Renter's Remorse

[vovat]

bethje and I went out to eat at the Olive Garden on Wednesday night, using my gift certificate from my dad to pay for most of the meal. I had the stuffed shells with shrimp, which was very good, as I had expected. Beth had the chicken scampi. What with the soup (I always get the pasta e fagioli), breadsticks, and then the actual entree, I'm always very full after eating there.

An actual Bill O'Reilly quote (as well as I can remember it, anyway): "If you think I'm ideological, you're crazy. I am a watchdog." Well, I guess that would explain why the commercials always say he "dominates cable news."

We've finished watching all of the first season of Arrested Development, thanks to Beth's DVD set. I hadn't seen most of those episodes before. Now that I have, I have to say that I really appreciate the level of continuity in the show. Rarely will they introduce a plot element without it being somehow significant, or there being a callback to it at some point. I wonder how many story elements they had planned out from the beginning.

Last night, I found out that New Jersey's new tourism slogan is "Come see for yourself." Wow, THERE'S something unique and original! I wonder how long it took for someone to come up with THAT! :P

And finally, I dropped off my car at the shop today, and picked up my rental car. It's a Dodge Neon, which is something I test drove when I was first looking for a car, and didn't like much. I still don't like it much, because the damn thing is LOW. It's a really short car, and the steering wheel sometimes hits my legs when I'm turning it. There's also a weird tail fin on the back. It DOES have power windows and locks, though, which my car doesn't. The Enterprise guy tried to talk me into getting the Nissan Sentra for an extra dollar per day. I declined, though, since I don't know how long I'll have to keep the rental. Those extra dollars can add up. Anyway, I hope I don't have to drive the Neon for very long. I don't think they'll even be able to give me an estimate as to how much time it'll take until Monday, though. And they gave the rental car to me with less than a quarter tank of gas, so I had to fill it with overpriced Pennsylvania gas. After that, I got my hair cut and bought some groceries.

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[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

bethje and I went out to eat at the Olive Garden on Wednesday night, using my gift certificate from my dad to pay for most of the meal.

One of the best dinner outings I ever had was redeeming a gift certificate to the Olive Garden that I'd won from my dentist. It was a fifty dollar gift certificate and we spent all but like 83 cents of it in one meal! We went all out and got fancy expensive meals we'd never otherwise get, and wine, and dessert, and we just hung out there for hours to eat it all, pretending we were very fancy people. Just had to share. Anyway.

[bethje.livejournal.com]

I approve of the new New Jersey slogan. I consider it an abbreiviated version of, "Come see for yourself that we don't really call it 'New Joisy' you fuckingretards."

Also, I am TELLING YOU that you can readjust that steering wheel and that you probably would have been ten times happier with the Nissan.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

"New Joisy" is a Brooklyn or Bronx accent, isn't it? I'm inclined to think that most of the negative stereotypes about New Jersey are totally New York's fault.

I'll look into adjusting the wheel tomorrow. It would probably be a good idea.

I might well have been happier with the Nissan, but I guess it's too late to worry about that now.

[arfies.livejournal.com]

Well, they really do have accents like that, at least some of them. There was a guy from "Joisy" behind me in my "Joiman" class. His name was Shyawn, and his bruddah was a lawngshowrmun.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I'll bet he was from North Jersey, then.

[leolapyre.livejournal.com]

Last night, I found out that New Jersey's new tourism slogan is "Come see for yourself." Wow, THERE'S something unique and original! I wonder how long it took for someone to come up with THAT! :P

Haha. Conan made a joke about that last night, retorting to the slogan with something along the lines of "No thanks- we can smell it from here."

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I guess that just proves what I was saying about New Yorkers' negative stereotypes, doesn't it?