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hollybrookeWe ended up having to purchase a new tire for my car. A couple of days ago, I went to Fieldhouse Ford to see about getting the damaged tire serviced since I'm still under warranty. (Three years or 36,000 miles; I bought the car a little over two years ago and I'm at 31,900 miles.) The guy at the service department told me that not only was the tire ruined, but the rim on the wheel was bent, and they'd have to replace the wheel as well, and that would cost me $325.
Yeah.
Dad and I were kind of scratching our heads over that one, especially since I'm still under warranty, dammit. So I went to Lake Tire yesterday morning and asked them to look at it, mainly for a second opinion. The guy at Lake Tire said, "Yep, the rim's bent." He also said that he's replaced tires on rims bent worse than mine was; there should've been no reason the guy at the Ford service department couldn't have just replaced the tire. They just want more of my money. Of course, Lake Tire doesn't carry a used or new 16-inch low-profile tire for my Focus, so I had to break down and go up to Merrillville for a new one at Tire Barn today. They did it with no problem and were very helpful. (One of the guys working there looked like Snoop Dogg in the face, actually.)
So yeah. Next car I end up buying will not be a Ford.
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So okay. "Jem" fanwanking/fanficcing may commence. It's been on my mind all day. It makes me a little daydreamy to waste the downtime behind the register. :P
I'm really excited with the direction I'm going with Rio at Starbright. Carmen and I talked a little more in detail with what they have in mind. I guess Jeed wants Jerrica to move on and start dating again, get involved with someone else and have a happy, special relationship BEFORE he eventually comes out of the woodwork. And that's going to eat at me. I know it will. I know it sounds silly, but when you participate in something like this, you do grow an attachment to your character and you sort of experience the same sort of feelings your character goes through. But it's all in fun, and it helps me grow. I grow as a writer through it, and it's entertaining to have the others in the group read and react to it.
And it all stems from something stupid I mentioned to Jeed and Carmen. A while back, Jeed was contemplating the idea of having Minx name Rio as her baby's father, mainly because she had no clue who the father could be, and it's kind of hard to do a DNA test on someone who's dead. That, and...if you watched "Jem"....well, Minx got around. Jeed wrote off the idea because farther back in the story (before the new group got started), Rio and Minx never even slept together. Jeed was saying it wouldn't have made sense. I told her, "Do you think THAT would stop Minx from something like this?" They found a way to cement it and make it look like he was (a faked DNA test). Of course, word gets out about it (word has to get out about it to work in this story...Minx has a bit of a stalker situation), Jerrica finds out...and starts shutting anything she had to do with Rio out of her life.
What I'm planning on doing? Well, this almost completely ruins any chances of Rio coming back and redeeming himself. It's almost too late at this point. So his only other option? Just totally reinvent himself as Ace & put Rio to rest. And THIS is where it gets interesting. Go through physical therapy. Get him out of the wheelchair and walking again. He's been severly burned in the accident? Get some reconstructive plastic surgery. Dye his hair dark blue with red tips (or something equally weird--this IS the "Jem" universe, after all). Give him some tattoos and stylish rocker-style clothes. Maybe a piercing or three. He currently has nothing but the beach house and whatever recording equipment he has there, so make him work his way up. Expand beyond Jem and the Holograms--recruit some new talent, manage them, really make some good music. Rio knows the business; he worked with Emmett Benton, and he knows how Jerrica ran things. (I'm thinking of having him lure In the Garden away from Starlight Music, since Jerrica's doing squat with them) Become a mogul! Make something out of nothing! It'll be on the level with Starlight Music, Misfit Music and Stingers' Sound with the roster he creates. He'll make some new friends, too. New artists (because Faith always complains that she has no characters...even though we have TWO Holograms that are being NCP'd; but the only reason she's being allowed a made-up is because I guess Carmen and Jeed have something planned with the Roxy-situation that's just going to bring poor Roxy down worse than she was before.), new friends (Eric Raymond's younger sister Erin, who's already established in our story--total opposite of Eric, if a little naive, and likes messing with gadgets; and it was my idea to bring a lawyer into play...and I was on a Legally Blonde kick at the time, so Elle Woods is Rio's lawyer and confidante)...the works.
And the best part is...I'm going to turn him into a TOTAL WOMANIZER. He's been with Jerrica since...what? High school? Fine. She wants to cut him out of her life? Fine then. Let her! Let her move on! There are other women out there! He can bed any woman he wants! He's going to be knee-deepin pussy. Wannabe-singers, groupies, Playmates, strippers, one-night-stands from bars, the occasional B-list starlet...to quote the Poison song, it'll be nothing but a good time for Rio as Ace. His bedpost is going to be so notched, it'll look like a frickin' toothpick.
What stays the same? The hairpin temper. (This is Rio we're talking about. Something about him has to stay consistent.) His semi-pissy attitude.
Does the money make him happy? No. Do the women make him happy? Of course not. The many women and all the sex just numb the pain some, temporarily fill the void; he's still lonely and depressed on the inside. (I'm also toying around with turning him into a pseudo-alcoholic. It'd be a real risk, but I'm still thinking about it.) One bitch, many faces, forget the name. He'll kick 'em out of bed as soon as the sun rises. The only woman he can trust at this point is Elle, and she's married. Can't have her. Oh, and his dog, too.
He'd rather have the one who got away (Jerrica). Somwhere down the line...he and Jem are GOING to hook up. This is almost a given. There's going to be a moment where Jem is vulnerable (and/or drunk)...and things happen and she'll probably end up cheating on the rebound-BF, and it's just all going to come full-circle. (I think I off-handedly mentioned something to Carmen about having Rio slip while drunk and in the middle of the deed and call Jem by her real name...since that's who he's really thinking about.) The real reason Jeed wants Jerrica to move on is to see how she'd react whenever Rio decides to come out of the woodwork. I think she wants a challenge; I think Jeed wants her to work at getting the old Rio back. Good luck! I'm going to have too much fun with this!
Yeah.
Dad and I were kind of scratching our heads over that one, especially since I'm still under warranty, dammit. So I went to Lake Tire yesterday morning and asked them to look at it, mainly for a second opinion. The guy at Lake Tire said, "Yep, the rim's bent." He also said that he's replaced tires on rims bent worse than mine was; there should've been no reason the guy at the Ford service department couldn't have just replaced the tire. They just want more of my money. Of course, Lake Tire doesn't carry a used or new 16-inch low-profile tire for my Focus, so I had to break down and go up to Merrillville for a new one at Tire Barn today. They did it with no problem and were very helpful. (One of the guys working there looked like Snoop Dogg in the face, actually.)
So yeah. Next car I end up buying will not be a Ford.
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So okay. "Jem" fanwanking/fanficcing may commence. It's been on my mind all day. It makes me a little daydreamy to waste the downtime behind the register. :P
I'm really excited with the direction I'm going with Rio at Starbright. Carmen and I talked a little more in detail with what they have in mind. I guess Jeed wants Jerrica to move on and start dating again, get involved with someone else and have a happy, special relationship BEFORE he eventually comes out of the woodwork. And that's going to eat at me. I know it will. I know it sounds silly, but when you participate in something like this, you do grow an attachment to your character and you sort of experience the same sort of feelings your character goes through. But it's all in fun, and it helps me grow. I grow as a writer through it, and it's entertaining to have the others in the group read and react to it.
And it all stems from something stupid I mentioned to Jeed and Carmen. A while back, Jeed was contemplating the idea of having Minx name Rio as her baby's father, mainly because she had no clue who the father could be, and it's kind of hard to do a DNA test on someone who's dead. That, and...if you watched "Jem"....well, Minx got around. Jeed wrote off the idea because farther back in the story (before the new group got started), Rio and Minx never even slept together. Jeed was saying it wouldn't have made sense. I told her, "Do you think THAT would stop Minx from something like this?" They found a way to cement it and make it look like he was (a faked DNA test). Of course, word gets out about it (word has to get out about it to work in this story...Minx has a bit of a stalker situation), Jerrica finds out...and starts shutting anything she had to do with Rio out of her life.
What I'm planning on doing? Well, this almost completely ruins any chances of Rio coming back and redeeming himself. It's almost too late at this point. So his only other option? Just totally reinvent himself as Ace & put Rio to rest. And THIS is where it gets interesting. Go through physical therapy. Get him out of the wheelchair and walking again. He's been severly burned in the accident? Get some reconstructive plastic surgery. Dye his hair dark blue with red tips (or something equally weird--this IS the "Jem" universe, after all). Give him some tattoos and stylish rocker-style clothes. Maybe a piercing or three. He currently has nothing but the beach house and whatever recording equipment he has there, so make him work his way up. Expand beyond Jem and the Holograms--recruit some new talent, manage them, really make some good music. Rio knows the business; he worked with Emmett Benton, and he knows how Jerrica ran things. (I'm thinking of having him lure In the Garden away from Starlight Music, since Jerrica's doing squat with them) Become a mogul! Make something out of nothing! It'll be on the level with Starlight Music, Misfit Music and Stingers' Sound with the roster he creates. He'll make some new friends, too. New artists (because Faith always complains that she has no characters...even though we have TWO Holograms that are being NCP'd; but the only reason she's being allowed a made-up is because I guess Carmen and Jeed have something planned with the Roxy-situation that's just going to bring poor Roxy down worse than she was before.), new friends (Eric Raymond's younger sister Erin, who's already established in our story--total opposite of Eric, if a little naive, and likes messing with gadgets; and it was my idea to bring a lawyer into play...and I was on a Legally Blonde kick at the time, so Elle Woods is Rio's lawyer and confidante)...the works.
And the best part is...I'm going to turn him into a TOTAL WOMANIZER. He's been with Jerrica since...what? High school? Fine. She wants to cut him out of her life? Fine then. Let her! Let her move on! There are other women out there! He can bed any woman he wants! He's going to be knee-deepin pussy. Wannabe-singers, groupies, Playmates, strippers, one-night-stands from bars, the occasional B-list starlet...to quote the Poison song, it'll be nothing but a good time for Rio as Ace. His bedpost is going to be so notched, it'll look like a frickin' toothpick.
What stays the same? The hairpin temper. (This is Rio we're talking about. Something about him has to stay consistent.) His semi-pissy attitude.
Does the money make him happy? No. Do the women make him happy? Of course not. The many women and all the sex just numb the pain some, temporarily fill the void; he's still lonely and depressed on the inside. (I'm also toying around with turning him into a pseudo-alcoholic. It'd be a real risk, but I'm still thinking about it.) One bitch, many faces, forget the name. He'll kick 'em out of bed as soon as the sun rises. The only woman he can trust at this point is Elle, and she's married. Can't have her. Oh, and his dog, too.
He'd rather have the one who got away (Jerrica). Somwhere down the line...he and Jem are GOING to hook up. This is almost a given. There's going to be a moment where Jem is vulnerable (and/or drunk)...and things happen and she'll probably end up cheating on the rebound-BF, and it's just all going to come full-circle. (I think I off-handedly mentioned something to Carmen about having Rio slip while drunk and in the middle of the deed and call Jem by her real name...since that's who he's really thinking about.) The real reason Jeed wants Jerrica to move on is to see how she'd react whenever Rio decides to come out of the woodwork. I think she wants a challenge; I think Jeed wants her to work at getting the old Rio back. Good luck! I'm going to have too much fun with this!
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Date: 2007-08-18 06:49 am (UTC)if the tire spontanously combusted while yo were parked, maybe. but warrentys are to cover things that break on their own that shouldnt break. not that you broke.
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Date: 2007-08-20 01:30 pm (UTC)Let's not forget--my dad's one of those redneck-types that raises hell whenever anything malfunctions. But the people at the service department could've helped me out a little better, I'll admit.
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Date: 2007-08-18 06:56 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-08-20 01:33 pm (UTC)*heh heh* "Wear a rubber, dude" reminds me of the blonde office worker in Office Space. ("She'll be seein' my O-face!")