animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

used car lot

As if it didn’t look like one before, the driveway we share with our neighbors (who have three vehicles themselves) officially looks like a small used car lot. We added another vehicle to our fleet on Monday, a Scion tC for Jake, who turns 16 in a couple of weeks. …

wtf kia?

Recently, I had the brilliant idea to bring home a bale of straw in the trunk of the car (yeah, I know, it’s not like we don’t own a truck). It made a bigger mess than I anticipated. Needless to say, I had to vacuum the trunk. While doing so, …

ki ki ki kia

As you might have gleaned from one of my posts yesterday, our wrecked Hyundai Elantra was designated as “totaled”. We got word of this on Thursday and were required to return the rental car on Friday. Unfortunately, we haven’t received the money for the car yet–we just got the paperwork …

ding

I left the office yesterday to pick Jake up after he got home from school. When I exited the alley behind our office, I cut the wheel too sharply and scraped the rear fender against a telephone pole. Ugh. I pulled over to survey the damage and wasn’t too happy …

well, shit

Last night, Brian had to run to the office to get something. Jake and I were watching Sons of Anarchy at the time. Shortly after he left, I heard the fire whistle blowing and I thought “hmm, I hope that wasn’t Brian”. Turns out it was. A skunk was crossing …