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Today started out like a normal Sunday. Went to church (where I got Brazilian cookies from Kristi! Passatempo!), came home and packed up my stuff to head back to Fresno.

Now, my dad had my truck this past week so he could haul some lumber around because he was fixing my neighbor's gate. I got my truck back on Saturday, and noticed that whenever I would accelerate from a slow speed, my truck would wobble a little. I didn't know what it was and was hoping it was just a quirk I hadn't noticed before because I hadn't driven it in a week.

However, while I was driving north on the 99, I was coming up to the 198 interchange when all of a sudden my truck starts shaking and wobbling really bad. I slowed down immediately, got in the right lane, and tried to determine what exit I could get off on that could take me to the nearest auto center. "Maybe there's one in Goshen," I thought. But I didn't have to go far until the decision was made for me.

All of a sudden, I hear this loud noise: Pop! Bang! Rip! Scratch! I pulled over to the shoulder and looking behind me, see pieces of tire tumbling on the side of the road. I get out of my truck and proceed to look at all my tires. None were flat, but my rear passenger-side tire had most of the tread ripped right off of it O_O.

I call my parents' house; no one's there. So, I call the number on my insurance card. I got emergency roadside assistance! Woot! They call a towing place to have a guy come out and replace my tire with my spare. The dude had a hard time getting the lug nuts off XD. "A gorilla put these on!" Haha. He ends up switching them out, but now I got to find a tire place that's open on Sunday afternoon. The spare won't get me very far and I can't go I-99 speeds on it all the way to Fresno. I'm just south of the exit for Goshen, but the towing-guy tells me that the places he knows of there are closed. My best bet is Visalia.

Going a moderate speed, I take the back roads all the way to Mooney Blvd. I know of a few tire places on that street and make my way down scoping them out. GoodGuys is, of course, closed. Discount Tire Center is closing in 15 minutes and doesn't want to help me :P. PepBoys is open and closes at 6 :D. So, I end up at PepBoys and get both of my back tires replaced. I know the other rear tire was getting pretty old, so I thought, "What the hey?"

While they're working on my truck, I go next door to Burger King and get a soda. For the next hour and a half I read my book I had with me: "Till We Have Faces." Oh yeah, and I also end up getting chicken fries. Yummmm. Once they're all done with my truck, I head back out to the 99 with two new tires and an fixed alignment :D.

Originally, I started out from Porterville at 1:30pm. After all that, I get home to Fresno at 7:30pm. X_X

But, I guess it all worked out. Got home safely, and my tires replaced. I'm rather glad it was just my tread that blew off and not my whole tire O_O. Thank you God, that would have been bad. I'm also glad it didn't happen with my dad hauling all that stuff, haha. I think I got a farmer's tan now from sitting and waiting for the tow-truck to arrive. Oh well XD.

Merry Christmas!!! WEEEEEEEE!!!!! :D 6 days left.
I love the rain... It's been pretty much raining non-stop for the last two/three days!
Rain some more! We need it. Maybe some snow? Haha

I think the rain made me dream weird dreams last night though. I woke up so many times and/or was drifting in and out of dream world. So many weird dreams. I don't remember any very clearly except for the last one. I was on a trip with like people from church/school or something and we were supposed to get into buses to go to our destination. I was supposed to get into buss 7, but I couldn't find it. Then, right before everyone left, I found the buss. It was actually a trailer with the number 7 on it that was hooked up to a big truck that had the letter "U" on it. So, you see were I would get confused :P. Somehow that turned into everyone at the beach, and Donald Duck and this mule type character fighting over a towel, which they called a toga. The mule was all like, "Give me back my toga!!" Yeah... and then I woke up. Very weird.

I've been tagged by sarcasticleaves and she said Jacob Two-Two (AU style)!!!

1. Do you like this character? Like? I don't think 'like' is the right word... how about LOVE! Hahaha, don't kill me Renee!

1.5. Why? Because he is a spazz :P. He is also a good friend, loyal, sarcastic and he lets us do whatever we want to him HAHAHA!

2.What name/s do you call this character? Jacob, Jacob Two-Two, JTT (XDDD), Jake, Mr. Richler, Mr. Jacob Richler, spazz, buhhh I think that's it?

3. What image-color do you associate with this character? Brown haha

4. What image/song do you associate with this character? These Walls by Teddy Geiger (for daAU) & Easy For You by Billy Gilman (for daAE)

5. What blood-type do you think this character is? idk what blood-types there are XD Uhhhh, O? His blood's not too special :P But he is! XD

6. What character would you put this character with? Renee!!! No Duh! She'd get rid of anyone else who'd get in her way :P

7. What would you want to say to this character? Silly Jake. You need to tell Renee you Loooooove her! Don't deny!

8. Which do you want to do with this character? Shake hands, hug, kiss? HUG!! He's so huggable :D Or just shake hands... I don't want Renee to get jealous :P

9. Please choose 5 friends with your choice of character:
Whoever wants too!

Nothing. Haha. Well, the weather and air quality is making me sick. Or like Adam's saying, "It's the 'Weather and Air Quality ;).'" Whatever Adam :P. Next week I've got a lot of hours at work :D and I still got Saturday off! Now I can watch Avatar finale with Lisa with no worries :D

Yesterday I got to hang out with Lisa :D. We ate at Janee<3! Lynn's of course, yummmm. Dessert at Denny's, then drinks at Wendy's. We actually went to Wal-Mart too O_O. It was necessary. Lisa found something that will work for her hat! :D

At Youth I was chosen to do one of those contest games up front. The game was to see who could chug a can of Pepsi and a bottle of water the fastest. Well, I did it... I got it all down and got 3rd place :D. Buuuut, right after I kind of threw it all back up. It probably didn't help I wasn't feeling well before *stupid air*, and I had Jamba Juice XD. Too much liquid. I find it quite funny. I just feel bad for the people who had to see that :P.

That's all for now!

--Sharon

Man, we were busy at work today. It was like non-stop O_O. I think we handled it good though :D

Yesterday I had a day off, so Lisa and I went to Visalia! We ate at Strings <3! Beautiful food. Then we went to JoAnne's and found awesome fabric for Lisa's costume for ComicCon. After that we went to the mall and did the usual browsing and crazy comment making that make people look at us weird XDD. WEEEEE!!! Good times. While we were in Claire's I got my top-right ear pierced :D. Finally. I was supposed to do it for my 21st birthday XD. It didn't hurt all that much. It just stung for a couple minutes after, but like Lisa said it was probably numb from the shock :P. I like it though :D. We ate at Sonic too! yummmmmmm. When we got home we watched YouTube videos and talked and such. Very fun day!

Tomorrow I work only 4 hours in the morning so I will be able to go to Michelle and Stacie's graduation party! Yay!

So i think that's it for now.

--Sharon

I cleaned my room!! Really there wasn't that much trash. Mostly boxes and stuff I had to file away. So now my desk is mostly organized, and I need to vacuum & dust, but that's about it.

It's raining! Yes, I know you did a similar post Lisa :P. Ha ha. I'm just happy it's raining.

Lisa pointed out that I didn't say much about Indiana Jones in my last post. She's right, so instead of editing, I'll put it here :P. I liked the fact they brought back the original girl! She was hilarious. I love the humor in these movies :D. The villain girl was creepy (I did not know that was Cate Blanchett!), and the only part that made me squeamish was the ants. It was a good Indiana Jones movie. Lucas & Spielberg teeming up is always a good thing :D.

--Sharon

EDIT: My dad bought me Jasmine tea. I'm in love.

For today and tomorrow



4 years ago today. It seems like longer.

So yesterday Lisa and I went to Bakersfield to see Missy's art show! We left around 5? after I got off work. We ate at In'N'Out! Woohooo!! Then we went to the art show which was relatively easy to find, b/c we asked for directions :P. It was pretty neat. We looked at all the art, which some were pretty awesome, and some were pretty disturbing O_o. Missy's art was among my favorite for sure! I love the painting of the soldier's face up close.

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After the art show, when we headed back to the car, we found out that I hadn't locked the car. Yeah, lucky nothing was stolen. I think I was too worried about getting a ticket for not having a parking permit :P. So anyways, we drove around for a while looking for a Dairy Queen but couldn't find one so we went to Baskin Robbins. Yummmmmm, it was good. Then we got 69 cent cokes at McDonald's before heading back home. Weeee! So on the way home, we kind of got lost. We were driving on the 99 and there was a sign that said Tulare on it so I thought we had gone too far. So we get off the 99 and drive around in the country for a while trying to find a road that's familiar. I thought we were somewhere in between Visalia and Tulare but really we were in between Bakersfield and Porterville XD. We finally found the 65 and a sign that said Porterville was 22 miles away XDD. I was waaayyy off. Luckily, Lisa and I were too high on sugar to care very much :P. There were some hilarious quotes from all of this. Correct me if I'm wrong Lisa!

"Bakersfield. The 'B' is for 'Better'"

"If I was tired, I'd hate you"

"Avenue 8, I ate a grape." I was worried my tire was going to blow and not knowing where we were to tell the tow truck, so we were trying to remember the road numbers we were on, and Lisa came up with that. There were grapes on the side of the road XD.

"The shadows are deceitful."

"Why does my thumby hurt?" "Because you stabbed it."

Oh! and on one road we were on, there was this car coming towards us *this is at night,* and all of a sudden the headlights disappear. It was creepy looking, and there was no sign of the car when we drove passed the place. After that we were all jumpy for a bit XDD.

We got home around 10.

Today I opened at Henderson. 4:30-9am. That's a pretty chill shift. You kind of leave before any of the real work begins :P At least on weekends. When I got home I watched season 4 episode 1 of LOST online with Adam! Took a quick nap, then went to see Indiana Jones 4 with Adam. There were a lot of people there from church! Mr. McMaster, Kyle, Kory, Katie, Mr. Eggman, Jesse, Tim and Janice Hurt, Kenny, and TJ. We all sat together, Weeee! I liked the movie :). Adam and I ate lunch at El Tap, and then I took a nap <3! I was tired. Now, I'm talking to Lisa on the IM :D.

That's pretty much all that happened yesterday and today.


--Sharon

Today was not a fun day at work. Well, it started out that way. It was very crazy, and it shouldn't have been, only people don't know how to double bar. Blah, it mellowed out in the afternoon and things ran much smoother. I think I'd rate it in the top 5 of the "Worst Days At Starbucks" category. I'm glad to be home.

I got to go to prison again this year :D. Weekend of Champions was May 1-3. Marc, Jonathan Cotta, and I were "Team Unger." Friday we went to Chowchilla women's prison, and Saturday Marc and I went to Fresno Juvi *Jonathan went to another prison*, and then we met back up at Elkorn Boot Camp. It was awesome.

Charles is home! :D Praise God he came home safe! He came back last Saturday?

The Porterville Fair is this week, so we'll be pretty busy at work. Pray that everything goes smoothly, and we all manage our tasks efficiently! I think the fair starts on Thursday.

Lisa and I are eating at Janee Lynn's on Thursday after work. Yummmmmmm...

Michelle, Sam, and Sarah are graduating on Friday!!! WEEEEE!!! Lisa and I are going to go, and Katie's coming down this weekend too. So somewhere in there we're watching Narnia which comes out this Friday too!!!

I'm helping Michelle with registration for VBS this year. That should be fun. VBS is June 16-20 I believe.

Lisa and I are going to San Diego Comic Con!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm ecstatic! Avatar panel here we come!!! :D We registered yesterday *while scaring ourselves half to death thinking we lost important info.* It's July 23-27th. We're going to drive down on Wednesday and stay at my sister's in San Diego, because she said we could :D. Karen's wanting to go too, so that's awesome.

Right now I'm talking to Lisa on YIM. We're discussing our AE to the AU :P It is actually quite interesting. We've got our own action figure: "Emo Pining in the Pub Jake." Haha.

This entry isn't that long, sorry Lisa. It is longer than most though! :P

*I don't think I posted this on LJ before, but I quit Subway. March 1st was my last day. Yay!*

I need to clean my room, again.

Sometime within the next two weeks I'm going to have to do an interview. Two other ladies and I at Starbucks are being considered for a promotion to Shift Supervisor sometime this summer. We have to interview with our manager and with the District Manager *separately.* O_O That's got me nervous.

That's about it. Maybe I'll post again soon! XDD

--Sharon

P.S. If I'm right, Switchfoot should be on The Tonight Show tonight! Yes!

Yay! I'm updating!
Anyways... So lately I've been working . I work @ Subway in the morning/afternoon and @ Starbucks in the afternoon/evening. I quit my job @ Medical Office Services like around July 18th(?). Yeah, and I started Subway August 1st. Starbucks I started August 21st. I like my new jobs . Only bad part is I miss a lot of karate, because I only get to go if Starbucks gives me one of the nights off which doesn't happen very often. I get to go this Thursday though :D!

I'm not taking any classes this semester, because I decided to work my butt off & earn money to pay off (most) my student loans from APU before I get into debt from Moody :P hehehe. So in the spring I'm going to take online classes from Moody! It's kind of weird not having any school, but it's not bad.

Soooo, recently I helped out @ the Relay-4-Life this past weekend. It was awesome fun (as always). Your youth group counted the laps again :D. It was the first year that I stayed up the whole night! Thanks to the help of the 4 shots I had in my drink from Starbucks :D. I helped serve lunch (I had the pretzels!). We called them "salty bread hearts." And Adam was next to me serving the carrots and the product brand was called "Bunny Love," so he was asking people if they wanted some "bunny love." Hahaha. Then Kory was next to Adam serving the cole slaw which we called "salad like substance." We had fun. Yes we did :D. Then I counted laps from 4am->6am.

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subliminalmessages=worlddomination!
Mwahahahaha!
Tea is good! I had 3 glasses of it tonight, and now I have to go to the bathroom.
So have a good night!!

EDIT! EDIT!!: AVATAR IS BACK ON!! :D It started Sept 21st. Yeah, we had to wait almost 10 MONTHS in between seasons, Blech. Just thought I let you know (not like you wanted to, haha)