Sleeping is good, right?  Then why don't I do more of it?

Hijacked...though tagged on a technicality...from bubbly 

[01] -- What are your nicknames?
T, Nicki, Tare-Bear, Satan. 

[02] -- What clothes are you wearing at the moment?
Blue "lounge" pants...I don't know what to call them, they aren't sweat pants.  A nice lace-hemmed long sleeve shirt that got ruined in the wash so I wear it as pajamas now.

[03] -- What games did you recently finish?
Um...Solitaire?  Dude, I don't think I've played any games in a long time.

[04] -- What is your favorite scent?
I love the smell of mint or vanilla, and rain.  Among other things.

[05] -- What video games are you playing at the moment?
None.

[06] -- What do you drink the most?
Water, probably.

[07] -- Do you trust easily?
Yes.

[08] -- What was your first big fandom?
The Lion King?  xD  But seriously, I was a fangirl for all things Disney.  Outside of that realm, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars.

[09] -- What did you want to be when you grew up?
I kid you not, I wanted to be any of these three things: a mom, Robin Hood, or Indiana Jones.

[10] -- Do you have a good body-image?
Um, not the best.  It's better than it used to be though!  I'm definitely not as self-conscious about the fact that I'm more overweight than I ought to be.

[11] -- What games are you anticipating?
I haven't played video games in ages, it's kind of sad really.

[12] -- What websites do you visit daily?
LiveJournal, Hotmail, Gmail, Facebook, DeviantArt, and any number of webcomics.

[13] -- Random pet peeve?
When people tell me I'm wrong when I know I'm right.

[14] -- What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
AN AWESOME KIND.  :D

[15] -- What's the last song that got stuck in your head?
"There Are Worse Things I Could Do" except it was the Connie and Carla do-wop version.

[16] -- What's your favourite item of clothing?
Jeans.  I love them so much.

[17] -- What's better: to give or to receive?
They're both awesome, so...to swap?  :D

[18] -- What turns you on in the opposite gender?
Love accents like crazy.  Stubble is almost always hot.  Confidence, dorky sense of humor.

[19] -- Is there anything you want so bad right now?
I really want to kiss someone.  Pathetic, yes.

[20] -- What should you be doing right now?
Sleeping.

[21] -- Do you always use conditioner when washing your hair?
Lately yeah, but that's because my friend gave me one of the tubes of conditioner that comes with the hair dye kits and it makes my hair ridiculously soft.  Why don't they sell that stuff on its own?

Hmm...I think part ot the reason I'm struggling with packing is that I'm just moving five minutes away. What's the point of packing it all up nice if I'm just going to be hauling it back out tomorrow?

( You know what bored-ness means. :D MEMES and QUIZZES. )
Eh, might as well do an old Friday Five while I'm at it.

1. Who would you take with you on a road trip?
Brooklyn, absolutely.  Claire and Geige too.  It would be kind of like high school again.

2. What states would you visit?
Hmm...it would depend on how far we were going to go.  California I think.  We could probably get everyone to agree on Santa Barbara.  xD  New York would be fun, and maybe Connecticut.  I know...that sounds lame, but we'd totally be thinking Gilmore Girls the whole time we were there.  Ooh, me and Brooke would want to stop by Chicago, pretend to be Gary Hobson for a little and look around for orange cats with newspapers.

3. What national parks and/or monuments would you go see?
I don't know.  The stuff we'd want to see probably wouldn't be the huge tourist attractions.  Though if we were in Missouri and Connecticut we'd want to see anything Mark Twain related.

4. Las Vegas: Overrated or a Must-See?
Vegas is okay.  I don't know that it deserves all the hype it gets, but we'd have a free place to stay.  Gotta love having family in the area.

5. How long would you be gone?
As long as we possibly could.  Again, it would depend on how far we were going.</div>

I'm freezing, my hip is sore, and my eyes hurt.  Why?

- I walked around in the rain and cold for awhile and it's still cold even though I'm wearing a sweatshirt, long sleeve shirt, jeans, long socks, and my beanie.

- We went on a four mile hike with no breaks longer than a minute.

- The video we rented was completely screwed up on the last half-hour of tape, so that it kept blipping.  Eventually I gave up and closed my eyes to try to just listen to the movie.  Didn't really work.  I'll have to look it up on Wikipedia so I can find out how it ends.

Hm...staring at a computer screen probably won't help with the eyes.  I should go to bed soon.  :P

Well...at least now I have a fairly good guess of what the reaction would be on the parental front if things ever started to work out with Ben.  -__-

I was on the phone with my mom tonight, talking about how I'd be moving into my new apartment on Wednesday and she mentioned it was too bad my brother and the cousins wouldn't be in town yet to help me move.  I told her Ben would be around Tuesday so I could probably get him to help, not thinking much of the comment.  And she blows up at me.  Pretty much tells me I am not to ask him for anything.  Finally I remind her that I'm still friends with him and that I do talk to him on a frequent basis, which she doesn't react too happily to.  At the end of our conversation she apologizes for blowing up about him, but it's obvious she doesn't really feel sorry about it.

Not that I blame her.  From what she remembers of her latest experiences concerning Ben and my latest experiences that I've shared with her (aka the kissing incident) she doesn't really have a lot of good material to go off of.  Which I kind of feel bad about.  By no means is he now perfect or vastly improved, but he's trying.  And my mom doesn't get to see that at all.

In some ways I feel like it's not really fair to him or to the appearance of my judgement.  I'm sure my mom thinks I'm just still friends with him because I'm nice to everyone, and that he's taking advantage of that to some degree.  It really has nothing to do with any of that.  If I really did not want to be friends with Ben, I would have no problem dropping him and ending it right there.  I've come close to it before.  But for whatever reason besides the ones I already know, I just can't.  My mom worries about me being smart.  She thinks I'm going to just go with the first guy to sweep me off my feet or show me any sign of attention.  If that was the case I'd be married by now, and quite unhappily.  I do use my brain in all of this.  I've seen too much of his bad habits and qualities to not.  I also see that he's trying harder to overcome those bad things. 

Honestly, when it comes down to the whole Ben thing, I have few concerns.  It could go any number of ways at this point.  I've thought things out, been very careful to not let my emotions outweigh my judgement.  But the more I look at it, the more my biggest concern is what my parents would say.  Sometimes I think it would just be easiest to not even try if the opportunity came up, just to save myself the headache that would inevitably come once my parents were informed.  But it just wouldn't be fair.

Yeah, I really don't need to worry about this unless something actually happens.  But what can I say?  I'm a girl.  We overthink and overanalyze things.

Bored, really should go do some laundry before I have to take my roommate to the store. But will I?  Probably not.

( Beds, Trees, Boyfriends, and Kisses. (No...they're memes.) )

I HAVE A CAR!  Yay car!

It's a green 98 Ford Escort named Nemo, though I have been told I can change the name if I want.  We'll wait and see.  :)

So as of right now, I'm going to have a car tomorrow.  And I'm kind of excited, but the nervous kind that makes your stomach all rolly.  I've never had a car of my own.  I'm going to have to pay for gas and insurance and registration and eventual repairs and I'm never going to have money for anything fun ever again.  -__-

Also, how many guys do you know who call their best-friend-who-is-a-girl to ask her opinion on what classes they should take and where they should live?  I don't know any.  Except one, and he's a confusing boy these days. 

And now...stolen from softlyfalling 
 
( High School Days )

Not going to work until the afternoon tomorrow, since I'm going to go check out another car.  I really kind of hope this one works out, even though I don't know what kind of car it is or anything.  xD

The weather here is ridiculous.  All of 91 degrees on Monday, but it's been in the 50s since Tuesday and even got down to 44 degrees this morning.  I'm going to die at work being outside all day.

So, I've had a phone call every night before he goes to bed for a week, with the exception of last night.  And tonight he even called it my "goodnight call."  I honestly wonder if he realizes the signals he's potentially sending out or if he just doesn't know what he means by anything.  Yeah, for all I know this is nothing more than friendship in his mind.  But it just doesn't feel like it to me.

GRAH.  I may need to leave work early tomorrow so I can go take care of some things.  >_<  But there are several problems with this scheme.

Problem the First:  I need to work as many hours as I can because I need the money.

Problem the Second:  The places I need to stop by are kind of out of the way and I have no access to a car.

Problem the Third:  I already took two-and-a-half days off last week.

Problem the Fourth:  I REALLY NEED THE MONEY.

Problem the Fifth:  ....Yeah, I don't know.

Do I stay or do I go?  And now I'll have that song stuck in my head all night.  :P

So lately I'm in the market for a car.  I probably should've been in the market a long time ago, but oh well.  I'm looking for a car with decent gas mileage that will get me to whatever job I wind up in, with maybe the occasional trip back to Washington.  My roommate's brother is selling his car and this is the information on it that I have so far after driving it around town for a bit and asking some questions.  Anyone who knows anything about cars, I'm all for advice.  Lay it on me.

1997 Chevy Lumina
$1000  (Blue Book lists between $925 and $1240)

Highway gas mileage: 30-35
Town gas mileage: 18 (typical in Rexburg, with all the stop signs/lights and hills)

Tires have 4000 miles on them, car has 150,000 miles.

The AC doesn't work and the horn needs to be fixed.  Front wheels probably need to be aligned, he checked and said it would run to about $49.99 but I could probably find a place that would do it cheaper.  The cruise control works, brakes need a little bit more of a push but it's not too different from the van.  The car broke down about a year ago, driving it out from Virginia to Idaho.  There was a slight leak in the radiator but they put some stop-leak in it and it's been fine since.  He recommends not to drive it for more than 10 hours at a time though.

What other questions should I ask?  Anything about this that screams "Don't do it"?  Comments, questions, concerns...all are welcome.  :D