so it's that time again. vehicle registration is due and california makes us get our cars smogged every 2 years. problem is that my check engine light is on and the code from it says my catalytic converters are failing. i talk to the dealership and they tell me i need new ones and the new cats cost over a grand a piece. my car has 2 of them. add in labor and i'm looking at around $3000 if you factor in tax. not looking good for me. i've had the codes reset before, but they keep coming back so i figure i have to bite the bullet this time.

just by chance i'm looking up something else on yelp and i catch this rating for a shop near me. everybody gives this shop 5 stars and i figure what the heck, might as well give it a shot. i bring in my car and he tells me new cats run about a grand. i give him a dejected look and ask about aftermarket ones. he says that he might be able to get me rebuilt ones for about $500 each. things are looking better already. then i tell him, i just want my car to pass smog and if we can do it without replacing anything, even better. he says he'll see what he can do.

flash forward to today and he calls me. he says he's been resetting the check engine codes and he's been driving my car for a few miles here and there all week. it's popped back on a couple times, but he's waited for it to stabilize out. once he got it to stay off for a while, he made a mad dash to a smog check station and got it to pass!

so much for the bad catalytic converters that the on board computer was telling me. if they were really shot then i don't think my car would have passed. anyways, he ended up charging me only $260 for the labor. not a bad deal considering that it's less than 10% of what the stealership was going to try to take out of my bank account. that money is well worth the work and hassle he put into that car.

i'm glad i found this shop. i think most shops would have tried to get me to get new cats installed. he was totally cool and worked with me to get it done the cheapest way possible. i'll be taking all my cars to him in the future.

ticki

this is a beta version of my future makeup blog. im not sure if i could pull off a beauty blog coz im not a makeupartist. but anyway, if you're doing something you love, then there's no reason not to be good at it.

yesterday, i got a text early in the morning from one of the local makeupartists at artdeco that their eyeshadow base was delivered last night, and that they only have 5pcs in stock.

later that afternoon, i got some money from my earnings for a freelance project to buy its eyeshadow base. im a little conscious what my bf would say about buying coz we're in a not-supposed-to-shop-phase. anyway, it's just a teeny-weeny jar and i've been waiting for it since last year. there's no udpp here, so this is the next big thing.

although i didnt like much the strong aloe vera smell, coz it smells like a guys' perfume.

but afterwards i got used to it. and my! it really made my eyeshadows last. even maybelline es, which i've always thought to be poor ones coz they last only for an hour on my eyelids lasted longer than 3 hours.

im really very happy with this product. i just hope i get to stock up on this soon.

mahreez

I figure I would post this here....

Its summer ladies which means that it is time to bust out with the flip flops, some even white. I was out and about today, in a country ass walmart and that's what inspired me

• If your flip flops were originally white, please take some time out of your day to wash them or replace them. Nothing like seeing flipflops with peeps of white under black ass dirt
• As a matter of fact if your flip flops are any color, wash them. Cause if your feet are dirty on the bottom (how can you put on shoes without washing your feet) they leave brown film that makes some sick (like me) cause I imagine the smell
• Please dont mix flip flops with socks. Yes, you have some extraordinary toes to still get that split, but you look like a pig and pigs make me think of bacon and bacon makes me hungry
• Please purchase a ped egg or a pumice and get that husk off the side, boy that's just gross. 5 minutes per foot is all it takes to make your feet happy.
• One last rule. Nothing burns my fat superficial ass more than seeing a bitch with a size 5 foot in a size 8 flip flop, curved up around the foot cause the size was wrong.....or a size 12 foot in a size 10 flip flop, like you see all that heel hanging out dont you???? sidevision??

Ok, rant over

Aprill

...has a feeling that someone familiar from this forum would be conceived with a boy soon.



AND - 8 more days until work is officially over.
My cheeseburger smile is creeping in. Oh yeeeeah.

AND - my mom said we're heading to Las Vegas in July. Oh yeeeeah.

CellyCell

Well, i weighed myself yesterday, and turns out im down to 60 kgs, [primary goal], i had the shittiest day of my life yesterday, but im ok now, not great, but handling it.

I look at that pic on the left and i think 'my mom and brother are just crazy' i was talking to my brother on msn yesterday and he goes " You're way too skinny/bony in that picture sis, mom and i think you are way too skinny now" and im like skinny? puhlease
I dunno why but i still see myself as FAT, i can't get it out of my head, i will always be fat, after you were 200+ pounds before you never see yourself as skinny anymore, i sometimes feel like a whale, deep down i know i am not, but i still do....reason why i workout too much. And i just can't stop until i get to where i want to be, i am obsessive when it comes to my appearance, i have HAVE to be/look perfect, if i don't then im not good enough for anything. Sometimes i think its so stupid, but its something that traumatized me when i was on the heavier side, and it just wont go away, it never will..

I am on one hand happy that i finally got there, now only 2 kgs away from my secondary goal, 5 pounds or less...sounds like too much when you convert it to pounds, boo to the pounds, anyways..so yeah.

All i ever do is blog about this huh? i wanna slap myself sometimes for being obsessive about it..bah.

daer0n