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[pegkerr]

Yesterday was a very busy day.

We went to get the family portrait taken, and a picture of the two girls. I'll post them in a day or two, once I have had a chance to scan them at work. I've sent out photo cards every year for years, and really enjoyed doing it, too. I'm not sure we can afford to do so this year, which makes me quite sad.

Then we drove to see Rob's relative who is a used car salesman, and he had a nice Toyota Corolla ready for us to see. We put money down on it: it's a 1995 model with 75,000 miles on it. We got a very fair price for it. Now we just have to figure out how to pay for it. We name our cars with alternativing boy/girl names, following the letters of the alphabet. This car gets a boy's name starting with an H. There's a little ding on the front bumper, so the choice was obvious. It's Harry, of course!

Then we took the girls to the library to return their books and get new ones, and then went from there to the children's haunted house party at my office. Great fun, but we were pretty tired when we got back.

Today, I rip all the dead plants out of the garden, cut the lawn, and plant all those bulbs. Many thanks to lsanderson who has lent me his power auger to make the holes for the bulbs.

Comments

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Good car. Good mileage. Stick, or automatic?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Stick shift, which is just fine with us! We prefer driving stick.

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

That's excellent! My family all own that car, around the same age (personally I have a '96 Prizm, which has the same guts), and the stick ones last a lot longer and get maybe 10 more miles per gallon. I kid not. So you should be able to get another 100-150,000 miles out of that car. Whee! Good luck!


(And yay for stick drivers!)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I have mostly owned Toyota Corollas, and I can't say enough good things about them. Phenomenally reliable cars. Good luck!

[sincelastjuly.livejournal.com]

if you go to walgreens and use their digital kiosk (sometimes called the aladdin), you can put a christmas border around your 4x6 picture for 29 cents. you just need the picture you want on some sort of cd.

Yes!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Wow . . . thanks!

[chamisa.livejournal.com]

My mom named her Volvo Harriet. I'm not sure why, exactly, but it fit. Harriet became mine, and I loved her--a stick shift, late 80s silver lady who eventually gave her life to save mine one evening when someone ran a red light as I was going through an intersection.

Glad to hear you've found a good Toyota for a very fair price. Toyotas are really good cars.

Before Harriet, I had a (nameless) 1980 Toyota Corolla that had probably more than 200,000 miles on it and it was still going strong when I gave it to a friend of mine who couldn't afford a car. My mom was giving me Harriet, which is why I was passing along the free car karma to my friend.

Unfortunately, my friend was in a car accident a few weeks later; someone hit her on the freeway and she rolled across three lanes, landing on the roof. This car saved her life, too--she was found by the paramedics dangling upside down out of her seat belt, dazed and bleeding a little from a few cuts. They expected to have to remove a dead body, but she was surprisingly fine. I think if that car hadn't been hit, it would still be going strong.