In happier news
I had a pretty good weekend. It had a few minor bumps in it, but overall it was good.
I guess I'll briefly go over the minor bump first. Early on Friday, I went to go fight a parking ticket I got about 3 weeks ago. It was an unfair ticket saying that I was blocking a pedestrian ramp when I parked at Ariana's one night. That was BS, b/c I didn't block the ramp. When I got to the car in the morning, I saw the ticket and was super pissed, b/c when I went behind the car to double check (even though I had checked the night before, just to be sure I wouldn't get a ticket), I was more than a foot away from the ramp. I even had my roll of measuring tape we had used for the apartment on me, and we took pictures proving that I was a full 18 inches away from the ramp.
So I brought the printed out pictures as well as a notarized letter from Ariana stating that she was a witness to when I parked, and went to fight the ticket. But sadly, the judge was a jerk who kept making stuff up that I couldn't prove (like asking for a pic of the front of the car, when there WAS a pic showing the entire car. He said it wasn't good enough b/c it wasn't of the sidewalk to prove I wasn't blocking another ramp. It's like HELLO, where in all of NYC are there pedestrian ramps less than 5 feet from each other??? Especially in that area!!). But the biggest point of contention was that I had no proof that I didn't move the car and take the pics after.
So I kept pleading with the guy, and stated all the facts but he wouldn't budge and just said "you gave a valiant effort." Jackass...
Really sucked b/c it was a $165 ticket too, and he wouldn't even reduce it. I mean, if I was guilty, I am so damn busy I would have just chalked it up as a loss and paid it. But I was innocent and got a ticket for nothing. So unfair...
But alas, as I stated, that was just a minor bump in the road. The rest of the weekend was good.
I spent the rest of Friday fixing up the new apartment. My grandfather, Ariana, my mom and her husband all came by to help, and we did a lot more paint scraping and we started the compoundng too. We were pretty proud of the work we accomplished that day.
Later that night, me and Ariana swung by Barnes & Noble to pick up "Train tickets" to be able to line up and get our copies of the new Harry Potter book at Midnight. The line was really long just to get the ticket. And it was funny, b/c they gave you another kind of ticket when we were on the line. So basically, we got a ticket, to get a ticket to get the book. It just seemed OVER organized.
And in the end, it was worthless b/c me & Ariana decided we didn't want to deal with the crowd (or be susceptible to spoilers), so we didn't even go. We drove my mom and her husband to the airport at midnight (since they had a VERY early flight to California in the morning and didn't want to leave at 4:30 in the morning, and decided to just spend the night in the airport).
-The next day (Saturday), Ariana and I went early in the morning to Barnes & Noble to finally pick up the new Harry Potter book. Then we met up with Jordan, Maryann and her brother Leo, for all of us to go to IKEA. Me & Ariana were going to order our kitchen cabinets and stuff, while Leo was going so Maryann could get him a tv stand and a computer desk & chair.
We spent a good portion of the day there. About halfway through the day, we were getting hungry, so we decided to stop at the cafeteria in the IKEA before we went through the whole process of buying the kitchen. But sadly, there had been a water main break in the area, so there was no water in the building (or in surrounding buildings) for the kitchens. So basically we were stuck without food. We didn't want to drive somewhere else to have to come back (since there isn't anything right in the area), so we figured "let's just get the kitchen, and we'll run out to eat right after."
Putting the whole kitchen together took awhile though. Between choosing the type of cabinets we wanted, measuring the parts out, and inputing everything into the cool computer program they had to build the kitchen, it took just under two hours.
So we printed out our info, and went to the area clerk for him to input everything for us, to purchase. And at that point, he tells us that the set we've picked is being discontinued. And as he is entering the items, he begins to tell us that certain cabinet doors are unavailable at the warehouse. So we had two options, order the set anyway, and hope they could get the missing part at another warehouse in the country (which puts us at risk, b/c if they wound up not having them, we'd be SCREWED), or pick out a whole new set.
We weren't very happy with either option, and we pretty upset at the situation. We were pissed that we spent so much time working on a kitchen they didn't have in stock. The computer should have let us know the pieces we were selecting were discontinued to prevent all this from happening. And being very hungry from not eating for about 8 hours, was not helping our moods.
Luckily, the guy helping us was very nice, and suggested a different kitchen set that looked very similar to the one we originally wanted. There was even a display of it nearby (there wasn't a display of the original, so at least we got to see how this one would actually look once completed). Another highlight, was that there were glass cabinets available for this new set, so we got glass doors for two of the cabinets. And last but not least, the entire set came out to about $800 cheaper. So even though, we were very upset at the situation at first, I had said a quick prayer, and it all worked out in the end. Not only did it work out, but it worked out for the better. God truly works in mysterious ways.
So that made us very happy with our purchases for the day.
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Ariana and I spent almost the entire day on Sunday reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. We've both been pretty scared to run across spoilers so we want to finish the book as soon as possible to avoid them at all costs.
So we read for about half the day, and the other half we spent visiting my grandparents (who made us dinner), and then going to Phil & Ketrin's new place for our very first wrestling PPV there. So all in all it was a good day.
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I'm gonna skip ahead just a bit and also let everyone know that my WWF Winged Eagle Championship belt came in the mail yesterday (that was pretty quick!). This thing is freakin awesome! It's huge, and fairly heavy as well. Sadly, with my mom and her husband on vacation I had no one to take any pictures of me with it, but trust me that will happen the next time Ariana comes over, lol. I will post them as soon as I have them. Just know that it rocks, and I am extremely happy with my purchase.
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Last but not least, I got a call this morning that all the stuff we ordered at Home Depot for the bathroom (the tiles) came in today, so I will be picking them up either tonight or tomorrow. All more parts of being a real homeowner! It's pretty exciting!
I guess I'll briefly go over the minor bump first. Early on Friday, I went to go fight a parking ticket I got about 3 weeks ago. It was an unfair ticket saying that I was blocking a pedestrian ramp when I parked at Ariana's one night. That was BS, b/c I didn't block the ramp. When I got to the car in the morning, I saw the ticket and was super pissed, b/c when I went behind the car to double check (even though I had checked the night before, just to be sure I wouldn't get a ticket), I was more than a foot away from the ramp. I even had my roll of measuring tape we had used for the apartment on me, and we took pictures proving that I was a full 18 inches away from the ramp.
So I brought the printed out pictures as well as a notarized letter from Ariana stating that she was a witness to when I parked, and went to fight the ticket. But sadly, the judge was a jerk who kept making stuff up that I couldn't prove (like asking for a pic of the front of the car, when there WAS a pic showing the entire car. He said it wasn't good enough b/c it wasn't of the sidewalk to prove I wasn't blocking another ramp. It's like HELLO, where in all of NYC are there pedestrian ramps less than 5 feet from each other??? Especially in that area!!). But the biggest point of contention was that I had no proof that I didn't move the car and take the pics after.
So I kept pleading with the guy, and stated all the facts but he wouldn't budge and just said "you gave a valiant effort." Jackass...
Really sucked b/c it was a $165 ticket too, and he wouldn't even reduce it. I mean, if I was guilty, I am so damn busy I would have just chalked it up as a loss and paid it. But I was innocent and got a ticket for nothing. So unfair...
But alas, as I stated, that was just a minor bump in the road. The rest of the weekend was good.
I spent the rest of Friday fixing up the new apartment. My grandfather, Ariana, my mom and her husband all came by to help, and we did a lot more paint scraping and we started the compoundng too. We were pretty proud of the work we accomplished that day.
Later that night, me and Ariana swung by Barnes & Noble to pick up "Train tickets" to be able to line up and get our copies of the new Harry Potter book at Midnight. The line was really long just to get the ticket. And it was funny, b/c they gave you another kind of ticket when we were on the line. So basically, we got a ticket, to get a ticket to get the book. It just seemed OVER organized.
And in the end, it was worthless b/c me & Ariana decided we didn't want to deal with the crowd (or be susceptible to spoilers), so we didn't even go. We drove my mom and her husband to the airport at midnight (since they had a VERY early flight to California in the morning and didn't want to leave at 4:30 in the morning, and decided to just spend the night in the airport).
-The next day (Saturday), Ariana and I went early in the morning to Barnes & Noble to finally pick up the new Harry Potter book. Then we met up with Jordan, Maryann and her brother Leo, for all of us to go to IKEA. Me & Ariana were going to order our kitchen cabinets and stuff, while Leo was going so Maryann could get him a tv stand and a computer desk & chair.
We spent a good portion of the day there. About halfway through the day, we were getting hungry, so we decided to stop at the cafeteria in the IKEA before we went through the whole process of buying the kitchen. But sadly, there had been a water main break in the area, so there was no water in the building (or in surrounding buildings) for the kitchens. So basically we were stuck without food. We didn't want to drive somewhere else to have to come back (since there isn't anything right in the area), so we figured "let's just get the kitchen, and we'll run out to eat right after."
Putting the whole kitchen together took awhile though. Between choosing the type of cabinets we wanted, measuring the parts out, and inputing everything into the cool computer program they had to build the kitchen, it took just under two hours.
So we printed out our info, and went to the area clerk for him to input everything for us, to purchase. And at that point, he tells us that the set we've picked is being discontinued. And as he is entering the items, he begins to tell us that certain cabinet doors are unavailable at the warehouse. So we had two options, order the set anyway, and hope they could get the missing part at another warehouse in the country (which puts us at risk, b/c if they wound up not having them, we'd be SCREWED), or pick out a whole new set.
We weren't very happy with either option, and we pretty upset at the situation. We were pissed that we spent so much time working on a kitchen they didn't have in stock. The computer should have let us know the pieces we were selecting were discontinued to prevent all this from happening. And being very hungry from not eating for about 8 hours, was not helping our moods.
Luckily, the guy helping us was very nice, and suggested a different kitchen set that looked very similar to the one we originally wanted. There was even a display of it nearby (there wasn't a display of the original, so at least we got to see how this one would actually look once completed). Another highlight, was that there were glass cabinets available for this new set, so we got glass doors for two of the cabinets. And last but not least, the entire set came out to about $800 cheaper. So even though, we were very upset at the situation at first, I had said a quick prayer, and it all worked out in the end. Not only did it work out, but it worked out for the better. God truly works in mysterious ways.
So that made us very happy with our purchases for the day.
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Ariana and I spent almost the entire day on Sunday reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. We've both been pretty scared to run across spoilers so we want to finish the book as soon as possible to avoid them at all costs.
So we read for about half the day, and the other half we spent visiting my grandparents (who made us dinner), and then going to Phil & Ketrin's new place for our very first wrestling PPV there. So all in all it was a good day.
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I'm gonna skip ahead just a bit and also let everyone know that my WWF Winged Eagle Championship belt came in the mail yesterday (that was pretty quick!). This thing is freakin awesome! It's huge, and fairly heavy as well. Sadly, with my mom and her husband on vacation I had no one to take any pictures of me with it, but trust me that will happen the next time Ariana comes over, lol. I will post them as soon as I have them. Just know that it rocks, and I am extremely happy with my purchase.
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Last but not least, I got a call this morning that all the stuff we ordered at Home Depot for the bathroom (the tiles) came in today, so I will be picking them up either tonight or tomorrow. All more parts of being a real homeowner! It's pretty exciting!
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