(((Gud)))

((P-C))) Freaking out right now is totally normal, Heather, Nora, etc hav great advice.

Nora - Glad you got your serpetine belt changed before it went bad, I had one break on me while I was driving and it's not anything you want to deal with in the middle of traffic.

It's a nice feeling for me, stuff like preventative maintenence and savings accounts and stuff. It's like, finally, I feel like I'm slightly ahead of things going wrong, instead of constantly trying to catch up.

Boy howdy, did I just jinx myself or what?

Good for you doing the preventive thing, Nora. IT really is better than waiting until it's an emergency. Which you seem, to have figure out, so, gold star for you.

Nora - Glad you got your serpetine belt changed before it went bad, I had one break on me while I was driving and it's not anything you want to deal with in the middle of traffic.

Yeah, I've had some belt issues that, unchecked, have actually ruined my alternator.

We're all, "Oh my God! I'm doing what I want to do! I'm a grown up! I am soooooo going to screw this up!"

Hoo boy, don't I know it. It doesn't help that I wrote the first draft of my very first science article yesterday, and it was kind of crappy and not the superultrabrilliant thing it was supposed to be. Like, maybe I should have picked something I was actually good at.

It's so great having you all here. The Buffistas are like this huge resource for that thing that is life.

For example: I am so going to screw everything up when I finally get a car. I don't know what a serpentine belt is. But it sounds cool.

VW!! I know, it's been forever!

My new medication is weird. I'm supposed to take it in the evening; only I haven't been taking it early enough, I don't think, as it doesn't help me go to sleep or get sleepy until about 2am, and then I can't wake up in the morning. I've had a headache ever since the babies had their dirt fight, which still isn't cleaned up because I was hoping letting the dirt dry before I tried to vacuum it would minimize the stain. So, just bleagh. I know I'd be less with the gronk if this damned headache would just go away. I think it's the weather.

t /whine

{{PC}} I am not so oblivious as I sound today.

{{{Deena}}}

thanks -t-.

It doesn't help that I wrote the first draft of my very first science article yesterday, and it was kind of crappy and not the superultrabrilliant thing it was supposed to be

And I'm sure the amount of pressure you were putting on yourself, along with setting the standard that it must be superultrabrilliant, and the subsequent overcriticalness (is that a word?) had nothing to do with that.

Aw, {{Deena}}

It doesn't help that I wrote the first draft of my very first science article yesterday, and it was kind of crappy and not the superultrabrilliant thing it was supposed to be. Like, maybe I should have picked something I was actually good at.

It's your first article. You'll learn and get better. Who said it was supposed to be superultrabrilliant? You'll get feedback and improve. Like when ya learn to walk, you're probably going to spend a lot of time falling on your ass before you start cruising at speed.

For example: I am so going to screw everything up when I finally get a car. I don't know what a serpentine belt is. But it sounds cool.

I am the designated car-repair-interpreter. Tom can't even deal with them. The only reason I know anything about anything about cars (which isn't much) is because I have driven such crappy cars, so I've heard these terms coming out of various mechanics' mouths, followed by, "the cost to replace it will be..."