Ok, this is probably going to be a really fragmented journal entry... so if you decide to stick with it and read it all... you deserve an award!

So, I'm not really a rich person. I live paycheck to paycheck. I don't own a car, but I do have a scooter. (Major thanks to my sister for that!) I don't normally buy things for myself, so when I do I appreciate what I'm able to get. So there's this one game that I've been looking forward to for about 2 years now for the Playstation 3 called, LittleBigPlanet. It's a really great game about Playing levels made by other people, Creating your own levels, and Sharing those levels for other people to play. Well the original realse date was Oct. 21st, but the game was delayed because of a controversy over one of the songs in the soundtrack of the game. So the game was delayed for 1 week for them to press new discs. I've saved up money to get this game and this game only. There are other's that I'd like to get as well, but I have to pick and choose since my funds are limited. Luckily, the new realease date for LittleBigPlanet is today, Oct. 27th, and I have my fundage in my pocket ready to go!

Last night I had this really weird dream. Someone had taken my scooter and kind of kidnapped me. I was stranded in a town I knew nothing about and I didn't have any way of getting home. It was a very empty feeling to be stuck somewhere strange and to have my only means of transportation taken away from me. I don't really know why they took my scooter except to say that they didn't want me to leave for some strange reason. Later on I ended up getting my scooter back, but the guy who gave it to me made some modifications to it. They basically turned it into my scooter on steriods! It was cool but still weird. After that I led a chase from the people that were trying to keep me in town and I went through many odd environments like construction sites and deserted roads. I'm going to blame some of the weirdness of that dream on a game I've been playing recently called Burnout Paradise. It's a racing game that you can play offline and online and have races against people, or challenges like who can score the most points doing stunts off of ramps and buildings and such. (It's actually a fun game, and if you find the right groups of people with to play online, it's even more fun!)

So this morning I got up, got dressed, and left for work. All was well and I was enjoying my ride there until I was about 6 blocks away from my job. That's when things went wrong... my scooter stalled out on me at a green light! It just refused to do anything at all. After I pulled it off the street, I tried making a few adjustments to both the idle adjustment and the carborator. Now mind you, I'm no mechanic. I've learned a little bit here and there when needed to try and maintain my only mode of transportation. The main problem with it is that it was made by a company who has a bad reputation for making scooters that don't live past 6 months! I've almost had it for 1 year, so I consider myself lucky as it is... but I really don't want to have to go back to riding my bike back and forth to work again! So after about 15-20 mins of fiddling with it, I decided to walk it the rest of the way to work. So I get to work... late... and quite aggrivated. My main concern is no working scooter, but what's also jabbing at me just a little is the money that I have in my pocket for my game now has to go for scooter repairs instead. Honstely, although I do want the game... my ride back and forth to work is more important to me... it just sucks having to lose the money.

So I call my mother to let her know I'm bringing in my scooter for repairs and that I'll need a ride home. She mentions the money issue and I let her know that I have my game money on me. She's heard me talk about this game for the past 6 months or so and was excited for me to get it. So to be nice, she tells me that she'll get it for me and I can just pay her back later. I didn't want her to do it because I know her funds are tight as well, but I guess she wanted to do it to help cheer me up about my scooter. Later on she calls me up and give me a bit of news... the store doesn't have the game... HA! Now that was worth laughing about. I thanked her for trying, but told her not to worry about it because I didn't want her to waste her money anyway.

So when I get out of work, I get my bag and place on the bottom of my scooter where you place your feet. Well as I'm going across the highway, the bag decides to fall out into the middle of the road! Oh... and cars are coming too! So I run the scooter over to the median and place it there and run back across where I came from, grabbing my bag on the way over. Luckily the car that would've hit it swerved around to the next lane so they wouldn't hit it. I don't know who you are sir or madam... But I very truly from the bottom of my heart Thank You!!! Now here's my next problem, I'm on the side of the road, and my scooter is right next to the median... there's tons of traffic on it's way including two Semi's in the lane that my scooter's sitting by. All I could do was prey as they went by that they didn't smash it into tiny bits as they flew by at 55-60MPH. I was lucky... it remained unscathed as all the traffic passed on by. So at my first available moment, I run back over to it and get it across the other side of the highway and walk it to the repair guy. *whew*

The fate of my scooter is still unknown at this time, I left it with the repair guy and he told me to come back later on today to check on it. He unfortunately doesn't have a phone for his business, so I can not call him to get any type of updates. So... I'm hoping that it will be something that isn't too severe and somethings that won't cost more than what I can afford.

Man... I really could use a Kit-Kat bar right about now!