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18 August 2006
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It's All Mine!
Friday 18 August 2006 - 2.32pm
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I am now the proud owner of a bright red Mazda Eunos! I handed over a scarily large wad of cash, signed a couple of forms and walah! I own a car again! 
You have no idea the torture that is sitting at my desk, doing a bank statement reconciliation while waiting for the clock to roll around to 5pm. I just wanna go play with all its buttons, drive aimlessly round town and enjoy my new purchase!
And ooo! I noticed today its got racing car style pedals! 
Music: The impatient tapping of my left foot as I will time to speed up
Mood:  Gleeful
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17 August 2006
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Guess What?!?
Thursday 17 August 2006 - 5.52pm
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I HAVE A CAR!!!!!!!!!! 
Having vowed I would not get a car through a sharky car yard, what did I do? Fell in love with a car I found on a dealer's internet site. 
In the space of 2 days I have test driven it, (they brought it to work for me on my lunch break), had it independently mechanically checked, beaten them down $1500 on price and bought it.  When I get an idea in my head, I tent to move fast! The car dealer is picking me up tomorrow lunchtime to take me to the office to do the paper work and I will get to drive it away!
Needless to say, I cannot wait! It sucks being without a car - especially since I have had one since I was 16 so am totally dependant on them. I know that ecologically I shouldn\'t be so reliant...but I am and I'm not about to crush the addiction anytime soon 
So what is this new beast?
It's a 1992 Mazda Eunos AZ-3(which I have already nicknamed the Eunuch cos the word Eunos reminds me of that!) 2 door, coupe, manual with electric windows, central locking, sunroof (though in Palmy I doubt I will be using that much), air conditioning (or that), power steering, alloy wheels, and best of all, is race car red!
Check it out!
I cant wait to drive it home!
I love it already
Music: Carly Binding - This Is It
Mood:  Fantastic
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15 August 2006
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"They are funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them" - Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
Tuesday 15 August 2006 - 9.13pm
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I am a little stuck at the moment. I am not feeling the happiest of campers since the accident. In fact, its about all I can think about. I have barely slept since it happened and when I do sleep, I have terrible dreams about crashing again. I am tired and grumpy and sore and fed up.
I have no reason to be obsessing about it. After all, it wasn\'t my fault, there was nothing I could do about it, in the grand scheme of things it wasn\'t a big crash, no one was seriously hurt etc etc. I know all this to be logically true. But that doesn\'t seem to get through to my emotions.
Car hunting is a bit of a double edged sword too. It's so frustrating and annoying not being able to find something I really like. There is one car I have a wee bit of a crush on (yes I know how loopy that sounds) but it depends on if the car yard are going to be awful about it since they incorrectly advertised the price. I battled a car yard (with a little help from the Commerce Commission - and won!) last time I bought a car and I don\'t know if I have the energy to go through that again, even though I know I should stand up for myself.
The other big problem I have is my overwhelming sense of guilt. I should be Catholic. I hate asking people to take me places especially when all of them have been so nice and refuse to allow me to pay them for petrol used.
Anyway, I am sorry this is such a depressing entry. I shall leave you with some new pics of my car, uplifted from the Turners Auctions website where it is being sold tomorrow afternoon in the damaged cars auction. If you want some cheap tyres (less than a year old), mags, and a stereo that has never heard of the word "bass" then my poor wreck of a laser is for you
From the left
From the right
Music: Carly Binding - So Radiate
Mood:  Gloomy
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9 August 2006
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Update!
Wednesday 9 August 2006 - 6.18pm
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I have to take back the mean things I said about my insurance company: The insurance company rang about an hour ago to say they are paying me out my insurance tonight! How super speedy is that? There is a slight catch – they are still holding the $1000 excess – but they are just awaiting a copy of the police report and then they will pay me that too!
Everything has happened so super quick. I rang the insurance company this morning to see what was happening since I had word from the assessor that the car was being written off. I now have a “case manager” so to speak who is handling everything so I don't have to deal with call centre plebs that upset me by being rude and cranky and she is really lovely! We had a big chat this morning and sorted loads of stuff out. They are going to continue to insure me as it wasn’t my fault I got hit...and the best bit is they are going to pay the full value of the insured sum because my policy is an agreed value one. I like that alot!
The lovely insurance lady also gave me advice about buying a new car: she suggested that I do not go through a car yard to buy my next car but instead look privately or through Trade Me or Turners Auctions. Apparently at the moment the car market is completely flooded with cars due to the collapse of the two finance companies recently – there have been over 7000 cars in the last 2 months been repossessed and put up for sale and up to 1000 a month still coming through making it completely a buyers market. All the finance companies generally use places like Turners cos they know they will get a quick sale and not have to faff around. And because there are so many cars on the market, and petrol being so expensive, cars are incredibly cheap and she thinks I will probably only need to spend $3000 to get a pretty decend car about the same age as my old one, as long as I get it thoroughly checked through the AA or somewhere similar.
As for me, well I am feeling not too bad now considering. I probably should have gone to work today but a) my boss keeps ringing me and pressuring me to come back to work which I haven’t enjoyed at all, b) I have a medical certificate that allows me to have today off and it would be such a shame to waste it and c) I am not looking forward to taking the bus I have lots of pretty bruises on my chest now including my left breast – yay - and its still really sore when I breathe deeply or cough or sniff but not when I just breath normally now thankfully. I am also sore now down the back of my left arm and across my back and am insanely tired. I am a tummy sleeper but because my chest hurts I cannot lie on it and I am not having much luck falling asleep on my back. Added to that when I do fall asleep I have been dreaming about the crash and waking up quite upset so am not feeling particularly wonderful.
I got more good news about my glasses from the insurance company this afternoon though, they will definately cover them and are waiving my contents policy excess for them as well! They got kinda munted in the crash, somehow they came off?? I dont remember it happening - and while the optometrist managed to bend the frames back to hold the lenses the right one keeps falling out and when the lense is in, its not sitting in the frame properly and I keep looking at it out of the corner of my eye and making myself feel headachy.
I also found out that the assessor put the value of damage to my car at over $5000 but apparently there is lots of engine, radiator damage that doesn’t look so impressive. I hate to think the value of the damage to the other car which is a lot sadder looking than mine.
In none car related news (and it doesnt really fit the rest of this entry but oh well!) I bought these Griffins chocolate chippies sandwich biscuits at the supermarket last night and opened them for morning tea and they are really quite yum! They come in either chocolate or vanilla filling (I chose vanilla) and I definitely recommend!
Well, on that little note I shall go - I have a banana cake in the oven as a thank you for my boyfriend and all the wonderful help he has given me so far and then I have some ANZAC biscuits to bake as well. I had to take the butter and sugar next door to my neighbour to cream for me as it hurt too much to try doing that myself - sad or what?!? She thought it was hilariously funny thankfully!
And in a last little random thought; the mood ring on my left hand is blue (meaning relaxed, at ease, calm, lovable) and the one on my right hand is green (meaning average reading, active, not under any great stress). Interesting but random and useless info for ya ;-P and in case you are wondering, yes, I know have two mood rings (I so love them!) – they had them for $2.00 the other day at the post shop and I couldn’t resist. I am such an impulse shopper.
Music: Air - Alpha Beta Gaga
Mood: Sore but happy
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8 August 2006
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Goodbye Little Car
Tuesday 8 August 2006 - 6.33pm
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Today I said goodbye to my faithful friend of two and a half years, my little ford laser. It has been officially written off. My mum and I went and cleaned out the bits and pieces left in it (well mum did, I am too sore to move much right now, having more aches and pains show themselves) and took some photos this morning.
My little car
My little car again
The car that hit me - also a write off and ironically bought from the same car yard as mine!
So I say farewell to my car that has been my little buddy, working tirelessly and without fault even when I forgot to check the oil for 4 months and it was more or less empty. My little car, that was so fuel efficient it would run on the smell of an oily rag, that had the pick up of a snail and a car stereo that didnt know what base was. My little car - the third I have owned and the one I kicked up such a fuss about to own after nearly being ripped off by a sharky car yard owner (God bless the commerce commission!). My little car that I will think about every day while I suffer the indignity of taking the bus to work. My little car....so long friend.
Music: The Bee Gees - Too Much Heaven
Mood: Sad
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7 August 2006
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Crash
Monday 7 August 2006 - 4.42pm
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I have just returned from spending the day in the ED department of PN hospital - my second visit in a month, only this time was a little more serious then when I hurt my foot; I had a car accident on the way to work today.
Tootling along Botanical road, I saw a car backing down a driveway on the opposite side of the street, only he didn\'t stop, he backed right out into the flow of on coming traffic. The first car in the line had the choice of either driving into the guy who had backed out in front of him, or swerving and hitting me coming the other way. I had the option of swerving into a parked car to my left or braking and hoping. I took the latter.
I have never been more terrified in my life as those few milliseconds when I realised we were going to hit head on. I remember screaming and then the horrific crunch of metal folding as we impacted, and then crying (alot) and people swarming around and someone trying to open my door only it was stuck and me taking the keys out of the ignition and putting them into my handbag only to leave my handbag on the front seat, then perhaps the loveliest lady named Anita, who had been in the car behind me taking me to sit in her car and talking to me and being so lovely and comforting while I cried. Then the police were there and ambulance staff and I was taken to hospital (no lights or sirens though) as my chest was extremely painful from where the seat-belt saved me from having a close encounter with the steering wheel, coupled with severely hampered breathing - not helped by my chest infection that refuses to die.
Then, after everything seeming to happen at hyper-speed immediately post accident, things got really slow. For once, the snail paced speed that things progress in our public hospital system were almost a relief as I was able to take a breath (very shallow though, hurts like you wouldn\'t believe to breath right now and coughing and laughing is enough to kill me) and process what had just happened. My boyfriend arrived and held my hand the entire time, my boss from work phoned to make sure I was okay, and I was poked, prodded, x-rayed and blood tested to assess the damage to me.
Thankfully, apart from some mammoth bruising to my chest/sternum/breast area I am fine, nothing broken...except for my poor little car. I do not know if it will be savable, nor if I want it to be - the idea of driving round in a car that is already been damaged once does not fill me with confidence. Actually to be honest, the idea of driving full stop, does not inspire me right now and it took all my will power not to close my eyes and whimper like a injured dog when my beloved drove me home from the hospital.
I have the next three days off work to recuperate, watch the pretty array of bruises show themselves to their full extent and sort out the insurance issues. For now, i am going to curl back up on the couch in front of the heater with the chocolate my beloved bought me on the way home and feel sorry for myself and my poor little car.
Mood: Upset
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6 August 2006
2 August 2006
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Tickety Wickety
Wednesday 2 August 2006 - 3.46pm
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I got a stinky $12.00 parking ticket at lunchtime
And yes I know it was my fault for not feeding the money hungry meter but it still annoys me!
 deathisntf… any chance you can make it "go away" since you work at the council? 
Still, $12 is no where near as bad as my $100.00 parking ticket in Wellington (damn Clearways)a couple of years back - but it was so worth it. I went on the vertical bungee and screamed my head off for all of Courtney Place to hear.
Can anyone top the $100.00 Parking ticket?
Mood:  Annoyed
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1 August 2006
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A Proepr Entry This Time
Tuesday 1 August 2006 - 12.56pm
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I know it has been a while since I did a proper entry or even any decent comments and I apologize if I have offended or worried you unduly (esp dear Ms  heather. I haven’t been feeling the most happy of campers the last few days; on Saturday I had one of those situations where you build and build and build your hopes up that something wonderful is going to happen because you have been led to believe it will and have no reason to doubt it, and then the fates step in to have some fun and stuff things up. And that is how I found myself bawling my eyes out in the centre of The Warehouse on Saturday afternoon with my poor boyfriend hugging me to death and more than a little bewildered by my strong reaction to the lack of good news. Yes I know this is all somewhat cryptic but I don’t feel like sharing it all with you just yet. Rest assured though, looking back with a bit of clarity and perspective, it was not the major drama I made it out to be and there is a very good chance that this weekend the situation will redeem itself….
Anyway
It’s official, I have another cold. I am only referring to it as a mini cold so that I don’t think about it too much and it will go away in time for me to have lots of fun at the Minuit/Concord Dawn concert at Massey on Friday night! Anyone else in Palmy coming?!? Me can’t waits!
I have had a fairy good morning at work so far = I got to go to the train station to pick up my boss today (his car is getting fixed and he lives in Paekakarikei – and I whine about my 9 minute commute to work each day!) but the train was 35 minutes late so I got to sit in the sun and do nothing - was quite lovely. When I got back to work the stationery I ordered yesterday had arrived, complete with 3 chocolate bars (bless Office Products Depot) which was great cos I was feeling somewhat peckish. The remaining two I should be nice and share…but they are in my drawer in case of emergency chocolate need this afternoon instead (which is looking highly likely).
On the down side, I have no glasses this morning. I dropped them off at the optometrist on my way to the train station; my beloved but terribly naughty cat Paddy knocked them off my chest of drawers during the night (my fault, I had shut the door into the kitchen and it was his way of waking me up so he could have his midnight snack) and I forgot they were on the floor and stood on them at some point this morning as I was getting ready for work/running round like a headless flea as I was late (again). The lenses popped out and the frames were so buckled and warped and generally munted that I couldn’t get them back in. Hope they are fixable…!
Also it appears I have lost my mind - plans for my triathlon debut are under way!
http://www.tri.co.nz/default.asp?PageID=376
One of my good friend here at work has talked me into it and this morning we printed off our respective training schedules this morning, hers being a lot more intense than mine since she actually does exercise on a regular basis already. The triathlon itself is only 300metres swimming in the lido, a 3 km walk or run (guess which option I am taking) and a 10km cycle. I have 5 months to train so I think I should be able to do it…gotta find/keep motivated – I really wanna do this. On the downside, I now have to go buy new sneakers. Okay so my old ones were pretty manky and falling apartish anyway but the stinky smelly tom cat from over the back fence finished them off by peeing on them at some point in the last few days and they reek! I like to think they were there on my terrace as a security measure so that it didn’t look like I a young female living alone but who am I kidding, it was the result of pure laziness.
Well I have done very little productive work thus far this morning so I better get a wriggle on…oh wait, its lunchtime, what a shame!
Music: None sadly
Mood:  Blah
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31 July 2006
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Which would you rather live without?
Monday 31 July 2006 - 7.36pm
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Okay, so I know it has been a wee while since my last post and I really should pull finger and write a proper one but I am battling conjunctivitus (sp?) and the beginings of a cold, and basically I feel like crud and cant be bothered.
But what I thought I would do is conduct my own little poll stealing the idea I heard on the radio the other day.
So the question is this:
Which one of the following would you rather live without
internet
cellphone
television
For me its real easy - television; I barely watch any of it these days - just Top Gear on Sunday nights and Gilmore Girls - if I remember its on that is. Oh and Distraction! I love that show!
Music: Salmonella Dub - Push On Thru
Mood: Mediocre
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