Kame No Tabi (A Turtle's Travels)

Ooooh! A three part post!! On things COMPLETELY unrelated to each other!

Part 1
Piss off, Kia. My Kia Rio has an ANNOYING "feature" where if you lock the doors using the keyless thingy, and then use the key to open the trunk, the car alarm goes off. WTF?? Argh. Because EVERYONE knows that if you someone is using the keys to open the trunk of a locked car, THEY MUST BE A CAR THIEF!! Argh.

Okay, I thought maybe it was an overlooked little thing, BUT NO. THEY TALK ABOUT IT IN THE USER MANUAL! SEE?



JEEZ! In the stages of planning/designing this, I think the conversation went like this:
Engineer 1 - Oops! The alarm goes off when you open the trunk! Crap, I don't wanna have to fix that!
Engineer 2 - Ah, don't sweat it dude. We'll just stick a little blurb in the user's manual and tell everyone it's a "feature".
Engineer 1 - Awesome! Then we can go smoke a bowl! Plus, everyone knows that anyone trying to get into the trunk of a locked car is up to no good anyway. No way that they would be someone with their hands full of things to put into said trunk.
Engineer 2 - Exactly! What was that you said about smoking a bowl? I was going to design a button to open the trunk onto the remote start and fix the front fog lights so they stopped falling off whenever you looked at them funny, but your plan sounds a lot more fun!

There, writing that little thingy amused me and now I'm not as annoyed at being embarrassed by the Mikey Mobile making a racket when I tried to put something in the trunk this afternoon.

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Part 2
http://mercatus.org/freedom-50-states-2011

WTF?? South Dakota is the second "free-est" state?? SOUTH DAKOTA??? Whatever! They must have somehow overlooked the fact that we've tried to OUTLAW abortion like 3 times, and that we've tried to get something passed to outlaw gay marriage? *facepalm*

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Part 3
I KNOW that everyone's got this lil Turtle pet thingy, but I wanted to make one :D

Well, My birthday is this saturday December 1st, so I thought I'd put up a list.

Step One:

- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new house") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

- Make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address.

- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two:

- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

Ok, here's mike to brighten MY day:



and onto the LIST!

Real stuff:
- Mikey Statue! Yay! Mandyrae, mandy 2, kerri, and Jenn got me this for Xmas! AWESOME!
- Kino's Journey Statue! : http://www.hlj.com/product/GSC96291
- Gauken Kino statue : http://www.e2046.com/product_info.php?products_id=6914
- Xenomorph Kotoko resin statue (or the kit!)http://members.aol.com/TurtleGal9/kotoko.jpg
- Kotoko Teacup statue! http://members.aol.com/TurtleGal9/teakotoko.jpg
- TMNT 2012 Calendar
- Cheese
- A laptop. UPDATE! WOW!! I can't BELIEVE I got this! soliloquy (Jenn) is so AWESOME! She GAVE me her old one! Yay! I can (try to) write fic now! HORAAAAY!!
- Cookies
- PIE!!!
- A snail mail letter or card with a doodle of Michaelangelo (or any other ninja turtle) from any random person! :D
- ANY Ninja turtles Stickers!
- a pair of warm gloves
- NT:TNM on DVD (with nothing edited out! :p)


Virtual Stuffs
- More Turtlecest fic from TuffyT (who wrote "cushion Pushin' and Experimenting on a Turtle")
- Any artwork of my character Mica here's 2 pics of her by me: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/705025/ & http://www.furaffinity.net/view/705008/ and here's some arts of her done by different peoples : http://pics.livejournal.com/micaturtle/gallery/0002r4dp (look at the notes, as some of the details are wrong on these piccys) Damn... I really need to do an updated character sheet on her.
- The file TMNTColor.zip (it's a zip file that I put out there a long time ago of a TMNT PC coloring book called "world tour") UPDATE: Yay! I found the disk, if anyone ELSE wants it, let me know!
- Artwork of Venus DiMilo looking evil and/or demented
- Any smutty TMNT story with Venus in it :D

PLEASE post your lists and I will see what *I* can do! :D I AM going thru my TMNT tubs and consolidating and so if there's something you've been looking for, make sure to let your wish be known!!

here is my addy:

Mica Gustaf
2309 South Western Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
United States

and my email is Micasart@AOL.com