humpity hump day

{listening to Satellite by Dave Matthews Band}

Ahh.. today should be much better.
kids are in school, work should be calmed down. now that the kids are both playing sports, the main argument is whether or not cross-country is more of a sport than football, or vice versa. "you don't have to do push-ups in pads!" "oh yeah? well you didn't have to run over 5 miles today" its nerve-wracking, but funny too.

looked at cars for a small bit yesterday afternoon. Honey is really fond of the maxima's and altima's. not quite sure how that will play out. i am partial to the altima for getting lower mileage on a used and the lower gas mileage in general. i like the maxima because of the roominess. Honey on the other hand loves the roominess and the V6. the gas mileage is "negligible". When we started the contemplation of a car, gas mileage and something comprable in size to the stratus was what we were going for. Now that he test drove the maxima, we need bigger and more power, gas mileage isn't so much.. ha!... we'll see. its his money, its his car, Though i must say, he stat in the 40K brand new maxima. I think they need to clean the seats in that now, possible consider it used. it had the navigation system, satellite radio ready, bluetooth cell enabled, cd, cd changer, dvd player.. about the only damn thing it didn't have was a laptop top installed for the drivers use. i'm convinced he would have sold one of the kids to pay for it if I would have agreed. I think he sat in the damn thing for 30 mins. just ogling, caressing, enjoying the seduction of the sweet smell of luxury car. meanwhile, i went to the altima's to satisfy my curiosity about a compartment that i had seen in pictures but couldn't quite figure out wtf it was. i thought maybe navigation system, dvd screen, something. nope, turns out it was just a damn compartment. oh well.. even nissan has some stupid ideas now and again.

Alas, we did not buy the first car we saw that we liked. Honey drove 3 of them yesterday and we walked out with an idea of what we want. Because i still can't drive (damn dr.'s and their orders) i missed out on the test driving a car experience. *sigh*. however, the sales guy got a real kick out of me telling Honey to get in and figure out if his feet fit comfortably. "no baby, how do your feet fit? and what about in the back?" .. until Honey got out of the car and the sales guy finally checked out the size 14's, he didn't quite get what the hell i was talking about. The sales guy, who happened to be black, says "among the brothers, you would not be found wanting".. my response was "there's a reason i keep him".. ahh.. comraderie among a sales guy and his customers. I did like the sales guy though, until he had to turn us over to a much less personable lackey. that guy had the personality of wet sand. nice enough, just pushy on the numbers and shit. ugh. i hate buying cars.

oh well, it must be done. more looking.... hooray...please note the enthusiasm
{listening to Planned Obselescence by 10,000 Maniacs}