hehe~ HOCAS POCAS!" all night long, followed by "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH! You lost again! You suck, make your difficulty harder, harder, there we go..... HA! I win! That's because you're on easy and I'm on hard..." She started attacking us with pillows half an hour later.
Now all the remaining free time I had was spent on, surprisingly, not eating, since we have no food at home cause I am no longer employed in a supermarket and my mom just doesn't do grocery shopping, watching American dramas on the computer. Well, not exactly, my sister watched them on my computer, I had nothing better to do so I watched them with her when I'm not sleeping. I slept through pretty much all of Gossip Girl, catfights! one hour at a time, 18 times. Only thing I remember form that is just some girl sleeping with a gay guy.
Now the other series I ended up watching with her is One Tree Hill. I've seen like, 10 minute segments from two different episodes when it aired on TV. That's just how I watch TV, I watch something until the commercials start, then I leave the room to get food or something and I end up not coming back. I ended up watching the first Pirates of the Caribbeans that way, after it aired 5 times, though I'm still not sure what order the events happen in. One Tree Hill I actually like, they have wonderful friendships with crappy events that ruins their otherwise wonderful life. It'd be boring to watch otherwise though. I'm sure my sister was very annoyed with all my questions since she tended to watch episodes out of order cause some of them shes seen before, and some of them just didn't download correctly. So it pretty much sounded like "Who's she? Brooke, oh. Who's that? Thats Rachael. Which one's the cheerleader again? They're all cheerleaders. Why does their school have pretty cheerleaders? Because we go to Walnut. Now who's that? That's still Brooke. What's she doing in her house? Who's house? ...Haley's...? That's not Haley, that's Peyton. Now that's Haley. So what's.... Brooke doing in Haley's house? They live together. Oh. Then how'd she get into Peyton's house? and whose house is she in now? Lucas'. Why is she so good at getting into people's houses when they're sleeping? Shut up" or random comments like "Look! He has a pimple right there. Move your finger, you're blocking the screen. But he has a pimple~. Yes. -_- high schoolers have pimples. But he's an actor! Actors aren't supposed to have pimples. He's still a hot actor. So pimples are hot? really now? Look, he has another one right there. That's the same one, now SHH. Oh, it disappeared, I like how his pimples disappear overnight. Pimple. Singular. He had ONE, and he still good looking, now SHHH." I seriously need better to something to do.
new car!
I actually planned on updating while I was still test driving the cars, except I never got around to it. Bought this car over the Mitsubishi lancer because it has a quieter engine, its a lot lighter, and drives better overall.
Now there's all the small things I don't like too much. For starters, when we test drove cars, we tested the '09 model. When we hunted around for a better deal, dad bought the '08 model. It's a $5000 difference, go figure. I loved everything about the '09 model, and I think my dad expected the '08 model to not be so different. Well, unlike the '09 base model, the '08 base model doesn't have..
Power mirrors. Whatever, it's a pain in the ass to adjust the first time, but since I'm the only one driving, I don't think I need to readjust them anytime soon.
Power windows. Theres a plus and minus side to this. Plus side is I can open and close my windows without the engine on. So my mom thought I was weird when I had my windows open in the garage. Downside is when I'm driving, I can only open and close my own windows, since I probably shouldn't be trying to open my other 3 windows while driving. Funny comment from mom was, look, now when you drive your car into a large body of water, you can open your windows and everyone else in the same situation as you're in with power windows will die, see? useful! But until I drive the car into a lake or something, power windows > no power windows.
Power locks. Now this is my biggest cause of irritation. Even the old Mercedes had power locks. It gets very very annoying because I like to throw stuff into the back seats, and when I take those stuff out, I have to manually unlock the door, then relock it, or unlock it, throw stuff back there, relock it, then unlock it again when I want to take it out. So, no keyless lock/unlock. No alarm. No long distance trunk opener. Maybe one of these days, we might ask them to install it.
Ironic part is, when we started shopping for cars last year, dad said he wanted me to have a car with power windows, power locks, radio, and air conditioning. (Well, obviously, he wanted the standard safety options too, air bags, anti-lock brakes, seat belts, w/e. Most cars have all that these days).
Now what I like about the car.. (with mom's comparison to her Pilot)
It's light. Like, very very light. It accelerates fast, and stops fast, and is super easy to control. Mom complains how the car is too light. Well, it's less than half the weight of the pilot. Makes sense. She also complains how since my car is so light, it has a higher chance of spinning out than her pilot. Counter-argument, Pilot has a higher chance of tilting over.
Since I got home first, I snagged the Pilot's parking spot in the garage, next to the Mercedes that we probably will never sell now. The car is so much small than the Pilot, so I can actually fully open all the car doors, the car hood, and the trunk, and Spike can still run around quite freely in the garage. With the Pilot, we couldn't even open two doors on the opposite sides far enough to let a not skinny human out without it hitting either the kitchen door, or the Mercedes. Now the landlord's description of the garage being "very big" when we toured the house for the first time seems likely.
I have a AUX jack! I can plug in my iPod (or any other similar device) to my car. :D Except I normally keep my max volume limit on my iPod around 20% of the absolute maximum (hey calculus!) cause of super loud earphone. So I need to adjust that too. But it's nice, I have music on long drives.
Now the sad part is that my mom won't let me drive it, cause she wants to drive it. Which isn't half bad, cause she's helping me break in the car anyways. So if she wants to spend the next 1000 miles driving local or in traffic, without sudden acceleration or braking, or abrupt sudden maneuvers, she can be my guest. :P New car smell makes my head hurt too, dunno why.
Now there's all the small things I don't like too much. For starters, when we test drove cars, we tested the '09 model. When we hunted around for a better deal, dad bought the '08 model. It's a $5000 difference, go figure. I loved everything about the '09 model, and I think my dad expected the '08 model to not be so different. Well, unlike the '09 base model, the '08 base model doesn't have..
Power mirrors. Whatever, it's a pain in the ass to adjust the first time, but since I'm the only one driving, I don't think I need to readjust them anytime soon.
Power windows. Theres a plus and minus side to this. Plus side is I can open and close my windows without the engine on. So my mom thought I was weird when I had my windows open in the garage. Downside is when I'm driving, I can only open and close my own windows, since I probably shouldn't be trying to open my other 3 windows while driving. Funny comment from mom was, look, now when you drive your car into a large body of water, you can open your windows and everyone else in the same situation as you're in with power windows will die, see? useful! But until I drive the car into a lake or something, power windows > no power windows.
Power locks. Now this is my biggest cause of irritation. Even the old Mercedes had power locks. It gets very very annoying because I like to throw stuff into the back seats, and when I take those stuff out, I have to manually unlock the door, then relock it, or unlock it, throw stuff back there, relock it, then unlock it again when I want to take it out. So, no keyless lock/unlock. No alarm. No long distance trunk opener. Maybe one of these days, we might ask them to install it.
Ironic part is, when we started shopping for cars last year, dad said he wanted me to have a car with power windows, power locks, radio, and air conditioning. (Well, obviously, he wanted the standard safety options too, air bags, anti-lock brakes, seat belts, w/e. Most cars have all that these days).
Now what I like about the car.. (with mom's comparison to her Pilot)
It's light. Like, very very light. It accelerates fast, and stops fast, and is super easy to control. Mom complains how the car is too light. Well, it's less than half the weight of the pilot. Makes sense. She also complains how since my car is so light, it has a higher chance of spinning out than her pilot. Counter-argument, Pilot has a higher chance of tilting over.
Since I got home first, I snagged the Pilot's parking spot in the garage, next to the Mercedes that we probably will never sell now. The car is so much small than the Pilot, so I can actually fully open all the car doors, the car hood, and the trunk, and Spike can still run around quite freely in the garage. With the Pilot, we couldn't even open two doors on the opposite sides far enough to let a not skinny human out without it hitting either the kitchen door, or the Mercedes. Now the landlord's description of the garage being "very big" when we toured the house for the first time seems likely.
I have a AUX jack! I can plug in my iPod (or any other similar device) to my car. :D Except I normally keep my max volume limit on my iPod around 20% of the absolute maximum (hey calculus!) cause of super loud earphone. So I need to adjust that too. But it's nice, I have music on long drives.
Now the sad part is that my mom won't let me drive it, cause she wants to drive it. Which isn't half bad, cause she's helping me break in the car anyways. So if she wants to spend the next 1000 miles driving local or in traffic, without sudden acceleration or braking, or abrupt sudden maneuvers, she can be my guest. :P New car smell makes my head hurt too, dunno why.
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