Oh woe is me

I'll start out by saying that I really like the new blogger format. It might only be me getting it because i'm on draft, but hey, it's pretty cool.

These past few weeks have been a shit heap and a half. Yes, this thread contains excessive moaning and being a teenager, but I think I have grounds to be upset.


It started About 2 weeks ago, when I wanted to skip my English lessons in the morning so I drove on down to Tesco to pick up some biscuits and such to enjoy on our penultimate day of school. I walked back to the car park after going to Tesco's, and low and behold, a LOT of smoke is coming from underneath my bonnet, so much that the nice lady from Tesco who told me it was highly probably that my car was going to set on fire called the fire brigade. As you do, when you think there's going to be a fire. Anyway to cut the story short, it got sent to a garage and they gave me this diagnosis: It's fucked.

The power assisted steering pump had overheated (the bit that makes it easy to steer), but rather than the relevant fuse blowing to stop the problem spreading, the problem did spread. It spread to the wiring loom. I'm still not 100% sure what the wiring loom is, but it's an important function to do with electronics and engines and such. The heating problem caused the wiring loom to melt, effectively.

I won't divulge into cost and such, but to sort my car out good and proper it's probably going to cost a fair proportion of how much the car is worth. At the moment it is in the hands of the car insurance company, and it is up to them what to do with it. They will either say "It's worth fixing" and then pay out to have it fixed, or they will say "Not worth fixing" (which seems to be the likely option at the moment), and write it off.

This is part one. Part two is linked.

Part two:

So, every cloud has a silver lining, and my silver lining lay in the form of my dads very nice van. A VW transporter, with all gadget-y things. It's nice. I Initially had reservations driving it because of the sheer size, I had been driving a mini before, so it's a big change for someone who hasn't been driving all too long.

However, I cope, and cope very well in fact. I love driving it, it's a lot easier to drive than my mini because it's an automatic.

My dad used it today, and phoned me in the morning.

"Have you bashed this van?"
"No"
"Well the outside mirror's been smashed"
"It wasn't me"

And it wasn't me. Some bastard has broken it and not bothered letting us know. That's got to be replaced now.

Part 3 is very unrelated, but the thing I am more sad than annoyed about.

One of my cats, Shadow, was found killed outside my house this morning. Not much more to be said, but my family and I are understandably devastated.

Part 4 is revision.

Anybody who has ever either had to revise for an exam, or had trouble self motivating, or both, will know about this one.

Need I say more regarding revision? I'd prefer not too. Not like it's a blog, and people are meant to give their feelings on stuff in blogs. Pscht.

YES I FAILED VEDA AND I'M SORRY.

My last exam is on the 23rd of June. Expect a video not long after that. Until then, I probably won't be making any videos or new blog posts until that time.

So long, suckers x