Gervais ford sucks

The car is leaking what we think is brake fluid since the axle was changed. Most likely gervais ford didn't put it back together correctly. I'm sure I could take it back to them, argue with them, make them try to put it right, but that would require driving 30 minutes on the highway with potentially bad brakes, so I'm trying a new mechanical local to me tomorrow. So far the reviews has me hopeful.

Oh, this is after the piece of plastic underneath started falling off, also likely because gervais ford sucks. I asked firestone to put it back on. They did so, for cheap, but kind of just added bolts until it didn't fall off. Not very... elegant.

I think what annoys me almost as much as all this car trouble is that there is NO other car on the market I would rather have, even with all this shit. A hybrid with cargo space that's not a prius or an SUV is basically nothing.

EDIT: took it to foxy. they didn't' find anything wrong with the new axle, they think they found a coolant leak and clamped it.

Do you like my owl?

I made a Rachel-from-blade-runner-esque costume. I wasn't sure I should, but then I went to the local costume shop and they had the wig, which at the time, I thought was the one I needed and decided to go for it. I bought a very affordable dress off amazon, which wasn't quite right, but evocative. I went owl shopping and finally decided on an adorable owl purse so I could have my stuff with me and an owl. This was after dismissing a breadth of owls, such as owls with teeth and a rainbow sparkles unicorn owl. I made a little layered square out of some old clubbing pants that still had the price tag on.

I fought with the wig. Oh I fought with it. In the process I learned about Victory rolls and wig styling. After more research I realized I should have started with a plain wig instead of a wig that was already 40s styled. I got something again, approximating the style. (Good enough, someone who wasn't told figured out my costume.)

Sadly the photo shoot made me feel fat. I've been doing a lot better about spending more of my life not hating myself for being fat. Eating is a little less guilt ridden and I don't feel overly ashamed at how slow I am at crossfit or about if I'm being good "advertising" for my TKD dojang. ("That's a black belt?!") It comes at a bad time, since I'm also working on another costume which is REALLY going to push the boundaries in my brain of "too fat to cosplay." There was a big discussion on FB about photos on the internet being mocked and made me think about keeping myself safe makes me feel defeated and almost like I admit to the trolls being right. But it's an on going battle.

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