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Hell Car Buying Day
Jul. 2nd, 2021 11:49 pmI'm just -- let me see if I can explain how it went down:
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tl;dr -- I had a very poor first test drive experience at the first dealership with a car I didn't like, then had a somewhat-better test drive experience at the second dealership and ended up buying that car for more than I wanted to pay because it was decent enough, my parents liked it, and I just wanted everything to be OVER WITH. And then spent most of my afternoon dealing with trying to get an insurance quote before a holiday weekend.
As you might imagine, anything and everything else I wanted to do was pretty much SHOT. The only thing I managed to accomplish that wasn't extremely-stressed-out car-buying was just keeping up on today's YouTube Subs:
A) Started with James Turner and “Rags To Redecoration, Part 17!” As Hazel missed her gig at the Goths’ due to The Great Bigwallet Timeline Cleanup (aka The Great Bigwallet Kill-Off), and James really wanted to upgrade her own house (like getting her stairs to her basement), he replaced that gig with one of the $14,000 Level Renovations, for a single woman named Hanna! As her house was one story, this ended up being an entire house renovation, which James poured a TON of effort into – basically selling everything and redoing the house bottom to – well, not quite to top; he couldn’t change the roof. But he updated all the windows, doors, floors, and wall paints; opened up the kitchen onto the living space; got rid of all the green as Hanna actually disliked it (she’s a fan of yellow instead), and just redesigned everything so she got her own ensuite bathroom and walk-in wardrobe, an office instead of a second spare bedroom, and plenty of yellow items and modern furniture. Hanna was delighted with the renovation – and with Hazel, randomly starting up a bit of flirting. Hazel, having lost previous love interest Lord to the Kill-Off, reciprocated a bit, then headed home with $29,300 ($16,300 from the gig, a bonus from being promoted again, and Hanna’s $10,000 computer from the old build XD). She spent a bit at one of Katrina’s old vet clinics to get an age-up treat for Hagrid (James currently has aging off for played Sims), then headed back to hers with her now-adult dog. I assume the next episode will be renovating Hazel’s place some more – should be fun!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and the video highlights of a stream where he had his stream audience decide on things he should buy, up to a total of $1,000, and the later unboxing of all the items that won! Highlights included cardboard stand-ups of Brendan Fraser, Hagrid, and JackScepticEye (the former two life-size or nearly; the latter mini); a maid costume (which Kevin put on and then sung a cover of Katy Perry’s “Firework” in); a red panda onesie (complete with tail); a red panda plushie (so soft! And apparently named “Echo” by the chat); a pair of pink cat-ear headphones (Kevin actually looks pretty good in them); a Shrek chess set (very cheaply made for being one of the more expensive items); a mini inflatable wavy man (Kevin himself asked for this one after seeing it with Jack’s mini-stand-up, and the stream obliged); and two bags full of tiny babies like you might use for cake decoration (Kevin was so creeped out by them). XD One of his WEIRDER streams, but it definitely looked like fun! Except for the clean-up. Oh lord the clean-up.
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! A good selection of impossible boards today, starting with the simple-but-cruel challenge of getting up and over a giant triangle without being murdered by harpoons (took Gray QUITE a few tries, but he managed). We also had a brief return of the bottle flip (with Gray AGAIN getting bottles where there shouldn’t be bottles); a super-long spike fall (Gray got lucky and managed it on try #2); a pogo jump through a mine field, complete with crossbow to set off the mines (Gray got VERY LUCKY and didn’t blow up); a multi-layer board of bottle runs that started with “Baby” (where the bottle run was four bottles but you got smashed to pieces by the boosts, meaning it was deceptively hard to get the win) and ended with “Impossible” (TWO drunken bottle runs in a row followed by a win area full of mines and harpoons – it took a few tries); a truly painful obstacle course full of triangle bumps and crossbows, an early fake win covered by an invisible floor, a fake bottle run, and a harpoon run so low it was impossible to pass (so instead Gray cheated his win by showing that people don’t usually remember to cover the SIDES of their fake wins); and a couple of “Sanic” levels (one where he controlled Sanic himself to get the coins; the other where he had to escape Sanic’s murderous love). It was – an experience.
So those were nice at least, but -- yeah. And NOW Mom's getting me to drive again tomorrow to one of the malls so I can get a haircut and we can do a bit of shopping, and -- *sigh* I'm not even going to try to make a new to-do list for tomorrow -- I'll use the one I previously set up, and we'll see what I manage to get done. Night all -- hope you all had good days.
( Cut For Bitchy Length )
tl;dr -- I had a very poor first test drive experience at the first dealership with a car I didn't like, then had a somewhat-better test drive experience at the second dealership and ended up buying that car for more than I wanted to pay because it was decent enough, my parents liked it, and I just wanted everything to be OVER WITH. And then spent most of my afternoon dealing with trying to get an insurance quote before a holiday weekend.
As you might imagine, anything and everything else I wanted to do was pretty much SHOT. The only thing I managed to accomplish that wasn't extremely-stressed-out car-buying was just keeping up on today's YouTube Subs:
A) Started with James Turner and “Rags To Redecoration, Part 17!” As Hazel missed her gig at the Goths’ due to The Great Bigwallet Timeline Cleanup (aka The Great Bigwallet Kill-Off), and James really wanted to upgrade her own house (like getting her stairs to her basement), he replaced that gig with one of the $14,000 Level Renovations, for a single woman named Hanna! As her house was one story, this ended up being an entire house renovation, which James poured a TON of effort into – basically selling everything and redoing the house bottom to – well, not quite to top; he couldn’t change the roof. But he updated all the windows, doors, floors, and wall paints; opened up the kitchen onto the living space; got rid of all the green as Hanna actually disliked it (she’s a fan of yellow instead), and just redesigned everything so she got her own ensuite bathroom and walk-in wardrobe, an office instead of a second spare bedroom, and plenty of yellow items and modern furniture. Hanna was delighted with the renovation – and with Hazel, randomly starting up a bit of flirting. Hazel, having lost previous love interest Lord to the Kill-Off, reciprocated a bit, then headed home with $29,300 ($16,300 from the gig, a bonus from being promoted again, and Hanna’s $10,000 computer from the old build XD). She spent a bit at one of Katrina’s old vet clinics to get an age-up treat for Hagrid (James currently has aging off for played Sims), then headed back to hers with her now-adult dog. I assume the next episode will be renovating Hazel’s place some more – should be fun!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and the video highlights of a stream where he had his stream audience decide on things he should buy, up to a total of $1,000, and the later unboxing of all the items that won! Highlights included cardboard stand-ups of Brendan Fraser, Hagrid, and JackScepticEye (the former two life-size or nearly; the latter mini); a maid costume (which Kevin put on and then sung a cover of Katy Perry’s “Firework” in); a red panda onesie (complete with tail); a red panda plushie (so soft! And apparently named “Echo” by the chat); a pair of pink cat-ear headphones (Kevin actually looks pretty good in them); a Shrek chess set (very cheaply made for being one of the more expensive items); a mini inflatable wavy man (Kevin himself asked for this one after seeing it with Jack’s mini-stand-up, and the stream obliged); and two bags full of tiny babies like you might use for cake decoration (Kevin was so creeped out by them). XD One of his WEIRDER streams, but it definitely looked like fun! Except for the clean-up. Oh lord the clean-up.
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! A good selection of impossible boards today, starting with the simple-but-cruel challenge of getting up and over a giant triangle without being murdered by harpoons (took Gray QUITE a few tries, but he managed). We also had a brief return of the bottle flip (with Gray AGAIN getting bottles where there shouldn’t be bottles); a super-long spike fall (Gray got lucky and managed it on try #2); a pogo jump through a mine field, complete with crossbow to set off the mines (Gray got VERY LUCKY and didn’t blow up); a multi-layer board of bottle runs that started with “Baby” (where the bottle run was four bottles but you got smashed to pieces by the boosts, meaning it was deceptively hard to get the win) and ended with “Impossible” (TWO drunken bottle runs in a row followed by a win area full of mines and harpoons – it took a few tries); a truly painful obstacle course full of triangle bumps and crossbows, an early fake win covered by an invisible floor, a fake bottle run, and a harpoon run so low it was impossible to pass (so instead Gray cheated his win by showing that people don’t usually remember to cover the SIDES of their fake wins); and a couple of “Sanic” levels (one where he controlled Sanic himself to get the coins; the other where he had to escape Sanic’s murderous love). It was – an experience.
So those were nice at least, but -- yeah. And NOW Mom's getting me to drive again tomorrow to one of the malls so I can get a haircut and we can do a bit of shopping, and -- *sigh* I'm not even going to try to make a new to-do list for tomorrow -- I'll use the one I previously set up, and we'll see what I manage to get done. Night all -- hope you all had good days.
